January 2012
31 posts
“Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.”
– Alfred Austin
“Work is much more fun than fun.”
– Noel Coward
“Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life… just one. Our...”
– Ugo Betti
“I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just...”
– Christopher Fry
“To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.”
– George Ade
“The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.”
– Francis Beaumont
“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”
– Khalil Gibran
“We can’t all do everything.”
– Virgil
“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and...”
– Blaise Pascal
“Leave no stone unturned.”
– Euripides
“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.”
– Gustave Flaubert
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Confucius
“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.”
– William Ralph Inge
“The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.”
– May Sarton
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.”
– Don Herold
“We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.”
– Ethel Waters
“Hope is a risk that must be run.”
– Georges Bernanos
“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”
– Ellen Glasgow
“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other...”
– Dolley Madison
“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no...”
– Edward Gibbon
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to...”
– Francesco Guicciardini
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”
– Jean Ingelow
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
– Karl Barth
“The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.”
– Nadia Boulanger
“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound...”
– Thomas A. Edison
“Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another...”
– Alexander Pope
“Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden...”
– Max Beerbohm
“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”
– Mary Pickford 