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| Level | Quotes |
| 0001 | Start by doing what's necessary; Then do what's possible; And suddenly you are doing the impossible. |
| 0002 | My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; And to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. |
| 0003 | The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes. |
| 0004 | Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. |
| 0005 | Do not dwell in the past, Do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. |
| 0006 | Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. |
| 0007 | The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. |
| 0008 | We do not remember days, we remember moments. |
| 0009 | In the end, It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. |
| 0010 | Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"! |
| 0011 | The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. |
| 0012 | Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. |
| 0013 | The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. |
| 0014 | Change your thoughts and you change your world. |
| 0015 | I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. |
| 0016 | What we think, we become. |
| 0017 | It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. |
| 0018 | Believe you can and you're halfway there. |
| 0019 | Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. |
| 0020 | A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. |
| 0021 | We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. |
| 0022 | 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. |
| 0023 | There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. |
| 0024 | We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. |
| 0025 | Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. |
| 0026 | Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. |
| 0027 | Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. |
| 0028 | Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. |
| 0029 | I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. |
| 0030 | Where there is love there is life. |
| 0031 | I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. |
| 0032 | Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. |
| 0033 | The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. |
| 0034 | Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. |
| 0035 | Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. |
| 0036 | People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. |
| 0037 | No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. |
| 0038 | I can resist everything except temptation. |
| 0039 | Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company. |
| 0040 | I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. |
| 0041 | Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. |
| 0042 | I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. |
| 0043 | Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. |
| 0044 | Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. |
| 0045 | All generalizations are false, including this one. |
| 0046 | It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. |
| 0047 | I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. |
| 0048 | The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. |
| 0049 | Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? |
| 0050 | Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. |
| 0051 | When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. |
| 0052 | Forgive, Forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. |
| 0053 | Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. |
| 0054 | Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. |
| 0055 | Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. |
| 0056 | However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. |
| 0057 | All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. |
| 0058 | Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. |
| 0059 | Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. |
| 0060 | It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. |
| 0061 | Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. |
| 0062 | A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. |
| 0063 | If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. |
| 0064 | Never have more children than you have car windows. |
| 0065 | It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether. |
| 0066 | The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. |
| 0067 | What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? |
| 0068 | Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. |
| 0069 | Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. |
| 0070 | If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower. |
| 0071 | I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. |
| 0072 | When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away. |
| 0073 | When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. |
| 0074 | True love stories never have endings. |
| 0075 | A tramp, A gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. |
| 0076 | From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. |
| 0077 | The things that we love tell us what we are. |
| 0078 | Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. |
| 0079 | Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. |
| 0080 | Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. |
| 0081 | What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? |
| 0082 | What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. |
| 0083 | It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. |
| 0084 | Do your little bit of good where you are; It's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. |
| 0085 | The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen. |
| 0086 | All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. |
| 0087 | Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. |
| 0088 | Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. |
| 0089 | Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. |
| 0090 | Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. |
| 0091 | Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. |
| 0092 | Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. |
| 0093 | Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. |
| 0094 | Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality. |
| 0095 | The power of imagination makes us infinite. |
| 0096 | If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. |
| 0097 | The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. |
| 0098 | Shoot for the moon and if you moss you will still be among the stars. |
| 0099 | The milky way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. |
| 0100 | In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 0101 | Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. |
| 0102 | Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. |
| 0103 | Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. |
| 0104 | Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere. |
| 0105 | I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. |
| 0106 | Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding og how the world works. |
| 0107 | The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. |
| 0108 | We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. |
| 0109 | The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. |
| 0110 | Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. |
| 0111 | The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" But "That's funny..." |
| 0112 | Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. |
| 0113 | By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. |
| 0114 | Together let us explore the stars, conquer the desserts, eradicate disease, tap the oceans depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. |
| 0115 | Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. |
| 0116 | In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. |
| 0117 | If you can dream it, you can do it. |
| 0118 | Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. |
| 0119 | It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. |
| 0120 | Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. |
| 0121 | It always seems impossible until it's done. |
| 0122 | Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. |
| 0123 | Don't watch the clock; Do what it does. Keep going. |
| 0124 | Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. |
| 0125 | A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. |
| 0126 | Twenty years from now will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than you didn't do than by the ones you did do. |
| 0127 | There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. |
| 0128 | Not all those who wander are lost. |
| 0129 | All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. |
| 0130 | Well-behaved women seldom make history. |
| 0131 | It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. |
| 0132 | Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving. |
| 0133 | It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. |
| 0134 | We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. |
| 0135 | I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying. |
| 0136 | The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. |
| 0137 | It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. |
| 0138 | Travel far enough, you meet yourself. |
| 0139 | None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are. |
| 0140 | Most people are nice when you finally see them. |
| 0141 | All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. |
| 0142 | When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive. |
| 0143 | Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. |
| 0144 | When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. |
| 0145 | It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. |
| 0146 | The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today. |
| 0147 | If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives. |
| 0148 | I don't want to die without any scars. |
| 0149 | Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. |
| 0150 | When you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while. |
| 0151 | The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. |
| 0152 | Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. |
| 0153 | We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. |
| 0154 | I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. |
| 0155 | Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. |
| 0156 | If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels. |
| 0157 | It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. |
| 0158 | If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something. |
| 0159 | If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. |
| 0160 | Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. |
| 0161 | If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. |
| 0162 | Everything is possible. The impossible just take longer. |
| 0163 | Above all, don't lie to yourself. |
| 0164 | Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. |
| 0165 | So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. |
| 0166 | You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. |
| 0167 | Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. |
| 0168 | Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. |
| 0169 | It is never too late to be wise. |
| 0170 | Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. |
| 0171 | One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. |
| 0172 | Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for. |
| 0173 | The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. |
| 0174 | I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. |
| 0175 | Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. |
| 0176 | It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. |
| 0177 | Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. |
| 0178 | We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. |
| 0179 | Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. |
| 0180 | A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. |
| 0181 | The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. |
| 0182 | Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. |
| 0183 | It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. |
| 0184 | The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. |
| 0185 | If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. |
| 0186 | Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. |
| 0187 | I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. |
| 0188 | You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am. |
| 0189 | Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. |
| 0190 | Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night. |
| 0191 | What we've got here is failure to communicate. |
| 0192 | I love the smell of napalm in the morning. |
| 0193 | Love means never having to say you're sorry. |
| 0194 | The stuff that dreams are made of. |
| 0195 | I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! |
| 0196 | Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. |
| 0197 | When the fox hears the rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help. |
| 0198 | I am big! It's the pictures that got small. |
| 0199 | Why don't you come up sometime and see me? |
| 0200 | You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 0201 | Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges! |
| 0202 | Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. |
