"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

Balzac, Honore De | Emotions | 3 bookmarks

"Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure."

Talmud, The | Deeds and Good Deeds | 2 bookmarks

"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude."

Lee, Bruce | Happiness | 2 bookmarks

"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."

Browne, Sir Thomas | Reason | 1 bookmarks

"It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair."

Kierkegaard, Soren | Courage | 2 bookmarks

"The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know."

Unknown, Source | Friends and Friendship | 4 bookmarks

"Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place."

Picabia, Francis | Youth | 1 bookmarks

"So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom."

Bible | Wisdom | 2 bookmarks

"To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection."

Marshall Field & Company | Excellence | 1 bookmarks

"All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De | Passion | 2 bookmarks