Finding your passion is about connecting the dots between your head and your heart.
Maria Marsala
1. "All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies."
George Bernard Shaw
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
2. "He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have."
Don Juan Manuel
3. "Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people."
Angela Carter, "Wise Children"
4. "The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."
Sir William Osler, "Science and Immortality"
Other categories: Human
5. "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park"
Other categories: Forgiveness
6. "Tolerance is only another name for indifference."
William Somerset Maugham, "A Writer’s Notebook"
Other categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Good and Evil
7. "A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world."
Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"
Other categories: Family and Loneliness
8. "Marriage is the operation by which a woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic."
Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"
Other categories: Marriage
9. "Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."
Lawana Blackwell, "The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark"
Other categories: Forgiveness
10. "He that plants trees loves others beside himself."
Thomas Fuller, "Gnomologia"
Other categories: Nature and Animals
11. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
Benjamin Disraeli
12. "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
Benjamin Franklin
13. "Altruism is the mark of a superior being."
Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)
Other categories: Human
14. "If I die, I forgive you; If I live, we shall see."
Spanish proverb
Other categories: Forgiveness
15. "We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups."
Deborah Tannen
Other categories: Human
16. "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
Malcolm Forbes
Other categories: Human
17. "The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."
Deborah Tannen
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
18. "What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature."
George Meredith
Other categories: Woman and Man
19. "All I want is a little more than I'll ever get."
Ashleigh Brilliant
20. "The majority is never right, unless it includes me."
Ashleigh Brilliant
21. "Some people take too much of vitamin "I"."
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22. "It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour."
Eric Hoffer
Other categories: Human
23. "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
Hermann Hesse, "Demian"
Other categories: Friendship and Hostility
24. "Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it."
George Santayana, "Winds of Doctrine"
25. "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
Will Rogers, "Illiterate Digest"
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
26. "We are all special cases. We all want to appeal to something! Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven."
Albert Camus, "The Fall"
Other categories: Human
27. "Living with egoist is commiting suicide for the love."
Lidia Jasinska
Other categories: Love
28. "Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."
Albert Schweitzer
29. "To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
Oscar Wilde
Other categories: Love
30. "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."
François de La Rochefoucauld
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
31. "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
Oscar Wilde
32. "Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers."
François de La Rochefoucauld
33. "Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
34. "There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
Oscar Wilde
35. "In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."
François de La Rochefoucauld
Other categories: Envy
36. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Lev Tolstoy
37. "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not any man's greed."
Mahatma Gandhi
Other categories: Nature and Animals
38. "We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm."
Winston Churchill
39. "Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
40. "We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones."
François de La Rochefoucauld
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
41. "Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Other categories: Oration and Silence
42. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
William Hazlitt
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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