Quotes to inspire and reflect

In this life there’s nothing new in dying,

 

Come, my friends. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

 

Terror … often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

 

Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people.

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the efforts of every man to get the most he can for his services and that of society disguised under the name of capital to get his services for the least possible return.

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity.

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.

If thou should never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door. J. R. R.

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' J. R. R.

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch.

Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gamble song, and Whistle through your comb.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth . . .

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Security is mostly superstition.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance.

When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God.