For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.
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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.
ALICIA KEYS -
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL -
One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGAN -
Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
CHARLIE MUNGER -
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
J. K. ROWLING -
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
VIKRAM SETH -
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
NOVALIS -
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
HELEN KELLER -
It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
INA MAY GASKIN -
Glory and gore go hand in hand.
LORDE -
I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I’ve met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.
ROBERT PLANT -
Remember, you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine.
WALT DISNEY -
There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.
BILL MCKIBBEN -
It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
BILL VAUGHAN -
You’re supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you’re trying to going up, you’re trying to pull someone up at the same time.
BILL MURRAY -
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
SATCHEL PAIGE -
Films don’t decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
KAREENA KAPOOR -
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
THICH NHAT HANH -
The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
WATCHMAN NEE -
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
YANN MARTEL -
Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
ADRIEN BRODY -
Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it.
SAI BABA -
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
SALLUST -
I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.
AMITABH BACHCHAN -
Some people think that I haven’t got the brains to be that clever.
DAVID BECKHAM