What mattered was not what happens to you, but how you handle it. Self-command is required to overcome the dangerous misinformation of our emotions, and because for the most part the self is the only thing that we can command. We have no control, ultimately, over what people do or think. What we can influence is our understanding of these circumstances and how we respond to them. —Joseph Baretti More about this quote Tags: mankind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: mankind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One man with courage makes a majority. —Andy and Larry Wachowski More about this quote Tags: mankind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. —Andrew Jackson More about this quote Tags: mankind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. —André Gide More about this quote Tags: mankind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. —Langston Coleman More about this quote Tags: luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. —John Hay More about this quote Tags: luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? —Jean Cocteau More about this quote Tags: luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. —James A. Garfield More about this quote Tags: luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. —Anne Tyler More about this quote Tags: luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We can only learn to love by loving. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. —J. K. Rowling More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email