Age Quotes - Page 38

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.

Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.

If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!

Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.