Today Quotes
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When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.Helen Keller
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.S
1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul-Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1
2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2
Experience becomes possible because of language.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.Baltasar Gracian
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.Robert J. Ringer
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?Richard D. Rosen