Inspirational Quotes - Page 436

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

When you got people behind you, you can do whatever.

Never worry about bad press. All that matters is if they spell your name right.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

Success is a state of mind, waiting for action.

Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.