| 0203 | My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. |
| 0204 | Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. |
| 0205 | You've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" well, do ya, punk? |
| 0206 | One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. |
| 0207 | Greed, for lack of a better world, is good. |
| 0208 | Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. |
| 0209 | As god is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. |
| 0210 | Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into! |
| 0211 | Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you? |
| 0212 | Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! |
| 0213 | Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape. |
| 0214 | Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. |
| 0215 | Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet! |
| 0216 | Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make. |
| 0217 | Oh, no. It wasn't the airrplanes. It was beauty killed the beast. |
| 0218 | Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star! |
| 0219 | Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go! |
| 0220 | Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the gipper. |
| 0221 | Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death! |
| 0222 | My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you. |
| 0223 | The secret to happiness is burying all your true feelings and living a life of bland compromise. |
| 0224 | My days in college were so exciting. This one time, the national guard came and shot some of my friends. |
| 0225 | Kids, your grandfather's ears are not gross and they are certainly not an enchanted forest. |
| 0226 | So, is there any tread left on the tires? Or at this point would it be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway? |
| 0227 | Hello, mother. I come bearing a gift. I'll give you a hint. It's in my diaper and it's not a toaster. |
| 0228 | I've got an idea - An idea so smart that my head would explode if I even began to know what I'm talking about. |
| 0229 | I had such a crush on her. Until I met you Lois. You're my silver medal. |
| 0230 | Joe, I've had new neighbors before, but none of them were half the man you are. Since you're half a man already, that splits them into some kind of fraction I can't even measure. |
| 0231 | Sorry Meg. Daddy loves ya, but daddy also loves star trek, and in all fairness, star trek was here first. |
| 0232 | Hey, Peter, it's seven o'clock and you've still got your pants on. What's the occasion? |
| 0233 | If dogs aren't supposed to eat dental floss out of the trash, why did they make it mint flavored? |
| 0234 | If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. |
| 0235 | My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were starngers once, too. |
| 0236 | Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference. |
| 0237 | We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway. |
| 0238 | That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want. |
| 0239 | We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated. |
| 0240 | Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job. |
| 0241 | If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? |
| 0242 | The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. |
| 0243 | In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. |
| 0244 | Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. |
| 0245 | Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. |
| 0246 | The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. |
| 0247 | Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? |
| 0248 | About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. |
| 0249 | How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. |
| 0250 | I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. |
| 0251 | One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. |
| 0252 | I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them. |
| 0253 | For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; For beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; And for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. |
| 0254 | Beauty is when you can appreaciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful. |
| 0255 | I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. |
| 0256 | We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. |
| 0257 | Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. |
| 0258 | There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. |
| 0259 | I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. |
| 0260 | As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. |
| 0261 | It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. The people will appreciate your leadership. |
| 0262 | To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enchances the freedom of others. |
| 0263 | There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. |
| 0264 | The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. |
| 0265 | When I admire the wonders of a sunset of the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. |
| 0266 | You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; If a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. |
| 0267 | Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster taht swallows it up. |
| 0268 | Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. |
| 0269 | A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. |
| 0270 | Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. |
| 0271 | It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are. |
| 0272 | When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder. |
| 0273 | You have to learn the rules of the games. And then you have to play better than anyone else. |
| 0274 | Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs. |
| 0275 | I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. |
| 0276 | There is progress wheter you are going forward or backward. The thing is to move! |
| 0277 | How do you know you're going to do something, until you do it? |
| 0278 | Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. |
| 0279 | Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. |
| 0280 | Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Dont sell out. |
| 0281 | To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. |
| 0282 | Be thankful for what you have; You'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. |
| 0283 | I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. |
| 0284 | Even though we're a week and a half away from thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like christmas. |
| 0285 | Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. |
| 0286 | I love thanksgiving because it's a holiday tha is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me. |
| 0287 | If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. |
| 0288 | Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside. |
| 0289 | Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are. |
| 0290 | There is no racial or ethnic involvement in thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. |
| 0291 | Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn. |
| 0292 | We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. |
| 0293 | Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. |
| 0294 | Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. |
| 0295 | Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. |
| 0296 | Any fool can criticize, codemn and complain - and most fools do. |
| 0297 | There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. |
| 0298 | We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. |
| 0299 | To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. |
| 0300 | 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. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 0301 | Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler |
| 0302 | All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. |
| 0303 | That which does not kill us makes us stronger. |
| 0304 | Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. |
| 0305 | On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: Either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. |
| 0306 | God gave us the gift of life; It is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. |
| 0307 | Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. |
| 0308 | Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. |
| 0309 | Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. |
| 0310 | No problem can withstand the asssault of sustained thinking. |
| 0311 | It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. |
| 0312 | Perfection is attained by slow degress; It requires the hand of time. |
| 0313 | Paradise was made for tender hearts; Hell, for loveless hearts. |
| 0314 | Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. |
| 0315 | Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. |
| 0316 | Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. |
| 0317 | He who has not christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. |
| 0318 | Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of christmas. |
| 0319 | Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead. |
| 0320 | God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it. |
| 0321 | Happy, happy christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! |
| 0322 | When you look back on all the christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memorires. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. |
| 0323 | One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly. |
| 0324 | Christmas is far and away from my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions. |
| 0325 | At christmas play and make good cheer, for christmas comes but once a year. |
| 0326 | Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. |
| 0327 | Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving. |
| 0328 | The main reason santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. |
| 0329 | Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted. |
| 0330 | I heard the bells on christmas day their old, familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the words repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men! |
| 0331 | Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality if the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. |
| 0332 | I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with christmas. |
| 0333 | Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to christmas. |
| 0334 | On Hanukkah, the first dark night, light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite to dance within that gentle light. |
| 0335 | I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells. |
| 0336 | Let me make a Hanukkah song that kids can listen to, party to and get the spirituality of it, because it is not just about dreidels and having fun. |
| 0337 | A thousand candles can be lit from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself. |
| 0338 | The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. |
| 0339 | Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; And, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. |
| 0340 | The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. |
| 0341 | My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... Because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. |
| 0342 | I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends. |
| 0343 | I wanted to say thanks... And share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone. |
| 0344 | I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them. |
| 0345 | The most important thing in the world is family and love. |
| 0346 | For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. |
| 0347 | Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one. |
| 0348 | Departure of a year welcomes so many new memories. |
| 0349 | New year - A new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours. |
| 0350 | In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invicible summer. |
| 0351 | People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. |
| 0352 | If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. |
| 0353 | He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. |
| 0354 | While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. |
| 0355 | It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. |
| 0356 | Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. |
| 0357 | The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up. |
| 0358 | Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings. |
| 0359 | You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. |
| 0360 | In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. |
| 0361 | The beautiful speing came; And when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. |
| 0362 | I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen. |
| 0363 | It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the spring, who reaps a harvest in the autumn. |
| 0364 | Fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring. |
| 0365 | Deep summer is when laziness find respectability. |
| 0366 | There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendor, speak for itself. |
| 0367 | What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. |
| 0368 | Summer afternoon; To me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the english language. |
| 0369 | The moon is at her full, and riding high, floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky are all asleep tonight. |
