The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
- Topic: Communication, Integrity
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Logan Pearsall Smith
More Quotes from Arches National Park
More on These Topics
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
Understanding a question is half an answer.
Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.
