An idea is salvation by imagination
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
