- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37300/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37300/ <![CDATA[Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37628/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37628/ <![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33773/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33773/ <![CDATA[We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30704/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30704/ <![CDATA[When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30703/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30703/ <![CDATA[Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42013/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42013/ <![CDATA[If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42009/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42009/ <![CDATA[Failure is success if we learn from it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1017/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1017/ <![CDATA[To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1015/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1015/ <![CDATA[A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42030/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42030/ <![CDATA[Every spoken word arouses our self-will.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42017/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42017/ <![CDATA[All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42025/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42025/ <![CDATA[All our words from loose using have lost their edge.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42026/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42026/ <![CDATA[A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42038/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42038/ <![CDATA[Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1020/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1020/ <![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1019/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1019/ <![CDATA[The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10977/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10977/ <![CDATA[A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13704/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13704/ <![CDATA[The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14625/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14625/ <![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14628/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14628/ <![CDATA[The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18041/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18041/ <![CDATA[Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23291/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23291/ <![CDATA[I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1111/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1111/ <![CDATA[I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18675/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18675/ <![CDATA[To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17214/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17214/ <![CDATA[To generous souls every task is noble.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16654/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16654/ <![CDATA[To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35786/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35786/ <![CDATA[A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14851/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14851/ <![CDATA[If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13831/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13831/ <![CDATA[Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35389/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35389/ <![CDATA[There is nothing assured to mortals.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35383/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35383/ <![CDATA[There is no such thing as security. There never has been.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35382/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35382/ <![CDATA[The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35380/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35380/ <![CDATA[Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35368/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35368/ <![CDATA[Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35370/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35370/ <![CDATA[The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22252/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22252/ <![CDATA[Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19338/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19338/ <![CDATA[Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24043/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24043/ <![CDATA[We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22250/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22250/ <![CDATA[The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19878/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19878/