Smigiel Quotes & Sayings

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades. — Saint John Chrysostom

I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

We contemplated the stars beyond the Moon, big as pieces of fruit, made of light, ripened on the curved branches of the sky, and everything exceeded my most luminous hopes, and yet, and yet, it was, instead, exile.
I thought only of the Earth. It was the Earth that caused each of us to be that someone he was rather than someone else; up there, wrested from the Earth, it was as if I were no longer that I, not she that She for me. — Italo Calvino

Making others better is a core value of a great life. — Todd Stocker

When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide. — Les Brown

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war. — Bianca Jagger

You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit. — Greg Plitt

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. — Abraham Lincoln

Successful people go through fear to get to where they are. — Saji Ijiyemi