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parenting (15)

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

53 more quotes from Honore de Balzac

patience (62)

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

3 more quotes from Gertrude Jekyll

patriotism (46)

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

10 more thoughts from William Ralph Inge

peace (225)

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Read 7 more sayings from Abraham Maslow

pets (37)

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

See 42 more sayings from Josh Billings

poetry (231)

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Read 22 more thoughts from Andre Gide

politics (198)

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

24 more thoughts from Franklin D. Roosevelt

positive (32)

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Read 2 more quotes from Hans Selye

power (292)

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Read 58 more views from Henry Ward Beecher