Couzon Consul Quotes & Sayings

Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly
that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion
these are the two things that govern us. — Oscar Wilde

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.) — Tom Angleberger

I thought, better to get out while I'm still alive. — George Hamilton

I don't want to break someone's heart, but you can't control that. A broken heart happens; that's inevitable. — Lykke Li

I know life all too well. But I turned from that path. I'm not a rat anymore. I'm the lightning girl, and now I have too many ideas to count. Freedom, revenge, liberty, everything that fuels the sparks within me, and the resolve that keeps me going. — Victoria Aveyard

Jesus responded to them, "My Father is still working, and I am working also." John 5:17 — Beth Moore

If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution. — Emma Goldman

A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations. — Adriana Trigiani

...the truth is always changing, always shaped by the latest collective urge to destroy. — Ai

They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exquisitely engineered system we call a human being. — Steven Pinker

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse. — John Scott Russell

Before you break all the rules, learn the game. Too many startups and entrepreneurs want to sprint before they learn to crawl. — Mark Anthony Peterson