-Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
-Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.
-Eyes … Read the rest
Clifton Fadiman Quotations
-When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
-For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get … Read the rest
Esther Dyson Quotations
-The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
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Earl Wilson Quotations
If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
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Jim Bouton Quotations
-Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
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Joyce Carol Oates
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
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Heywood Brown
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
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Charles Baudelaire Quotations
-Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered… a childhood now equipped for self-expression with an adult’s capacities.
-Voici venir les temps où vibrant sur sa tige
Chaque fleur s’évapore ainsi qu’un encensoir;
Les sons et les parfums tournent … Read the rest
Thomas Merton Quotations
-A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
-The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
-The truth that many people never understand, until it is … Read the rest
Joan of Arc
-I know this now. Every man gives his life to what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, so they give their lives to little or nothing.
-The future … Read the rest
Eliot Wiggington Quotations
-Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.
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Seneca the Younger Quotations
-No man is crushed by hostile Fortune who is not first deceived by her smiles.
-Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Robert Anthony Quotations
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.
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Hippocrates
-There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
-Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Vauvenargues
People find happiness in both wisdom and folly, virtue and vice. Contentment is no index of true worth.
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Iris Murdoch Quotations
-Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
-A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look … Read the rest
Bill Vaughan Quotations
-It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
-If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse … Read the rest
Arshad Mohammed El-Fky Quotations
-Don’t be a shadow of someone; he will leave you alone when it becomes dark.
-Having a will to be, is more important than having two eyes to see.
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Pablo Picasso Quotations
-It takes one a long time to become young.
-When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
-When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun … Read the rest
Alexandre Dumas Quotations
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
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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 … Read the rest
Blaise Pascal Quotations
-I have made this a rather long letter because I haven’t had time to make it shorter.
-The power of man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings.
-Earthly things must be known … Read the rest
Clement Atlee Quotations
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Sivananda
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
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Mark
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
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Frank Scully Quotations
-Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
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Barbara Tober Quotations
-Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
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Suzanne Lafollette Quotations
-There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
-Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
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Golda Meir Quotations
-Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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Celia Thaxter Quotations
-There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
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Dale Carnegie Quotations
-Fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. We rarely get tired when we are doing something interesting and exciting.
-You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than … Read the rest
Agatha Christie Quotations
-One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.
-I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite … Read the rest
Lord Chesterfield Quotations
-Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
-Choose your … Read the rest
Sydney Smith Quotations
-Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
-Live always in the best company when you read.
-You must not think me necessarily foolish because … Read the rest
John McCrae Quotations
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We … Read the rest
Hugh Macleod Quotations
-Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.
-Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people … Read the rest
Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotations
-The purpose of religion is not to satisfy the needs we feel but to create in us the need of serving ends of which we otherwise remain oblivious.
-Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with … Read the rest
John Belushi Quotations
-In your 20s, you feel like you’re indestructible, that nothing can kill you and you laugh at death. You go on and stay up for days and do as many things as you can and then, in your 30s, you … Read the rest
H. H. Williams Quotations
-Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
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Cheryl Renee Grossman Quotations
I dream, therefore I become.
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Warren Buffett Quotations
-In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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Demosthenes Quotations
-Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
-Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
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Price Cobb Quotations
-Some days you’re a bug, some days you’re a windshield.
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T.S. Eliot Quotations
-Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-In a world of fugitives the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
-I have measured out my life with … Read the rest
Aeschylus Quotations
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Herbert Otto Quotations
-Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
-We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live life fully in its total … Read the rest
Rene Descartes Quotations
-The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
-If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as … Read the rest
Louis Pasteur Quotations
Did you observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favours only the prepared mind.
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Michael Shermer Quotations
-Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
-But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
-But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, … Read the rest
Saint Francis de Sales Quotations
-Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.
-Do not wish to be anything
but … Read the rest
Norman Cousins Quotations
-Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
-Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects.
-Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Thomas Paine Quotations
-I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will … Read the rest
Bruce Barton Quotations
-When you’re through changing, you’re through.
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Yoda
Named must your fear be before banish it you can.
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Lois McMaster Bujold Quotations
-What you are is a question only you can answer.
-But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious … Read the rest
Henrik Ibsen Quotations
-A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
-A forest bird never wants a cage.
-A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and … Read the rest
Thomas Fuller Quotations
-We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
-Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
-Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
-Enquire not what boils in another’s pot.… Read the rest
Robert J. Sawyer Quotations
-Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
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Angeles Arrien Quotations
-Four Rules for Life. Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don’t be attached to the results.
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Alfred E. Wiggam Quotations
-A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
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Walter Bagehot Quotations
-The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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Jill Churchill Quotations
The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
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Val Sears Quotations
Politics, as it turned out, lent itself admirably to storytelling. Where else can you find such a mix of greed, power, lust, conspiracy, sacrifice and secrecy?
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Margaret Wheatley Quotations
-When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
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Patanjali
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, … Read the rest
James Patterson Quotations
-Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It’s called Four Blind Mice and it’s a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
-For many years I had heard about an … Read the rest
Henri Frederic Amiel Quotations
-Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
-Hope is only the love of life.
-The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he … Read the rest
AA Milne Quotations
-One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
-The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
Time Magazine
Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find.
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William Gibson Quotations
-It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
-Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
-The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent.
-The future has already … Read the rest
Harry S. Truman Quotations
-It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
-The buck stops here.
-A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his … Read the rest
Thomas Homer-Dixon Quotations
-Three large spoonfuls of crude oil contain about the same amount of energy as eight hours of human manual labour. When we fill our car with gas, we’re pouring into the tank the energy equivalent of about two years of … Read the rest
Abigail Adams Quotations
-Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
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Mario Andretti Quotations
-If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough
-Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain … Read the rest
Werner Heisenberg
The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
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James Carroll Quotations
-We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or … Read the rest
James Blunt Quotations
“No Bravery”
There are children standing here,
Arms outstretched into the sky,
Tears drying on their face.
He has been here.
Brothers lie in shallow graves.
Fathers lost without a trace.
A nation blind to their disgrace,
Since he’s been … Read the rest
Regis Debray Quotations
-The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.
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Michael J. Fox Quotations
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
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Theodor Adorno Quotations
-Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. It expels from movements all hesitation, deliberation, civility.
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Real Live Preacher Quotations
-Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. ‘This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. … Read the rest
Doug Larson Quotations
-Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
-The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
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Jennifer Louden Quotations
-I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
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Jean Piaget Quotations
-The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done–men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
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William Blake Quotations
-I must Create a System or be enslav’d by another Man’s.
-If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
-The most sublime act is to set another before you.
-To see a … Read the rest
James G. Watt Quotations
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
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Lord Acton Quotations
-The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
-Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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William Ernest Henley Quotations
Invictus
OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under … Read the rest
Louisa May Alcott Quotations
Far away there in the sunshine
are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can
look up and see their beauty,
believe in them and try to
follow where they lead.
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Robbie Gass Quotations
-Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
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Kirby Larson Quotations
-It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
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S. I. Hayakawa
-I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
-If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you … Read the rest
Georgia O’Keeffe Quotations
-I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t … Read the rest
Robert Herrick Quotations
-To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny’d.
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Catherine de Hueck Doherty Quotations
-Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
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Adlai Stevenson Quotations
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotations
-If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read “President Can’t Swim”.
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Frank Crane
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
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