Trafelet House Quotes & Sayings

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice. — Samuel Smiles

For some people hope is all they have. Encourage them and don't take their hope away, for they will be left with nothing. — Robert Cheeke

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness. — Stephen Richards

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race. — Ellsworth Huntington

Marriage is a long-lasting friendship. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In life things are only free after you've paid for them. — T.A. Uner

Everything gets better with the touch of love. — Debasish Mridha

Mma Ramotswe rose to her feet, allowing the woman beneath her to gasp for air and reinflate. She did not enjoy sitting on people, but every so often it was necessary, and in this case it was entirely justified by self-defence. If people came at you and started to scratch you, then of course you had the right to sit on them. Even Nelson Mandela, she told herself, who was a good and gentle man, would have agreed with that. — Alexander McCall Smith

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures. — Bob Cousy

What a mercy, I thought, that the crippled, the maimed, those whom Fate has cheated, at least in sleep have no knowledge of the shapeliness or unshapeliness of their bodies, — Stefan Zweig

If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath. — Pamela Sue Martin

Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth. — Cameron Russell

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. — Dennis Prager