Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.
The best way to honor the legacy of a person who's passed is to find a way to support the living.
Our state's world famous motto, 'Show me,' reminds us that Missourians don't much value big talk.
Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.
I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.
Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming
When you FEEL healthy and vital and alive and prosperous... you attract more of all those things.
Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.
Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.
If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??
For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
It is not business, it is not government - it is the social sector that may yet save the society.
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.
It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.
To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.
A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.
Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.
A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.
Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's.