Daily Quote Archives

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

“He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet.”

“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

“...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...”

“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”

“The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.”

“Your smiling in your brother's face is charity; an exhortation of your fellow man to virtuous deeds is equal to almsgiving, your putting a wanderer in the right road is charity, your assisting the blind is charity; your removing stones and thorns and other obstructions from the road is charity; your giving water to the thirsty is charity.”

“Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.”

“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.”

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?”

“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”

“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”

“Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.”

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

“The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.”

“A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and give them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.”

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”