Quotable Quotes by Reader's Digest

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

—BILL COPELAND

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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

—PAUL TILLICH

The Eternal Now

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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has.

—CONFUCIUS

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You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

—JOHN D. MACDONALD

introduction to Night Shift by Stephen King

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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

—ST. AUGUSTINE

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You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.

—ENGLISH PROVERB

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Often we change jobs, friends and spouses instead of ourselves.

—AKBARALI H. JETHA

Reflections

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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

—FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

—AXEL MUNTHE

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We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

—WINSTON CHURCHILL

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We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies.

—RODERICK THORP

Rainbow Drive

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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

—HAIM GINOTT

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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

—ALBERT CAMUS

Lyrical and Critical Essays

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The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.

—ODETTA

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

—ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

Flight to Arras

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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

—ELBERT HUBBARD

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

—MARK TWAIN

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No man was ever wise by chance.

—SENECA

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What we do not understand we do not possess.

—JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you

make a living; the other helps you make a life.

—SANDRA CAREY

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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.

—ALDEN NOWLAN

Between Tears and Laughter

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The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

—CATHERINE THE GREAT

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

—KAHLIL GIBRAN

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The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

—HELEN KELLER

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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

—JOSH BILLINGS

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

—MARIE CURIE

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Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

—LAURENS VAN DER POST

The Lost World of the Kalahari

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

—HENRI BERGSON

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Maturity is reached the day we don’t need to be lied to about anything.

—FRANK YERBY

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