Quotes
Quotes about End
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
This is the way the world ends
A brother is a friend given by nature.
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
I'm sometimes asked "Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?" I answer: "I am working at the roots." -George T. Angell, reformer (1823-1909)
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: Humility is endless.
It's splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
