Quotes to inspire and reflect

Trust one who has gone through it.

and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one. W. H.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

By the work one knows the workmen.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

But words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

The revolution is not a tea party.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

I am Cuban, Argentine, Bolivian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, etc... You understand.

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. W.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

He is able who thinks he is able.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.