"We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one……" — William Matthews
"We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one."
—
William Matthews
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
19 Quotes by William Matthews
William Matthews has 19 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach…
-
Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.
-
A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's…
-
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
-
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
-
One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when…
-
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
-
Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital…
-
The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly…
-
It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do…
-
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving…
-
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained…
See all 19 quotes by William Matthews »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »