Lord Byron Quotes
You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.
Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.
I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
