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"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosen't, then it was never meant to be." - N/A
"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left."
"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings."
"We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
“Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.” (Thomas Jefferson)
- The Jefferson Cyclopedia (1900) pg. 6
Jefferson wrote this to Peter Carr. He wrote this as a rule for action.
“A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.” (Thomas Jefferson)
- The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson (2003) pg. 67
The quote continues, “The idle are the only miserable,” and was written to his daughter, Martha Jefferson.
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.” (Thomas Jefferson)
- As quoted in Memoirs, correspondence, and private papers of Thomas Jefferson: late president of the United States (1829), pg. 286
Written in a letter to Peter Carr, the quote continues, “…he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.”