I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.
Robin Jones GunnTags: wisdom friendship philosophical
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
EuripidesTags: humor philosophical common-sense
That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.
William Edward Hartpole LeckyTags: wisdom politics philosophical
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.
Virginia WoolfTags: inspirational philosophical
A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches
Jeff LindsayTags: humor philosophical
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
Frank HerbertTags: spiritual philosophical religous
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: philosophical
Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses
Kamila ShamsieTags: inspirational philosophical wry
Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.
Gautama BuddhaTags: inspirational philosophical life-lessons
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
Sarah Addison AllenTags: wisdom self-respect philosophical
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