Poems List

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every great quotation carries the

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.

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Chinese Proverb

The great question is not

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Working in the tea fields

Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners.

80

Theodore Parker

Remorse is the pain of

Remorse is the pain of sin.

36

Mehmet Murat Ildan

We admire the castles, because

We admire the castles, because we admire the security!

55

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly,

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

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Theodore Parker

Let others laugh when you

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Silent streets have many things

Silent streets have many things to say.

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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Flowers are the Romeos and

Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!

39

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Trifles go to make perfection,

Trifles go to make perfection,

66

Steve Maraboli

Sometimes you have to take

Sometimes you have to take those first steps, take that leap of faith, and inspire God to catch you."

12

Theodore Parker

Self-denial is indispensable to a

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

28

Laurens Van der Post

There is a way in

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

21

Leo Tolstoy

True life is lived when

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

68

Chinese Proverb

A wise man adapts himself

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

44

Steve Maraboli

Be ambitious towards your own

Be ambitious towards your own personal enhancement."

38

Lionel Trilling

There is no connection between

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

31

Roger Miller

Some people walk in the

Some people walk in the rain… others just get wet…

33

Chinese Proverb

Good fortune is a benefit

Good fortune is a benefit to the wise, but a curse to the foolish.

37

Steve Maraboli

Interrupt your own speaking with

Interrupt your own speaking with your own actions."

21

Voltaire

I have lost the half

I have lost the half of myself - a soul for which mine was made.

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Lionel Trilling

The poet is in command

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

42

Steve Maraboli

It is those of us

It is those of us who have been broken that become experts at mending."

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Chinese Proverb

Unsullied poverty is always happy,

Unsullied poverty is always happy, while impure wealth brings with it many sorrows.

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