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“To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue…They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”
Quote by -Confucius
“If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.”
Quote by -Confucius
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
Quote by -Confucius
“The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.” – Confucius
Quote by -Confucius
“There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.”
Quote by -Confucius
“When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.”
Quote by -Confucius
“When a man’s knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.”
Quote by -Confucius
“Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.”
Quote by -Confucius
“The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.”
Quote by -Confucius
“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”
Quote by -Confucius
“There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. In fact, I hiccup more than most.”
Quote by -Audrey Hepburn
"Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?"
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it has not left me yet. Love brought us to one death."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair"
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"My will and my desire were both revolved, as is a wheel in even motion driven, by Love, which moves the sun and other stars."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
“It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled. Like, telling someone you love them. Or giving your money away, all of it. Your heart is beating, isn’t it? You’re not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“When it’s over, I want to say: All my life I was a bride married to amazement.
Quote by -Mary Oliver