Rain - Quotes

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Rain

For after all, the best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rain hangs about the place, like a friendly ghost. if it's not coming down in delicate droplets, then it's in buckets; and if neither, it tends to lurk suspiciously in the atmosphere. - Barbara Acton-Bond

The good rain, like the bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. - William Somerset Maugham

Rainbow - Quotes

The beautiful colours of the rainbow can only be seen through the prism of rain. - Unknown

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work. - Patricia Clafford

Reality - Quotes

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is. - Alan Moore

Don't mess around with reality and reality won't mess around with you. - Ernie J. Zelinski

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call "reality". However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions? - Itachi Uchiha

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality. - Peter Berger

If the true and ultimate reality is unknowable, all reality is unknowable; what we take for reality is merely phenomenon, and what we take for knowledge is merely illusion. - Samuel Harris

If you wish to create a new reality you must first let go of the one that no longer serves you. A glass that is already full cannot hold more water. - Unknown

Let us examine more closely the significance of this vague word, reality. It may have several meanings, according to the different points of view which one takes. We may regard it as embodied in the physical world, the world of land and sea, of sky and trees, of sunshine and of storm. The real therefore will be to us that which we can touch and see, smell and taste, as one will say, "I know that is real for I can see it with my eyes." Seeing is believing, and the testimony of the senses is the superior court of appeal in controverted questions. But the world of reality may be regarded from quite a different point of view, as the world of consciousness, the mind of man, the experiences of the inner self, the Ego. Here is a world of phenomena interrelated and reciprocally dependent. It is a realm of ideas, of memory images, of fancy, of will, and of desire. The verities in this world cannot be seen, or measured, or weighed, and yet we do not hesitate to speak of them as realities; they are real as the love of friends is real, or the anger of a foe. The passion of a Romeo, the will of a Napoleon, the genius of a Goethe ... these are realities. - John Grier Hibben

Now is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. - Osho

Our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a model is successful at explaining events, we tend to attribute to it, and to the elements and concepts that constitute it, the quality of reality or absolute truth. But there may be different ways in which one could model the same physical situation, with each employing different fundamental elements and concepts. If two such physical theories or models accurately predict the same events, one cannot be said to be more real than the other; rather, we are free to use whichever model is most convenient. - Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow

Perhaps reality is something quite different from what is proposed in any theory and the only remaining constraint on our knowledge is our personal efforts to make our thoughts cohere with one another. - R. G. A. Dolby

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy. - Michiokaku

Reality is divinely indifferent. - Richard Bach

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Reality is subject to the mind's creation. - Diane Stein

Reality is that which,when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K.Dick

Reality isn’t the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. - Robert J. Ringer

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. - John Lennon

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays. - Aldous Huxley

Really, nobody knows whether the world is realistic or fantastic, that is to say, whether the world is a natural process or whether it is a kind of dream, a dream that we may or may not share with others. - Jorge Luis Borges

Stop paying or buying into the ideas that don't resonate with the reality you prefer. Stop giving them credence. Appreciate your chosen vibration and allow the vibrations that are not aligned with you to depreciate. - Bashar

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye. - Shana Alexander

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. - Margaret Halsey

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say. - Kahlil Gibran

The things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. - Charles Dickens

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. - Natalie Clifford Barney

There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. - Eugene Ionesco

There's no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. There's no other way. - Philip Roth

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Under each station of the real, another glimmers. - Jane HIrshfield

We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream. - Anais Nin

We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really? - Tennessee Williams

What we call reality is the inevitable persistence of a fact of consciousness. - Samuel Harris 

What we perceive as reality in the so-called outer world is literally a reflection of, and therefore secondary in importance to, the inner workings of our own consciousness. - David Gardener

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. - Ayn Randr

Reasons - Quotes

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations. - Calvin Coolidge

It by no means follows that we acted from reason, because good reasons can be produced for what we did. - Fluke Greville

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. - James Harvey Robinson

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. - Mario Puzo

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances. - Blaise Pascal

Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. - George Bernard Shaw

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. - Karl Marx

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities. - Reinhard Bendix

Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong. - Norman MacDonald

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. - G. K. Chesterton

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle. - Epictetus

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion. - Frank Herbert

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind. - Austin O’Malley

Reason is the touchstone of philosophy. - Edward Counsel

 

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything. - John Locke

Reason the Only Oracle of Man. - Ethan Allen

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. - William Blake

Reasons are the pillars of the mind. - Edward Counsel

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. - Willis R. Whitney

The reason many persons don’t see things in the right perspective is that they are always looking for an angle. - Unknown

There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it happens that what we call madness is both reasonable and just. It is so. Yes. A little reason is good for us, a little more makes wise men of some of us – but when our reason over-grows us and we reach too far, something breaks and we go insane. - James Oliver Curwood

There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason. - Mikhail Bulgakov

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. - Blaise Pascal

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion. - John Dewe

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing – to live in accord with his nature. - Seneca

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. - Thomas Scott

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. - Seneca

Reflections - Quotes

Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success. - Richard Carlson

What we focus on outside is a reflection of what we feel inside. - Anonymous

As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart. - Proverb

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us. - Alan Cohen

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice. - Anonymous

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. - Peter Drucker

In a mirror is where we find a reflection of our appearances, but in a heart is where we find a reflection of our soul. -  Anonymous

It’s a beautiful thing for mind, body, and spirit to take some time daily for reflection. - Anonymous

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. - Ernest Holmes

Life is only a reflection of what we allow ourselves to see and be. - Trudy Symeonakis Vesotsky

People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind spot. - Bryant McGill

Self-reflection entail asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future. - Robert L. Rosen

Self-reflection is a humbling process. It’s essential to find out why you think, say, and do certain things – then better yourself. - Sonya Teclai

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom. - Baltasar Gracian

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds. - Buddha

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you. - Rumi

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. - Thomas Paine

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. - Wayne Dyer

The way we reflect the world around us is the direct reflection of the world within us. - Anonymous

Time spent in self-reflection is never wasted – it is an intimate date with yourself. - Dr Paul T P Wong

Why is my reflection someone I don’t know? - Mulan

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. - Margaret J. Wheatley

Reform - Quotes

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. - Susan B. Anthony

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Many of the great reforms of society do not come from the upper levels, but from the upheavals of the lower strata. - Lewis F. Korns

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. - Thomas Carlyle

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. - Walter Lippmann

We talk much of reform, meaning thereby a change of mud in our mud-bath. - Abraham Miller

Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young. - Horace Mann

Regrets - Quotes

A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference. - Grenville Kleiser

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. - Jonathan Larson

Heart knows no sorrow like the sorrow of regretting. - Martha Lavinia Hoffman

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it. - David Mamet

I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say. - Ingrid Bergman

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both. - Soren Kierkegaard

I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself. - Brittany Renée

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice. - China Mieville

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment, and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. - Stefan Zweig

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; It’s only for wallowing in. - Katherine Mansfield

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. - The Duke

Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you Happiness. Bad days give you Experiences. Both are essential to life. - Unknown

Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was. - John O’Donohue

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney J. Harris

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. - Mason Cooley

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - Charles Dudley Warner

Regret is ... an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today. - Gerald Lawson Sittser

Regrets only apply when we don’t learn from a situation. No sense looking back, look forward with new knowledge and no regret. - Catherine Pulsifer

Remorse is the poison of life. - Charlotte Bronte

Some of our principal regrets in life are the opportunities we passed up and the chances we did not take. - Unknown

Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape. - Barbara de Angelis

Repentance - Quotes

Genuine repentance must bear the seal of a corrected life. - Lewis F. Korns

It is a great deal easier to commit a second sin, than it was to commit the first; and a great deal harder to repent of a second, than it was to repent of the first. - Benjamin Whichcote

It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned. - William Scott Downey

