The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves. —Gerald Brenan More about this quote Tags: others sympathy self-pity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. —Joe Walsh More about this quote Tags: complaining Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Tags: self luck good fortune Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Well, while I'm here I'll do the work and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumb show. —Allen Ginsberg More about this quote Tags: living ease pain work comfort pomp Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: action life loss better experiments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sun rose this morning at 6:32 A.M. This gratifying event was first reported by Mrs. Dorothy Stetson of Freeport, Long Island, who promptly telephoned the mayor. The Society for Affirming the End of the World at once went into a special session and postponed the arrival of that event for twenty-four hours. All honor to Mrs. Stetson for her public spirit. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Tags: world spirit sunrise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that. —Erich Heller More about this quote Tags: perception care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. —Kenneth Clark More about this quote Tags: war cynicism destruction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At the Garrick Club (a famous London club of which several leading actors were members) on New Year's Eve, Freddy Lonsdale was asked by Seymour Hicks to make up over a quarrel he had previously had with one of his fellow members. "You must," Seymour said. "It is very unkind to be unfriendly at such a time. Go over now and wish him a happy New Year." Freddy crossed the room and spoke to his enemy. "I wish you a happy New Year," he said, "but only one. —Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: friendship humor quarrel new year Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easy to fly into a passion — anybody can do that. But to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way — that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: passion anger right time Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. —Harper Lee More about this quote Tags: democracy conscience popularity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Betty Williams, a 1977 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, once witnessed the bombing death of Irish children, and a little girl died in Williams's arms. The girl's legs had been severed in the explosion and thrown across the street from where the woman held the bleeding child. Williams went home in shock and despair. Later, the full impact of what she'd seen jolted her awake. She stepped outside, screaming out in the middle of the night. She knocked on doors that might easily have opened with weapons pointed at her face and cried, "What kind of people have we become that we would allow children to be killed on our streets?" Within four hours the city was awake and there were sixteen thousand names on petitions for peace. —Linda Hogan More about this quote Tags: peace weapons children bombs death shock despair Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: education greatness physics service college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: power change difference possibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have bought it or baked it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. —Daniel Berrigan More about this quote Tags: hope suffering loss service Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email