Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
George Eliot
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.
So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
Richard Branson
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mahatma Gandhi
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.
Deepak Chopra
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James Madison
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
William Alexander
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
Voltaire
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If there were no flowers earth would be populated by men and lesbians.
Jerry Seinfeld
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
Rod Serling
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings
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