Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“A sabbathless life ends up with neither true work nor true rest, but with frantic and ineffective activity punctuated by couch-potato lethargy.” — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“She felt all right. Her heart was like a drum hanging from piano wire in her chest, slowly, slowly beaten. Her hands… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation;… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“An overemphasis on teamwork and consensus can cause a kind of mental lethargy. If you subordinate your own expectations to the expectations… — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has… — Boethius Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them.… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord.… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation;… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness… — Harvey Dorfman Copy Share Image
I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image