Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker
Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 572.
Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker
Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Second Helpings
“The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.”
Charles Henry Fowler (1837–1908) American bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 217.
“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
[N]ur die Höllenfahrt des Selbsterkenntnisses bahnt den Weg zur Vergötterung ...
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Metaphysics of Morals (1797)
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.”
Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) American singer and film actor
In a 1965 interview with Walter Cronkite, as quoted in "Just A Couple Of Legends" CBS News.com (20 May 1998) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/05/20/entertainment/main9899.shtml
“Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Lost Woman Song
Song lyrics
“History is truly the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity; whose voice, but the orator's, can entrust her to immortality?”
Historia vero testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae, nuntia vetustatis, qua voce alia nisi oratoris immortalitati commendatur?
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
De Oratore Book II; Chapter IX, section 36