Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
what I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all-the realisation at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth.
I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long. . . so let us help one another while we may.
Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
There is nothing more flattering than a woman to say 'I'm a fan' or 'I think you're beautiful. ' I don't know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman.
Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.
The Iraqis sat down for talks on how to put together a post-war government. They would have sat down yesterday, but somebody stole all their couches.
Most safely shall you tread the middle path.