Poems List

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction.

When you make something fetish, ashes will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into ashes!

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.

He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man?s door, Embittering all his state.

It is difficult to share a good friend with someone else..

I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

With one kiss, one can be pleased, so stop wasting time and please me already.Give me that kiss I need and want...Thank Youu x3 :)

With regard to a secret divulged and kept concealed, there is an excellent proverb, that the one is an arrow still in our possession, the other is an arrow sent from the bow.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself.

Coffee is my cup of tea.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The round of a passionate man?s life is in contracting debts in his passion which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!