Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Why do we have to listen to our hearts? Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.
Paulo Coelho
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
Imran Khan
Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
Kat Dennings
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.
Melissa Rosenberg
If something just plain didn't make sense to Alvin, he didn't believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.
Orson Scott Card
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists -- in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
Rainn Wilson
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi
Come in, Adam, and rest; it has been a hard day for thee.
George Eliot
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.
Little Richard
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
The law of sacrifice postulates that we need to give in order to receive ... Cosmic Ordering says, receive before you give.
Stephen Richards
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Peter Drucker
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Mignon McLaughlin
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
Ronald Reagan
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
Ernie Banks
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
Terry Pratchett
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.
'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.
Ellie Goulding
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Rebecca West
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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