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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. George Eliot
Inspirational Beautiful Never Give Up Good Me Longing Thoroughly Alive Hunger Must Give Seems Never Feel Wishing Up After While Them Certain Certain Things Things
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot
Life Stream Past Gone Nothing Visit See Rush Angels Only Come Know Golden Them Sand Us Moments
If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn't be here in the physical world. George Harrison
World Physical Physical World Were Beings Here
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. George Orwell
People Achieve Some Temptation Never Felt Genuinely Sainthood Saints Probable Human Want Human Beings Much Aspire Who Many Beings
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. George Orwell
Catholic Up Cannot Really Grown Grown-Up
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. George Orwell
Good Men Only Development Them Technical
Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity. Greg Lake
Dignity Comeback Difficult Most Making Things Difficult Things
It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide. Greg Rusedski
You Hide Win Black Black And White Lose White About Nowhere
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Havelock Ellis
Nature Moon Long Stars Sun Would Had Disappeared Reach Within Hands Human Predatory Happened
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. Havelock Ellis
Love Jealousy Alive Pretence Which Keeping Dragon
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis
Asylum Most Optimism Where Place Lunatic Flourishes
There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship. Helen Mirren
Love Day Relationship You Joy Fear Pain Other Rapidly Some Followed Follows Angst Joyful Know Most Because Always Falling Falling In Love Going Realize Should Full Moment Actually Awful Night
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. Ian Fleming
Death You Face Live Once Born Only Look Twice
The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind. Ingrid Newkirk
Wonderful Be Kind Incredibly Kind Easy Wonderful Thing Thing
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. James Allen
Failure Fear Doubt Who Conquered
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. James Allen
Work Thoughts About Results Joyfully Knowing Inevitably Efforts Peacefully Right Bring
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. James Allen
Great You Will Become Controlling Small Dominant Your Aspiration Desire
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. James Allen
Great Achieve Sacrifice Must Would Attain He Highly Accomplish Greatly Little Much Who
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. James Allen
Love Thoughts Man Intelligence Key Made Power Own Situation Every He Himself Lord His Being Holds Choice Right Right Choice
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. James Allen
God Thoughts Man Will Harvest Having Wrong Bless Him Prays Wheat Sown Forth Ask Farmer Who Deeds Bring Position
Just remember: if ever you feel weighed down by the bureaucracy and often mundanity of modern life, don't fight the frustration. Let it be the catalyst for whimsy. James Veitch
Life You Fight Frustration Remember Down Weighed Catalyst Feel Bureaucracy Modern Often Just Modern Life Ever
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen
World Half Other Pleasures One Half Understand Cannot
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. Jane Austen
You Able About More Talk Loved Might Less
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence. Jay Griffiths
Wisdom Music God Silence Knowledge Long Edge Jazz Medicine Hunted Voices True Oceans Came Heard Dolphin Dolphins Cultures Whales Blue Form Which Apollo Fill
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy. Jay Griffiths
Democracy Knowledge Vote Voting Duty Adequately True Democratic Without Just Being Informed Electorate Right
I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.' John Bercow
Good You Wife Hopeless Politician Academic Liked She Because Said Been Very Original Why Thinker Beloved
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