Quotes to inspire and reflect

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Success is never final.

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

Truth is a pathless land.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3
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The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.

Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.

Honor and shame from no condition rise.
Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

The perfect man of action, is the suicide.

Keep thy religion to thyself.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.

Spend and be spent.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Thou art a Man, God is no more.
Thy own humanity learn to adore.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.

To laugh is to live profoundly.

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.