What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 08:14 sati.