Quotes of Regard - somelinesforyou

“ The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, all duties even. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius. ”

- Puzant Kevork Thomajan

“ I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it. ”

- Sir Lawrence Olivier

“ Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. ”

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“ The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. ”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

“ She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. ”

- Anais Nin

“ Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic! ”

- Jean Sibelius

“ The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead. ”

- Igor Stravinsky

“ Respect yourself and others will respect you. ”

- Confucius

“ No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me. ”

- H. Rider Haggard

“ The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full. ”

- Joe Karbo

“ If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. ”

- Margaret Atwood

“ Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ The philosophical point of view of the average man - if that term may be applied to his naive realism - has a claim to the highest consideration. ”

- Ernst Mach

“ Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them. ”

- Arthur Helps

“ A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses. ”

- James Allen

“ Admiration is a curiosity. ”

- Greg Evans

“ She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light. ”

- Hartley Coleridge

“ An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. ”

- Richard Watson Gilder

“ Do everything as in the eye of another. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ Thoughts shut up want air,And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. ”

- Edward Young

“ The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not. ”

- Warren Wiersbe
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