| 0370 | There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air. |
| 0371 | Summer ends, and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. |
| 0372 | Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. |
| 0373 | Autumn wins you best by its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. |
| 0374 | Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. |
| 0375 | No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. |
| 0376 | It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon. |
| 0377 | Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
| 0378 | The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. |
| 0379 | You never cchange things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. |
| 0380 | We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. |
| 0381 | Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. |
| 0382 | Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. |
| 0383 | Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone. |
| 0384 | The internet is the petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either. |
| 0385 | Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it. |
| 0386 | It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works. |
| 0387 | Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly. |
| 0388 | We have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. |
| 0389 | Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. |
| 0390 | Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. |
| 0391 | Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; Computers are fast, accurate, and stupid. |
| 0392 | Some of the greatest discoveries consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; Which is why, post factum, they appear so obvious. |
| 0393 | What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. |
| 0394 | Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. |
| 0395 | Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. |
| 0396 | The only way to do great work is to love waht you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. |
| 0397 | If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. |
| 0398 | An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be mmade in a very narrow field. |
| 0399 | We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. |
| 0400 | I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 0401 | Once glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. |
| 0402 | If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. |
| 0403 | All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; It is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of book. |
| 0404 | The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. |
| 0405 | We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are. |
| 0406 | Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it. |
| 0407 | I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. |
| 0408 | The secret of life is honesty anf fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. |
| 0409 | In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. |
| 0410 | If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing yo have on your hands is a non-working cat. |
| 0411 | Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. |
| 0412 | There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "yes" you know he is a crook. |
| 0413 | If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you. |
| 0414 | Coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks. |
| 0415 | Study hard what interests you the most undiscipluned, irreverent and original manner possible. |
| 0416 | We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. |
| 0417 | Bear the pain of detachment and you will find inner peace. |
| 0418 | Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, wheter we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not. |
| 0419 | The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. |
| 0420 | Don't let perferction become procrastination. Do it now. |
| 0421 | We cannot teach people anything. We can only help them discover it within themselves. |
| 0422 | Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. |
| 0423 | Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. |
| 0424 | If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination. |
| 0425 | It is the struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character. |
| 0426 | Sometimes it falls o a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greeatness blossom. |
| 0427 | We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. |
| 0428 | You can not change what you refuse to confront. |
| 0429 | Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. |
| 0430 | Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. |
| 0431 | I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. |
| 0432 | Once a year, go someplace you've never been before. |
| 0433 | Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. |
| 0434 | Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is progress; Working together is success. |
| 0435 | A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. |
| 0436 | You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. |
| 0437 | There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive. |
| 0438 | There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. |
| 0439 | Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people. |
| 0440 | In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. |
| 0441 | The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. |
| 0442 | Never be in a hurry; Do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anythihng whatsoever, even if your whole worlds seems upset. |
| 0443 | A friend is what the heart needs all the time. |
| 0444 | The work of art is to dominate the spectator. The spectator is not to dominate the work of art. |
| 0445 | I learned to give not because I have much, but because I know exactly how it feels to have nothing. |
| 0446 | Over time, the hurt doesn't hurt. Only regret does. |
| 0447 | Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. |
| 0448 | See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security. |
| 0449 | Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. |
| 0450 | At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. |
| 0451 | It is not joy that makes us grateful. It is gratitude that makes us joyful. |
| 0452 | Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world. |
| 0453 | The world has become so serious that humor is a risky profession. |
| 0454 | The best part of my life is who I share it with. |
| 0455 | I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. |
| 0456 | Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow. |
| 0457 | If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. |
| 0458 | Anything I've done that was ultimately worthwhile initially scared me to death. |
| 0459 | It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. |
| 0460 | Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. |
| 0461 | Our knowledge has made us cynical; Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. |
| 0462 | The very essence of romance is uncertainty. |
| 0463 | True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. |
| 0464 | I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything. |
| 0465 | He took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many. |
| 0466 | Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. |
| 0467 | If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; That surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. |
| 0468 | If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. |
| 0469 | The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone. |
| 0470 | When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. |
| 0471 | Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. |
| 0472 | In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace. |
| 0473 | Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. |
| 0474 | Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; It could be love for nature, people, for relationships. |
| 0475 | In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. |
| 0476 | First be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day. |
| 0477 | Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. |
| 0478 | They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything. |
| 0479 | If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. The quit. No use being a damn fool about it. |
| 0480 | No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. |
| 0481 | If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don't drag your feet. |
| 0482 | We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; But by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. |
| 0483 | Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your gial. |
| 0484 | Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. |
| 0485 | The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the sails. |
| 0486 | The less you talk, the more you're listened to. |
| 0487 | Idnorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. |
| 0488 | Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. |
| 0489 | The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. |
| 0490 | Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have. |
| 0491 | It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. |
| 0492 | Think before you speak. Read before you think. |
| 0493 | 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. |
| 0494 | Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. |
| 0495 | It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. |
| 0496 | A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. |
| 0497 | The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. |
| 0498 | When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself. |
| 0499 | Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. |
| 0500 | Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 0501 | Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation. |
| 0502 | The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. |
| 0503 | It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. |
| 0504 | Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. |
| 0505 | The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. |
| 0506 | Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. |
| 0507 | Reverence for life affords me my fudamental principle of morality. |
| 0508 | We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; We borrow it from our children. |
| 0509 | A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. |
| 0510 | The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. |
| 0511 | The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. |
| 0512 | Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. |
| 0513 | The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. |
| 0514 | I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. |
| 0515 | You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself. |
| 0516 | Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. |
| 0517 | Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. |
| 0518 | It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. |
| 0519 | Any fool can know. The point is to understand. |
| 0520 | It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. |
| 0521 | Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people. |
| 0522 | How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. |
| 0523 | When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. |
| 0524 | I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return. |
| 0525 | Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. |
| 0526 | Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. |
| 0527 | A life lived without forgiveness is a prison. |
| 0528 | One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. |
| 0529 | Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. |
| 0530 | Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. |
| 0531 | Hold fast to dreams, for it dreams die life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly. |
| 0532 | When a man starts out to build a world, he starts first with himself. |
| 0533 | Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. |
| 0534 | Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. |
| 0535 | Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life. |
| 0536 | It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. |
| 0537 | A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out. |
| 0538 | Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched. |
| 0539 | There is no greater sorrow than to recall our times of joy in wretchedness. |
| 0540 | Give sorrow words; The grief that does not speak knits up the overwrought heart and bids it break. |
| 0541 | Though sorrow may impede my heart, it is of great love to have known you. |
| 0542 | When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow taht is giving you joy. |
| 0543 | When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. |
| 0544 | The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. |
| 0545 | In nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. |
| 0546 | He that can have patience can have what he will. |
| 0547 | I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. |
| 0548 | You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. |
| 0549 | Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. |
| 0550 | What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? |
| 0551 | Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. |
| 0552 | The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. |
