27.4.07

quotes

I've nver written the poem that i intended; the poem was always different when it ended.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? -Vincent Van Gogh

"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke everytime i hear it." -Catcher In The Rye

"... If I were told that what I shall write will be read in twenty years by the children of today and that they will weep and smile over it and fall in love with life, I would devote all my life and all my strengths to it." -Leo Tolstoy

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." -Aristotle

"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." - Phil. 2:2,4

"No one can accept another, or the two become friends, till each has proved to the other that he is worthy of love, and so won his trust." -Aristotle

"Love cannot live where there is no trust." -Cupid to Psyche

"To win without fighting is best." -Sun Tzu

"Some persons are always ready to level those above them down to themselves, while they are never willing to level those below them up to their own position. But he that is under the influence of true humility will avoid both these extremes." -Jonathan Edwards

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."-Oscar Wilde

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