April 2012
40 posts
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
– James Russell Lowell
“I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.”
– Claude Chabrol
“He plants trees to benefit another generation.”
– Caecilius Statius
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”
– John Barrymore
“Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”
– Lord Chesterfield
“We are minor in everything but our passions.”
– Elizabeth Bowen
“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.”
– Cyrano de Bergerac
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”
– Ovid
“There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“After a storm comes a calm.”
– Matthew Henry
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
– Winston Churchill
“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”
– Dick Clark
“It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of...”
– Robert W. Service
“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.”
– Bill Copeland
“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness...”
– Pedro Calderon de la Barca
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant...”
– Martin Luther
“To love beauty is to see light.”
– Victor Hugo
“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
– Stendhal
“Saddle your dreams before you ride em.”
– Mary Webb
“There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.”
– Erich Fromm
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott
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“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
– Saint Augustine
“Our best thoughts come from others.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t fight forces, use them.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“Conviction is the conscience of the mind.”
– Nicolas Chamfort
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker
“Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.”
– Nicolaus Copernicus
“I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice...”
– Muriel Spark
“Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it...”
– Charles Lamb 