Selected quotes - page 13
The most expensive gifts in the world are free: kindness, attention, concern, sympathy, support, love...
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
Euripides
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Sophocles
If you knew how quickly people would forget you after your death, you would not seek in your life to please anyone but God.
John Chrysostom
Apologizing doesn't always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It means you value your relationship more than your ego.
What truly matters isn't the size of the house, but the happiness and love that fill the home.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
Thucydides
Warfare is the way of deception.
Sun Tzu
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
Seneca
If people could realize that we are merely passing through this Earth... That we are guests here... That every meeting with an acquaintance or a friend could be the last, they would be more humble and less cruel.
Look forward - with hope, back - with gratitude, up - with prayer, down - with repentance, inward - with attention. And around - with love.
As long as a person feels pain, he is alive. As long as a person feels another's pain, he is a Human.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
Men exist for the sake of one another.
Marcus Aurelius
Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.
Marcus Aurelius
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