It was as if some great ocean of destruction had rolled its unyielding tide through the city and then, upon its terrible recession, left behind only a shoreline of concrete sand and crushed humanity.
And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.
Trustworthiness is a mark of a success-minded person. To be seen as trustworthy is a great compliment. When people trust you, they expect that you will honor their trust.
To be truly grateful for the kindness of other and to have those you love in your life is a great and powerful emotion.
To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.
Embrace the moment, your life will be whatever you want to make of it. Be inspired to do great works. You aren't finished yet. Go for your goals!
One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.
Great Gates almighty,” HARV said inside my brain. “I go off-line for a few nanos and the whole world goes to DOS.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.
So just let me deal with it, I can be emotionally flawed and still love you all at the same time. I’m a great multitasker.
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage!
There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness.
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.
The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.
Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations
Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.
The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time, you can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.