| 0553 | The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too. |
| 0554 | There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. |
| 0555 | To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action. |
| 0556 | Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; History has no place for them. |
| 0557 | As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy. |
| 0558 | French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance. |
| 0559 | A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. |
| 0560 | Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture. |
| 0561 | Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. |
| 0562 | Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. |
| 0563 | Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... All of that is expressed in culture. |
| 0564 | I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. |
| 0565 | Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion. |
| 0566 | Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. |
| 0567 | Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
| 0568 | Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. |
| 0569 | History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. |
| 0570 | Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder. |
| 0571 | History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. |
| 0572 | All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. |
| 0573 | Those believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. |
| 0574 | If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving. |
| 0575 | Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. |
| 0576 | We are all here on earth to help others; What on earth the others are here for I don't know. |
| 0577 | If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. |
| 0578 | I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. |
| 0579 | Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. |
| 0580 | Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; Everything which ceases to struggle, which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. |
| 0581 | I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. |
| 0582 | In the end, always laugh. And do not lose this strange habit of having faith in life. |
| 0583 | The most sophisticated people I know - Inside they are all children. |
| 0584 | When you train your eyes to see the magic and the miracles in little things, you open the door for your whole life to shift. |
| 0585 | A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful. |
| 0586 | Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us. |
| 0587 | Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. |
| 0588 | Don't miss out on something that could be amazing just because it could also be difficult. |
| 0589 | Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending. |
| 0590 | Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form. |
| 0591 | Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. |
| 0592 | Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey. |
| 0593 | Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost. |
| 0594 | The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. |
| 0595 | No matter who tries to teach you lessons about life, you won't understand it until you go through it on your own. |
| 0596 | Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. |
| 0597 | Be in love with your life. Every minute of it. |
| 0598 | I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons. |
| 0599 | Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. |
| 0600 | Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 0601 | There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it. |
| 0602 | In my life, I've lived, I've loved, I've lost, I've missed, I've hurt, I've trusted, I've made mistakes, but most of all, I've learned. |
| 0603 | There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others. |
| 0604 | Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things. |
| 0605 | Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you'll see the world from another perspective. |
| 0606 | Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us, and see the beauty in ordinary things. |
| 0607 | The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. |
| 0608 | When you do something you love, life gets to be a little bit easier and enjoyable. I just want people to follow their dream. |
| 0609 | Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been." |
| 0610 | Your life as a teacher begins the day you realize that you are always a learner. |
| 0611 | Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now. |
| 0612 | Don't be pushed around by fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. |
| 0613 | The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change so that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger but in wisdom, understanding and love. |
| 0614 | One day, you'll be just a memory for some people. Do your best to be a good one. |
| 0615 | Whether pleasure or pain; Every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be. |
| 0616 | Of all from of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. |
| 0617 | I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that serice is joy. |
| 0618 | Love is only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. |
| 0619 | We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love. |
| 0620 | Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self. |
| 0621 | Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now. |
| 0622 | To live for others was to live fully; To live only for yourself, a cold kind of death. |
| 0623 | The ultimate altruism is nothing but the sacrifice of one's self for the benefit of others. Love yourself but never forget to be altruistic to others in need. |
| 0624 | Making the choise to exercise compassion is an expression of love for humanity and life itself. |
| 0625 | Be kind, for everyone you meet is figthing a harder battle. |
| 0626 | The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. |
| 0627 | All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. |
| 0628 | 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 surpriseed how far that gets you. |
| 0629 | Love and compassion are necessitiess, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. |
| 0630 | There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. |
| 0631 | No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever waste. |
| 0632 | When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. |
| 0633 | Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish. |
| 0634 | Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. |
| 0635 | The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet earth. |
| 0636 | If you ever start taking things seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe. |
| 0637 | Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. |
| 0638 | There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality. |
| 0639 | The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. |
| 0640 | The chicken is only an egg's way for making another egg. |
| 0641 | If you were born with the ability to change someone's perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts - the ability to influence. |
| 0642 | All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. |
| 0643 | Here is a thing about equality: Everyone's equal when they're dead. |
| 0644 | If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? |
| 0645 | I am an American; Free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. |
| 0646 | Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; And it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess. |
| 0647 | The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. |
| 0648 | Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal. |
| 0649 | It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps. It is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. |
| 0650 | An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. |
| 0651 | Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. |
| 0652 | Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. |
| 0653 | I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; The evil it does is permanent. |
| 0654 | Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; And often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. |
| 0655 | Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. |
| 0656 | Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is aleep upon your bed. |
| 0657 | Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. |
| 0658 | Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. |
| 0659 | Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. |
| 0660 | Sorrow comes in great waves... But rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain. |
| 0661 | There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. |
| 0662 | Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. |
| 0663 | For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. |
| 0664 | Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. |
| 0665 | It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. |
| 0666 | Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. |
| 0667 | You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. |
| 0668 | Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon at, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. |
| 0669 | Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. |
| 0670 | Let us grateful to the people who make us happy; They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. |
| 0671 | It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. |
| 0672 | I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. |
| 0673 | Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering "It will be happier". |
| 0674 | The world has enough for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed. |
| 0675 | I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. |
| 0676 | Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. |
| 0677 | One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. |
| 0678 | To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. |
| 0679 | If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile. |
| 0680 | They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world; Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. |
| 0681 | It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. |
| 0682 | The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. |
| 0683 | We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. |
| 0684 | You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. |
| 0685 | Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. |
| 0686 | Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. |
| 0687 | I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. |
| 0688 | Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy. |
| 0689 | It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. |
| 0690 | If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. |
| 0691 | It is not our purpose to become each other; It is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: Each the other's opposite and complement. |
| 0692 | What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? |
| 0693 | The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. |
| 0694 | A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. |
| 0695 | There is always a strong case for doing nothing, especially for doing nothing yourself. |
| 0696 | Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is. |
| 0697 | What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? |
| 0698 | Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. |
| 0699 | Only the dead have seen the end of war. |
| 0700 | History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 0701 | The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforseeable and uncontrollable events. |
| 0702 | If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. |
| 0703 | We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward cross the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past. |
| 0704 | Have patience with every one, but especially with yourself. |
| 0705 | Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. |
| 0706 | If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. |
| 0707 | Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. |
| 0708 | How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. |
| 0709 | "What day is it?" "It's today." squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh. |
| 0710 | Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. |
| 0711 | You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down. |
| 0712 | Human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. |
| 0713 | I am so far from being a pessimist; On the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. |
| 0714 | Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day. |
| 0715 | Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful. |
| 0716 | Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. |
| 0717 | Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you. |
| 0718 | A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life. |
| 0719 | It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. |
| 0720 | Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opininons of others. |
| 0721 | Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people's hands. |
| 0722 | Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. |
| 0723 | Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don't forget to lift someone up. |
