-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, … Read the rest
Donald Foster Quotations
-No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
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Gloria Steinem Quotations
-Hierarchies ration self-esteem and create obedience to external authority by weakening belief in our own natural and internal wisdom.
-The status quo protects itself by punishing all challengers.
-Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the … Read the rest
J. B. Priestley Quotations
-Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
-The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up … Read the rest
Robert Kennedy Quotations
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
Melody Beattie Quotations
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don’t.
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Paul Dirac
-In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.
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David Peterson Quotations
-If you don’t know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something.
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Milan Kundera Quotations
-The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.
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Frank Wilczek Quotations
-If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
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Steven Pearl Quotations
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
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Sir Richard Francis Burton Quotations
-Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
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Mencius Quotations
-The great man is one who does not lose his childlike nature.
-Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotations
-Do you call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling idea, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
-Is not life a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-One must still have chaos in … Read the rest
George McDonald Quotations
-Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
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Arnold Glasgow Quotations
Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition
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Dwight Morrow Quotations
Any party which accepts credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
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Galileo Galilei Quotations
-I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something … Read the rest
William Carlos Williams Quotations
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
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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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Yasutani Roshi Quotations
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
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L. C. Thurow Quotations
-A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
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Marquis de Vauvenargues Quotations
-The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.
-Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.
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Confucius Quotations
-The superior man loves his soul, the inferior man loves his property.
-Virtue is to love men.
-Everything flows on and on like this river, without pause, day and night.
-He who will not economize will have to agonize.
-Only … Read the rest
Deepak Chopra
-This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
-The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
-When you live your … Read the rest
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotations
-Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
-It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-I never guess. It is a capital … Read the rest
Norman Douglas Quotations
-How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one’s senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
-If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
-You can tell the ideals of … Read the rest
Bertrand Russell Quotations
-Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
-Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
-Most men would rather die, than think. Many do.
-Our great democracies still … Read the rest
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Quotations
-We should reserve a storehouse for ourselves, altogether ours, and wholly free, wherein we may hoard up and establish our true liberty, and principal retreat and solitude.
-Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better … Read the rest
John Maurice Clarke Quotations
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
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Joe Darion
To dream … the impossible dream …
To fight … the unbeatable foe …
To bear … with unbearable sorrow …
To run … where the brave dare not go …
To right … the unrightable wrong …
To love … Read the rest
Peter Hoeg Quotations
Time is no law of nature. It is a plan. When you look at it with awareness, or start to touch it, then it starts to disintegrate.
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Thornton Wilder Quotations
-I’ve never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for — whether it’s … Read the rest
Iris Murdoch Quotations
Meladee McCarty Quotations
Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced… an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.… Read the rest
Robert Service Quotations
-Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
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Gregg Levoy
-When you’re on the right path, the universe winks and nods at you from time to time, to let you know.
-Passion is what we are most deeply curious about, most hungry for, will most hate to lose in life. … Read the rest
Bernard Edmonds Quotations
To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That … Read the rest
James M. Barrie Quotations
-Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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Thomas Gray Quotations
-The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
-Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, The bee’s collected treasures sweet, Sweet music’s melting full, but sweeter yet The still small voice of gratitude.
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Fritz Perls
Christiane Northrup Quotations
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
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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
Mataemon Iso
Approach the moment with the idea that you’re in the fight to the finish.
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Margaret Cho Quotations
-I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.
-Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
-Success is meaningless … Read the rest
David Assael Quotations
-Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
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Russell Targ Quotations
Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.
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Edward R. Murrow Quotations
-Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
-When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be … Read the rest
Miguel de Cervantes Quotations
-Aldonza: Why do you do these things?
Don Quixote: I hope to add some measure of grace to the world.
-A closed mouth catches no flies.
-A person dishonored is worse than dead.
-A private sin is not so prejudicial … Read the rest
Lucille Ball Quotations
-The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
-Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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Sean O’Casey Quotations
Work! Labour … the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow – security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
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Derek Walcott
Any serious attempt to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
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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
Dennis Potter Quotations
-We should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt.
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John Fletcher
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
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Luke 17:33
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
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Danny Kaye Quotations
-Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Quotations
-Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
-He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
-In the final analysis, the questions of … Read the rest
Martin Luther Quotations
Cowardice asks the question, Is it safe? Expediency asks the question, Is it politic? Vanity asks the question, Is it popular? But conscience asks the question, Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position … Read the rest
Diego Marchi Quotations
-In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.
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Heather Armstrong Quotations
-He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it.
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Gertrude Stein Quotations
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Margaret Lee Runbeck Quotations
-Giving is a necessity sometimes… more urgent, indeed, than having.
-Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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Charles Swindoll Quotations
-There is only one you… Don’t you dare change just because you’re outnumbered!
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Bernadette Devlin
To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
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Mary Quant
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun, but not vital.
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Karl Marx Quotations
The ruling ideas of every age are always the ideas of the ruling class.
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Laura Moncur Quotations
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotations
F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The rich are different from you and me.”
Ernest Hemingway: “Yes, they have more money.”… Read the rest
Leon Battista Alberti Quotations
-A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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Jack London Quotations
-You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Henny Youngman Quotations
My wife and I went back to the hotel where we spent our wedding night. Only this time, I stayed in the bathroom and cried.
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Charlize Theron Quotations
There’s only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn’t give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
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Shana Alexander Quotations
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotations
-Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
-The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.… Read the rest
Nicholas Butler
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Francis Thompson Quotations
-In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
-I do not believe Nature has a heart; and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been credited with a heart … Read the rest
Vic Gold Quotations
The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
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Duke Ellington Quotations
-I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotations
-If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
-Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud … Read the rest
Margaret Cousins Quotations
Appreciation can make a day–even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
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Matthias
Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is … Read the rest
Joseph Epstein Quotations
-The acquisition of one sort of ability often makes that of another unlikely, if not impossible … To take the gifts one does have, to concentrate one’s strength upon their development, to disallow distractions – none of these is an … Read the rest
Napoleon Hill Quotations
-A goal is a dream with a deadline.
-Action is the real measure of intelligence.
-All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
-All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the … Read the rest
Joan Baez Quotations
-The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
-Non-violence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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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
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Quotations
-I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one … Read the rest
Malcolm Muggeridge Quotations
Jesus Christ Quotations
Phil Knight Quotations
-Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
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Dave Meurer
A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
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Jim Rohn Quotations
-There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.
-No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when … Read the rest
Cesare Pavese Quotations
-Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
-The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Moshe Dayan
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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James Richardson Quotations
The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.
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Wilhelm Busch Quotations
-It is easy to become a father, but very difficult to be a father.
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Mike Myers Quotations
-My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
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