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Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.
Quote by -Bob Brown
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Of all machines, the human heart is the most complicated and inexplicable.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk. But divert your attention by the objects surrounding you.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
Quote by -Socrates
“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.”
Quote by -Socrates
“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”
Quote by -Socrates
In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
Quote by -Christian Bale
I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
Quote by -Christian Bale
I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
Quote by -Christian Bale
One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.
Quote by -Christian Bale
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Quote by -Socrates
“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
Quote by -Socrates
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Quote by -Socrates
“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”
Quote by -Oprah Winfrey
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
Quote by -Oprah Winfrey
“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
Quote by -Oprah Winfrey