Inspirational quotes-Contented living

There are nine requisites for contented living:

HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;

WEALTH enough to support your needs;

STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;

GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;

PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;

CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;

LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;

FAITH enough to make real the things of God;

HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Philosophical quotes-Society

Society is a masked ball,

where every one hides his real character,

and reveals it by hiding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Famous people quotes-Unhurried love

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,

untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Motvational thoughts-Habit of victory

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

- Herbert Kaufman

Famous people quotes-Wholeness

I think wholeness is God's design for us;

and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.

- Bono

Deep thoughts-Mask

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

- Oscar Wilde

Famous people quotes-Love life

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

- Arthur Rubinstein

Inspirational quotes-Preponderance of good

Although the world is full of suffering,

it is full also of the overcoming of it.

My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,

but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good

and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,

that it may prevail.

- Helen Keller

Humor quotes-Confident people

"Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to."

-Rita Rudner

Famous people quotes-Effective weapon

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

- Mark Twain

Philosophical quotes-Stretched

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Famous people quotes-Failure

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

- George Eliot

Deep thoughts-Reputation and honor

Reputation is what other people know about you.

Honor is what you know about yourself.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Success quotes-Keep moving

Success seems to be connected with action.

Successful people keep moving.

They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

- Conrad Hilton

Famous philosophers quotes-No understanding

What use is knowledge if there is no understanding?

- Stobaeus

Adventure

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot

Famous people quotes-New paths

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

- Walt Disney

Sexual quotes-Voracious appetite

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

- Henry Fielding

Inspirational quotes-More we do

The more we do, the more we can do.

- William Hazlett

Famous people quotes-Curiosity

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

- Samuel Johnson