Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.
—Yiyun Li (Chinese-American Writer)
Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
—Arnold Glasow (American Businessman)
It is most reasonable men should value that benefit, which is most durable. Now tongues shall cease, and prophecy fail, and faith shall be consummated in sight, and hope in enjoyment; but love remains.
—William Penn (English Quaker Leader)
Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.
—Wilhelm Stekel (Austrian Physician)
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
—The Holy Quran (Sacred Scripture of Islam)
When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (British Statesman, Writer)
Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.
—Richard M. Weaver (American Rhetorician)
The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
—James Howell (Anglo-Welsh Writer)
Love heals. … It doesn’t always cure. There’s a difference between healing and curing. You can heal spiritually. You can heal emotionally. You can heal psychologically and socially, even if you don’t heal physically.
—Charles A. Garfield (American Psychologist)
Great occasions make great men.
—U.S. Proverb
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
—Euripides (Ancient Greek Dramatist)
People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.
—Anton Chekhov (Russian Short Story Writer)
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
—Alexander Fleming (Scottish Bacteriologist)
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
—Ursula K. Le Guin (Science-fiction writer)