Heiligenstadt Testament Quotes & Sayings

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers. — Jonathan Haidt

You speak in ignorant disdain of the foremost nation of the world," Yongxing said, growing angry himself, "like all your country-men, who show no respect for that which is superior, and insult our customs."
"For which I might consider myself as owing you some apology, sir, if you yourself had not so often insulted myself and my own country, or shown respect for any customs other than your own," Laurence said. — Naomi Novik

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — W. H. Auden

Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days — Joseph Smith Jr.

When you get to the big leagues, you need to take potential and turn it into performance. You want to be the guy who got the most out of his ability, not the guy who never fulfilled his potential. — Travis Hafner

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month. — Jack Johnson

I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life. — Jillian Michaels

How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long - the care of cares - the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven - and straight you find a new stratum there. As physical science tells us no fluid is without its skin, so does it seem with this fine medium of the soul, and these successive films of care that form upon its surface on mere contact with the upper air and light. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders. — Anthony Holden

Old Mr. Bob Ewell accused him of rapin' his girl an' had him arrested an' put in jail - " "Mr. — Harper Lee

Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it. — Shirley Hazzard

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing. — Francine Prose

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. — Alexander Pope