The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

Jane Austen

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lewis H. Lapham

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

Dennis Prager

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Ricky Williams

B-----d Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Thomas Moore

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Francis Bacon

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

Christopher Dawson

How soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face

William Shakespeare

The days are long, but the years are short.

Gretchen Rubin

Celebrating your achievements and applauding your triumphs is a sure way to refuel your enthusiasm and keep yourself motivated for your future endeavours.

Roopleen