Useful Quotes (page 155)

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• single
• owned
• usefulness

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them. Thomas Hughes

• power
• contentment
• faith

May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you... May you be content knowing you are a child of God... Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of you. Mother Teresa

• world
• starting
• usefulness

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet. Stanislaw Lem

• different
• people
• love

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own. Morrie Schwartz

• humanity
• bad
• people

It would be an idyllic tropical paradise if not for the malaria, the insects, the constant diarrhea and resulting hemorrhoids, and the fact that the people are dirty and smell bad and eat each other and use human heads for decoration. Neal Stephenson

• little
• using
• usefulness

Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating. Suzanne Collins

• dream
• broken
• bottles

By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams. Jon Stewart

• participants
• usefulness
• critical

We use criticism as a fake participation. Chuck Palahniuk

• women
• look
• though

Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils. Jeffrey Eugenides

• manly
• study
• wellness

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it. Arthur Conan Doyle

• children
• thinking
• growing up

when we were children we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable, but to grow up is to except vulnerability. to be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle

• winning
• she
• mama

She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. Alice Walker

• memorial
• enough is enough
• kindness

... depict your sorrows and desires, your passing thoughts and beliefs in some kind of beauty- depict all that with heartfelt, quiet, humble sincerity and use to express yourself the things that surround you, the images of your dreams and the objects of your memory. If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place. Rainer Maria Rilke

• travel
• tasteful
• own

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written. Aldous Huxley

• life
• giving
• manly

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life. Jean-Jacques Rousseau