Quotes on Thrive

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.