-Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer… Read the rest
Alfred Adler Quotations
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them
Alfred Adler… Read the rest
Ana M Guzman
I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.
Ana M Guzman… Read the rest
Edmond de Goncourt Quotations
-A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt… Read the rest
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
Robert Sternberg Quotations
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
Robert Sternberg … Read the rest
Richard P. Feynman Quotations
-I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
-The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.
-For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public … Read the rest
Unesco Quotations
-Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.
Unesco’s aim when it was conceived in 1945… Read the rest
Paul Theroux Quotations
Only a fool blames his bad vacation on the rain.
Paul Theroux… Read the rest
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotations
Sophocles Quotations
-The greatest griefs are the ones we cause ourselves.
-The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
-The end excuses any evil.
-A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles… Read the rest
Douglas Adams Quotations
-Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
-He attacked everything in life … Read the rest
Jerome Blattner
A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted.
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Gail Devers
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers … Read the rest
Abigail Adams Quotations
-Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams… Read the rest
Osho
-If you are in the future, then ego seems to be very substantial. If you are in the present the ego is a mirage, it starts disappearing.
-In your hopelessness is the only hope, and in your desirelessness is your … Read the rest
Etty Hillesum Quotations
-I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.
-We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many … Read the rest
Malcolm Muggeridge Quotations
Marilyn Manson Quotations
-Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
Marilyn Manson… Read the rest
Dalton Camp Quotations
-Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
Dalton Camp… Read the rest
Hermann Hesse Quotations
-If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
-Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.
Hermann Hesse… Read the rest
Quintilian Quotations
-When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
-The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian… Read the rest
Barbara Hall Quotations
-The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
-Justice … Read the rest
Tom Schulman Quotations
Now I’d like you to step forward over here. They’re not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they’re destined for … Read the rest
Vic Gold Quotations
The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
Vic Gold… Read the rest
Anthony J D’Angelo
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
Anthony J D’Angelo … Read the rest
Maria Irene Fornes Quotations
-When I’m not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It’s a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.
Maria Irene Fornes… Read the rest
Frank Herbert Quotations
-The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
-Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert… Read the rest
Cory Doctorow Quotations
-Abnormal is so common, it’s practically normal.
Cory Doctorow… Read the rest
G. K. Chesterton Quotations
-The greatest problem with Christianity is not that it has been tried and found wanting, but that it’s hardly been tried at all.
-The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
-To have a … Read the rest
Abigail Van Buren
The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
Abigail Van Buren … Read the rest
Barnett Cocks Quotations
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Sir Barnett Cocks… Read the rest
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
Shana Alexander Quotations
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexander… Read the rest
Anonymous
Spiritual awakenings are usually preceded by rude awakenings.… Read the rest
Jacob Getlar Smith Quotations
The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.
Jacob Getlar Smith… Read the rest
Neil Postman Quotations
Boris Pasternak Quotations
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Boris Pasternak… Read the rest
Al Franken Quotations
-It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
Al Franken… Read the rest
Herbert W. Boyer Quotations
-Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
Herbert W. Boyer… Read the rest
Warren Bennis Quotations
-Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that … Read the rest
Katharine Butler Hathaway Quotations
-It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine … Read the rest
Malayan Proverbs
-Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverbs… 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
Christian Gellert
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Gellert… Read the rest
Paul Anka
Edgar Allan Poe Quotations
-Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
Edgar Allan Poe… Read the rest
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.
Paul Dirac… Read the rest
Audrey Hepburn
-Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
-I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, … Read the rest
Norah Phillips
I have found that people are usually much more moved by economics than by morals.
Norah Phillips (1910-92)… 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
Charles DuBois Quotations
-The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles DuBois… Read the rest
Slovenian Proverbs
-Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb… Read the rest
John Blake Quotations
-The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
John Blake… Read the rest
Henry C. Fownes Quotations
A shot poorly played should be a shot irrevocably lost.
