51
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.
The complete collection
The quote database
Every quote we hold, 1549 of them from 213 people across 387 works. Filter it, sort it, and follow any citation back to the source.
1529 checked at source
Filter the collection
Category
Feeling
Attribution
52
Economic independence is a relative condition at best.
53
The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.
54
What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become.
55
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.
56
So I ask you today: How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?
57
You’ll never see a U-haul behind a hearse.
58
You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it.
59
Your life will never be a straight path.
60
It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and ideas.
61
Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.
62
If you love me you will; and if you do not, I shall never love myself.
63
but to have the spleen, and to dream upon't, is a punishment I would not wish my greatest enemy
64
The style shall be simple and familiar; but style is the image of character; and the habits of correct writing may produce, without labour or design, the appearance of art and study.
65
There are probably as many different dialects for the heart as for the tongue, are there not?
Elizabeth Barrett Browningverified·The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 1 (ed. Frederic G. Kenyon)·October 22, 1842
66
After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.
67
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.
68
Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.
69
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
70
Does it seem to you so small and worthless a thing to be good and happy?
71
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault; for God has made all men to be happy, to be free from perturbations.
72
It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.
Epictetusdisputed·The Encheiridion, in A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus (trans. George Long)·1888
Attribution contested
The fifth maxim is the source of the modern slogan it is not what happens to you but how you react to it, which translates nothing Epictetus wrote and has no attested author. The paraphrase stops halfway. Epictetus opens by saying men are disturbed by their opinions about things rather than by the things, but he ends here -- taking the blame yourself is only the middle stage, and the finished man blames nobody at all.
73
Wretch, you are carrying about a god with you, and you know it not.
74
Have you anything better or greater to see than the sun, the moon, the stars, the whole earth, the sea?
75
See that you do nothing like a sheep; but if you do, in this case also the man is lost.