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Health

Regularity in the hours of risin…

21 Nov , 2009  

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. Sigourney, Lydia

Sorrow

Reflection is the business of ma…

21 Nov , 2009  

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us? Akhenaton

Reflection

Reflection is a flower of the mi…

21 Nov , 2009  

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. Tupper

Understanding

Reasoning is compared to underst…

21 Nov , 2009  

Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession…. Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood—namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of […]

Instinct

Reasoning at every step he tread…

21 Nov , 2009  

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. Cowper, William

Reason

Reason obeys itself; and ignoran…

21 Nov , 2009  

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. Paine, Thomas

Ability

Reason and the ability to use it…

21 Nov , 2009  

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills. Grillparzer, Franz

Pain

Real pain can alone cure us of i…

21 Nov , 2009  

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enought to feel misery. Coleridge, Samuel T.

Marriage

Romantic love is an illusion. Mo…

21 Nov , 2009  

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. Moore, Thomas

Risk

Risk! Risk anything! Care no mor…

21 Nov , 2009  

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Mansfield, Katherine

Wealth

Riches do not exhilarate us so m…

21 Nov , 2009  

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. Gregory I

Peace

Richer is one hour of repentance…

21 Nov , 2009  

Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour’s calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world. Talmud, The