The dog in the kennel barks at his fleas; the dog that hunts does not feel them.
—Chinese Proverb
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
—Konstantin Stanislavski (Russian Actor)
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
—Matthew Prior (English Poet, Diplomat)
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
—E. F. Benson (English Novelist, Biographer)
You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing.
—John W. Gardner (American Activist)
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists … in the loved one, perfection.
—Sidney Poitier (American Actor, Film Director)
Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
—Frederick Buechner (American Writer, Theologian)
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
—John Bunyan (English Writer, Preacher)
Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.
—Jane Goodall (British Ethologist)
Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
—Marion Milner (‘Joanna Field’) (British Psychoanalyst)
One should have the greatest simplicity of physical habits combined with the largest flexibility. How hard the combination is to attain, and yet how important to a life at once sane and full! It is the same problem present everywhere in living—the problem of unstable equilibrium—of an adjustment that is ever in process and never crystallized.
—Edward Howard Griggs (American Lecturer, Educator)
Let none be rich, and Poverty
Would not be thought so great a Misery.
Our discontent is from comparison;
Were better states unseen, each man would like his own.
—John Norris (British Priest, Philosopher)