"If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years."

-- Fred Bodsworth

#Past Quotes #Years Quotes #Two Quotes

“Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.”
“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”
“Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.”
“I love you. I honestly love you.”
“Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, against the lack and loss of animal delights. How essential it is, then, in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.”

Source : "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".
“Exhale . . . and give all worries to God and the angels.”
“For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.”
“To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.”

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