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Inspirational Quotations #599

September 27, 2015 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
—Swami Nirmalananda

The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (American Sociologist)

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Novelist)

Those who can command themselves command others.
—William Hazlitt (English Essayist)

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.
—Woody Allen (American Actor)

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
—William Arthur Ward (American Author)

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
—Lily Tomlin

Honesty is better than any policy.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
—Jean Paul (German Novelist)

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