Every man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEYI remember people who’d had a lot of hardship during the war. They’d thought we’d won.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
SALLUST -
I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.
CARINE ROITFELD -
We’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.
FRED HAMPTON -
I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
BEN CARSON -
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
DALLAS WILLARD -
We’re told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There’s an inherent contradiction.
GLENNON DOYLE -
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say – Do I see, what is me? Or did his eyes lead me astray?
ALETHEIA LIOLA -
The intellect, which is based on memory, is a wonderful tool. However, it can only inform not transform.
SADHGURU -
One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
BILL MURRAY -
To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.
JOHN C. MAXWELL -
Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.
DIEGO MARADONA -
Life either happens by design or default, you choose.
BOB PROCTOR -
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
GLORIA STEINEM -
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
IMMANUEL KANT