Quotes 421 till 440 of 1869.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
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Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
As quoted in Champlains Dream (2008) -
Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 129 -
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
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He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.
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He that cannot decidedly say, ''No,'' when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
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