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F A M O U S - Q U O T A T I O N S
"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much."
"The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say." "One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."
"The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality."
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes."
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."
"Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
"The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."
"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
"The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy."
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
"The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say." "One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."
"The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality."
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes."
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."
"Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
"The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."
"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
"The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy."
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
"Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
"Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent."
"Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields...." "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
"When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret."
"In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song."
"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving." Ambition, Art, Desires 4.75 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
"My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. "Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. "Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. "Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. "Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. "Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. "Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation."
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."
"The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him."
"He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it."
"We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams."
"Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt."
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."
"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?"
"For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all."
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
"The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers." "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."
"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans."
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity."
"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."
"Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you."
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
"Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation."
"Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow."
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
"You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done."
"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them."
"Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God."
"Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God."
"No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver."
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
"If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches."
"As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease."
"Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?"
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life."
"To be closer to God, be closer to people."
"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price."
"The highest virtue here may be least in another world."
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
Anonymous, Proverb
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Diane Ackerman
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.
Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.
Scipione Alberti
Anonymous, Proverb
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Diane Ackerman
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.
Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.
Scipione Alberti
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C A N A D A - Q U O T E S
► A cautious people learns from its past; a sensible people can face its future. Canadians, on the whole, are both. - Desmond Morton
► We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
► The crisis of Canada today is the combination of economic problems facing us and the increasing impotency of governments that lack either the will or the resources to do much about it. The tragedy of Canada today is that just when we need a country that's pulling together in common cause, we have one that keeps finding new ways to pull itself apart. Angus Reid
► There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people. Winston Churchill
► We are lucky to live in a country as rich as ours. To break it apart would be asinine in the highest degree. Barry Gerding
► We are tremendously proud of our cultures, heritage and achievements and we will continue to break new ground. I am proud to be a Canadian and I hope you are too. Philip K. Lee
► We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be. Bob Rae
