Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
~quote about Self-Discovery by Zen Proverb
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
~quotes on Health by John Henry Cardinal Newman
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
~sayings on Religion by Bertrand Russell
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
~quotations on Nature by George Washington Carver
Every thought in consciousness has been born into form, a temporary form and then it dies and goes onto another form. You could say the whole world is consciousness having taken birth as form, manifesting as form temporarily, and then dying which means dissolving as form. What always remains is the essence of all that exists - consciousness itself
~shakespeare love quotes by Eckhart Tolle
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
~saying about shakespeare by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
~quote about Patriotism by Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
~quotes on Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
~sayings on Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.
~quotations on Religion by Edwin Arlington Robinson
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
~shakespeare love quotes by Stewart Alsop
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
~saying about shakespeare by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
~quote about War by Holly Near
When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football.
~quotes on Humorous by Author Unknown
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
~sayings on Advertising by Norman Douglas, South Wind
Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.
~quotations on Health by Author Unknown
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
~shakespeare love quotes by Nancy Mitford
One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.
~saying about shakespeare by Crates
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
~quote about Baseball by Don Drysdale, quoted in New York Times, 9 July 1979
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God
~quotes on Love Sayings by Beatrice Saunders
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
~sayings on Religion by Butch Hancock
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.
~quotations on Morality by Llewelyn Powys
No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.
~shakespeare love quotes by Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
~saying about shakespeare by Merry Browne
Your anger is like the bubbles in a can of soda. The more you’re shaken, the more you want to let it out. The longer you keep it in though, the greater the size of the eventual explosion - and the flatter the drink at the end.
~quote about Success by Nisandeh Neta
Smoking can kill. If your dead, you've lost a very important part of your life.
~quotes on Humor by Melissa Stuart
Robert Lee was able to do some running on his groin for the first time
~sayings on Football by Various
History is a bath of blood.
~quotations on History by William James, Memories and Studies
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~shakespeare love quotes by George MacDonald
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
~saying about shakespeare by George Eliot
I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.
~quote about Golf by Gerald Ford
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
~quotes on Wise Words by Bill Veeck
When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
~sayings on Writing by Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
~quotations on Carpe Diem by George MacDonald
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
~shakespeare love quotes by Author Unknown
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble
~saying about shakespeare by Bob Hope
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
~quote about Wealth by Warren Buffett
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
~quotes on Patience by George-Louis de Buffon
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