Quotes and Sayings

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

A Course In Miracles

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

Iggy Pop

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

Poet Louise Bogan

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.

Maupassant

It matters not how long we live but how.

Philip James Bailey

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Johann von Schille

The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - Freedom.

Erich Fromm

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Orison Swett Marden

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

James Baldwin

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

Japanese Prove

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Francis Bacon

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Kahlil Gibran

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.

Germaine Gree

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.

Bertrand Russell

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates, from Plutarch, Of Banishment

It takes a village to raise an idiot.

William Dukane

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

Anais Nin

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - It shall never be again.

Rudyard Kipling

That which is not just is not law.

William Lloyd Garrison, Boston abolitionist

Things are never as bad as they seem.

Harper Lee, spoken by character Miss Maudie, To Kill A Mockingbird

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Sir James Barrie

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Dawson Trottman

Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.

Val Peters

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Sallust

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Persian Prove

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

Howard Gardne

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

James Thurbe

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

Koran

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

Tao te Ching, 48. Lao - Tzu

He is a self - Made man, very much in love with his creator.

Benjamin Disraeli

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Berenson

Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow.

Frances Hodgson Burnett