"The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his exertions, but by his every day conduct."
--Blaise Pascal--
"A careful person profits from personal experience, a wise man from the experience of others."
--Hitopdesh--
"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and true courage."
--Wendel Phillips--
"The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now & the way to be happy is to help others to be happy."
---Ingersoll---
Thought for the Day.
"There is no cure for birth and death, save, to enjoy the interval".
--George Santayana--
"Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested."
---Bacon--
Thought for the Day.
"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty.Anyone who keeps this ability never grows old."
--Franz Kafka---
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever. It's loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness".
--Keats--
"Anger is momentary madness; so control your passions or it will control you.
---Horace Epistles--
"Gather therefore the rose, whilst yet in prime,
For, soon comes age that will her pride deflower."
--Edmund Spencer---
"There are two things to aim in life; first, to get what you want, and after that,to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
--Joseph Cambell----
"All ambitions are lawful except those, which climb upward on the miseries or credulity of mankind."
--Joseph Conrad--
"Men in general judge more from appearance than from reality. All men have eyes but, few have the gift of penertration."
---Machiavelli---
"Subdue your appetite, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."
--Charles Dickens--
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Thoughts for the day
"Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want."
Don Stamford
"Only passions, great passions. can elevate the soul to great things.
--Denis Diderot-
''The smallest actual good done is better than the most magnificent promise of impossibilities.
_Macaulay_
"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows".
- Helen Keller
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
--Confuci
"Not to know is bad; but not to wish to know is worse".
-Anon
"In life, it is not special to be special, but it... is special to be ordinary
Don Stamford
"Only passions, great passions. can elevate the soul to great things.
--Denis Diderot-
''The smallest actual good done is better than the most magnificent promise of impossibilities.
_Macaulay_
"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows".
- Helen Keller
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
--Confuci
"Not to know is bad; but not to wish to know is worse".
-Anon
"In life, it is not special to be special, but it... is special to be ordinary
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