There are very few human beings who
receive the truth, complete and staggering,
by instant illumination. Most of them
acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small
scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
( authors: Anais Nin )
One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice
of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good
thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers
in which idle people indulge themselves.
( authors: John Henry Newman )
We cannot learn from one another
until we stop shouting at one another --
until we speak quietly enough so that our
words can be heard as well as our voices.
( authors: Richard Nixon )
Unity to be real must stand the
severest strain without breaking.
?Mahatma Gandhi
( subject: unity )
Men are like steel. When they lose
their temper, they lose their worth.
( author: Chuck Norris )
When you call upon a thoroughbred,
he gives you all the speed, strength
of heart and sinew in him. When you
call on a jackass, he kicks...
( authors: Patricia Neal )
In a friend you find a second self.
( authors: Isabelle Norton )
The advantage of a bad memory is
that one enjoys several times the same
good things for the first time.
( authors: Friedrich Nietzsche )
When you're in deep water it's a
good idea to keep your mouth shut.
( author: Alfred E Newman )
Wherever there is danger, there
lurks opportunity; whenever
there is opportunity, there
lurks danger. The two are
inseparable. They go together.
( authors: Earl Nightingale )
Most people would like to be delivered from
temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
( authors: Robert Orben )
Humans are the only animals
that have children on purpose
with the exception of guppies,
who like to eat theirs.
( authors: P J O'Rourke )
Each generation imagines itself to be
more intelligent than the one that went before it,
and wiser than the one that comes after it.
( authors: George Orwell )
The only freedom which deserves the
name is that of pursuing our own good,
in our own way, so long as we do not
attempt to deprive others of theirs,
or impede their efforts to obtain it.
( author: John Stuart Mill )
Power always protects the good of
some at the expense of all others.
( authors: Thomas Merton )
Fears are educated into us and
can, if we wish, be educated out.
( authors: Karl E Menninger )
When a society abandons its ideals
just because most people can't live up to them,
behavior gets very ugly indeed.
( authors: Judith Martin )
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
?Eleanor Roosevelt
( subjects: peace )
Possibly, more people kill themselves
and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy,
jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
( authors: Iris Murdoch )
To talk well and eloquently is a very
great art, but that an equally great one
is to know the right moment to stop.
( authors: Wolfgang Mozart )
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism
that you can't face reality.
Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
( authors: Malcolm X )
That's what real love amounts to-
letting a person be what he really is.
Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
To keep their love,
you keep pretending- performing.
( author: Jim Morrison )
A good leader is a person who takes a
little more than his share of the blame and a
little less than his share of the credit.
( authors: John C Maxwell )
The point is not to take the world's opinion
as a guiding star but to go one's way in life
and working unerringly, neither depressed
by failure nor seduced by applause.
( author: Gustav Mahler )
To me, the whole process of being a brushstroke
in someone else's painting is a little difficult.
( author: Madonna )
Do what you love, love what you do,
and deliver more than you promise.
( author: Harvey McKay )
If you deliberately plan on being
less than you are capable of being,
then I warn you that you'll be
unhappy for the rest of your life.
( authors: Abraham Maslow )
A book is a mirror: If an ass
peers into it, you can't
expect an apostle to look out.
( author: Georg Lichtenberg )
