Us Quotes

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.