Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….
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Create Personalise WishesA Native American elder once described his…
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
15The liar’s punishment is…
The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
17People are always blaming their circumstances…
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
18When two people are under the influence…
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
16The reasonable man adapts himself…
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
17If you want to tell people the truth…
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures…
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
17The people who get on in this world are…
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
15Life isn’t about finding yourself…
The single biggest problem…
Progress is impossible without change…
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
16A government that robs Peter
There are two tragedies in life…
From the backstabbing co-worker…
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
26There were always in me, two women at least…
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
145I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear..
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in…
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
27I am only responsible for my own heart…
I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.
14I am an excitable person who only understands….
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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