Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
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.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Would you like to play a game ?
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
God doesn't make junk.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Love is not selfish.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
I saw and loved.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
My precious.
Success leaves clues.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Never Quit.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Love is the only gold.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.