Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.
When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.
Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too: Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.
If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me and I could fly down and eat them because I hate that song.
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.
Voyager upon life's sea:-- To yourself be true, And whate'er you lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.
If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate.
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Law of inflation: whatever goes up will go up some more.
I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vie whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.
Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.
Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate themâand then you destroy yourself.
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. -Chief Seattle.
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.).