For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. —Rainer Maria Rilke More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. —Sir Richard Francis Burton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it's never too late. —Alison Headley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! —Michael Landon More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. —Emiliano Zapata More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice. —Minna Thomas Antrim More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough. —Nancy Spain More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents. —Scott Westerfeld More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. —Robert Fripp More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. —Erica Jong More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow! —Og Mandino More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. —Willa Cather More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought. —Etty Hillesum More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email