Hangout Quotes

A man is exactly as big as the things that make him angry.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company,

the enemy of the mediocre.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;

but often we look so long at the closed door

that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Life is too short to take everything seriously.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

We should not give up

We should not allow

the problem to defeat us.

Truth is like the sun.

You can shut it out

for a time, but it

ain't goin' away.

Nothing is at last sacred but

the integrity of your own mind.

Unexpressed emotions will never die.

They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Real change,

enduring change,

happens one step at a time.

How people treat you is their karma;

how you react is yours.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported?

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions

drown out your own inner voice.