When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Since our region is endowed with a lot of natural resources, including reasonable supplies of fresh water, we need and we can… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Thus doth the ever-changing course of things Run a perpetual circle, ever turning; And that same day, that highest glory brings, Brings… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure,… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which… — Solon Copy Share Image
He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been… — John Knox Copy Share Image
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of… — William James Copy Share Image
