“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.”
Michelangelo (di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
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“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.”
Michelangelo (di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
“I assumed he knew that your coach was abusing you. I realized in the limo that he didn't."
For a moment, there is only silence. When Damien speaks, his words are ice cold. "He knew.”
― J. Kenner, Claim Me
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Zedong
Friends are like diamonds and diamonds are forever.
Ricardo Ferreira aka Duke of Buckingham
“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
― Noam Chomsky
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
“A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world.”
— Muhammad (570 – 632 CE)
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .
Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Complete Jefferson
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
Patrick Henry
Good morning is not just a word, its an action and a belief to live the entire day well. Morning is the time when you set the tone for the rest of the day. Set it right!
~ Fain Blake
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
"The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation."
- supreme judge statement on considering first amendment rights for Internet users.
“Friendship matters first.”
― Kristine Cuevas, Never Love your Best Friend
When you're not a winner you need more faith in yourself and have more discipline to be a winner once again.
Life is made by moments, the highest and the lowest, true winners never give up, die standing, looking challenges in the eyes and defeats as dearest lessons.
To be a winner is not easy, the price of victory is sometimes high but so are the rewards, the best of all are the ones we keep on our souls next to golden silences.
A team will, is the will of all his members and to keep that will, we need to be together and together we will accomplish something amazing.
Duke of Buckingham aka Ricardo
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Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
If we keep our principles and respect each and everyone, we will have nothing to fear, not even our mistakes, we did them in our human conviction that we were right.
Being wrong is not something inhuman, it is so human that for forgiving ourselves we need to first start forgiving all other persons.
I will try better tomorrow knowing I will mistake me once in a while again but at least I have tried.
Someone like me.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao Tzu
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
David Attenborough
The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
Nancy Pelosi
Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?
Frank Luntz
I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.
Andrew Cuomo
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
― Oprah Winfrey
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return.
Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you.
Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
Ralph Marston