Valsamis Mitsilegas Quotes & Sayings

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. — Swami Vivekananda

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps. — Louisa May Alcott

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism. — Aldous Huxley

When our mistress is alive, a great part of the thoughts which form what we call our loves come to us during the hours when she is not by our side. Thus we acquire the habit of having as the object of our meditation an absent person, and one who, even if she remains absent for a few hours only, during those hours is no more than a memory. And so death does not make any great difference. — Marcel Proust

The Best Is Yet To Be — Robert Browning

Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing — Anthony Jones

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. - Irving Townshend, Separate Lives — Michael Korda

I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi

Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow! — Edgar Allan Poe

Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer. — Ziad K. Abdelnour