#surely

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. ↗

— Buddha

#free #peace #resentful #surely #those

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anything #financed #had #i #impossible

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#choice #desire #doing #good #happiness

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#going #her #i #me #mother

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#being #created #day #exist #god

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#lands #longer #may #moon #nothing

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#collar #fact #hair #him #his

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#ourselves #surely #then #unknown

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. ↗

— Henry Miller

#believe #cease #day #gods #men

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die