If you define yourself through the opinions of others you'll never be defined at all.
- Marika Cobbold
- Marika Cobbold
Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
- Gustave Flaubert
- Gustave Flaubert
People are never free of trying to be content.
- Bookchin, Murray
- Bookchin, Murray
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
- Hugo, Victor
- Hugo, Victor
And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]
- Bible
- Bible
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
- Publilius Syrus
- Publilius Syrus
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
- Lippmann, Walter
- Lippmann, Walter
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
- Chandler, Raymond
- Chandler, Raymond
Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
- Camus, Albert
- Camus, Albert
The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
- Hudgins, Ken
- Hudgins, Ken
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
- Errol Flynn
- Errol Flynn
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
- Steinem, Gloria
- Steinem, Gloria
No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?
- Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King
- Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King
. . . Dull boors See deeper than we think, and hide within Those leathern hulls unfathomable truths, Which we amid thought's glittering mazes lose. They grind among the iron facts of life, And have no time for self-deception.
- Saint's Tragedy, Act iii. Scene ii. 1847.
- Saint's Tragedy, Act iii. Scene ii. 1847.
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
- Yankwich, Leon R.
- Yankwich, Leon R.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
- Gloria Naylor
- Gloria Naylor
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime.
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Poe, Edgar Allan
Better to see the face than to hear the name.

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