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- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3346/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3346/ <![CDATA[Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3458/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3458/ <![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3344/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3344/ <![CDATA[Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/25306/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/25306/ <![CDATA[Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15920/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15920/ <![CDATA[Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/46628/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/46628/ <![CDATA[If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/46627/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/46627/ <![CDATA[Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40842/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40842/ <![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10070/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10070/ <![CDATA[The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/102/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/102/ <![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18161/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18161/ <![CDATA[The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15363/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15363/ <![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13413/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13413/ <![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28793/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28793/ <![CDATA[There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14810/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14810/ <![CDATA[The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11484/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11484/ <![CDATA[The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12391/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12391/ <![CDATA[No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10757/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10757/ <![CDATA[Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18431/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18431/ <![CDATA[Only the insecure strive for security.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35375/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35375/ <![CDATA[A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9660/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9660/ <![CDATA[We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9657/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9657/ <![CDATA[And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9653/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9653/ <![CDATA[Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9650/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9650/ <![CDATA[She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15140/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15140/ <![CDATA[I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11185/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11185/ <![CDATA[Clenched Soul We have lost even this twilight. No one saw us this evening hand in hand while the blue night dropped on the world. I have seen from my window the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops. Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand. I remembered you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know. Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away? The book fell that always closed at twilight and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet. Always, always you recede through the evenings toward the twilight erasing statues.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/43065/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/43065/ <![CDATA[The Eighth of September This day, Today, was a brimming glass. This day, Today, was an immense wave. This day was all the Earth. This day, the storm-driven ocean lifted us up in a kiss so exalted we trembled at the lightning flash and bound as one, fell, and drowned, without being unbound. This day our bodies grew stretched out to Earth's limits, orbited there, melded there to one globe of wax, or a meteor's flame. A strange door opened, between us, and someone, with no face as yet, waited for us there.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/43075/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/43075/ <![CDATA[Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24556/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24556/ <![CDATA[My Soul is Heavy Laden with Its Fruits: Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/46462/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/46462/ <![CDATA[Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13955/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13955/ <![CDATA[Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. ]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/46459/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/46459/ <![CDATA[Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20315/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20315/ <![CDATA[Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5807/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5807/ <![CDATA[Change your thoughts and you change your world.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5771/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5771/ <![CDATA[If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5617/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5617/ <![CDATA[Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8165/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8165/ <![CDATA[The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28581/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28581/ <![CDATA[The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11728/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11728/ <![CDATA[If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11196/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11196/