I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.
Angelina JolieTemperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
AristotleTyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz KafkaHe who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaBeauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor DostoevskyWhere there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThere is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
Oscar WildeI think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel CastroNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
John LennonReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAlthough nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da VinciWhatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus AureliusFor if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert CamusI can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
Blaise PascalA perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard ShawYou don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.
Dolly PartonA useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBeauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard ShawFate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.
Kevin HartA jug fills drop by drop.
BuddhaOne must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich NietzscheThe proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack LondonHappy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFirst and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePoetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
AristotleMan has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiOne should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand RussellA man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus AureliusWe find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSome people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
Stephen HawkingMen’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl MarxThinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
Eckhart TolleIf co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
Mahatma GandhiIt is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
VoltaireHe that does good to another does good also to himself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas CarlyleEverything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. PattonIf man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise PascalI do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo GalileiPictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSay not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘
Khalil GibranKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil GibranIf a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar WildeYoung people can create beautiful things.
AuroraThe perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David ThoreauThe value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
Elon MuskWhatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Baruch SpinozaPerhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich NietzscheEverybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.
AuroraSusceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry AdamsAn example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
Pope FrancisAt any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert CamusHeaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
Franz KafkaIf you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William ShakespeareThere is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson MandelaI am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
DiogenesI thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
E. E. Cummings