The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Blaise Pascal

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit, For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy

William Shakespeare

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

Eartha Kitt

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

S. I. Hayakawa

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

E. M. Forster

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Thomas Aquinas

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

Horace Porter

Wit is more often a shield than a lance.

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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis