Abraham Lincoln QuotesAbraham Lincoln QuotesPresident Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. “Why do you try to make friends of them?” asked an associate. “You should try to destroy them.” “Am I not destroying my enemies,” Lincoln gently replied, “when I make them my friends?”If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart
Aristotle QuotesAristotle QuotesMisfortune shows those who are not really friends.But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.Friendship is essentially a partnership.Since the branch of philosophy on which we are
Anne Frank QuotesAnne Frank QuotesThe question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there’s not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people? Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the
Aldous Huxley QuotesAldous Huxley QuotesIt isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially
Ayn Rand QuotesAyn Rand QuotesMy happiness is not the means to an end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’It is a sin to write this.Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights
Albert Camus QuotesAlbert Camus QuotesMother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure.I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.There is scarcely any passion without struggle.Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.My dear, In the
Al-Ghazali QuotesAl-Ghazali QuotesTo completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.When you have a bad suspicion about a Muslim in your heart, you should increase your consideration toward him and make dua for him. This way you will infuriate Satan and will be able to drive him away. Because of this, Satan will be reluctant