Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. If an activity is not grounded in 'to love' or 'to learn,' it does not have value.
Anne Rice
Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
William Shakespeare
I wrote a poem to the moon But no one noticed it;Although I hoped that late or soonSomeone would praise a bitIts purity and grace forlone,Its beauty tulip-cool...But as my poem died still-born,I felt a fool.I wrote a verse of vulgar trendSpiced with an oath or two;I tacked a snapper at the endAnd called it Dan McGrew.I spouted it to bar-room boys,Full fifty years away;Yet still with rude and ribald noiseIt lives today.'Tis bitter truth, but there you are-That's how a name is made;Write of a rose, a lark, a star,You'll never make the grade.But write of gutter and of grime,Of pimp and prostitute,The multitude will read your rhyme,And pay to boot.So what's the use to burn and bleedAnd strive for beauty's sake?No one your poetry will read,Your heart will only break.But set your song in vulgar pitch,If rhyme you will not rue,And make your heroine a bitch...Like Lady Lou.
Robert William Service, My Cross
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
John Shirley
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
Addison Walker
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
Jane Austen
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
Stephen Leacock
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
Sydney Smith
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Shirin Ebadi
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bernard Williams
Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.
Glen Beaman
The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.
Anon.
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
Charles Kennedy
The twentieth century French dramatist Jean Anouilh wrote a play about Beckett which was made into a film in the 1960
Melvyn Fancy, Copyright, Decembe
All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.
John Hersey
In order to form correct habits, we should seek the company of persons of sound moral and religious influence. We should constantly bear in mind that we may be fitting to inhabit the heavenly courts. The precious hours of probation are granted that we may remove every defect from the character; and we should seek to do this, not only that we may obtain the future life, but that we may be useful here. Young men and women should regard a good character as a capital of more value than gold or silver or stocks. It will be unaffected by panics and failures, and will bring rich returns when earthly possessions shall be swept away.
Ellen G. White, Testimonies for
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
Jack Black
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see: or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker, In Search of Our M
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
Herschel Walker
Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park....Jurassic Park, that is.
Larry Wall
I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.
Corey Hart
Freedom is more than just a patriotic concept; it is the purest intent of our design. Be you. Be free. Be nice.
Steve Maraboli
Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
Steven Wright
I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
Whitney Houston
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
Rem Koolhaas
I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
Gerhard Schroder
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
Dee Dee Myers
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.
Busta Rhymes
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
Kurt Vonnegut
Love is the essence of God.
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
Carlos Santana
LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.
And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say 'Yonder is...zer castle' a volf would be bound to howl mournfully. In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.
Terry Pratchett
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
Aldrich Ames
I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.
Colm Meaney
I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love
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