Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Quotable quotes: 7 Reader'Digest (1984)



Quotable quotes: 7 Reader'Digest (1984)



122. In exasperation, our mind spins like a skidding wheel, on a slippery surface, until patience restores traction.
123. The phrase "I must do something" solves the problem more "that something must be done.
124. Happy man who laugh at himself. He never lacked reason for fun.
125. Good advice is worth passing on to others. One is never served.
126. It is as detrimental to disregard the rules as to be too close to them.
127. Sincerity resembles species; his excess offends and his lack it leaves us wanting more.
128. Be attentive spectators where you cannot be actors.
129. The sciences and the arts carry in themselves the reward of the works and vigils that are consecrated to them.
130. Nothing better than to be stuffed in an armchair with a good book between hands, when in the house there is something that needs repair.
131. The genius of communication is to be perfectly sincere while still being perfectly compassionate.
132. Listen to others as you want to be heard from you. Such is the only lasting rule
of friendship
133. The defeat may be temporary. It is the claudicating that makes it permanent.
134. To love and be loved is like receiving the light of two Suns.
135. An intellectual is a man who uses more words than necessary, to say more than is possible.
136. Nothing valuable is lost if one gives the necessary time.
137. When you find yourself in a hole that you have dug, stop to examine the quality of your work.
138. Humor is just another defense against the universe.
139. If a nation does not see liberty as a supreme good; And if that supreme good is comfort or money, it will also lose them.
140. Children are more in need of models than critics.
141. You cannot put a price on love; but if all its accessories.

With affection
Ruben

No comments:

Post a Comment