Quotes
Familiar and Unfamiliar Quotations (norvig.com)
“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.”
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
I know a cure for everything, salt water.. sweat, tears, sea
We suffer more in imagination than in reality
Circumstances reveal the man