Aristotle Quotes
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?
Nothing, ' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.
For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.
The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them.
Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely
One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."— Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. –Aristotle
Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.
The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.
One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.
All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad.
I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.
I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body.
I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.
I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.
Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.
Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.
I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.
The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.
I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.
I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.
Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.
By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.
This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.