But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.

Steve Maraboli

Under his spurning feet, the roadLike an arrowly alpine river flowedAnd the landscape sped away behindLike an ocean flying before the wind....

Thomas Buchanan Read

Public opinion is a second conscience.

William R. Alger

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Sir Richard Steele

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Helen Keller

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Blaise Pascal

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Simone Weil

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Harry Seidler

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.

Ginnifer Goodwin

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Ernest Hemingway