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Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune’s tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart’s mettle, and there’s no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you’ll sound sour as a broken bell.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Success in life is directly proportional to the number of awkward conversations you’re willing to have.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 28 Jun 2011 at 5:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonSource: http://zenhabits.net/own/Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 6:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
Speaker: Groucho MarxPosted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 17 Aug 2010 at 10:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Aug 2009 at 8:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Speaker: Jascha HeifetzPosted: 28 Aug 2009 at 10:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Speaker: Martin Luther King, Jr.Posted: 03 Aug 2009 at 9:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Γνῶθι σεαυτόν
Speaker: SocratePosted: 13 Feb 2009 at 8:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
‘I shall show you,’ said Hecato, ‘a love philter compounded without drug or herb or witch’s spell. It is this: if you wish to be loved, love.’
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Negligence in small things leads both to and from negligence in large things.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never trust a thin chef.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: http://quotes4all.net/Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 11:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The Enemy allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavour. It occurs when the boy who had been enchanted in the nursery by “stories from the Odyssey” buckles down to really learning Greek. It occurs when lovers have got married and begin the real task of learning to live together. In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing… and their lies our opportunity. But also, remember, there lies our danger. If once they get through this initial dryness successfully, they become much less dependent on emotion and therefore harder to tempt.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The devil… the prowde spirite… cannot endure to be mocked.
Speaker: Thomas MoorePosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s a kind of luck that’s not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that’s not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
Speaker: Sydney J. HarrisPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Design is about getting the right idea, and getting the idea right.
Speaker: Marty NeumeierPosted: 28 Nov 2007 at 10:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“We have a saying, in the Pashto language, and the meaning of it is that you are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely, to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
Speaker: Dan BarkerPosted: 07 Oct 2009 at 7:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!