To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. Discuss
Category: Quote of the Day
Wilkie Collins
One of our first amusements as children (if we have any imagination at all) is to get out of our own characters, and to try the characters of other personages as a change—to be fairies, to be queens, to be anything, in short, but what we really are. Discuss
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Discuss
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve? Discuss
L. Frank Baum
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Discuss
Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Discuss
W. Somerset Maugham
It is cruel to discover one’s mediocrity only when it is too late. Discuss
Edgar Rice Burroughs
She might hate me, and revile me, and heap indignity after indignity upon me, as she already had, until I should have hated her; but the pitiful fact remained that I loved her. Discuss
Edwin Abbott
You, who are blessed with shade as well as light, you, who are gifted with two eyes, endowed with a knowledge of perspective, and charmed with the enjoyment of various colors, you, who can actually see…the Three Dimensions—how shall I make clear to you the extreme difficulty which we in Flatland experience in recognizing one another’s configuration? Discuss
Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness…I was never sent to school…it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Discuss