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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Topic: Lying
The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are based on man's responsibility for his evil actions; they are not saying that it is simply his motions that have gone astray: it is man's will that is the central problem.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Topic: Fame
Author: Vicki Baum
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... .
Author: Bible
Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
Author: Lin Yutang
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Topic: Focus
The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing His desire, And he shall see old planets pass and alien stars arise, And give the gale his reckless sail in shadow of new skies. Strong lust of gear shall drive him out and hunger arm his hand, To wring his food from a desert nude, his foothold from the sand.
Topic: Work
Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred -- may not even be encumbrances.
'If the world had no feeling, then there would be no suffering.. - the world would be such a better place, but the price would be never feeling happiness. is that a too higher price to pay?'.
Topic: World
Author: Portia Higgs
Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.
Topic: Propaganda
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.
Topic: Universe
The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.
Topic: Society
Author: Eric Hoffer
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.
Author: Walter Pater
The physician heals, Nature makes well.
Topic: Medicine
When admirals extoll'd for standing still, Of doing nothing with a deal of skill.
Topic: Labor
He koude songes make and well endite.
Topic: Poets
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -Sir Winston Churchill.
I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
Topic: Traveling
Author: Lord Byron