In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination.
Stephen Richards
We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
My mistakes have been my greatest mentors.
Steve Maraboli
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
C.S. Lewis
Optimist: Day-dreamer in his small clothes
Mark Twain
When an idea takes hold, nothing can stop it!
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
Ernest Hemingway
Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.
Thomas Jefferson
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Voltaire
Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.
Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart
Cassandra Clare
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
John Green
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J.K. Rowling
He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
Leo Tolstoy
Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.
Stephen King
But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
George Bernard Shaw
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.
Ambrose Bierce
France has sincerely wished peace, and their seducers have wished war, as well for the loaves and fishes which arise out of war expenses, as for the chance of changing the Constitution
...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley
It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.
Orson Scott Card
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
The only reward of virtue is virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
Bertrand Russell
If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice?
Steven Wright
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
Albert Camus
Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
Plato
That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.
Benjamin Franklin
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
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