Vilmont Green Quotes

#1. But by that time Lady Harman had acquired the habit of reading and the habit of thinking over what she read, and from that it is an easy step to thinking over oneself and the circumstances of one's own life. The one thing trains for the other.

H.G.Wells

#2. How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.

John Armstrong

#3. No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms."

John Brown

#4. Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Andre Maurois

#5. It was a gorgeous and intricate delusion, Manhattan, and from crooked angles on overcast days you saw it disintegrate, were forced to consider this tenuous creature in its true nature.

Colson Whitehead

#6. Self-knowledge facilitates growth and plants seeds of wisdom and inner peace.

Chronicle Books

#7. Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch ... the private life is just gone.

Alexander Skarsgard

#8. Faith is the union of God and the soul.

John Of The Cross

#9. The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God's instructions to His people from the beginning of time.

L. Tom Perry

#10. Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

Anna Maria Chavez

#11. Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.

Robert L. Priddy

#12. Good thoughts not delivered mean squat.

Ken Blanchard

#13. If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?

Jerry Stahl

#14. Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

T. S. Eliot