Which - Quotes
A man is made of many things
None of which can be seen at a glance
Even a rose can grow from concrete
If watered and given the chance
The best gifts of all find the fewest admirers, and that most men mistake the bad for the good, - a daily evil that nothing can prevent, like a plague which no remedy can cure. There is but one thing to be done, though how difficult! - the foolish must become wise, - and that they can never be. The value of life they never know; they see with the outer eye but never with the mind, and praise the trivial because the good is strange to them.
If you hear advice from a grandmother or elders, odds are that it works 90 percent of the time. On the other hand [...] if you read anything by psychologists and behavioral scientists, odds are that it works at less than 10 percent, unless it is has also been covered by the grandmother and the classics, in which case why would you need a psychologist?
There`s something about christmas that always throws us back upon ourself, on our memories and wishes, our childhood self, which is always standing wide-eyed with amazement outside the great door behind which the wonder is waiting.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
There are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world.
Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.