quotes about Things Fall Into Place

“Not a single bird makes its first leap from a tree without faith, and not a single animal in the jungle begins its day without faith. Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams.”

“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind...”

“The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.”

Source : "My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941". Book by Mary Pope Osborne, 2000.

“There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.”

“Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.”

“I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.”

“I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.”

“The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.”

Source : The Importance of Living ch. 9 (1938)

“I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.”