Today Quotes
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.Traditional Indian Saying
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul."Soren Kierkegaard
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)
A hair divides what is false and true.Omar Khayyam
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.Helen Keller
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.Henry de Bracton, De Legibus in 1240
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!Georges Eliot, Middlemarch
Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.Hans Christian Anderson