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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Topic: Serenity
Author: Thomas Szasz
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Author: Nietzsche
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
Author: Les Brown
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. -Vince Lombardi.
Law is a bottomless pit.
Topic: Law
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far reaching consequence of submission to authority.
Topic: Advice
From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.
Topic: Evil
Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea Till that the weary very means do ebb?
Topic: Pride
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
Topic: Business
Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.
Topic: Boldness
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
Topic: Storms
For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that they will get what they have sought. Accordingly we must note the general forms by which no one from first to last (as people say) is excluded, provided sincerity of heart, dissatisfaction with ourselves, humility, and faith are present in order that our hypocrisy may not profane God's name by calling upon him deceitfully. Our most gracious Father will not cast out those whom he not only urges, but stirs up with every possible means, to come to him.
Author: John Calvin
No one is responsible for all the things that happen to him, but he is responsible for the way he acts when they do happen.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Topic: Language
Author: Anna Jameson
Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.
Love is never having to say you're sorry.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother.
He that gives should not remember, he that receives should never forget.
Author: Talmud
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Topic: Books