Henry C. Fownes… Read the rest
Brendan Francis Quotations
-If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
-People who ask our advice almost never take … Read the rest
Anne Tyler Quotations
I’ve never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Anne Tyler… Read the rest
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
Stephen Nachmanovitch Quotations
-The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
-The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
-Creative work is play. It is free speculation … Read the rest
St. Francis of Assisi
What we are looking for is what is looking.
St. Francis of Assisi… Read the rest
Bernie Siegel Quotations
-Sometimes I think about how much easier life would be for all of us if when we were born we arrived with a book called A Guide to Life, Love and Health. Of course it would be better not to … Read the rest
Jefferson Davis Quotations
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
Jefferson Davis… 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.
Doug Larson… Read the rest
Peter McWilliams Quotations
-Pain (any pain–emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, … Read the rest
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotations
-Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
-So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
-To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
-We … Read the rest
William James Quotations
-Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
-The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-The greatest discovery of my generation is that a … Read the rest
Bernadette Devlin
To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin… Read the rest
Francis Chichester
Most of us are content to pass over the surface of life. It is only by submitting to trial than an individual can learn to know what is in him.
Francis Chichester… Read the rest
John of Ruysbroeck
To comprehend and to understand God above all similitudes, as He is in Himself, is to be God with God, without intermediary, and without any otherness that can become a hindrance or an intermediary. Whosoever wishes to understand this must … Read the rest
Abu Bakr
-Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Dorothy Thompson Quotations
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
Dorothy Thompson … Read the rest
Maxine Hong Kingston Quotations
-The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston… Read the rest
William Saroyan Quotations
-Good people are good because they come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan … Read the rest
Friedrich Holderlin Quotations
-What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
-Near is and hard to fathom, the God; yet, where there is danger, groweth salvation as well.
-Though he has to … Read the rest
Dennis Potter Quotations
-We should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt.
Dennis Potter… Read the rest
Okakura Kakuzo Quotations
-The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Okakura Kakuzo… Read the rest
Sarah Bernhardt Quotations
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt… Read the rest
Blaise Pascal Quotations
Native American Proverbs
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverbs… Read the rest
Susanne Millar Quotations
If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life.
Susanne Millar… Read the rest
John Steinbeck Quotations
Charles Swindoll Quotations
-There is only one you… Don’t you dare change just because you’re outnumbered!
Charles Swindoll… Read the rest
Peggy Noonan Quotations
-Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It’s unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don’t have to try.
Peggy Noonan… Read the rest
Robert H. Schuller (Dr.) Quotations
-Every burden is a blessing.
-What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller (Dr.)… Read the rest
John Kord Lagemann Quotations
Intuition isn’t the enemy, but the ally, of reason.… Read the rest
Kingsley Amis Quotations
-I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don’t want … Read the rest
Margot Fonteyn Quotations
-If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Margot … Read the rest
William J. H. Boetcker
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker… Read the rest
Winston Churchill Quotations
-Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
-When you are going through hell, keep going.
-The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of … Read the rest
Harry Stack Sullivan
Throughout our lives opportunities for new integrations and adaptations present themselves.
Harry Stack Sullivan… Read the rest
Gail Sheehy Quotations
-The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy… Read the rest
Paul “Bear” Bryant Quotations
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Paul “Bear” Bryant… Read the rest
Shimon Peres Quotations
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
Shimon Peres… Read the rest
Gotthold Lessing Quotations
Bill Hicks Quotations
-It’s just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want … Read the rest
George Matthew Adams Quotations
There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up … Read the rest
Will Durant
-To have a great purpose to work for, a purpose larger than ourselves, is one of the secrets of making life significant; for then the meaning and worth of the individual overflow his personal borders, and survive his death.
-One … Read the rest
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotations
-The 8 elements that make up an enjoyable experience (this fits for activities all the way from reading to Ultimate Frisbee!):
- The task is challenging and requires skill
- We concentrate
- There are clear goals
- We get immediate feedback
- We have
Golo Mann Quotations
-Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and time again, will come as a surprise to him.
Golo Mann… Read the rest