Quotes
Quotes about War
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Love is like a balloon.. when you push your relationship with someone forward it is like blowing up the balloon. If you blow too hard and too fast, the balloon pops and likewise the relationship breaks. But if you take things slowly and let the balloon of love stretch on its own, it grows into a huge, prosperous balloon, full of love. Also, if you don't push the relationship at all, or at least hold it at the same level it was at, the air will flow out of the balloon, deflating it, and your love will shrivel up and become flat & lifeless. So when you are in love, push the relationship forward slowly and gently and the balloon will grow comfortably into a strong, immense love.
Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job v.7.
Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts.
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Beware the anger of the dove. [Fr., Craignez la colere de la colombe.]
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. [Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know.
