I've writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond Tutu
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.
Mark Twain
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.
Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
L'Chiam
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon De L'Enclos
The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
Sir Roger L'Estrange
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Jean de la Bruyere
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
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