Nathaniel Hawthorne Famous Quotes
"Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed."
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotations
"There are no answers, only cross-references."
Joe Moore
"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know."
Joseph Conrad
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
Charles Robert Darwin
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Ruth Benedict
Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you are here.
Bill T Jones
"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire."
Margaret Mead
It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino
"Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change."
Marquis de Sade
Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Monroe Schultz