| 0724 | I was never aware of any other option but to question everthing. |
| 0725 | I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; Unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. |
| 0726 | Cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disapponint us. |
| 0727 | There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. |
| 0728 | Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... Or when I want to create some. |
| 0729 | Twenty-two astronauts wwere born in Ohio. What is it about that state that makes people want to flee the earth? |
| 0730 | Look, I've got nothing against brains. Some of my best friends have them. |
| 0731 | You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through thanksgiving dinner! |
| 0732 | Why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get. |
| 0733 | The pen in mightier that the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun. |
| 0734 | Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of jim beam after a job done any way at all. |
| 0735 | My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot... So we said, "Let's give him a promotion." |
| 0736 | I hold a little fundraiser every day. It's called goint to work. |
| 0737 | After obsessively googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered "obsessively googling symptoms" is a symptom of hypochondria. |
| 0738 | Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It's sort of a blog for people with attention spans. |
| 0739 | New study reveals men like to cuddle. Another study reveals men will say anything to get into bed with a woman. |
| 0740 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once proposed we judge people by the content of their character. He was shot. |
| 0741 | Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. |
| 0742 | The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. |
| 0743 | We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. |
| 0744 | Humanity is like an ocean; If a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. |
| 0745 | 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. |
| 0746 | If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. |
| 0747 | You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning. |
| 0748 | If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't congress the opposite of progress? |
| 0749 | Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch. |
| 0750 | If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: They're hobbies. |
| 0751 | If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, I hope it lands on a philosophy professor. |
| 0752 | Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding. |
| 0753 | Well, like a lot of other dictators, there's one man's opinion I value above all others. Mine. |
| 0754 | That's me off the cuff. Blunt and in your face. No editing. I think it. I say it. You read it. Sometimes I don't even think it, I just say it. |
| 0755 | In whose delusional mind is democracy made better by letting wealthier people control more of it? |
| 0756 | It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own. |
| 0757 | Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. |
| 0758 | Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is a way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. |
| 0759 | True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have. |
| 0760 | There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reeality. |
| 0761 | The person who tries to keep everyone happy often ends up feeling the loneliest. |
| 0762 | The worst kind of loneliness, the one that attacks you while you're among family and friends. |
| 0763 | If any man would consider how little he dwells upon the condition of others, he would learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. |
| 0764 | Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength - carrying two days at once. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. |
| 0765 | If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. |
| 0766 | The loneliest moment is someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. |
| 0767 | It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impeding doom. |
| 0768 | The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. |
| 0769 | Life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of 'parties' with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. |
| 0770 | The loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. |
| 0771 | When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone. |
| 0772 | Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. |
| 0773 | 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. |
| 0774 | There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. |
| 0775 | The sun was shining, the sky a merciless blue. It was only eleven in the morning but I had been awake since three twenty. I was in bed because, as usual, I could think of nowhere else to go. I said that I was feeling low. Low is the depressive's euphemism for despair. |
| 0776 | Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist. |
| 0777 | Why would anyone want us? We don't even want ourselves. Sometimes, we try to drive the people who loves us away. Not because we don't want them with us, but because we cannot bear for them to see what we have become. |
| 0778 | What do you do with a self that is no longer your self? If you don't know who you are, how fo you go on living? If you cannot live as yourself, who and what is it that you are living for? |
| 0779 | The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing; Every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, is sure to be noticed. |
| 0780 | A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. |
| 0781 | Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swin till I sank - but that's not the same thing. |
| 0782 | There is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. |
| 0783 | Depression is a paralysis of hope. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you. |
| 0784 | When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary. |
| 0785 | I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; A man who gave up his seat for me on the bus, a woman who helped me out with a heavy shopping bag. Remembering small acts of kindness puts the world in a finer, sweeter order. |
| 0786 | If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would nnot ba a cheerful face on earth. Wheter I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forbode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better. |
| 0787 | The decision-making of daily life involves not, as in normal affairs, shifting from one annoying situation to another less annoying - or from discomfort to relative comfort, or form boredom to activity - but moving from pain to pain. One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes. |
| 0788 | The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; More pain will follow. |
| 0789 | There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk, and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod and frown and, god help him, even smile. |
| 0790 | My brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: Panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world. |
| 0791 | If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you. |
| 0792 | Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. |
| 0793 | Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. |
| 0794 | Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. |
| 0795 | You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. |
| 0796 | The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. |
| 0797 | You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. |
| 0798 | The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. |
| 0799 | It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. |
| 0800 | We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut theselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 0801 | Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. |
| 0802 | No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. |
| 0803 | We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. |
| 0804 | You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude. |
| 0805 | Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. |
| 0806 | With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. |
| 0807 | Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; Unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. |
| 0808 | Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. |
| 0809 | The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. |
| 0810 | There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; Whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. |
| 0811 | We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. |
| 0812 | The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise. |
| 0813 | Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are. |
| 0814 | The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. |
| 0815 | A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow. |
| 0816 | An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: What we've learned and how we've grown. |
| 0817 | We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. |
| 0818 | If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. |
| 0819 | I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others. |
| 0820 | Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remmeber me and cry. |
| 0821 | I disagree strongly with whatever work this quote is attached to. |
| 0822 | This quote is often falsely attributed to Mark Twain. |
| 0823 | This quote will be the only part of the presentation you remember. |
| 0824 | This quote only looks profound when it's in a script font over a sunset. |
| 0825 | Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie. |
| 0826 | But if they had learned anything tpgether, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. |
| 0827 | Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. |
| 0828 | Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. |
| 0829 | If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path. |
| 0830 | Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. |
| 0831 | If we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities. |
| 0832 | For the love of a rose, the gardener becomes the slave of a thousand thorns. |
| 0833 | Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear. |
| 0834 | A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the differencce. |
| 0835 | A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. |
| 0836 | We judge others by their behaviour. We judge ourselves by our intentions. |
| 0837 | It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. |
| 0838 | Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree along time ago. |
| 0839 | When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. |
| 0840 | No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. |
| 0841 | We don't have to be smarter than the rest, we have to be more disciplined than the rest. |
| 0842 | It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently. |
| 0843 | Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. |
| 0844 | You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. |
| 0845 | You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out. |
| 0846 | Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. |
| 0847 | There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. |
| 0848 | Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society. |
| 0849 | One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. |
| 0850 | If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy. |
| 0851 | Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever. |
| 0852 | Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. |
| 0853 | A man always has two reasons for what he does - a good one, and the real one. |
| 0854 | People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is teriibly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. |
| 0855 | Too many people spend money the haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like. |
| 0856 | Wealth consists not in having great possesions, but in having few wants. |
| 0857 | The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. |
| 0858 | Go as far as you can see; When you get there, you'll be able to see farther. |
| 0859 | A mna's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. |
| 0860 | Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? |
| 0861 | A man who procrastinates in his choosing will ineveitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. |
| 0862 | Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex. |
| 0863 | A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest. |
| 0864 | A bad day is when I lie in the bed and I think of things that might have been. |
| 0865 | The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed. |
| 0866 | The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. |
| 0867 | We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. |
| 0868 | The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. |
| 0869 | To play a wrong note is insignificant; To play without passion is inexcusable. |
| 0870 | Do not merely pratice your art, but force your way into its secrets; I deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity. |
| 0871 | The world is a king, and like a king, desires flaterry in return for favor; But true art is selfish and perverse - it will not submit to the mold of flattery. |
| 0872 | The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. |
