I think back to those days after the Bastille fell, the Mercure Nationale run from the back of the shop, that little Louise sticking her well-bred nose in the air and flouncing off to bawl out their printer—and you know, he was a good lad, Françoi...
The miracle of life is given by One greater than ourselves, but once given, each life is ours to nurture and preserve, to foster, not only for today's world but for a better one to come. There is no purpose more noble than for us to sustain and celeb...
Where you were born is less important than how you live.
The most important precept is to be aware of WHO WE ARE! “Who we are,” he said, underlining each word as he said it. “Who we are! Us! Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn’t that the most important thing of all? ...
What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pe...
In a way, losing hope and losing importance are the same thing. It is that youthful vibrance, that eternal longing and believing, that makes youth so important--if you grow old and lose that without finding another way to be important, you will slip ...
To submit isn’t to be forced. It’s to yield a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.
The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
Pain was as much a part of this life as the summer and the winter and the rain, and there was no greater asshole than the one who believed you can cure it.
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life.
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
I've had a number of near misses during my travels that in retrospect seem of greater concern than they did at the time. I guess that is what happens with age.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
