I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. —Flannery O'Connor More about this quote Tags: honesty speech fealty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? —Kelvin Throop III More about this quote Tags: economics science fiction weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. —Ted Turner More about this quote Tags: humor perfection humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: feeling success good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. —Mencius More about this quote Tags: childhood greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. —Joseph Joubert More about this quote Tags: love fear fatherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: life foolishness fun Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: self identify conformity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: truth ideas language culture Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy, you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: life happiness worry unhappiness temperament Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To strengthen the mind you must harden the muscles. —Michel Eyquem de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: mind strength body muscles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is my opinion that humans are largely what they make of themselves; in other words, "human nature" is not so much an empirical reality as a process of self-construction. This means that if people become what they think they are, what they think they are is exceedingly important. —Linda Marie Fedigan More about this quote Tags: humanity reality accomplishment self thinking human nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything on earth [is] beautiful, everything, except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity. —Anton Chekhov More about this quote Tags: life beauty purpose thinking earth humanity dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I had to face the facts; I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. Especially their shape. —Charlotte Bingham More about this quote Tags: self-image hatred body fitness shape Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth; little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance; little to do with division and analysis, and much to do with union. —Marilyn Sewell More about this quote Tags: truth acceptance knowledge logic analysis body control union Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email