Never try to leap from a standstill.
Never try to leap from a standstill.
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
Money: power at its most liquid.
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.
Malice is always authentic and sincere.
The time I kill is killing me.
Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
Listening to people keeps them entertained.
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.
Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories