Hermann Keyserling Quotes

#1. What the winners of finite games achieve is not properly an afterlife but an afterworld, not continuing existence but continuing recognition of their titles.

James P. Carse

#2. Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.

Bob Proctor

#3. The Vale is not real.

It's a lie told by mothers and fathers to give their starving children a reason for the horror. There is no reason.

There is nothing but this world. It is our beginning and our end. Our one chance at joy before the dark.

Pierce Brown

#4. we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

Rachel Caine

#5. If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

Colm Toibin

#6. I like the scars because I like the stories. Bravery, stupidity, pain - none of them come free.

Jessica Martinez

#7. Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunther

#8. No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

Hermann Graf Keyserling

#9. And he rises. Up. Up. Up. Yep. Tall as a tree.

Kristen Callihan

#10. I grew up on network sitcoms. If those are gone when I'm 65 years old, I would never forgive myself for not stepping up to that plate, as often as possible. I'm already bummed out that DVDs are dying off because, in my 20s, those were a huge thing.

Dan Harmon

#11. He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.

Jane Austen

#12. We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.

John Owen

#13. It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.

Hermann Graf Keyserling

#14. Jacinda nearly manifested at school today, Tamra tattles in that singsong voice of whiny kids everywhere. It reminds me of when I would take her dolls and give them haircuts.

Sophie Jordan

#15. Heaven knows, I'm the easiest woman in the world to get on with, but I will not be bullied by any man. After all, I have my self-respect to think of.

W. Somerset Maugham

#16. The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

Hermann Graf Keyserling

#17. People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

Meryl Streep

#18. Somewhere in those depths of silence I came upon my first experiences of God as a loving presence that was always near, and prayer as a simple trust in that presence.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#19. Usually my 'a-ha' moments are when I'm not trying to think of how to solve a particular problem.

Tony Hsieh