Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- Hal Borland, Countryman: A Summary of Belief.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grass
Attitudes, Thomas Szasz
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
- Thomas Szasz
- Thomas Szasz
Soul, Woody Allen
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.
- Woody Allen, Annie Hall (1977).
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Soul
- Woody Allen, Annie Hall (1977).
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Soul
Health, Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
일찍 일어나고 일찍 자는 것은 남자를 건강하게 하고, 부자로 만들고, 현명하게 합니다.
- 벤자민 프랭클린
Death, David Assael
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
- David Assael
사람들이여, 마음을 열어 꿈을 꾸라. 저 멀리 보이는 해안가를 향해 나아가라. 죽음을 향해가는 우리의 여행은 너무도 빨리 끝나고 말테니.
- 데이비드 아셀
Music, Friedrich Nietzsche
Only sick music makes money today.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
오늘날엔 저급한 음악만 돈이 된다.
- 프레드리히 니체
Success, Ingrid Bergman
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
- Ingrid Bergman, "The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes," by Carolyn Warner, 1992
Virtue, Confucius
To be able to practise five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
- Confucius, Analects, fifth century B.C.
- Confucius, Analects, fifth century B.C.
Essence, John Adams
When we say that God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.
- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 January 1820)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Essence
- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 January 1820)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Essence
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