Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D Eisenhower
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.
Victor Hugo
Only Americans can hurt America.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dancers are the athletes of God.
Albert Einstein
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.
Steve Maraboli
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Pessimism never won any battle.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
Jane Austen
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame -- Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. On his childhood
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
Solitude begets whimsies.
Mary Wortley Montagu
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. Lewis
We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing
Charles Dickens
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be
Paulo Coelho
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!
The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness
Samuel Johnson
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Our love is perfect. And even though we may not be, our love creates a bridge that spans over our imperfections and joins us where it matters.
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