And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.
Barack ObamaRead
Topic
1,077 quotes
And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
What is to give light must endure burning.
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
By changing nothing, nothing changes.
I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.
Let's say 'Yes' to life and 'No' to death.
When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.