The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. ~ Marcel ProustTweetShareSharePin
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight. ~ Franklin D. RooseveltTweetShareSharePin
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. ~ Henry R. LuceTweetShareSharePin
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil. ~ Dag HammarskjöldTweetShareSharePin
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security. ~ UnknownTweetShareSharePin
What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. ~ John RuskinTweetShareSharePin
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. ~ Cyril ConnollyTweetShareSharePin
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~ Edward De BonoTweetShareSharePin