A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
Dennis Prager
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
B. C. Forbes
Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
Rosemarie DeWitt
If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
Tony Visconti
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines
Benjamin Franklin
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
J.K. Rowling
Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.
Henning Mankell
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus
Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!
Steve Maraboli
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Charles Dickens
This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
Ann Bancroft
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
People who never get carried away should be.
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
Bertrand Russell
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
Bill Toomey
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Presence is more than just being there.
I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!
Ambrose Bierce
I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.
Mark Hoppus
It's actually in simplifying life that you get the greatest strength.
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
Bob Balaban
I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
George Bernard Shaw
Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seem running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven of fear of hell, but because He is God.
John Green
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Dave Barry
The saving man becomes the free man.
Chinese Proverb
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