Quotations

Below are some of my favorite quotations.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan

Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as time.
Emerson

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
Johnathan Swift

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
William Penn

We come into this world alone, and alone we leave it. And between the entrance and the exit, we spend our time looking for companionship.
E.M. Dooling

He who has to walk with fools has a long journey of sorrow... but the joy of being with the wise is like  the joy of meeting a beloved kinsman.
Dhammapada

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.
Elizabeth Charles

Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'.
Robert Kennedy

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Do not fear mistakes - there are none.
Miles Davis

Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil Gibran

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to the understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Unknown

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr

Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

Count your age with friends but not with years.
Unknown

Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.
Unknown

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend.
Unknown

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck

Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
Sidney Goff

Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
Brendan Hills

Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman

The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
Juliet to Romeo

I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.
The Bible, The Song of Solomon

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
Antoine Rivarol

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
James Joyce

To be or not to be is not the question. To be is not to be.
Alan Watts

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.
Albert Einstein

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper that we may record our emptiness.
Kahlil Gibran

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?
Judith Guest

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle

Color is my day long obsession, joy, and torment.
Claude Monet

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Euripides

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
Albert Einstein

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things
Vincent VanGogh

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Hold fast to dreams , for if dreams die, life is like a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Huges

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Ralph Vaull Starrlife

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer

We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
William Rotsler

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.
Lucy Larcom

I'm so glad you are here. It helps me to realize how beautiful my world is.
Rainer Maria Rilke

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Hold a friend's hand through times of trial, let her find love through a hug and a smile; But also know when it is time to let go -- For each and every one of us must learn to grow.
Sharon A. Heilbrunn

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Unknown

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
Norman Maclean

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Hans Margolius

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Hera

The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas Moore

Pressure makes diamonds.
Unknown

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Pablo Picasso

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

I am a part of all that I have met.
John Milton

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
The Land Before Time

No, this trick won't work..How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important biological phenomenon as first love ?
Albert Einstein