Quotes

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There is always a philosophy for lack of courage. - Camus

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or, “I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . .” Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.” ― Ray Bradbury

“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.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ― Epicurus

Spring is the time of plans and projects

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters” ― Albert Einstein

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” ― Steve Jobs

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” ― George Orwell

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” ― Vincent Van Gogh

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?” ― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.” ― Tupac Shakur

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” ― C.S. Lewis

“Resist much, obey little.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, “Why god? Why me?” and the thundering voice of God answered, There’s just something about you that pisses me off.” ― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.” ― Abigail Van Buren

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” ― Stephen King

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

“All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”

“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ― Carl Gustav Jung

“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” ― George Eliot

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.” ― Robert M. Sapolsky

If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

If I’m sincere today, does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

Some stranger somewhere still remembers you because you were kind to them when no one else was.

Anything that just costs money is cheap

The one chasing two rabbits, catches neither

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters

I know a cure for everything, salt water.. sweat, tears, sea

.. blur the line between work and play

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst

First step to learn is to admit that you don’t know

Pursue a path you can walk with love and reverence

How does it help.. to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?

We suffer more in imagination than in reality

Don’t explain your philosophy, embody it

Words are loaded pistols

Circumstances reveal the man