Age Quotes - Page 212

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

Touch is the first language we speak.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

A taste of honey is worse than none at all.

Old age is life's parody.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.

Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.