Francisco Jose De Goya Quotes & Sayings

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue. — Sophie Swetchine

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless - allows us to seek happiness in the only place it can be found: our real, messy, imperfect experience. — Martha N. Beck

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever. — Robert Mugabe

If you want to identify me," he says to the British officers who are questioning him, "ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for. Between these two answers you can determine the identity of any person." page 25 in the book called, "The Man in the Sycamore Tree by Edward Rice — Thomas Merton