That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
John Fowles
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Emmet Fox
Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
Matthew Fox
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest, a continued one thro' the year. Under a total want of demand except for our family table. I am still devoted to the garden. But tho' an old man, I am but a young gardener.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Char
The great men among the ancients understood very well how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state, and thought it no lessening to their dignity to make the one the recreation to the other. That indeed which seems most generally to have employed and diverted their spare hours, was agriculture. Gideon among the Jews was taken from threshing, as well as Cincinnatus amongst the Romans from the plough, to command the armies of their countries...and, as I remember, Cyrus thought gardening so little beneath the dignity and grandeur of a throne, that he showed Xenophon a large field of fruit trees all of his own planting . . . Delving, planting, inoculating, or any the like profitable employments would be no less a diversion than any of the idle sports in fashion, if men could be brought to delight in them.
John Locke, Two Treatises of Gov
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
Joseph Campbell
I have made a plan for my life, as I am in my teens, and no more a child. I am old for my age and don't care much for girls' things. People think I'm wild and queer; but mother understands and helps me. I have not told anyone about my plans but I am going to be good. . . . Now I'm going to work really, for I feel a desire to improve and be a help and comfort, not a care and sorrow to my dear mother.
Louisa May Alcott
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
Arthur Gordon
The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness.
Joshua Loth Liebman
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.
Sigmund Freud, New Lectures in P
She had faith in words, believing in their ability to carry inexpressible messages, trusting that what cannot be said can somehow be borne aloft by what can be said. She was right.
Frank Conroy, foreword to Autobi
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of onehttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300401.txt
Marcel Proust, Within A Budding
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