Quotes to inspire and reflect

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. W. H.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H. P.

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

I stand in awe of my body.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air?

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

The pleasure of love is in loving.

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels; we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward- your destiny-are here and now.

A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it. G. K.

A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. G. K.

I do not believe the Union will dissolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undrawn your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!

Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.

For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal.

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings...

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.