For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
RENE DESCARTESWe can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
EMILY DICKINSON -
Having no consideration (regardless or irrespective of) for others (“autrui”, Fr.), than we physically are by a sickening (or nauseating) smell.
AFRIKAN SPIR -
Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
PATTI SMITH -
Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.
LL COOL J -
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you’ll only achieve small things.
T. HARV EKER -
Another way Christ affects us is by inspiring our gratitude. He left the glories of heaven in order to become our Savior, and when we recognize that sacrifice, we are filled with thankfulness and praise.
CHARLES STANLEY -
Between acceptance and letting go, lies life.
ANAND THAKUR -
Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them – even if it’s not logical.
CHER -
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
STUDS TERKEL -
At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous – it was no one’s business what car I drive – so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIć -
We rise from ashes; too damaged to be touched. yet, strong enough to rebuild kingdoms.
ZAHRA H DARIPOUR -
[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
I will feel whatever the fuck I want to feel.
VESMIR -
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
ROLLO MAY -
They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLIN -
The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
CATO THE ELDER -
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It’s not failure but aiming too low, that is life’s greatest tragedy.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS -
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
STENDHAL -
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.
AL-MA'ARRI -
I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
CLAUDE MONET -
I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
ADAM GOPNIK -
[Harold Koopowitz] had the nerve to say from his early studies on Ritalin that he found it very useful on children down to the age of two. He goes a step further and says we should even use more of it.
MICHAEL SAVAGE -
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
ABU BAKR -
I am yours forever until the last starbursts in the sky, the mountains crumble and the world erupts.
COURT YOUNG -
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
ZHUANGZI