Jean Paul Richter Famous Quotes
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary situations.
"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
"Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower."
Jean Paul Richter Quotations
"I remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be peeling potatoes or changing the latrine. Hey, wait. I wasn't in the army. Then who WAS that guy"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Evelyn Underhill
"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
M Cartmill
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics."
Richard Livingstone
"Above all else, never think you're not good enough."
Anthony Trollope
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."
John Muir
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.
Charles De Gaulle