The main thing is that we can smile at our duties -- yes even at our suffering.
The horse may wish to do one thing, but he who saddles him another.
"Come see me" and "come live with me" are two different things.
[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life i...
We are to allow one thing to be really and truly distinct from the other, to be its own genuine self. There is a logical and philosophical urge in thinking men to reduce all things to a single unity. But this urge of the natural reason tends to petri...
God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize th...
But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible....
That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.
To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.
I know a thing or two about a thing or two. One of those things is not love. Also, one of those things is not love.
That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.
If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.
In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.
You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesn't work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.
