Thursday, May 14, 2009

Quotes - 2





People living deeply have no fear of death - Anais Nin

Laughter is a tranquillizer with no side effects - Arnold Glasgow

I will work my own way, according to the light that is in me - Lydia Maria Child

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them - P.D. Ouspensky

The best mind-altering drug is truth - Lily Tomlin

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 - Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how - Friedrich Nietzsche

He who hunts monsters should see to, that in the process, he does not become a monster himself - Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise: seek what they sought - Basho

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility - Longfellow

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records - William A. Ward

Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth - Thich Nhat Hanh

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity." - Gilda Radner

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein - Unknown

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be - Abraham Lincoln

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth - Niels Bohr

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation - Pearl S. Buck

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today - Tryon Edwards

Do what you can, with what you have, with where you are - Theodore Roosevelt

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved - Barbara Johnson

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory - W. Edwards Deming

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak - Epictetus

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory - Betty Smith

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde

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