Downhere Quotes & Sayings

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can. — C.S. Lewis

Many of us don't realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives. — Debbie Ford

O you beast!
I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron,
That you shall think the devil is come from hell. — William Shakespeare

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. — Bob Dylan

How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities. — John Templeton

It's strange. Home. How I could wish for it so long, only to come back and find it gone. — Stephanie Perkins

Thinking deeply about your choices and actions from the stance of your future self can serve as both a motivational and a corrective force. — Cheryl Strayed

No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises. — Saru Singhal

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that. — Benjamin Franklin

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. — Mother Teresa

Be the one for others who they can look up to; the one you too want to. — Vikrmn

When you are a solitary kid you find an imaginary friend. — Jeanette Winterson

when you stop to evolve, you start to dissolve. — Raiden Steven

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation. — Wallace Stevens

Kindness is not an act, it's a lifestyle. — Anthony Douglas