Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.[James Matthew Barrie] Quote:Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.[Edmond and Jules de Goncourt] Quote:Look, all I'm saying is, if these big stars didn't want people going through their garbage and saying they're gay, then they shouldn't have tried to express themselves creatively.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.[Victor Hugo] Quote:The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see 'hits,' and discourage exploration.[Roger Ebert] Quote:Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in.[Robert Frost] Quote:In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.[Mark Twain] Quote:Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Happiness depends upon ourselves.[Aristotle] Quote:Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.[Saint Augustine] Quote:There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.[Thomas Paine] Quote:As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.[George Washington] Quote:If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.[GK Chesterton] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Socrates] Quote:True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.[Socrates] Quote:When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.[Douglas Adams] Quote:Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.[Author Unknown] Quote:No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism.[George Berkeley] Quote:Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.[Rebecca West] Quote:Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.[Adam Smith] Quote:I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Such men as he be never at heart's ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.[William Shakespeare] Quote:It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.[H.G. Wells] Quote:Men rise from one ambition to another. First they seek to secure themselves from attack, and then they attack others.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.[George MacDonald] Quote:Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I think it's insulting to people who have a heritage of slavery to compare the homosexual experience in America to that. It's an unfortunate, cheap attempt to piggyback on something and to co-opt life experiences of others, claim that you've experienced them yourselves so that you can advance a cause.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.[James Madison] Quote:Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.[Rudyard Kipling] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Plato] Quote:Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Agatha Christie] Quote:Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. [Marcus Valerius Martialis] Quote:Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. [Douglas Adams] Quote:If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. [Cicero] Quote:When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them. [Franklin P. Adams] Quote:How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. [Alice Walker] Quote:Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. [Robert Anton Wilson] Quote:We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. [Henri Matisse] Quote:Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. [Charles M. Schulz] Quote:Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. [Plutarch] Quote:Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. [Susan Ertz] Quote:There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. [Albert Guinon] Quote:Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. [Albert Einstein] Quote:If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. [Hermann Hesse] Quote:Happiness depends upon ourselves. [Aristotle] Quote:Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. [Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey] Quote:Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. [Henri-Frdric Amiel] Quote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. [Rene Descartes] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. [Plato] Quote:Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. [Lucius Accius] Quote:The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. [Sophocles] Definitions of: selvesDefinition: pl. of Self. |
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