“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
Aristotle
“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
Aristotle
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
Aristotle
“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.”
Voltaire
“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.”
Dale Carnegie
“You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.”
Buddha
“The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
Albert Einstein
“Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, is mainly in need of freedom.”
Albert Einstein
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
Carl Jung
“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.”
Thomas Jefferson
“On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld