Compulsions Quotes

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.

Another man's, I mean.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

If I were to try to read,

much less answer,

all the attacks made on me,

this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Never retreat.

Never explain.

Get it done

and

let them howl

Benjamin Jowett

Everything should be made as simple as possible,

but not simpler.

The strong creation created

by God in the world is not

the lion, not the elephant,

not the tiger

the girl.

Work expands to fill the time available.

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because

I was tired, but that isn't true.

I was not tired physically...

No,

the only tired I was,

was tired of giving in.

The key to immortality is

first living a life worth remembering.

To know the true nature of the heavens,

one must first free oneself from the chains of human opinion.

Do not pray for an easy life;

pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

The meeting of two personalities is like

the contact of two chemical substances:

if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself

a refuge from almost all miseries of life.

Study nature,

Love nature,

Stay close to nature.

It will never fail you.

Where there is righteousness in the heart,

there is beauty in the character.

When there is beauty in the character,

there is harmony in the home.

When there is harmony in the home,

there is order in the nation.

When there is order in the nation,

there is peace in the world.

Count your age by friends,

not years.

Count your life by smiles,

not tears.

Lenience will operate with greater force,

in some instances than rigor.

It is therefore my first wish to have

all of my conduct distinguished by it.

We’re surrounded.

That simplifies our problem of getting to

these people and killing them.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana,

in my eighth year... It was a wild region,

with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.

There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,

I did not know much.

Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher...

but that was all.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold

if the market shut down for 10 years.