Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
~quotes on Happiness by Margaret Thatcher
The three horrors of modern life – talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
~sayings on Society by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
~quotations on Poetry by E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.
~funny motivational sayings by H.G. Wells
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved
~saying about motivational by Franklin D. Roosevelt
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart.
~quote about Emotions by Francesco Guicciardini
A wee child toddling in a wonder world…. I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.
~quotes on Nature by Zitkala-Sa
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
~sayings on Love by Barbara De Angelis
A student undergoing a word-association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: Because everything does.
~quotations on Sex by Honor Tracy
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations
~funny motivational sayings by Rob Cella
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
~saying about motivational by Buddha
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
~quote about Risk by Tim McMahon
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
~quotes on Water by Loren Eiseley
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit – and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
~sayings on Walking by Bill Vaughan
He didn’t say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
~quotations on Politics by Richard Darman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, explaining why President Bush wasn’
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~funny motivational sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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