Alfred Toynbee Quotes & Sayings

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado. — Brandon Mull

To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending. — Bell Hooks

Take solace, take comfort.
Your problems, too, will go away one day. They're temporary.
The only thing that is permanent in nature is in your heart.
Recognize that and be fulfilled.
Fulfill the possibility that was declared the day you were born,
the moment you took your first breath. — Prem Rawat

Meanwhile, however, it is quite otherwise, meanwhile the comedy of existence has not yet " become conscious " of itself, meanwhile it is still the period of tragedy, the period of morals and religions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help. — Richard Llewellyn

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. — Walt Whitman