Us Quotes

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.