My Quotes Collection 15

 (Collection of quotes by Turlapati Sambasivarao garu)


Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. Francis Bacon  

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. Lawrence Durrell 

A good friend is my nearest relation. Thomas Fuller 

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle 

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. Thomas Carlyle 

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself. Maxwell Maltz

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. Maurice Chevalier

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer 

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Sigmund Freud

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. Anaxagoras 

Only great minds can afford a simple style. Stendhal

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. Eleanor Roosevelt

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. Soren Kierkegaard  

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson 

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. John Mason Brown

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare. Edward Thorndike 

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith. Anna Letitia Barbauld 

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. Anna Letitia Barbauld 

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. John Dryden  

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. Elbert Hubbards

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. John Dryden 

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Gustave Flaubert

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton 

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true. William Ralph Inge 

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. William Ralph Inge

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. Augustus Hare

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. Allan Bloom 

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. Johann Georg Hamann 

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word. Johann Georg Hamann 

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. Mortimer Adler  

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past. Mary Webb 

Talent is god given be humble.Fame is man given.Be grateful.Conceit is self given b careful...john wooden 

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds. Edgar Cayce

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. Harry S. Truman

None of Us is as Good as All of Us. Ray Kroc

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. Pliny the Elder

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. John Dewey

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. Khalil Gibran

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. Doris Lessing

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. Doris Lessing

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance. Paul Tournier

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. Bryant H. McGill

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs. Robert Schumann

 

Each day is the scholar of yesterday. Publilius Syrus

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God. William Law

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life. John Chrysostom

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine 

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. Euripides  

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. Viktor E. Frankl

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. Muriel Spark

 

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. Earl Nightingale

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell 

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi gm

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Rumi

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created. Rumi

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. Jean de La Fontaine