You - Quotes
They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
Think of me b4 you close your eyes
Allow me inside your heart
Let me lay in bed beside u
And keep you company in the dark.
You never know what`s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you`ve climbed a mountain.
If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man`s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
If you, If you can`t get people to like you, then you have to make them to respect you! And if they don`t respect you, then make them fear you!
Dying is a dull, dreary affair. My advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.
You can tell the story of the rise of Christianity without any reference to divine assistance. It was a movement like any other, a man-made cult, a cultural contagion passed from mind to mind, a natural example of cultural evolution.
Just as you cannot stop discovery happening, perhaps you can`t hurry it much either.