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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. | Octavio Paz | |
Remember we're all in this alone. | Lily Tomlin | |
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. | Thomas Wolfe | |
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good. | John Milton | |
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. | santiz Margaret | |
Lonliness accepted becomes a gift leading one from a life dominated by tears to the discovery of one's true self and finally to the heart of longing and the love of God. | Asharoo | |
Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world... | Chuck Palahniuk | |
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. | Mario V Llosa | |
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world's progress has come out of such loneliness. | Bruce Barton | |
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. | Edward Gibbon | |
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Loneliness Quotes - Part3
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Action Quotes - Part3
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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. | Honore Balzac | |
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. | Annie Besant | |
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature. | Bhagavad Gita | |
All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. | Bible | |
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. | Bible | |
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. | Bible | |
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. | Bible | |
You can't aim a duck to death. | Gael Boardman | |
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | |
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. | Ashleigh Brilliant |
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Achievement Quotes - Part2
Quotes | By | |
We will either find a way, or make one. | Hannibal Hannibal | |
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. | David Bailey | |
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. | Ralph Emerson | |
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. | Hannah Arendt | |
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of. | Eric Hoffer | |
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. | C.S. Lewis | |
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. | P. Gouthey | |
Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. | George Fabricius | |
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. | Henry Longfellow | |
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. | Margaret Thatcher | |
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Ability Quotes - Part3
Quote | Source | |
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. | V Marquis | |
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. | Booker Washington | |
The king is the man who can. | Keith Richards | |
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. | Marcus Aurelius | |
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. | Marcus Aurelius | |
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. | Thomas Edison | |
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. | Theodore Roosevelt | |
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. | Ralph Emerson | |
Others have done it before me. I can, too. | William Faulkner | |
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. | Confucius Forbes | |
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Funny Quotes - Part4
Quotes | Source | |
I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. | Zsa Zsa Gabor | |
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. | Alex Levine | |
A woman drove me to drink ... and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her. | W C Fields | |
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. | W C Fields | |
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. | George Burns | |
Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you are not a hypochondriac. | Unknown | |
The only real diet: If it tastes good ... spit it out. | Unknown | |
An optimist laughs to forget. A pessimist forgets to laugh. | Unknown | |
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. | Winston Churchill | |
One of the best things people can have up their sleeve is a funny bone | Unknown | |
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. | Groucho Marx |
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