love and heartbreak quotes
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ~Hosea Ballou
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. ~W.E.B. DuBois
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. ~George Mikes
Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let men recognize this truth, and the hour of their liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave the soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in love. ~Annie Besant
When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. ~Abraham Lincoln
Only the dead have seen the end of war. ~Plato
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. ~I Timothy 6:10
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. ~George Winters
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. ~Saul Alinsky
The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood. ~Johannes Jensen
Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on. ~Abraham Lincoln
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. ~John Dryden
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it! ~Proverbs 15:23
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ~Edgar Allen Poe
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. ~John Burroughs
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. ~Judah Ibn Tibbon
If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it. ~Dick Allen
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ~Michel de Montaigne Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~Proverb Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~Proverb
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ~Samuel Johnson
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ~Vilfredo Pareto
