December 2006

Astrid Lindgren

-I don’t mind dying, I’ll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first. -I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement. -I have never experienced being madly [...]

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington Quotations

-Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. -Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Arthur Schopenhauer Quotations

…the experiences and illuminations of childhood and early youth become in later life the types, standards and patterns of all subsequent knowledge and experience, or as it were, the categories according to which all later things are classified—not always consciously, however. And so it is that in our childhood years the foundation is laid of [...]

Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker Quotations

The will to live in civilized man is a combined biological and psychological drive. As long as we have something to live for, the will to live carries us through the moments of crisis which are inevitable in every life. Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker

Aristotle Quotations

-Where your talents meet the needs of the world, there lies your vocation. -We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. -All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. -Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. -It is the mark of an educated mind [...]

Aphorisms & Proverbs

-A stitch in time saves nine. -I’m not okay and you’re not okay, but that’s okay. -The only person you can change is yourself. -One day at a time. -Don’t cross your bridges until you’ve come to them. -Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. -All work and no play makes Jack a [...]

Antonio Machado Quotations

The wind, one brilliant day, called. Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk? Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous [...]

Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery Quotations

-If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. -As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. -A rock pile ceases to be a rock [...]

Antoine Bourdelle

The secret of art is love. Antoine Bourdelle

Anthony Euwer

As a beauty I’m not a great star. There are others more handsome, by far, But my face-I don’t mind it For I am behind it; It’s the people in front get the jar. Anthony Euwer

Anonymous

-Profound joy of heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life. One has to follow it even though one enters into a way full of difficulties. -Death is not a problem if you have lived first. -The artist was not a special kind of person, but each person a special kind of [...]

Annie Dillard Quotations

-The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into the pulse. -There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand. But–and [...]

Anne Sexton

Courage It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk. The first spanking when your heart went on a journey all alone. When they called you crybaby or poor or fatty or crazy and made [...]

Anne Frank Quotations

-How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank

Anna Brackett Quotations

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. Anna Brackett

André Gide Quotations

-Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else, and out of yourself create, impatiently, the most irreplaceable of [...]

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

-We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art. -The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is [...]

Anaïs Nin Quotations

-Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. -There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like [...]

Alvin Toffler

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. Alvin Toffler

J. Allen Boone

If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the divine in people and things, and leave all the rest to God. J. Allen Boone

Alice Miller Quotations

-People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be—both in their youth and in adulthood—intelligent, responsive, empathic, and highly sensitive. They will take pleasure in life and will not feel any need to kill or even hurt others or themselves. They will [...]

Alice Mackenzie Swaim Quotations

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. Alice Mackenzie Swaim

Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotations

-For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;… Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle flags were furl’d In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. -Their’s not to reason why, Their’s but to [...]

Alfred Hitchcock Quotations

-After all it’s only a movie and we are all grossly overpaid. -In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. Alfred Hitchcock

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotations

-A person is happy so long as s/he chooses to be happy, and nothing can stop her/him. -Our envy of others devours us most of all. -Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Pope Quotations

-Search then the ruling Passion:… This clue once found, unravels all the rest…. -Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be Alexander Pope

Aleister Crowley

-The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley

Aldous Huxley Quotations

-The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of [...]

Albert Schweitzer Quotations

-No one must shut his eyes and regard as non-existent the sufferings of which he spares himself the sight. -Let no one regard as light the burden of his responsibility. -Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it [...]

Albert Michelson Quotations

My greatest challenge is to attempt the impossible. Albert Michelson

Albert Camus Quotations

-In the midst of winter I found within me an invincible summer. -To know oneself, one should assert oneself. -Any authentic creation is a gift to the future. -Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. -Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. -Real [...]

Alan Watts

Rigid people feel some basic disgust with wiggles. They want to get things straight. But who can straighten out water? Water is the essence of life. Alan Watts

E. O. Wilson Quotations

-Human nature is a hodgepodge of special genetic adaptations to an environment largely vanished, the world of the Ice-Age hunter gatherer. -A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a [...]

Edith Sitwell Quotations

-Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. -My personal [...]

Charles Darwin Quotations

-A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. -A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone. -Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. -False facts are highly injurious to the [...]

Jules Renard Quotations

-Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. -Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. -I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t. -Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to [...]

Thomas H. Huxley Quotations

-Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. -Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. -God [...]

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotations

-With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. -Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. -To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. -Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. -Everyone [...]

Paul Gauguin Quotations

-Art is either plagiarism or revolution. -I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin

James Thurber Quotations

-The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. -Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? -I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. [...]

Alfred North Whitehead Quotations

-The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. -The secret to happiness lies in knowing this: that we live by the law of expenditure. We find the greatest joy not in getting, but in expressing what we are. There are tides in the ocean of life, and what comes in depends [...]

Mark Twain Quotations

-Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. -I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened. (I [...]

Wislawa Szymborska

The world is never ready for the birth of a child. Wislawa Szymborska

George Santayana Quotations

-The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. -Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. -Sanity is a madness put to good use. -Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. -There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -Why shouldn’t things [...]

Ian McEwan Quotations

When this civilization falls, when the Romans, whoever they are this time round, have finally left and the new dark ages begin, this will be one of the first luxuries to go. The old folk crouching by their peat fires will tell their disbelieving grandchildren of standing naked mid-winter under jet steams of hot clean [...]

Ray Bradbury Quotations

-We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. -You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. -I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. -We need not to be let alone. We need to be [...]

Anthony Eden

Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong. Anthony Eden

Frederick G. Banting Quotations

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. Frederick G. Banting

Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotations

-I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. -If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. -Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down to the green valleys of silliness. Ludwig Wittgenstein