Inspirational Quotations #272

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
* Margaret Thatcher

He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot,
him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
* Dhammapada

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.
It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.
It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
* Guy Debord

When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
* Friedrich Nietzsche

We shape our environments,
then our environments shape us.
* Winston Churchill

It’s not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
Sharing what we have for the betterment of person kind,
Bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
* Leo Buscaglia

Absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.
* French Proverb

Valor is stability,
not of legs and arms,
but of courage and the soul.
* Michel de Montaigne

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty remember that God has
pitted you against a rough antagonist that you
may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
* Epictetus

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