Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.
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