To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
PINDAROne drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEE -
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
TERESA OF AVILA -
When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.
CAROLINE MYSS -
The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
AGNES MARTIN -
The people who support me and my dreams make me feel like I’m on top of the world.
TREY SONGZ -
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
THOMAS HARDY -
It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
STEPHEN FRY -
Don’t take me for granted while I care cuz when I’m gone I’m not looking back.
POLO G -
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
NAS -
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON -
There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
That is jargon – the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement – and it is one of the great curses of modern English.
BILL BRYSON -
You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.
A. S. A. HARRISON -
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
IRIS MURDOCH