Action Quote by Euripides

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

— Herman Melville

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

— Boethius

There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

— Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history…

— Rebecca West

Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

— Sophocles

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no…

— Tad Williams

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is…

— Marcus Aurelius

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool…

— Thornton Wilder

“I think in my old age I've come to realize just how precious everything is and I try to value the many blessings that…

— Phil Hartman

He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace…

— Robert Farrar Capon