Adjustment Quote by Thomas Carlyle

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of…

— Albert Einstein

“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself…

— Ernest Becker

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS…

— William Shakespeare

All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting…

— John Irving

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

— John Fante

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

— Leo Tolstoy

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe…

— Khalil Gibran

I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend…

— Owen Feltham

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which…

— Queen Victoria

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which…

— Anonymous