Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
A man who cannot tolerate small ills can never accomplish great things.
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.
You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects
I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
