More from Aesop
If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
AesopAesop Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten
AesopAesop Little by little does the trick.
AesopAesop There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
AesopAesop The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
AesopAesop It is possible to have too much of a good thing.
AesopAesop It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
AesopAesop Keep your place in life and your place will keep you.
AesopAesop It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
AesopAesop Persuasion is more effective than force.
AesopAesop Slow and steady wins the race.
AesopAesop Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
AesopAesop There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.
AesopAesop There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.
AesopAesop Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
AesopAesop Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
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Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on believe
I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
Robert GreeneRobert Greene By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
Pema ChodronPema Chodron Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
Golda MeirGolda Meir Don’t GIVE UP. And know that there is always someone out there who believes in you and who loves you JUST THE WAY THAT YOU ARE.
Nick VujicicNick Vujicic At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
Howard SchultzHoward Schultz Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
Hudson TaylorHudson Taylor I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan