The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. —Ogden Nash More about this quote Tags: progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. —Barbara Hall More about this quote Tags: progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. —Stuart Stevens More about this quote Tags: pride Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. —Moliere More about this quote Tags: pride Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. —Democritus More about this quote Tags: pride Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Pride sullies the noblest character. —Claudianus More about this quote Tags: character pride Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: success pride winning betrayal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: God neighbors seeking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The story is told of a holy man who lived in a large house on top of a remote mountain. Over time, news of the holy man's greatness spread throughout the land, and many seekers made their way over the mountains in hopes of having even a brief moment with this saintly being. Each aspirant was greeted at the door by a servant, who ushered him or her into the house and guided the visitor through several rooms. After a few minutes the servant and aspirant arrived at another door, which led out of the back of the house. The servant opened the door and indicated to the visitor that it was time to leave. "But I was hoping to have even a few minutes with the holy man!" the aspirant would utter in frustration. "You just did," answered the holy man as he closed the door. —Alan Cohen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water; the next, your son bouncing on your knees, or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk. —Nikos Kazantzakis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. —Pearl S. Buck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life happens to be both a severe and an endlessly kind teacher. It's the only authority that you need to trust. And this teacher, this authority, is everywhere. You don't have to go to some special place to find this incomparable teacher; you don't have to have some especially quiet or ideal situation: in fact, the messier it is, the better. The average office is a great place. The average home is perfect. . . . That is where the authority, the teacher is. —Charlotte Joko Beck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sit at the feet of the master long enough, and they'll start to smell. —John Sauget More about this quote Tags: humor feet masters Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not so arrogant as to presume that only my intellectual superiors can teach me. If such were the case then the teacher would learn nothing from her disciples, the parents nothing from their children, and I nothing from the animals, from whom I have learned so much. —Caroline Cozza More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email