Remorse is the poison of life, and repentance its cure. - Eliza Cook

Repentance is the debt one owes to virtue. - Edward Counsel

Some plants of the bitterest root have the whitest and sweetest blossoms; so the bitterest wrong has the sweetest repentance. - Henry Ward Beecher

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel. - Benjamin Whichcote

When we have heartily repented of a wrong, we should let all the waves of forgetfulness roll over it, and go forward unburdened to meet the future. - Henry Ward Beecher

Reputation - Quotes

A good reputation is more valuable than money. - Publilius Syrus

A man can get a reputation from very small things. - Sophocles

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. - Joseph Hall

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. - James Lowell

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. - Anthony D'Angelo

Do you want to injure someone’s reputation? Don’t speak ill of him, speak too well. - Andre Siegfried

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. - Benjamin Franklin

He who worries about reputation, has a reputation to worry about. - Edwin Leibfreed

However much of time, labour, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as much to maintain it. One who has written a good book, is expected on all occasions to "talk like a book." Or, if one has achieved an act of heroism, he is expected to perform acts of heroism for the edification of all who approach him. There are people who can never believe they see a lion unless they hear him roar. - Christian Nestell Bovee

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. - Benjamin Franklin

If you value your reputation, then make sure you are the same person in public as you are behind closed doors because one day those doors may open unexpectedly, revealing your true self. - Unknown

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. - William Shakespeare

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. - Epicurus

The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him; sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. - Unknown

There are some wounds given to reputation that are like the wounds of an envenomed arrow; where we irritate and enlarge the orifice while we extract the bearded weapon; yet cannot the cure be completed otherwise. - William Shenstone

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. - Charles Caleb Colton

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. - Margaret Mitchell

Respect - Quotes

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? - Confucius

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. - U. Thant

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. - Persian Proverb

If you want to be respected by others you must respect yourself first. Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men are respectable only as they respect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

People respect you for what you do, not what you say. - Shriyaa

Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves. - Norman MacDonald

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. - Eldridge Cleaver

Respect is an attribute that supersede talent and ability. - Unknown

Respect is for those who deserve it, not for those who demand it. - Unknown

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. - Leo Tolstoy

Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. - Unknown

Respect yourself and others will respect you. - Confucius

Show respect even to people who don’t deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours. - Dave Willis

The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude. - Arnold Glasgow

Those that respect themselves are safe from others; They wear a coat of mail that none can pierce. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. - Lawrence Sterne

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. - Albert Einstein

We are happy at the respect others pay our favourites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much homage reflected on ourselves. - Norman MacDonald

We don’t always have to agree with one another but it’s important that we learn to respect each other. - Rubyanne 

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao Tzu

You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel. - Luigi Pirandello

Responsibility - Quotes

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how’. - Viktor Frankl

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. - Les Brown

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. - Les Brown

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. - Abigail Van Buren

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. - Eleanor Roosevelt

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. - Josiah Charles Stamp

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. - Gerald White Johnson

Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. - Unknown

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. - Kevin Bacon

Responsibility can upgrade the ‘doer’ into ‘thinker’. - Unknown

Responsibility is the price of freedom. - Elbert Hubbard

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre. - Frank Crane

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility. - Michael Korda

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. - Roy L. Smith

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities." - Richard Bach

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top. - O.J. Simpson

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. - Oscar Arias Sanchez

The price of greatness is responsibility. - Winston Churchill

The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs. - Unknown

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. - Patrick Ness

To the victor belong the responsibilities. - Al Bernstein 

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible. - Allan Massie

When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, subject his sinews and bones to hard work, expose his body to hunger, put him to poverty, place obstacles in the paths of his deeds, so as to stimulate his mind, harden his nature, and improve wherever he is incompetent. - Meng Tzu

Work on yourself first, take responsibility for your own progress. - I Ching

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. - Martin Luther

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. - Denis Waitley

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. - Jim Rohn

Rest - Quotes

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. - John Lubbock 

Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. - Ralph Marston

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest. A field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. - Unknown

Retirement - Quotes

Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. - Samuel Johnson

Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life. - Harold G. Koenig

I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to be working, and useful, or have a job of some kind, in order to be happy. Otherwise they are neurotically barking, scratching, or tearing up the sofa. A working dog needs to work. And I am a working dog. - Martha Sherrill

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave. - Hugh Hefner

I want to do something for a living that when it comes time to retire and I can stop doing it, I’ll want to continue doing it in my free time. - Jarod Kintz

If we wait until retirement to enjoy ourselves, there may not be enough of ourselves to enjoy it. - Mike Hammar

In the wealthy nations of the world we face nothing less than a thorough redefinition of retirement. To be sure, people will continue to retire from their jobs. But, retirement will no longer be the twilight of life, focused on rest, recreation, and recuperation; it will now be a time in which people will marshall their experience and intelligence to create entirely new lives for themselves. - Peter Schwartz

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement. - Gregory Maguire

Life begins at retirement. - Unknown

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. - Dwight L. Moody

Retirement can and will be a glorious time in your life. You'll love the freedom and ability to try new things. It's a new phase of life; a chance to be a beginner again. - Richard Carlson

Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money. - Unknown

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. - Jonathan Clements

Retirement is not the closing of an old door, but the opening of a new one. It is an exciting approach to an infinite variety of new testing of a man’s ability, new stretchings of his mind, new releases for his energies and abilities. All that is required is that he must recognize new challenge when it presents itself, and accept it zestfully. If he has been doing this all his life, it will be easier for him in the later years, but in one form or another the opportunity awaits everyone, if he will only seek it. - Clarence Randall

Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within. - Ernie J. Zelinski

Retirement is when you stop living at work and start working at living. - Unknown

Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. - Gene Perret

Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it. - Abigail Charleson

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. - Malcom Forbes

Retirement life is seven day weekends. - Unknown

Retirement only means that it is time for a new adventure. - Unknown

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work. - Nora Roberts

Retirement: It’s nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. - Gene Perret

Retirement? You're talking about death, right? - Robert Altman

The concept of freedom is never truly realized until one settles into retirement mode. - A. Major

The difficulty of retirement planning is its parameters – an undetermined amount of money, to last an unknown length of time, in a highly volatile financial environment including fluctuations in the stock market, the cost of living, medical care, taxes, and Social Security. - Ellie Williams

The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things. - Susan Miller

There is no fixed or ideal pattern to respond to the circumstances of retirement. Each solution is a personal one and can be endlessly modified to suit your wishes and desires. That's the fun of it. - Robert Kelley

To fear retirement is to fear life. - Ernie J. Zelinski

What people miss most in the early months of retirement is structure. Their daily routine has suddenly disappeared and they feel adrift. - Robert Kelly

When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you’re still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired. - Unknown

Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous – don’t be a burden on others. - Ernie Zelinski

Revenge - Quotes

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. - Francis Bacon

A man who desires revenge should dig two graves. - Unknown

Ah, what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms. - Herman Melville

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. - Confucius 

He that has revenge in his power, and does not use it, is the greater man. - Wellins Calcott

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself. - Aesop

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. - Francis Bacon

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter. - Isaac Barrow

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing. - J. R. R. Tolkien

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness. - Thomas Fuller

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst. - Walter Weckler 

Revenge is a fervour in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse – a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. - Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past. - Bernard Crick

Revenge is a virus which eats into the very vitals of the mind and poisons the entire spiritual being. - James Allen

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded. - Frank Herbert

Revenge is like a ghost. It takes over every man it touches. Its thirst cannot be quenched until the last man standing has fallen. - Vladmir Makarov

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. - Emil Cioran

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. - Austin O’Malley

Revenge is private and personal, and so readily gets out of hand. - Ernest Lucas

Revenge is the law of the outlaws. - Laura Blumenfeld

Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world. It ruins the avenger while more firmly confirming the enemy in his wrong. It initiates an endless flight down the bottomless stairway of rancour, reprisals, and ruthless retaliation. - Tim Lahaye & Bob Phillips

Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. - Max Lucado

Revenge is, to him who is possessed with it, a continual anguish, and an excruciating pain; it is an eating canker at the heart, a biting plague, that gnaws and incessantly preys upon the very soul. The revengeful man wears in his breast a torment greater than any he can inflict on the person his malice aims at the destruction of, and has often the additional misery to see his enemy smiling in ease and security, while his own heart is burning and torn to pieces within him, for the miscarriages of his designs against him. - Unknown

Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils. - John Milton

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell. - Walter Scott

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind. - Juvenal 

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. - Albert Schweitzer

The best revenge is always to just happily move on and let karma do the rest. - Unknown

The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury. - Marcus Antoninus

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil. - Tim Lahaye & Bob Phillips

The pleasure of revenge is like the pleasure of eating chalk and coals. - Jeremy Taylor

The impulse to revenge is an impulse to justice, but it is a primitive one, and although its intention is to restore balance, its personal and emotional basis always threatens to make it too harsh and punitive, therefore inviting further revenge. - A. C. Grayling

The very design of revenge is troublesome, and puts the spirits into an unnatural fermentation and tumult. The man that meditates it is always restless, his very soul is stung, swells and boils, is in pain and anguish, hath no ease, no enjoyment of itself, so long as this passion reigns. The execution of it may perhaps be attended with some present pleasure, but that pleasure is unreasonable and brutish, momentary and short, like a flash of lightning, which vanisheth in the twinkling of an eye. - Isaac Barrow

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. - Francis Bacon
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. - Phaedrus

To admit wanting revenge is to admit you have been crushed and need to be rebuilt. Few are comfortable admitting that, even to themselves. - Laura Blumenfeld

Universal though the instinct for revenge may be, it is much stronger in some of us than others. And those who have it in abundance apparently pay something of a price. - Ellis Cose

Very often actual revenge is beyond our means, and we are driven to indulge in prospective, circuitous, and imaginary retaliations, from thence deriving a few drops of satisfaction in the ideal form. - Alexander Bain

Very often when people speak of justice, they are not referring to some abstract concept of law, or an ethereal vision of divine justice, but rather the more earthly idea of responding to a temporal wrong. They simply want to make sure that he who has caused suffering ends up suffering himself. The only way for the wrongdoer to know the pain that he has caused is by experiencing his own pain. That's why the seeking of revenge is an understandable human impulse, precisely because, to the revenge-seeker, the result feels like justice. It speaks to the underlying raw hurt, the primal sense that some life-altering event had taken place, and that the perpetrator must be made to feel the same sense of deprivation and loss. - Thane Rosenbaum

We live today in a world wracked by revenge. Nations at sword's point. Peoples against peoples. Hate brewing in men's hearts. And yet we hear it said "Revenge is sweet." We everyday folk are often infected by that hoary sophism. But it misstates the dangerous side of a fundamentally noble trait of human nature, self-defence. Unbridled revenge is about the bitterest thing on earth. - Garret Smith

When violence hurries on too fast, and caution does not keep pace with revenge, people generally do themselves more harm than the enemy. - Wellins Calcott

When we take revenge against another, we lose some of our innocence. - Patrice Redd Vecchione 

Revolution - Quotes

A constitution imperilled justifies revolution. - Edward Counsel

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. - Thomas Jefferson

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. - Mao ZeDong

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own. - Rudolf Arnheim

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. - Barbara Tuchman

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is a relay of revolutions. - Saul Alinsky

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy. - Jean Genet

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. - Aristotle

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly. - Vladimir Lenin

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra-conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed. - Horace Mann

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? - E. H. Chapin

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine. - Wyndham Lewis

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another. - John Updike

Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. - George Bernard Shaw

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. - Norman Mailer

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny. They have only shifted it to another shoulder. - George Bernard Shaw

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask. - Charles Bukowski

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. - Richelle Mead

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. - Aung San Suu Kyi

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them. - Mao ZeDong

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness. - George Eliot

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite. - Yevgeny Zamyatin

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. - Vladimir Lenin