Quotes to inspire and reflect

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

The proper function of man is to live - not to exist.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. William J.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way.

A person who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. G. F.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends, they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

You are in the process of being indoctrinated.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh...

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus, they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he can do and becoming.

Don't forget to love yourself.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Ideas shape the course of history.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.