27.Quotes On Loneliness:Gratitude:Punishment:Smile:Losing:Possibility-Part 5
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"Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.." -Amy Lowell-
"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.".-Norman Cousins-
"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument;its function is to make the worse appear the better.".-George Santayana-
"We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.".-Zelda Fitzgerald
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"Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.".-Camille Paglia-
"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.".-Cesare Pavese-
"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body;the two are ever united.".-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt-
"After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.".-Cynthia Ozick-
"For love... has two faces;one white, the other black;two bodies;one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together".-Virginia Woolf-
"Gratitude - the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.".-Dorothy Parker-
"Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.".-Nathaniel P. Willis-
"The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.".-Henry Miller-
"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.".-C. Rossetti-
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.".-Leo Buscaglia-
"The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.".-Antoine Rivarol-
"If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.".-Logan Pearsall Smith-
"We ought to reverence books;to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all t".-Charles Kingsley-
"Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"We can only reason from what is;we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.".-Henry Bolingbroke-
"Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.".-Oprah Winfrey-
"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.".-Doris Lessing-
"Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.".-Bhagavad Gita-
"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.".-Michael Korda-
"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.".-Doug Horton-
"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.".-Thomas Moore-
"People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization;but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.".-Clark Kenneth-
"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom;it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.".-Quentin Crisp-
"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.".-Fjodor M. Dostojewski-
"Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.".-Woody Allen-
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