| 0873 | A fellow of mediocore talent will remain a mediocrity, wheter he travels or not; But one of superior talent will go to seed if he always remains in the same place. |
| 0874 | I never lie down at night without reflecting that - young as I am - I may not live to see another day. |
| 0875 | Be silent, if you choose; But when it is necessary, speak - and speak in such a way that people will remember it. |
| 0876 | If I could only impress on the soul of every friend of music, how inimitable are Mozart's works, how profound, how musically intelligent, how extraordinarily sensitive! |
| 0877 | Music expressses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. |
| 0878 | It was music, more than anything else, that led the pythagoreans to believe that the universe is a harmonious place governed by numbers. |
| 0879 | Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. |
| 0880 | The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. |
| 0881 | He is but a poor philosopher who holds a view so narrow as to exclude forms not to his personal taste. |
| 0882 | The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. |
| 0883 | What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence. |
| 0884 | All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being. |
| 0885 | We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. |
| 0886 | I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. |
| 0887 | Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. |
| 0888 | Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. |
| 0889 | A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. |
| 0890 | We are the first human generation smart enought to build artificially intelligent machines smarter than us and stupid enough to actually build them. |
| 0891 | There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. |
| 0892 | Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it. |
| 0893 | Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do. |
| 0894 | Browse throught the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future. |
| 0895 | Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. |
| 0896 | Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. |
| 0897 | Tress are poems the earth writes upon the sky, we fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness. |
| 0898 | One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. |
| 0899 | What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. |
| 0900 | Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 0901 | Day by day and night b night we were together, all else has long been forgotten by me. |
| 0902 | I think that novels taht leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. |
| 0903 | Beware of the man who workd hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. |
| 0904 | Laughter and tears are both responses and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. |
| 0905 | A purpose of human life, nomatter who is conteolling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. |
| 0906 | It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. |
| 0907 | I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. |
| 0908 | Adults, just like children, tumble about in the world without knowing where theey come form and where they're going. |
| 0909 | The man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honor, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool. |
| 0910 | Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. |
| 0911 | We are prisoners of our own experience. We simply thought that we would go in with a sledgehammer, knock things down, clean them up and it would be all over. And it's very, very difficult to dispel ignorance if you retain arrogance. |
| 0912 | What doesn't change is human nature. Human nature stays the same. |
| 0913 | I wonder how I looked to you; I wonder, were you as terrified as I was? I wonder, did you hate me as much as I hated you? I wonder how long you'd been fighting your war; I wonder if you had any children; And I wonder had you survived and we met today, would you speak to me? |
| 0914 | I dodn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. |
| 0915 | Be aware of the preciousness of time. |
| 0916 | Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. |
| 0917 | Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart poeple into thinking they can't lose. |
| 0918 | When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. |
| 0919 | You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. |
| 0920 | It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. |
| 0921 | There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand. |
| 0922 | Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no rememdy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. |
| 0923 | When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it. |
| 0924 | It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. |
| 0925 | Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? |
| 0926 | You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes. |
| 0927 | Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. |
| 0928 | The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care. |
| 0929 | Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern - Just the slow erosion of self as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience; A room in hell with only your name on the door. |
| 0930 | The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day. |
| 0931 | Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. |
| 0932 | You're stuck in the boring, lonely, meaningless void without anything to distract you from how boring, lonely and meaningless it is. |
| 0933 | Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do. |
| 0934 | None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. |
| 0935 | Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. |
| 0936 | There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. |
| 0937 | I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke up and walked my old one. |
| 0938 | Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; Your ideal is the propechy of what you shall at last unveil. |
| 0939 | This is the best reason to learn history: Not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - We cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none. |
| 0940 | Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. |
| 0941 | Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way. |
| 0942 | We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. |
| 0943 | To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. |
| 0944 | The heights charm us, but the steps do nnont; With the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. |
| 0945 | Ill humor in the morning brings about a darkened day. |
| 0946 | Depression is not a passicve, lethargic state. Far from it. It might seem that way to people on the outside. But to the person depressed, it is an active state of roiling pain from the tip of your hair to the bottom of your feet. |
| 0947 | Money is not peace of mind. Money's not happiness. Money is, at its essence, that measure of a man's choices. |
| 0948 | There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. |
| 0949 | Life is like topography. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure. |
| 0950 | A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. |
| 0951 | This is where dad burried the little raccoon. I didn't even know he existed a few days ago and now he's gone forever. It's like I found him for no reason. I had to say good-bye as soon as aI said hello. Still... In a sad, awful, terrible way, I'm happy I met him. What a stupid world. |
| 0952 | I must follow inscrutable exhortations of my soul. |
| 0953 | I'm resolving to just wing it and see what happens. |
| 0954 | Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; The mind is like a car battery - It recharges by running. |
| 0955 | We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want form ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. |
| 0956 | If poeple sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. |
| 0957 | Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. |
| 0958 | Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. |
| 0959 | It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls fown, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things. |
| 0960 | I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. |
| 0961 | You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreaciate what it is to stand in the sun. |
| 0962 | I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. |
| 0963 | Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. |
| 0964 | Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; They merely determine where you start. |
| 0965 | Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. |
| 0966 | I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever. |
| 0967 | All of us are experts at practising virtue at a distance. |
| 0968 | Tonight I can write the saddest lines: I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. |
| 0969 | I have learned how that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. |
| 0970 | Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: It is easier to say "My tooth is aching" than to say "My heart is broken." |
| 0971 | To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one. |
| 0972 | Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different? |
| 0973 | Health is the greatest gift, contenment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, a liberated mind is the greatest bliss. |
| 0974 | Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. |
| 0975 | Physics is like sex: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. |
| 0976 | I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that. |
| 0977 | I want to relearn how to laugh, for my laugh in the mirror shows only my teeth like a snake's bare fangs! So show me, son, how to laugh; Show me how I used to laugh and smile once upon a time when I was like you. |
| 0978 | Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. |
| 0979 | Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. |
| 0980 | A new scientific truth does not triumph by convinving its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponent eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. |
| 0981 | That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. |
| 0982 | The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. |
| 0983 | All of men's miseries stem from his inability to sit quietly ina a room alone. |
| 0984 | You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth. |
| 0985 | I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. |
| 0986 | To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. |
| 0987 | Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you can get hit and keep movin' forward. How much you can take and keep movin' forward! |
| 0988 | What you get by achieveing your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. |
| 0989 | He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. |
| 0990 | People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. |
| 0991 | Poverty is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. |
| 0992 | Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. |
| 0993 | The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. |
| 0994 | This is the real secret of life - To be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. |
| 0995 | The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. |
| 0996 | Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; Sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. |
| 0997 | Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive. |
| 0998 | I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. |
| 0999 | We can have a decent society only when individuals, you and I, are not seeking power in any direction, whether through relationship, or through an idea. It is the search or power that is the cause of this disaster, this disintegration of society. |
| 1000 | I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 1001 | 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. |
| 1002 | We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. |
| 1003 | We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. |
| 1004 | Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. |
| 1005 | I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. |
| 1006 | To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. |
| 1007 | All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice. |
| 1008 | The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words. |
| 1009 | Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. |
| 1010 | Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. |
| 1011 | If liberty means anythinga at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. |
| 1012 | Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. |
| 1013 | I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. |
| 1014 | People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. |
| 1015 | Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness. |
| 1016 | It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. |
| 1017 | The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards. |
| 1018 | Make the ordinary come alive for them. the extraordinary will take care of itself. |
| 1019 | The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd. |
| 1020 | I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness. |
| 1021 | It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being. |
| 1022 | Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching. |
