What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
Epictetus
Poetry is just so emo,' he said. 'Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
John Green
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
...gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.
Neil Gaiman
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell
All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the loss of one's soul.
Victor Hugo
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Epicurus
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
Isabel Allende
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.
Rashida Jones
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
Ingrid Bergman
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
Blaise Pascal
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
Terry Eagleton
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C.S. Lewis
The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.
Mitt Romney
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men
There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.
Steve Maraboli
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
What good is sitting all alone in your room?
Liza Minnelli
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
George McGovern
Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.''You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.''Before which Dorian? The one who is pouring out tea for us, or the one in the picture?''Before either.''I should like to come to the theatre with you, Lord Henry,' said the lad.'Then you shall come; and you will come, too, Basil, won't you?''I can't, really. I would sooner not. I have a lot of work to do.''Well, then you and I will go alone, Mr. Gray.''I should like that awfully.'The painter bit his lip and walked over, cup in hand, to the picture. 'I shall stay with the real Dorian,' he said, sadly.
Oscar Wilde
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
Stockwell Day
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow
Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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