Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
The understanding you gain from practicing gratitude frees you from being lost or identified with either the negative or the positive aspects… — Phillip Moffitt Copy Share Image
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to… — Neil McDonald Copy Share Image
The law of Love is based on abundance; we are completely filled with Love all the time, and our supply is always… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking… — Ed Pastor Copy Share Image
In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too… — William Penn Copy Share Image
In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
I don't want to be wondering about how skinny I am, wondering what I'm going to eat because I don't want to… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The child of God should not be overanxious to make new gains; what he essentially requires is to keep what he already… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona,… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
