Essayists Quotes - Page 2

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Inspirational, Life, Learning

Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

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Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

C. S. Lewis

God, Faith, Christian

C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Robert Anton Wilson

Love, Inspirational, Philosophy

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

Life, Sad, Beautiful

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C. S. Lewis

Courage, Army, Bravery

In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.42

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

Inspirational, Success, Respect

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Love, Inspirational, Change

"Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens

Hypocrite, People, Tolerance

"Christopher Hitchens: 'You have to choose your future regrets'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Motivational, Positive

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Andre Gide

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Friendship, Happiness, Happy

Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

Flannery O'Connor

Success, Failure, Novelists

Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.306, Macmillan

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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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