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Quotes by Roman Authors
"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."
"It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and " something that may surprise you more " it takes just as long to learn how to die."
"Speech is the index of the mind."
"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness."
"You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last."
"Where fear is happiness is not."
"A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals."
"Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in."
"Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you."
"It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing."
"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got."
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."
"Our society has led us to believe that everybody is on the internet these days. Contrary to popular belief everyone is not on social media."
"What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it."
"We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
"It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die."
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."
"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."
"Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered."
"Have an attitude of positive expectation."
"For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply 'today'...But you yourself are eternally the same. In your 'today' you will make all that is to exist tomorrow and thereafter, and in your 'today' you have made all that existed yesterday and for ever before."
"Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge."
"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
"7 keys to getting more things done: 1 start, 2 dont make excuses, 3 celebrate small steps, 4 ignore critics, 5 be consistent, 6 be open, 7 stay positive."
"Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?"
"Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out."
"Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart, be real, but most importantly be nice."
"Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary."
"If a man should ascend alone into heaven and behold clearly the structure of the universe and the beauty of the stars, there would be no pleasure for him in the awe-inspiring sight, which would have filled him with delight if he had had someone to whom he could describe what he had seen. Nature abhors solitude."
"If we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends."
"This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction."
"There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes."
"Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted."
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