David L. Felten quotes

“The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.”
-- David L. Felten

#Motivational Quotes #Poison Quotes #World Quotes

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

“Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

“Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.”

“Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.”

“Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions”

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.296, Univ of California Press

“A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar”

“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”