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It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be read more
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but read more
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.
[Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]
To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.
[Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein read more
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,
Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly read more
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Kahlil Gibran.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest read more
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Don't try to force chemistry between two people or else it may just blow up at you.
Don't try to force chemistry between two people or else it may just blow up at you.
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no read more
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.