It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. -Agnes Repplier <\/p>\n
You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for? -Bernadette Peters <\/p>\n
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -H. G. Wells <\/p>\n
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. -Aleister Crowley <\/p>\n
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction. -E. F. Schumacher <\/p>\n
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -Anatole France <\/p>\n
The world is wide, and I will not wast my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. -Frances Willard <\/p>\n
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself…True happiness is born of self-reliance. -The laws of Manu <\/p>\n
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. -Michael J. Fox <\/p>\n
A friend is a gift you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson <\/p>\n
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. -Leo Tolstoy <\/p>\n
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning… a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. -Joseph Campbell <\/p>\n
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. -Robert Louis Stevenson <\/p>\n
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? -Charles De Gaulle <\/p>\n
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. -Henry David Thoreau <\/p>\n
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. -Socrates <\/p>\n
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -Abba Eban <\/p>\n
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, \/ And toss them on the wheels of Chance. -Juvenal <\/p>\n
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read. -Mark Twain <\/p>\n
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. -Gore Vidal <\/p>\n
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. -John Kenneth Galbraith <\/p>\n
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams <\/p>\n
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. -Rita Rudner <\/p>\n
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. -Franklin P. Adams <\/p>\n
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice. -George Jackson <\/p>\n
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. -Spanish Proverb <\/p>\n
The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson <\/p>\n
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. -Hugh White <\/p>\n
Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. -Walter Anderson <\/p>\n
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship. -unknown <\/p>\n
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes<\/p>\n
A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb<\/p>\n
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. -Chuang-Tzu<\/p>\n
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your successes. -Cullen Hightower<\/p>\n
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. -Horace<\/p>\n
People change and forget to tell each other. -Lillian Hellman<\/p>\n
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. -Alfred Hitchcock<\/p>\n
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of thegreatest virtues. -Rene Descartes<\/p>\n
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)<\/p>\n
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. -Henry David Thoreau<\/p>\n
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. -Olive Schreiner<\/p>\n
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. -Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/p>\n
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, — quieter, warmer. -Dag Hammarskjold<\/p>\n
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad. -James Madison<\/p>\n
Be yourself and do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. -Max Ehrmann<\/p>\n
Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it. -Kin Hubbard<\/p>\n
No, no, you’re not thinking, you’re just being logical. -Niels Bohr<\/p>\n
It is never the shallower for the calmnesse. The Sea is a deepe, there is as much water in the Sea, in a calme, as in a storme. -John Donne<\/p>\n
The road to wisdom? Well it’s plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less. -Piet Hein<\/p>\n
There lives more faith in honest doubt, \/ Believe me, than in half the creeds. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson<\/p>\n
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. -William Butler Yeats<\/p>\n
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far… I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me. -Napoleon Bonaparte<\/p>\n
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -Ambrose Bierce<\/p>\n
He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. -Thomas Paine<\/p>\n
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all. -Henry David Thoreau <\/p>\n
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. -Edith Wharton<\/p>\n
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge. -Daniel J. Boorstin<\/p>\n
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. -Shakespeare, ‘Measure for Measure’<\/p>\n
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca<\/p>\n
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. -Sir Richard Steele<\/p>\n
I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say. -Marshall McLuhan<\/p>\n
But man, proud man,
\nDrest in a little brief authority,
\nMost ignorant of what he’s most assured,
\nHis glassy essence, like an angry ape,
\nPlays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
\nAs make the angels weep.
\n-William Shakespeare<\/p>\n
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. -Voltaire<\/p>\n
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. -Henry Winkler<\/p>\n
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. -Confucius <\/p>\n
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. -Anne Tyler <\/p>\n
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. -Dennis Miller <\/p>\n
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. -David Brin <\/p>\n
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can\u2019t be taken on its own merits. -Dan Barker <\/p>\n
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -Friedrich Nietzsche <\/p>\n
In the end, everything is a gag. -Charlie Chaplin <\/p>\n
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. -Booker T. Washington <\/p>\n
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. -Victoria Holt <\/p>\n
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. -Friedrich Nietzsche <\/p>\n
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing – peace is the measure. -George Melton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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