Notes on Quotes
“We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application–not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech–and learn them so well that words become works.”
~ Seneca
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.
“Sometimes when a dream comes true, it’s not as cool as the dream.”
~ George R.R. Martin
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“Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.”
“Enemies teach us inner strength, courage and determination.”
~ Dalai Lama
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“When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others. It's the same thing when you are stupid.”
~ Richard Feynman
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"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
~ Nikola Tesla
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“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
~ Robert Brault
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“There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”
~Vincent Van Gogh
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When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.
~ Winston Churchill
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“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
"The more you know, the less you understand."
"The best fighter is never angry."
~ Lao Tzu
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“I hope everybody could get rich and famous and will have everything they ever dreamed of, so they will know that it's not the answer.”
~ Jim Carrey
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"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
~ Albert Einstein
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“What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
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“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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“If it’s important to you, you will find a way. If it’s not, you will find an excuse”
~ unknown
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When asked how it felt being able to give himself head, his response was something along the lines of 'It's OK. I mean your dick is getting sucked, but on the other hand, you're sucking dick'
~ Porn Star Ron Jeremy
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
- Carl Jung
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“Sometimes you need to burn bridges to stop yourself from crossing them again”
~ unknown
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
~ Desmond Tutu
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“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
~ William Burroughs
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“Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive. Inner peace does not.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
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"If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgement now."
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”
~ unknown
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“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
~ unknown
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“Only the educated are free.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself
“We will always be happy, he argued, if we learn to desire that things should be exactly as they are.”
~ Epictetus
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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.
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“Don’t blame the tool for the actions of the person wielding it.”
~ GMO
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“My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
~ Abe Lincoln
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“He said that he didn’t believe me. I replied that that was fine, as long as he believed that I believe it.”
~ Stephen King
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“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.”
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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“Precision beats power and timing beats speed”
~ Connor McGregor
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“When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.”
~ Matt Groening
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“Information can be googled in a matter of seconds but real knowledge and wisdom take time.”
~ unknown
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“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
~ Jim Rohn
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"We are punished by our sins, not for them."
~ Elbert Hubbard
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“It’s better to ask a question and be a fool once than never ask and be a fool forever.”
~ Confucius
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"Dance like no one is watching and everyone will."
~ unknown
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“Perception is more important than reality in that if someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.”
~ unknown
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“So, we, as human beings live in a very precise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.”
~ Daniel Keys Moran
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If we can’t be sure our perception reflects the world, how can we separate illusion from reality?
~ Descartes
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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
~ African proverb
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“Man proposes, but God disposes”
The phrase "Man proposes, but God disposes" is a translation of the Latin phrase "Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit" from Book I, chapter 19, of The Imitation of Christ by the German cleric Thomas à Kempis.
Man Proposes, God Disposes is also an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Edwin Henry Landseer
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“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
~ Richard Feynman
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"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
~ Epictetus
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“There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.'”
~ Louis Armstrong
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“I no longer desire anything the Universe does not desire for me.”
– Unknown
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"Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
~ Buddha
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“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Money often costs too much.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
~ Aristotle
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"We make ourselves miserable by first closing ourselves off from reality and then collecting this and that in an attempt to make ourselves happy by possessing happiness. But happiness is not something I have, it is something I myself want to be. Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over my body."
~ Roger J. Corless, "Vision of Buddhism: the Space Under the Tree"
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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"Worrying is praying for what you don't want."
~ unkown
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“Intelligent minds presume their own ignorance. Ignorant minds presume their own intelligence.”
~ unknown
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"Look down at me, and you will see a fool; look up at me, and you will see your lord. Look straight at me, and you will see yourself."
~ Charles Manson
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“Books are the training weights of the mind”
~ Seneca
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“You don't have to talk about what you know, but you have to know what you're talking about.”
~ unknown
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“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
~ Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
~ Ambrose Redmoon
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~ Ghandi
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“If you take everything away from someone they have nothing to lose. This is a very dangerous individual.”
~ GMO
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Quiet people are often found to have profound insights. The shallow water of a brook or river runs fat: The deep water seems calmer.
~ James Rogers
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“When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”
~ Buddha
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“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”
~ Flannery O’Connor
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“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”
~ Harper Lee
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
~ Hanlon’s Razor
A contrast/parallel to Occam's Razor, paraphrased ‘the simplest explanation is usually the right one’. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you must make, the more unlikely an explanation is.
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“I’m not looking for perfect tone or perfect pitch, thousands of singers have that, I’m ailing for individuality.”
~ Ernest Tubb
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Once it gets easier to live without, it gets easier to live within.
~ unknown
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There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents.
~ unknown
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“All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.”
~ Charlie Munger
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“Your body is not a temple,” he said. “It’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
~ Anthony Bourdain
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“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit"
~Greek Proverb
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“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
~ Bruce Lee
If you can truly perfect just one technique you will be hard to defeat.
When we repeat an action so often it becomes unconscious behavior, we can default to it without thinking.
This is not limited to only martial arts, it covers all aspects of life.
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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
— Robert Heinlein
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“Keep your two cents on your side of the fence.”
~ unknown
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“The opposite of faith is not doubt it is certainty.”
~ unknown
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“The biggest obstacle to scientific discovery is the illusion of knowledge.”
~ Daniel Boorstin
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"The master has failed more times than the novice has even tried."
~ unknown
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“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
~ Max Planck
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
~ Upton Sinclair
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“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
~ George Orwell
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“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
~ Vincent Van Gogh
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“Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.”
~ Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast
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“The greatest present threat to civilization is an excess of certitude.”
~ George Will
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies that are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: Know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
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"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road."
~ Steven Hawking
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“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
~ Wayne Gretzky
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Everyone has a plan ‘till they get punched in the mouth.
- Mike Tyson
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“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”
“Prolong not the past
Invite not the future
Do not alter your innate wakefulness
Fear not appearances
There in nothing more than this”
“Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.”
“Be here now.”
~ Ram Dass
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“If one’s words re not better than silence then one should keep silent.”
If one’s words re not better than silence then one should keep silent.
~ Kwai Chang Caine
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“The only things I regret are the things I didn’t do.”
~ Shelly Winters
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Play to win or you never will.
~ Hill Street Blues
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If you can’t write about things you know, write about things you know no onw knows about.
~ Mr. Boffo, Joe Martin
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“Once you’ve experienced a failure or a disappointment, once you’ve anlyve it and gotten the lessons out of it – dump it.”
~ General Colin Powell
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“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
~ Harper Lee
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“That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind.””
~ Martin Luther King
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The secret to success is sincerity, once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
~ Jean Girandoux
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“A thick skin is a gift from god”
~ Konrad Adenauer
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“Reason to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.”
~ Matthew Arnold
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“Fortune sides with him who dares”
~ Virgil
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“The harder you work the luckier you get”
~ Gary Player
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“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a car.”
~ Laurence J. Peter
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
~ JFK, Jr.
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“You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don’t try.
~ Beverly Sills
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“Better be born lucky than rich.”
~ Irish Proverb
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“Everyman has a right to risk his own life in order to save it.”
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion”
~ Ethiopian Proverb
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“The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.”
~ Kin Hubbard
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“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts mind there are few.”
~ Shunro Suzuki
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
~ Aldous Huxley
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“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
~ Christopher Morely
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“The best way to keep your word is not to give it.”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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“My creed is that:
Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make others so.”
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
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“Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.”
~ John Burroughs
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“If you think there is a solution you are part of the problem.”
~ George Carlin
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“Friendship between two persons depends upon the patience of one.”
~ Indian Saying
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“A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“How beautiful it is do nothing and then rest afterward.
~ Spanish Proverb
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“Everybody you meet knows something you don’t”
~ Bill Nye
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“He who is his own friend is a friend to all men.”
~ Seneca
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“Fashions fade – style is eternal.”
~ Yves St. Laurent
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“What we are is god’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to god.”
~ Eleanor Powell
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“To know oneself, one should assert oneself”
~ Albert Camus
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“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”
~ Jules Renard
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“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”
~ Granville Hicks
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“Only a fool tests the depths of a river with both feet.”
~ African Proverb
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“He who knows nothing doubts nothing.”
~ French Proverb
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“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
~ Plato
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“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.”
~ Konrad Adenauer
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“You never really lose until you quit trying.”
~ Mike Ditka
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“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
~ Louis Pasteur
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“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”
~ Fredrich Nietzsche
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“When you work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”
~ Henry J. Kaiser
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A teacher, a really good sensei, is never a giver of “truth”; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that the student must discover for himself.
~ Bruce Lee
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“Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.”
~ Epictetus, the Stoic philosopher
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"The fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them."
~ Cleanthes
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“Feras non culpes quod vitari non potest.” (what can’t be cured must be endured)
~ Horace
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“Life is a game of dice. Even if you don’t throw the number you like, you still have to play it and play it well.”
~ Roman playwright Terence
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“My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it...”
~ German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
~ Rumi
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
~ Sir Richard Steele
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“The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can [for me] change anything about this.”
