Quotes to inspire and reflect

We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from Luther until noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occurred at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return. W. H.

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds? worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And you’ll be a Man, my son!

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Think as I think" said the man, "or you are abominable. You are a toad." And after I had thought on it, I said "I will then, be a toad.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, willfulness and patience. Courage strengthens, willfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record.

The talent is in the choices.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower. J. M.

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

You are only as old as the woman you feel.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.

Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.

I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

A hair divides what is false and true.

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. Thomas H.