"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Philosophical Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Risk Quotes

“They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.293, U of Nebraska Press
“The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.”

Source : Fanny Crosby (1858). “A Wreath of Columbia's Flowers: 1858”, p.68
“No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness.”
“Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear.”
“There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?”
“The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
“They ought to create a new league for that guy.”
“I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL AND LOCAL AND SMALL.”

Source : Interview with Benjamin Cohen, www.believermag.com. September 2009.

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