Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
Confucius
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
Confucius
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
Plutarch
All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.
John Milton
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.
Charlotte Bronte
Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.
Vittorio De Sica
A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.
David Jeremiah
I always say, 'When the Olympics are happening, you shouldn't be in any other place in the planet - you should be here.'
Nadia Comaneci
What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.
Vincent Van Gogh
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
George Washington
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
Miguel de Cervantes