454 Big Quotes & Sayings

The beauty in correcting our own mistakes; rather than attempting to correct the mistakes in others, is that working upon our own flaws improves us. But working upon the flaws of others not only leaves us unimproved; it actually leaves us being less than we were prior to making those assessments. I believe that the moral of this natural occurrence, is that we are all born to find and fix our own shortcomings; rather than find and fix the shortcomings in others. And if all people were to do this, then we would be a race of creatures looking inward, in order to bring out something better. Now think of what a beautiful race that would be. — C. JoyBell C.

My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost. — Shinzo Abe

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again. — Bill Bradley

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts. — Josh Billings

You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness. — Mooji

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge. — Philip Schultz

But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares? — Frederick Buechner

What happened?" I asked. "What did you say?"
Roger put the key in the ignition and looked over at me. "I told her good-bye," he said. Then he started the car and put in in gear, and we headed out. — Morgan Matson

It's very different to live with a mask. — Johnny Hunt

The denial of the popular will, Jefferson said privately, "opens upon us an abyss at which every sincere patriot must shudder."15 — Jon Meacham

I do not murmur, even if my heart break. — Heinrich Heine

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome ... and then, of course, you spoke. — Helen Hunt

Because he understood very well what was making her sick. For the first time in her life she had fallen in love at the same time that she had the experience necessary to know it would never work out. — Alice Walker