JulieJeanneEleonore de Lespinasse Famous Quotes
"If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness."
JulieJeanneEleonore de Lespinasse Quotations
"A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart If it does, the path is good if it doesn't it is of no use."
Carlos Castaneda
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
A E Houseman
"When anger rises, think of the consequences."
Confucius
"Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers."
Leo C Rosten
"The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined."
George Eliot
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.
Eli Khamarov
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
Ursula K LeGuin
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
"As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless."
Rodney Yee