Destiny has two ways of crushing us — by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. – Henri Frederic Amiel Category: Perspective
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Perspective
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure. – Alfred Lord Tennyson Category: strength
Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it. – Doc Sane Category: Opportunities
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair Category: Miscellaneous
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no. – John Donne Category: sad
