Famous quotes by Authors

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power"

Lao Tzu, Author

"The only real failure in life is the failure to try"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Set high standards and few limitations for yourself"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The devil's voice is sweet to hear"

Stephen King, Author

Stephen King

"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"He who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"Love is the same as like, except you feel sexier"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

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