Poems List

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

Kitty became so idealized and started to lead her own life in the diary that it ceases to matter who is meant by 'Kitty'. The name ... is not meant to be me.

todo cidadão, ao falar ao telefone, tem que ter a presunção de que alguém está escutando

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

I think I have become the most lovable Dadi of television but this time I will be seen as a bit dominating. My character's name is Sharda Ben who is the captain of the house. Nobody dares to raise their voice before her. My husband who is being played by famous theater actor Utkarsh Majumdar is also scared of me in the show.

This fact has never been published anywhere, and apart from my father I alone knew anything about it.

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.

Only once then, it happened that my father tended the Grand Duchesses alone and performed nurses' duties for them.

You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

I believe Bergman, De Sica, and Fellini are the only three filmmakers in the world who are not just artistic opportunists. By this I mean they don't just sit and wait for a good story to come along and then make it. They have a point of view which is expressed over and over and over again in their films, and they themselves write or have original material written for them.

Today's syntax is tomorrow's morphology

Je crois que je vais me suicider sur facebook

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.