Pratiwi School Quotes & Sayings

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth ... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. — John Templeton

The hawk had filled the house with wildness as a bowl of lilies fills a house with scent. — Helen Macdonald

I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean. — Waylon Jennings

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin. — Maya Angelou

It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life. — John Travolta

Choose those things that spark joy when you touch them." "Hang those clothes that would be happier on hangers." "Don't worry about throwing away too much. There will come a moment when you know what is just right. — Marie Kondo

So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. — William Shakespeare

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all. — Earl Nightingale

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and overreaching and anticipating other. Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time that someone else. Hours in which honesty is permitted have become rare, and when they arrive one is tired and does not only want to "let oneself go" but actually wishes to stretch out as long and wide and ungainly as one happens to be ... Soon we may well reach the point where people can no longer give in to the desire for a vita contemplativa (that is, taking a walk with ideas and friends) without self-contempt and a bad conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at - just walking around Williamsburg, for example - is a great opportunity for ideas. I've been here before, I've seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they've attached a light to a house. — Martha Stewart

What people experience as obstacles in life are reflections of a decision to shut out understanding. If you shut out too much understanding, you become a victim, subject to forces that bewilder and overwhelm you. — Deepak Chopra

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities . — Marcus Aurelius

Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him. — Shaquille O'Neal

He liked to see men cowed and frightened, for that made them biddable, and Sergeant Hakeswill was always at his happiest when he was in control of unhappy men. — Bernard Cornwell