Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Oh, mother, one small crust of bread!
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
You are aware of only one unrestOh, never to learn the otherTwo souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.
Where thy friend was wont to stand!
Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.
And in myself my happiness would find.
Her face at every fervent kiss!
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
Nought else I crave,--not e'en a kiss.
Nature We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
Eat thy supper with thy darling children!
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
Traveling is like gambling it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
All things are only transitory.
Ah, the change in truth is great!
Doubt can only be removed by action.
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Wisdom is only found in truth.
Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character.
'Tis the strength of life alone.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
True happiness springs from moderation.
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories