Self, Democracy, Attitude, Marriage Quotes

SELF
Dan Millman
Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.

DEMOCRACY
Betrand Russell
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

ATTITUDE
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.

MARRIAGE
George Mendoza
You never saw any husband writing an alimony check in Norman Rockwell’s America.

Writing, Democracy, Calling, Children

WRITING
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

DEMOCRACY
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody’s equal.

CALLING
Taro Gold
Strive to achieve whatever you think you cannot, for it is on the path toward your impossible dream that you will find what you truly seek.

CHILDREN
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Art, Democracy, Excuses, Conversation

ART

Gustave Flaubert
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

DEMOCRACY

Henry O. Dorman
Democracy means not “I am equal to you” but “you are equal to me”.

EXCUSES

Doug Hall and David Wecker
Excuses are apologies for not having courage.

CONVERSATION

Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.