723 quotes found
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
“When you assume you make a you-know-what out of U and me. Yep, so let's stop assuming so much. We are often quick to explain details to strangers, who we understand might not be reading our minds, ...”
“It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very sm...”
“Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.”
“If Id stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. ...”
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
“People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what...”
“There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.”
“It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.”
“This is what we are like. Collectively as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost 100 years old, and she told me, "There are only two questions that human beings ...”
“True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.”
“A person is a person through other persons.None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other...”
“Everybodys gotta learn, nobodys born knowing.”
“the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.”
“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.”
“If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck”
“Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light and Darkness at their most elemental level, as forces that are so ab...”
“Be first the master of yourself”
“Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives...”
“the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes ...”
