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Letter "S" » splendor
«Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
covering, splendor, woven
«Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!»
Author: Kalidasa
| Keywords:
Action The, beauty, bliss, brief, briefed, briefest, briefing, course, dawn, Day After Tomorrow, exhortation, exhortations, existence, glory, growth, growths, lie, lived, look to, morrow, morrows, realities, salutation, salutations, splendor, splendors, therefore, The Day After Tomorrow, to this day, verities, verity, vision, yesterday
«Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.»
Author: Ludwig Feuerbach
| Keywords:
caprice, caprices, daylight, emptiness, entrancing, In Dreams, In the Realm, realm, splendor
«Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.»
«It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.»
«Splendor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, absence of malice, and absence of pride; these are the qualities of those endowed with divine virtues, O Arjuna.»
«OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
advocacy, exponent, exponents, mule, splendor, The Mule, The Popular
«PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.»
«Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
consequently, contriving, splendor
«It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness»
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