These are just a few of the quotes I find interesting
- Not only is the Universe stranger than we think,
it is stranger than we can think.
- Werner Heisenberg
- Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
- T.S. Eliot
- Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you
is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
- We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that
divine idea which each of us represents.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein, II
- Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
- William Blake
- People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
- A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.
- Patton
- It can't rain all the time.
- The Crow
- Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert Heinlein
- Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz
- Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle
- The world in all doth but two nations bear,--
The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
- Andrew Marvell
- At the time you don't think much of it, you know,
we just
don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives.
Back then I thought, "There'll be other days...",
I didn't realize that was the only day.
- Field of Dreams
- Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Sir Arthur Pinero
- It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
- Every man dies, not every man really lives.
- Braveheart
- What is to give light must endure burning.
- Viktor Frankl
- How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?
- E.T. the Extraterrestrial
- Education is a method whereby one
acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurance Peter
- Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.
- The Bible
- If people are good only because they fear punishment,
and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein
- Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today.
-James Dean
- In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
It goes on.
-Robert Frost
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
- So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
is all the sad world needs.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
- He who knows others is wise,
He who knows himself is enlightened.
-Tao Te Ching
- Art washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life.
-Pablo Picasso
- That love is all there is
is all we know of love.
-Emily Dickinson
- We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
-Haida Indian Saying
- We have just religion enough to make us hate,
but not enough to make us love one another.
-Jonathan Swift
- Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.
-Soren Kierkegaard
- We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-Agnes Repplier
- The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
-Lily Tomlin
- The more I traveled the more I realized that
fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
-Shirley MacLaine
- Looking back, I have this to regret,
that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
-David Grayson
- Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
-George Bernard Shaw
- Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
-Unknown
- When you're with someone you don't love, a lifetime is forever.
-Dana
- A bell’s not a bell ‘til you ring it
A song’s not a song ‘til you sing it
Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay
Love isn’t love ‘til you give it away!
-Oscar Hammerstein
- Do not belong so wholly to others
that you do not belong to yourself.
-Baltasar Gracian
- Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
-Phyllis McGinley
- Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
-Anna Cummins
- All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
-Buddha
- Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own.
You may both be wrong.
-Unknown
- Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
-Emily Dickinson
- When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That’s my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln
- If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you;
but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
- Sanjay
- I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.
-Pierre de Beaumarchais
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-Voltaire
- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-John F. Kennedy
- In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take.
-Adlai Stevenson
- Hmm. No. Either do, or do not. There is no try.
-Yoda, Star Wars
- What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
-Dr. Robert Schuller
- When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astoished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
-Mark Twain
- A fanatic is one that cannot change his mind and will not change the subject.
-Winston Churchill
- The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
-Winston Churchill
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