the interesting and the beautiful
I don't know how many people are out there who love to cite words, sentences or paragraphs from the books they read but I certainly am one of them. Here are some of the sentences and a poem I selected from my notebook in which I have been collecting expressions I find interesting and beautiful for five years. As you will notice, there are both famous and infamous thinkers whose sayings, in my view, are as valuable as the immortals for they are able to appeal to my heart and mind. So, just take couple of minutes to read what is on this page where you might find intellectually challenging ideas that are new to you.
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on !";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
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Character is constructed in the midst of the tempests of the world. Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
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You are not here to change the world, the world is here to change you.
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Yesterday I dared to struggle, today I dare to win.
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The difficult is that which can be done immidiately: the impossible is that which takes a little longer.
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you'll land among the stars.
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an authobiographical work-"the moment"
the interesting and the beautiful