Quotes to inspire and reflect

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Here's a rule I recommend Never practice two vices at once.

In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy.

To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it fears must be faced.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Not everything that is faced can be changed.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Hear the other side.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies.

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

To ask the hard question is simple.