Into Motivation

Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge "All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. A person once said to me that he could make nothing of love, except that it was friendship accidently combined with desire. Whence I concluded that he had never been in love. For what shall we say of the feeling which ... Read More

Quotes by Charles Robert Darwin "The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of many cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Deity". Quotes by William Cowper "Oh! for a closer walk with God". Quotes by Sir Noel Coward "Life without faith ... Read More

Quotes by Rene Descartes "The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues". Quotes by Thomas Dekker "The best of men, that e'ere wore earth about him was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit. The first true gentleman that ever breathed". Quotes by Dalai Lama "It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practise the virtues of compassion and tolerance". Quotes by Quentin Crisp "Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to ... Read More

Quotes by Abraham Cowley "Ah yet, ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small house, and a large garden have! And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too!" Quotes by Confucius "Have no friends not equal to yourself. There are three friendships that are advantageous, and three that are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation; these are advantages. Friendship with the man of specious airs; ... Read More

Quotes by Cyrill Connolly "Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out". Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink: Water, water, everywhere. Nor any drop to drink". Quotes by Irvin Cobb "[On "corn licker"] It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo, it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you have all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp". Quotes by Gilbert ... Read More

Quotes by Rene Descartes "Travelling is almost like talking with men of other centuries". Quotes by Don DeLillo "Tourism is the march of stupidity". Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge "From whatever place I write you will expect that part of my "Travels" will consist of excursions in my own mind. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea". Quotes by Charles II "Brother, I am too old to go again to my ... Read More