Minissale Joseph Quotes & Sayings

We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means. — Rajneesh

Life was never intended to consist of a glut of luxury, be an easy course, or filled only with success. There are those games which we lose, those races in which we finish last, and those promotions which never come. Such experiences provide an opportunity for us to show our determination and to rise above disappointment. — Thomas S. Monson

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves. — Meg Cabot

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. — Robert Frost

On such sunny, sad mornings I always feel in my bones that there is a chance yet of my not being excluded from Heaven, and that salvation may be granted to me despite the frozen mud and horror in my heart. — Vladimir Nabokov

Reprisals are but a sad resource. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life. — Linda Dillow

And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier! — Lord Byron

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68) — Karen Armstrong

No emotion is more squirmy than feeling embarrassed for someone else — Megan McCafferty

Why something and not nothing? why music and not noise? — Don DeLillo