Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. "

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Related Quotes:

" Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. "

" When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. "

" No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good. "

" We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet. "

Subcomandante Marcos

" All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God. "

Charles Spurgeon

" The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone. "

Margaret Sanger

" People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice. "

Jeanne Marie Laskas

" Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy. "

Chiang Kai-shek

" I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world. "

" We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. "

" The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. "

James Russell Lowell

" If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food. "

" You alone are enough. "

" Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. "

Richard Lovelace

" Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. "

" An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. "

" The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. "

" No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect. "

" I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. "

Caspar David Friedrich

" Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. "

Elizabeth Bowen

" If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom. "

" A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. "

" Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live. "

" It was because of Henderson that I stayed... It was he and he alone who kept me in Toronto and in Canada. Were it not for Henderson, I believe insulin would have been a product of the United States. "

Frederick Banting

" I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone. "

Melissa Sue Anderson

" Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. "

" Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free. "

George Berkeley