April 2009
35 posts
“Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and date the prom queen.”
– The Rock
“If you want to keep your heart in tact, give it to no one. Wrap it carefully...”
– C. S. Lewis
“As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is always an orphan.”
– Count Galeazzo Ciano
“When wisdom comes into your heart and knowledge fills your soul with delight,...”
– Proverbs 2:10-15
“A certain obsessiveness is a positive thing when you have to wake up every...”
– Peter Jackson, on filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy
“Marriage calls each spouse to fight against himself for the sake of his beloved....”
– Alice von Hildebrand
“Personal doubt is another factor. The fear of failure is a great motivator. It...”
– Peter Jackson
“Envy and arrogance are the two opposite sides of the same black crystal.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Think, that this day will never dawn again.”
– Dante
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
– Montaigne
“The wayfarer,
Perceiving the pathway to truth,
Was struck with astonishment....”
– Stephan Crane, The Wayfarer
“He who receives an idea from me, receives
instruction himself without lessening...”
– Thomas Jefferson
“No man is happy unless he believes he is.”
– Publilius Syrus
“Any responsibility is a blessing.”
– Debra Linker
“Life is full of the joys that we make for ourselves.”
– Debra Linker
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
– Victor Hugo
“Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight...”
– Arthur Gordon
“That’s what being a human being is, to do the best you can under any...”
– Admiral Rickover
“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”
– Common maxim
“One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.”
– Wayne Gretzky
“You cannot be a half saint. You must be a whole saint or no saint at all.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances,...”
– Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, as quoted by Fr. Tad Pacholczyk
“The basis of married love is the attachment of hearts.”
– St. Augustine
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them...”
– Carl W. Buechner
“You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful...”
– Anonymous
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Most people think, in the slough of complacency, that it has always been this...”
– Deogolwulf, as quoted by Mencius Moldbug
“True marriages are made in Heaven, for when Heaven makes them, body and soul...”
– Fulton Sheen
“Perfect love is rare indeed — for to be a lover will require that you...”
– Leo Buscaglia
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love —...”
– Joseph Conrad
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles...”
– Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have...”
– Henry Drummond
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love...”
– Erich Fromm
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives...”
– Lao-Tzu
“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human...”
– Anna Louise Strong