The pure and simple truth
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Quotes For Someone Special
“When I count my blessings, I count you twice.” – Author Unknown
“Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth.” – Matt Zotti
“Someone is special only if you tell them.” – Byron Pulsifer
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” – Barbara De Angelis
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.” – Somerset Maugham
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” – Barbara de Angelis
“A friend is someone special sharing moments that are precious always true, yet like a perfect diamond are rare and few.” – Author Unknown
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
“Blessed is she who forgives without remembering and who receives forgiveness without forgetting.” – Author Unknown
“Special you are to me, thank you for all you do.” – C. Pulsifer
“The love we share is special and precious.” – A. Lynch
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. – David Grayson
A Friend is a treasure. more precious than Gold, for love shared is priceless and never grows old. – Author Unkown
You make a difference in my life, your influence, your caring and your love makes you special in every way. – Catherine Pulsifer
Boy Quotes
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. – Plato
A boy’s story is the best that is ever told. – Charles Dickens
If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. – Maya Angelou
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass of jar on my desk. – Stephen King
I was so poor growing up – if I wasn’t a boy – I’d have had nothing to play with. – Rodney Dangerfield
A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair, and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. – Unknown
Famous Short Quotes
“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” –Pablo Picasso
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher
You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. –W. Clement Stone
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. – Rabindranth Tagore
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt. – Wei Wu Wei
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Gandhi
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford
“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. –Bill Cosby
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb
“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” – Jack Welch
“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.” – William J. H. Boetcker
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. –John Bowring
“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. – Eugene McCarthy
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot
Courage is a kind of salvation. –Plato
“I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.” – Russell Simmons
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. —André Gide
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – e.e. cummings
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
Paolo Coelho about Truth
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. – Paolo Coelho
Perfection Quotes
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ~Donald Miller
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. ~Bob Marley
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
He who seeks perfection in a friend will stay without friends. ~Yiddish Proverb
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business. ~Michael J. Fox
If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. ~Leo Tolstoy
Confidence doesn’t come from thinking you’re perfect or flawless. That’s arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture. ~Jeanette Walls
Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. ~Jeannette Walls
People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody’s perfect. ~Colum McCann
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ~Alden Nowlan
To attempt finding a perfect person to fall in love with is like trying to catch your own shadow. Accept the imperfect person you have and learn to see and appreciate that person perfectly everyday, because both of you are not perfect yet. ~GADEL
Perfect people aren’t real, real people aren’t perfect. So either love people for their flaws or hate them because they’re real. ~Anonymous
Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect, it means you’ve decided to live your life in spite of all its imperfections. ~Emily Turek
Teen Love Quotes
“Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.” – Anonymous
“Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.” – Anonymous
“Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you.” – Anonymous
“If you love me only in my dreams, let me be asleep forever.” – Anonymous
“If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I would have the whole night sky in the palm of my hand.” – Anonymous
“If this is a crush, then I don’t know if I could take the real thing if it happens.” – Anonymous
“When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” – Elizabeth Bowen
“A heart that loves is always young.” – Greek Proverb
“Enjoy the spring of love and youth, to some good angel leave the rest; for time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year’s nest!” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I’m so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy.” – Jesse Tyler
“If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime.” – Swedish Proverb
Marie Curie Quotes
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Self Improvement Quotes and Sayings from Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
He is able who thinks he is able.
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true.
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Competence Quotes
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ~Laurence J. Peter
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~Laurence J. Peter
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. ~Laurence J. Peter
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. ~Larry McMurtry
Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable. ~Geoff Davis
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. ~Laurence J. Peter
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. ~Tarja Halonen