"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
- Judy Garland
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
I have never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely
when we go abroad among men
than when we stay in our chambers.
A man thinking or working is always alone,
let him be where he will.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows.
Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength,
he nourishes himself from this fusion,
and then he rises and goes into the world,
into his work, into battle, into art.
He is not lonely. He is busy.
The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion.
The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty.
Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure
in which she has bathed,
and a charge of electric joy at contact with another.
When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled,
each act of love a a taking of man within her,
an act of birth and rebirth, of child-bearing and man-bearing.
Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew
with a desire to act, to BE.
But for woman, the climax is not in the birth,
but in the moment the man rests inside of her.
- Anais Nin
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
Today is a day to cover your best weapons in velvet.
Go gently into the world.
Hold your anger.
Keep your competitive spirit in check.
Some day you will need your fierce weapons,
but not today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best comfort I could offer
was to just let her tell her story.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
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