Nearly Every Man Can Stand Adversity Quotes & Sayings

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress. — Rabindranath Tagore

You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad. — Eddie Murphy

Two years of oblivion have reduced me, if not to emptiness, than to something that sits closely beside it. It laid waste all that I was inside, and severed what connection existed between my memory and personality through two years of "living" like a shell, on the boundary of emptiness. And though there was precious little drama here compared to actual societal rejection, it drives me to worry all the same. All my memories are just reflections on the water, and I don't know whether I'm the reflection or the real thing. — Kinoko Nasu

A gentle soul is spiritual. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Other animals at the top of the pyramid, such as lions and sharks, evolved into that position very gradually, over millions of years. This enabled the ecosystem to develop checks and balances that prevent lions and sharks from wreaking too much havoc. As lions became deadlier, so gazelles evolved to run faster, hyenas to cooperate better, and rhinoceroses to be more bad-tempered. In contrast, humankind ascended to the top so quickly that the ecosystem was not given time to adjust. — Yuval Noah Harari

Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information. — Paul Bley

Anybody who believes in Allah and the Last Day should not harm his neighbor, & should entertain his guest generously. — Muhammad

It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent. — Hassan Nasrallah

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness. — Elizabeth A. Johnson

Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention. — Matt Groening

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values. — Rand Paul

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling. — Paul Theroux

All this for a kiss. — Tahereh Mafi

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend. — Maria Shriver