~ Albert Einstein
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“As polytheism is in religious belief reflected in the recognition of moral complexity, so henotheism in religious practice is reflected in the recognition of moral diversity. To worship different gods is to align oneself with different ideals, and to embrace different moral standards. The example of the mother and the judge shows one way in which this works out in practice. The mother places parental love above impartial justice, while the judge does the opposite. In the language of Greek Paganism, the mother bows to Hera, the judge to Zeus Dikaios, and both are right to do so.”
~ John Michael Greer
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Thoughts and prayers are useless without action.
~ unknown
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“You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.”
~ Bruce Lee
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"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford
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The masses have never thirsted after truth…whoever can supply them with illusions is easily there master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
~ Gustav Le Bon
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self”.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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The people who lie, do not believe the people who speak the truth.
~ Confucius
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It’s funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.
~ Calvin (aka Bill Watterson)
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“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
~ John Mason
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“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”
~ Timber Hawkeye
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Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
~ Nelson Mandela
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"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea."
~Kenyan Proverb
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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
~ MLK
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Ghandi
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~ C.C. Lewis
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You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. It words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
~ Warren Buffett
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Concentrate on what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
~ Oprah Winfrey
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The game changes with every move you make.
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There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
–Dalai Lama
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
~ Dalai Lama
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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
~ Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
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If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.
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“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
~ Lao Tzu
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“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
~ Lao Tzu
There’s only two way to do things, right and wrong. There’s only two kinds of music, good and bad.
~ Ray Charles
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
~ Chinese Proverb
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No flower in the garden looks the same to each person. That is a true beauty and wonder.
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The days my gratitude’s exceed my expectations are really good days.
~ Ray Wylie
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom"
~ Victor Frankl
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Success is never owned, it is rented, and rent is due every single day.
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Every breath is a gift.
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“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain”
~ Miyamoto Musashi
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"Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come."
~ C. S. Lewis
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“The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him.”
~ Mark Twain (maybe)
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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
~ Lao Tzu
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"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise"
~ Alden Nowlan
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake."
~ Confucius
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"Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that."
~ George Carlin
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"There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little."
~ Charles Bukowski
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"Loyalty to your country always, loyalty to your government when it deserves it"
~ Mark Twain
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The pursuit of knowledge is ultimately its own reward.
~ Feynman
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"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."
~ African Proverb
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I asked him how his father was coping [with his wife’s death] and he said, "It's kind of like never being able to see the color blue again. You can go on with your life and still be happy, but the world looks permanently different and you can never forget what it used to look like."
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“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
~ Sherlock Holmes
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“Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something”
~ Aristotle
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It is a mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Socrates
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day
~ A. A. Milne
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I welcome ageing. I hate the aches and pains but I love the growing sense of not giving a shit. Very few things disturb me nowadays.
~ Armistead Maupin
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"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
~ Aristotle
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"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
~ Benjamin Franklin
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"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."
~ Marcus Aurelius
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We are often more frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than reality.
~ Seneca
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
~ Epicurus
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
~ Lyall Watson
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“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
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You cry, I am suffering severe pain! Are you tjem relieved from feeling it if you bear it in an unmanly way?
~ Seneca, Moral Letters, 78.17
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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I’m An Introvert. I’m not shy. I’m a noticer. I am a thinker. I’m an observer. I’m not stuck up. I’m not anti-social. I treasure my solitude. I’m not a fan of small talk. I prefer a few close friends. I am reserved, until I’m not. I appreciate true connection. If we connect, you matter to me.
~ Unknown
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"Some changes may look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."
~ Eckhart Toll
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‘You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist’
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.”
~ Epictetus
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“What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
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“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
~ Voltaire
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
~ Marcus Aelius
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“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
~ Emil M. Cioran
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“It is circumstances which show men what they are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like the trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. “For what purpose?” you may say. Why, that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.”
~ Epictetus
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“Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
~ Vincent Van Gogh
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“People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.
~Mark Twain
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what we pretend to be."
~ Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'"
~ The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
~ Wittgenstein
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"A wise man speaks because he has something to say. A fool speaks because he has to say something."
~ Plato
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"Soul doesn't have a fear of dying. Ego has very pronounced fear of dying. The ego, this incarnation, is life and dying. The soul is infinite."
~ Baba Ram Dass
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“The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed n wartime.”
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“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
~ Oscar Wilde
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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We always have a choice in life to be right or be kind.
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“What happens to a dream deferred?/Does it dry up… Or fester like a sore?… Or does it explode?”
~ Langston Hughes
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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
~ Oscar Wilde
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"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries."
~ Stephen King
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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
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"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."
~ Barry Switzer
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“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
~ Stephen King
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“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"EVERY man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea."
~ Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1778
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"I always felt sad for beautiful women because they don't get to be with me.”
~Conan O’Brian
