Quotes of Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ No matter what you do in life, make sure your juniors are learning something good from you. ”

- Parul Prashar

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way. ”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. ”

- Eric Thomas

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Some people are not capable of loving you the way you need to be loved It might be wise to just wish them well and take care of yourself. ”

- Charles E Hudson

“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin