Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
Lafcadio Hearn
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Charles Augustin SainteBeuve
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Matthew Arnold
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
Jose Saramago
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens
By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.
Dan Lipinski
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
Al Goldstein
On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
Josh McDowell
It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.
Reba McEntire
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
Eric Hoffer
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
Alastair Campbell
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.
Kristen Stewart
An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
Charles Inglis
Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.
Eric Holder
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
Julien Green
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