“Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.” PeopleWayMayMadeEndsPastFormCultureHouseSexUnderstandingEffortSecretPovertyPathGreaterDyingCircumstancesSuicideHistoricalBoundsYieldBritish History Author:David Cannadine
“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.” MeanArtIdeasSelfSpiritLyingArtistEffortSecretVisionCreativeArt IsIntuitionIntimateWorks Of ArtWellspringConcurrence Author:Jacques Maritain
“Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.” PeopleHeartCharacterCoursesEvilEasyEffortSecretKindnessRewardsNobleWickedRefrainSteers Author:Honore de Balzac
“To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.” LyingGoalEffortSecretStriveAll TimeSecret To Success Author:Anna Pavlova
“A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.” WorldNatureEffortSecretPeriodsBreathsSilentWickedWildernessRetreatRecreationEscapingRecourseWicked World Author:Benton MacKaye
“One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.” MenWorldLifeGivingRealFeelingsHandsHappinessSuccessJoyHateEffortSecretWonderfulAdviceWillingReadyEnvyOne ManRejoiceSuccess In LifeReal FriendsAlasLife HappinessGood AdviceBest AdviceGood FeelingHate Him Author:Herodotus
“It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.” WayImportantEffortSecretDoubtStudentsTestsOkay Author:Robert Genn