Thoreau pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went (10)

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Buddha

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

Voltaire

Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Graham Greene

In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one can ruin oneself, become crazy and criminal. Through the contrast of the delicate pink, blood red and dark red, of mild Louis-XV and Veronese green against the yellow-green and stark-blue tones- all this in an atmosphere like the devil's inferno and pale sulphurous yellow...I've tried to convey the sinister power of such a place.

Vincent van Gogh

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Aeschylus

There is nothing like returning to a place that reminds unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Pablo Neruda

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

Thomas Jefferson

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

Proverb

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans

Bob Marley

You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you.

Heraclitus of Ephesus

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

William Shakespeare

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

Shinichi Suzuki

Don't push the river; it flows by itself.

Barry Stevens

Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

Richard Bach

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

Joseph Addison

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Alexander Pope

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

Owen D. Young

Thoreau pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

And know the place for the first time.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

There is nothing like returning to a place that reminds unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans

You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

Don't push the river; it flows by itself.

Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.