Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFalse fancy brings real misery.
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I still doubt it will work.” “You’d doubt the sun’s rising if you weren’t proven wrong each day,” Raoden said with a smile.
BRANDON SANDERSON -
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
ULYSSES S. GRANT -
You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
ANNIE DILLARD -
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUS -
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.
BAYARD RUSTIN -
We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn’t mean it’s not. It’s always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
ANGELA DUCKWORTH -
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
THOMAS PAINE -
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY -
I think what really clicked for me was when I started booking commercials as a dancer… just being on set and seeing every element of production, it was magic to me.
BREE TURNER -
Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
PABLO NERUDA -
True success is obeying God.
JOHN C. MAXWELL -
The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written…
BORIS BRASOL -
The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
RAMANA MAHARSHI