| 1023 | We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world - The company of those who have known suffering. |
| 1024 | Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; Not a mean thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny. |
| 1025 | Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray and the browns gone gray and yellow a terrible amber. In the cold streets your warm body. In whatever room your warm body. Among all the people your absence the people who are always not you. I have been easy with trees too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now suddenly this rain. |
| 1026 | When one seeks an object of desire, one suffers. When one gets an object of desire, one fears losing it. When one loses an object of desire, one is greatly troubled. At each and every point, there is no joy. |
| 1027 | Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I'm supposed to do right now. Right now I can't sleep. It's right now that I can't eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he's not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don't know what to do with all this hurt right now. |
| 1028 | You can get away from envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more frtunate than yourself. |
| 1029 | The happy man feels himself a citizen of the universe, enjoying freely the spectacle that it offers and the joys that it affords, untroubled by the thought of death because he feels himself not really separate from those who will come after him. It is in such profound instinctive union with the stream of life that the greatest joy is too be found. |
| 1030 | Perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed. |
| 1031 | The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. |
| 1032 | Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body. |
| 1033 | The danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness. |
| 1034 | A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. |
| 1035 | It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artist live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess. |
| 1036 | Roaming in thought over the universe, I saw the little that is good steadily hastening towards immortality, and the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead. |
| 1037 | Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos. |
| 1038 | It must be rememberes that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; Good and evil are local expedients - Or their lack - And not in any sense cosmic truths or laws. |
| 1039 | We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours? |
| 1040 | It is entirely conceivable that life's splendour forever lies in wait about each obne of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. |
| 1041 | Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown - Even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to. |
| 1042 | Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. |
| 1043 | Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. |
| 1044 | In love, no one can harm anyone else; We are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else from what we feel. |
| 1045 | Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes other feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. |
| 1046 | Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength - Carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. |
| 1047 | If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever. |
| 1048 | Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. |
| 1049 | It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready. |
| 1050 | There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the sun will rise again tomorrow. |
| 1051 | Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. |
| 1052 | To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream - Ay, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come. |
| 1053 | To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. |
| 1054 | Wheter 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and, by opposing, end them? |
| 1055 | 'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of. |
| 1056 | Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may, and summer's lease hath all too short a date. |
| 1057 | The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. |
| 1058 | The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. |
| 1059 | Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night tiil it be morrow. |
| 1060 | See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek! |
| 1061 | Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. |
| 1062 | Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings. |
| 1063 | Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. |
| 1064 | Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. |
| 1065 | Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quickdsands of racial injustice to the racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. |
| 1066 | The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end. |
| 1067 | I love you without knowing how, or when, of from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. |
| 1068 | A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. |
| 1069 | I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. |
| 1070 | The great thing in this world, is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving. |
| 1071 | Imposibble is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. |
| 1072 | Some years ago, a child was asked whether he liked radio or television best. The boy said radio, because the pictures were better. |
| 1073 | What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remmeber and how you remember it. |
| 1074 | Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - Over and over announcing your place in the family of things. |
| 1075 | No one knows my middle name for a thousand miles. My youth gone and death unable to find me. Thinking back to childhood. Astonished that I could find the way here. |
| 1076 | And I could cry for the time I've wasted but that's a waste of time and tears and I know just what I'd change if I went back in time somehow but there's nothing I can do about it now. |
| 1077 | I cannot remember the dinners I have eaten, nor the books I have read, but all have helped to make me. |
| 1078 | Operating ethically and with integrity - It has to be the context for everything you do. |
| 1079 | A person who is happy is not because everything is right in his life, he is happy because of his attitude towards everything in his life is right. |
| 1080 | You might fail a few times, but that's alright. You end up doing something worthwhile which you learn a great deal from. |
| 1081 | It is easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. |
| 1082 | Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. You should try to do things that most people would not do. |
| 1083 | Google's goal is to organoze the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. |
| 1084 | Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimistic about the potential for technology to make the world a better place. |
| 1085 | In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. |
| 1086 | At 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us. At 30, we worry about what it thinks of us. At 40, we're sure it doesn't think of us. |
| 1087 | Once we accept our limits we go beyond them. |
| 1088 | Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. |
| 1089 | Technology's great promise is to give everyone the same power to achieve their goals. As long as there are barriers for some, there's still work to be done. |
| 1090 | The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have. |
| 1091 | Come, my friends, 't is not too late to seek a newer world. Tho' much is taken, much abides; And tho' we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. |
| 1092 | The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. |
| 1093 | Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. |
| 1094 | Goodbye norma jean from the youngman in the 22nd row who sees you as something more than sexual; More than just our Marilyn Monroe. |
| 1095 | From the day we arrive on the planet, and blinking, step into the sun, there's more to see than can ever be seen, more to do than can ever be done. |
| 1096 | You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot; It's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. |
| 1097 | Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. |
| 1098 | Nearly all men can stand adversty, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. |
| 1099 | A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. |
| 1100 | Even if my philosophy does not extend to discovering anything new, it does nevertheless possess the courage to regard as questionable what has long been thought true. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 1101 | A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalog of forbidden books. |
| 1102 | Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own. |
| 1103 | A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that int his world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need booth love and charity. |
| 1104 | Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it. |
| 1105 | You can't live your life for other people. You've go to do what's right for you, even if hurts some people you love. |
| 1106 | Remember there are no mistakes only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. |
| 1107 | But you know happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light. |
| 1108 | Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. |
| 1109 | Don't ever let somebody tell you can't do something, not even me. Alright? Your dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you can't do it. If you want something, go get it. Period. |
| 1110 | If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. |
| 1111 | Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss. |
| 1112 | There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope. |
| 1113 | For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of that language by which we speak it. |
| 1114 | In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. |
| 1115 | A diverse mix of voices leads to better discussions decisions and outcomes for everyone. |
| 1116 | If you look very closely at just one wire in the cage, you cannot see the other wires. It is only when you step back, stop looking at the wires one by one, microscopically, and take a macroscopic view of the whole cage, that you can see why the bird does not go anywhere. |
| 1117 | As I grew older my lectures became simpler; I tried to say fewer things and to say them better, with more humanity. |
| 1118 | When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. |
| 1119 | From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one. |
| 1120 | Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordianted without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great, it becomes impure and sordid. |
| 1121 | If we are generous enough, we can strecth our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province. |
| 1122 | Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; Their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions. |
| 1123 | Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. |
| 1124 | Superstitions are nothing but persistent errors, foolish beliefs, and irrational fears. Superstitions are infinite in number and scope. It would not do to ignore them altogether, only if we should never forget the weakness and fragility of our minds. |
| 1125 | In some remote corner of the universe, poures out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. |
| 1126 | Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. |
| 1127 | In the business world, everyone paid in two coins; Cash and eperience. Take the experience first; The cash will come later. |
| 1128 | One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - Whether he knows it or not. |
| 1129 | Nothing is a waste of time if you use the expereince wisely. |
| 1130 | What he said of heads may also be said of experience - There is a large stock on hand; But somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us except our own. |
| 1131 | Sciencce fiction encourages us to explore... All the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. |
| 1132 | As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful. |
| 1133 | Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; Yet some of them are of so fudamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way. |
| 1134 | Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation becassue that nation will remain the first which carries the furtest the works of thought and intelligence. |
| 1135 | It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; They are found because it was possible to find them. |
| 1136 | Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use these languages, or we remain mute. |
| 1137 | The great intellectual division of mankind is not along geographical or racial lines, but between those who understand and practice the experimental method and those who do not understand and do not practice it. |
| 1138 | Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. |
| 1139 | No man is an island, entire of itslef. Each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own or of thine friend's were. Each man's death dimishes me, for I am involved in makind. Therefore, send not to know for whom the bell tools, it tolls for thee. |
| 1140 | When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. |
