Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

Dorothy Corkville Briggs

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

Gabrielle Union

The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.

George Eliot

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it

Benjamin Franklin

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Jim Rohn

Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite.

Bible

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.

John Green

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Anna Pavlova

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard