Quotes
Quotes - Harris
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voiceâthat is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harris.
