Quotes of Samuel Johnson

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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

- Samuel Johnson

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“ We accept some black people, receive some white people, embrace some Asian people, and welcome some mixed people, but God commands us to love all people. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ When we go into stillness we can hear our soul’s voice loud and clear. If we speak from our heart we share our soul’s melody with the world. ”

- Christina Goetz

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Anything that makes weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. ”

- Swami Vivekananda

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present ”

- Lao tzu

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ Ladies, it’s harvest time!!! Take care of your crops, water them and weed them out. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

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- Richelle Mead

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

- Mark Twain

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione

“ Your past, including your failures, simply offers feedback that makes you wiser and stronger than before. ”

- Brittany Burgunder

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra