Quotes - Michele (Mckees Rocks, PA) Showing 1-19 of 19

#1

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#2

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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#3

“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 Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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#4

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: happiness, man, trouble

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#5

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

tags: books, reading, understanding

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#6

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

tags: hope

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#7

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: clemency, forgiveness, justice, legal-system, mandatory-sentences, mercy

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#8

“There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
― Mark Twain

tags: forgiveness, inspirational, relationships

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#9

“A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.”
― Stephen Richards, Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self

tags: forgiveness, moving-on, self-help, stephen-richards

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#10

“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
― Socrates

tags: forgiveness, nobility

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#11

“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
― Emma Goldman

tags: anarchy, forgiveness, understanding-others

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#12

“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.”
― Joyce Cary

tags: forgetting, forgiveness, genius

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#13

“A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.”
― William Arthur Ward

tags: forgiveness, grudges

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#14

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”
― George Eliot

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#15

“It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?”
― Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy

tags: forgiveness, friendship

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#16

“Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.”
― Mark Matthews

tags: apology, forgiveness, sorry

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