Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEO the eye’s light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
CATO THE ELDER -
We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
WILLIAM GOLDING -
One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
RAMAKRISHNA -
You cannot become unbreakable if you have never been broken.
GEMMA TROY -
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
HIPPOCRATES -
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON -
Tomorrow’s thoughts swallow today’s contentment. Mind, Be present. – mindfulness.
HALEY ANN WARD -
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
MARQUIS DE SADE -
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
ELISABETH ELLIOT -
War is like love, it always finds a way.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
NORM MACDONALD -
Anyone who’s got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some ’50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That’s it, really – I’m not a musician, I’m not a singer.
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON -
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
Understand that I’m at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I’m a better fighter and a better athlete at 40½ years old, but I’m at my best when I know I’ve got to beat the system again.
BERNARD HOPKINS -
With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
OSCAR WILDE