| 1141 | Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. |
| 1142 | Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence; To alienate humans from their own decidion making is to change them into objects. |
| 1143 | No one can be auhentically human while he prevents others from being so. |
| 1144 | One cannot expect positive results froma an educational or politcal action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a aprogram constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding. |
| 1145 | Liberation is a praxis: The action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. |
| 1146 | When people are in the thrall of poisonous ideology, it's really not all about deliberate ill will or lack of intelligence. It's about the unbelievable destructiveness and staying power of bad ideas. And the more of us who are willing to reach out, to disagree without demonizing, the more likely we are to change hearts and minds, to heal divisions, and to create a better society for all of us in the process. |
| 1147 | Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. |
| 1148 | There are no shortcuts to the place you're going. |
| 1149 | Remember: Explicit disagreement is better than implicit misunderstanding. Explicit disagreement leads to clarity, and is the first step in each of you getting your differing needs met. |
| 1150 | Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. |
| 1151 | He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. |
| 1152 | Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. |
| 1153 | How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. |
| 1154 | The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. |
| 1155 | Never argue with an idiot because he'll bring you down to his level & beat you with experience. |
| 1156 | Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. |
| 1157 | Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves. |
| 1158 | Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. |
| 1159 | Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. |
| 1160 | How could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back - If we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day? |
| 1161 | Lonelinesss does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. |
| 1162 | Come, wayward souls; And wander through the darkness; There is a light, for the lost and the meek. |
| 1163 | Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of my own actions. |
| 1164 | Nor love, nor honor, wealth nor pow'r, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies. |
| 1165 | Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. |
| 1166 | Today you can give yourself permission to be outrageously kind, irrationally warm, improbably generous. I promise it will be a blast. |
| 1167 | Things done well, and with a care, exempt themselves from fear; |
| 1168 | Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. |
| 1169 | Wash your hands regularly for 20 seconds with soap and water; Kepp your distance from others; Stay at home as much as possible. |
| 1170 | I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. |
| 1171 | No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise. |
| 1172 | We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. |
| 1173 | The west won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; Non-westerners never do. |
| 1174 | Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. |
| 1175 | We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... And through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear. |
| 1176 | Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. |
| 1177 | So often in life, things that you regards as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune. |
| 1178 | Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade. |
| 1179 | When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. |
| 1180 | I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others. |
| 1181 | A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage. |
| 1182 | If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself. |
| 1183 | Reading is the key that open doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true. |
| 1184 | Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception. |
| 1185 | I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. |
| 1186 | I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do. |
| 1187 | If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything. |
| 1188 | If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. |
| 1189 | Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, neccessary trouble. |
| 1190 | So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious, that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importancce by the concious intellect. |
| 1191 | Some people talk about other people's failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes. |
| 1192 | Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." |
| 1193 | Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. if they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. |
| 1194 | Democracy cannot succed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. |
| 1195 | Every election is determined by the people who show up. |
| 1196 | I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me - Shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking. |
| 1197 | Modern science is one of the most stupendous and unexpected triumphs of the human mind. |
| 1198 | Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - Or else it is not art. |
| 1199 | I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... Things I had no words for. |
| 1200 | I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices. |
| Level | Quotes |
| 1201 | Time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of a toast and tea. |
| 1202 | Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; Whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; Whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel. |
| 1203 | Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. |
| 1204 | If you want to get good at something or do soemthing, you just do it, and you figure it out along the way. |
| 1205 | Our character is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. |
| 1206 | More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind. |
| 1207 | We must believe in free will - We have no choice. |
| 1208 | I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about is still look both ways before they cross the street. |
| 1209 | It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospoered. |
| 1210 | If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. |
| 1211 | A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because that is how life is - Full of surprises. |
| 1212 | Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; Remade all the time, made new. |
| 1213 | It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end. |
| 1214 | People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will met the one person that will betray them the most. |
| 1215 | Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you. |
| 1216 | I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. |
| 1217 | Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy towards some and braoder skepticism toward others. |
| 1218 | Millions of people motivated simply by human compassion laid down the burdens of division. Around the country and the worldd you set aside race, class, age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity. |
| 1219 | When historians pick up their pens to write the story of the 21st century, let them say that it was your generation who laid down the heavy burden of hate at last and that peace finally triumphed over violence, aggression and war. |
| 1220 | The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answer. |
| 1221 | Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. |
| 1222 | We must accept one central truth and responsibility as participants in a democracy; Freedom is not a state; It is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society. |
| 1223 | The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. |
| 1224 | If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. |
| 1225 | The cause of exploration and discovery is not an option we choose; It is a desire written in the human heart. We are that part of creation which seeks to understand all creation. We find the best among us, send them forth into unmapped darkness, and pray they will return. They go in peace for all mankind, and all mankind is in their debt. |
| 1226 | The challenge of space takes us very close to the heart of things. It brings us face to face with the mysteries of creation, amtter, energy, and life. |
| 1227 | Sometimes life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one. |
| 1228 | Falsehood can hold out againsts much in this world, but not againsts art. And no sooner will falsehood be dispersed than the nakedness of violence will be revealed in all its ugliness - And violence, decreipt, will fall. |
| 1229 | In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage. |
| 1230 | It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pititful, so contemptible; And he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; He tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depreaves all its good dispositions. |
| 1231 | We were flying supersonic. And it was as smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade. |
| 1232 | Whatever my aptitudes or talents, becoming a proficient pilot was hard work - Really a lifetime's learning experience. |
| 1233 | The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on earth. |
| 1234 | My battery is low and it's getting dark. |
| 1235 | I have yet to see any problem, however complicated which, when looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. |
| 1236 | I wouldn't give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexitiy; I would give my right arm for the simplicity on the far side of complexity. |
| 1237 | It is easier to bamboozle people than it is to unbamboozle them. |
| 1238 | One of the saddest lessons of history is this; If we;ve been bamboozled long anough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer inerested in finding out the truth. |
| 1239 | Our homes are our prisons; One finds liberty in their decoration. |
| 1240 | We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. |
| 1241 | The united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood. |
| 1242 | Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired. |
| 1243 | If you think artists are useless, try to spend your quarantine without music, books, poems, movies and paintings. |
| 1244 | If you raise your children, you can spoil your grandchildren. But if you spoil your children, you'll have to raise you grandchildren. |
| 1245 | I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all olone. It's not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone. |
| 1246 | I am somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of eequal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. |
| 1247 | Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. |
| 1248 | Like all the best things in life, the more you give, the more you have. That's true of trust and friendship, and it's true of peace. |
| 1249 | When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; Now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality. |
| 1250 | My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents. |
| 1251 | I have the words already. What I am seeking is the oerfect order of words in the sentence. |
| 1252 | If only I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. |
| 1253 | Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look. |
| 1254 | Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the changes of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. |
| 1255 | A leraning experience is one of those thing that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't go that." |
| 1256 | Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. |
| 1257 | Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't develop all those filters which prevent us from seeing thinga that we don't expect to see. |
| 1258 | If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we hace a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. |
| 1259 | I may not be tottaly perfect, but parts of me are excellent. |
| 1260 | Laughter is the closest distance between two people. |
| 1261 | The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. |
| 1262 | My love of fine art increased: The more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. |
| 1263 | If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. |
| 1264 | In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. |
| 1265 | If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. |
| 1266 | I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. |
| 1267 | If you go on with this nnuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. |
| 1268 | It's bad luck to be superstitious. |
| 1269 | Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. |
| 1270 | Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles. |
| 1271 | I'm afraid I can't let you do that Dave. |
| 1272 | Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It's the moments that take your breath away. |
| 1273 | To find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses, you must first believe there will be some advantage in finding it. |
| 1274 | Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he? |
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