Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. —Lord Chesterfield More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential. —Gordon Atkinson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. —Theodore Roosevelt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is. —Hadewijch of Antwerp More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside. —Chris Messina More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past. —Gordon Atkinson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. —Randy K. Milholland More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. —Meryl Streep More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant. —Sefer Hasidim More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greater man the greater courtesy. —Alfred Lord Tennyson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email