QUOTES
These are just some of my favorite quotes. Hope that you will like them too! Enjoy:)
1. "Evil is sooner believed than good."
2. "If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
3. "You never know what happiness a simple act of kindness will bring about."
4. "When it comes down to it, we all just want to be loved."
5. "Carpe Diem!" (Seize the day!)
6. "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
7. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
8. "The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole."
9. "If you could choose one characteristic to get you through life, choose a sense of humor."
10. "Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear- not absence of fear."
11. "What has been, may be."
12. "All good things must come to an end."
13. "Fear of death is worse than death itself."
14. "What can't be cured, must be endured."
15. "Never trouble trouble til trouble troubles you."
16. "If who I am is what I have and what I have is lost, then who am I?"
17. "One kind word can warm three winter months."
18. "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be explored."
19. "We are all children when we dream."
20. "Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare."
21. "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."
22. "Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
23. "Act quickly; think slowly."
24. "Every cloud has a silver lining."
25. "Earth laughs in flowers."
26. "Laughter is the shortest distance between two persons."
27. "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
28. "Keep a diary and one day it will keep you."
29. "Talking is easy, acting is hard."
30. "Human potential stops at a point somewhere beyond infinity."
31. "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail."
32. "We may give without loving, but we can not love without giving."
33. "The harder you work, the luckier you get."
34. "The mere absence of war is not peace."
35. "When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets."
36. "As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life."
37. "The biggest room in the world is room for improvement."
38. "The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children."
39. "Children have more need of models than of critics."
40. "I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
41. "Too many modern families have garages that are full and lives that are emtpy."
42. "There is enough for the needy, but not for the greedy."
43. "The first day of spring is one thing; the first spring day is another."
44. "Living alone is a life without mirrors."
45. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising each time we fall."
46. "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
47. "There are only two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know. 2. See number #1."
48. "Do not be too timid or squemish about your actions. All life is an experiment!"
49. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
50. "Wisest is she who knows she does not know."
51. "Hide not your talents; they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"
52. "Nothing is more certain than death."
53. "There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
54. "Reading books is like exploring new worlds."
55. "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
56. "One who does not look ahead, remains behind."
57. "He who has courage and faith shall never perish in misery."
58. "Common sense is not so common."
59. "Things turn out the best for those who make the best of the way things turn out."
60. "Anybody who is somebody to anybody is somebody."
61. "Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery."
62. "Learn from the mistakes of others- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself."
63. "Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
64. "I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and that our mission is to never let it."
65. "Remember that the road to healing winds through pain, anguish, sickness and many tears."
66. "Experience is a hard teacher because it gives the test first, and the lesson after."
67. "When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."
68. "Every human being on this Earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it."
69. "Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are those....it might have been."
70. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
71. "All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."
72. "Everthing dies."
73. "Nothing is interesting if you're not interested."
74. "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
75. "Everything changes."
76. "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow."
77. "Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?," ask "Am I doing the right things?"
78. "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
79. "Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well."
80. "Every exit is an entrance somewhere."
81. "One of the major causes of unhappiness is desire- for a person, material things, money, or status."
82. "The richest person is the one who is content with what they have."
83. "Only that day dawns to which we are awake."
84. "There is nothing to do but be."
85. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift, that is why we call it the present."
86. "Live and let live."
87. "What you resist, persists."
88. "Choice, not chance, determines destiny."
89. "Knowledge is knowing a fact. Wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact."
90. "A wise man, even when he is silent, says more than a fool when he talks."
91. "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge."
92. "Wise men always know more than they tell, but fools tell more than they know."
93. "Wisdom is learned more from failure than from success."
94. "Money can build a house, but it takes love to make it a home."
95. "The highest values are priceless."
96. "Lost time is never found."
97. "One realizes the importance of time only when there is little left of it."
98. "Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
99. "Do you think, or do you just think you think?"
100."No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
101. "No man knows what he can do until he tries."
102. "Well done is better than well said."
103. "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think."
104. "Change your thoughts and you change your world."
105. "There is no right way to do the wrong thing."
106. "Once begun is half done."
107. "Nothing will improve a persons hearing better than praise."
108. "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
109. "Don't give other people a piece of your mind unless you can afford it."
110. "A person who is nice to you, but rude to a waiter, is not a nice person."
111. "To make a long story short, don't tell it."
112. "If this saying did not exist, somebody would have invented it."
113. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
114. "It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."
115. "With so many spectacular colors in the world,
it's a shame to make everything black and white."
116. "If you don't believe in yourself, how do you expect anyone else to?"
117. "No matter where we go or who we become, never forget those who helped us get there."
118. "Accept no one's definition of YOUR life. Define YOURSELF!"
119. "Friendship breathes life into us and grants us strength to live on til tomorrow."
120. "The first step to better times is to imagine them."
121. "No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides."
122. "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
123. "Too many miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold."
124. "Remember, you can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."
125. "Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you can go."
126. "Too many people try to fake their way through life; that's why the real ones shine through so brightly."
127. "Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
128. "We ignore those who adore us but we adore those who ignore us."
129. "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
130. "Use your eyes as if tommorrow you would be stricken blind."
131. "Every silver lining's got a touch of gray."
132. "Similarity goes unnoticed. Only difference shocks."
133. "Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
134. "Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty."
135. "Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart"
136. "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
137. "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
138. "The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame."
139. "Beauty can pierce one like a pain."
140. "Better by far that I should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad."
141. "A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
142. "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
143. "Life is eternal and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon and a horizon is nothing, save the limit of our sight."
144. "Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it."
145. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
146. "Movies don't create psychos. Movies just make psychos more creative."
147. "Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing."
148. "When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot in the universe- So what the hell, leap."
149. "In each of us, two natures are at war - the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose - what we want most to be we are."
150. "If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything."
151. "He who laughs, lasts."
152. "Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is absurd."
153. "Be the change you want to see in the world."
154. "I can live for two months on a good compliment."
155. "Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so."
156. "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within."
157. "It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives."
158. "Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
159. "Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups."
160. "Guess if you can, choose if you dare"
161. "Kisses are like tears. The only ones that are real are the ones you can't hold back"
162. "Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass."
163. "The harder they come, the harder they fall."
164. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
165. "Your heart understands what your head cannot yet conceive; trust your heart."
166. "False hope is nicer than no hope at all."
167. "If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid."
168. "If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice".
169. "Anger without power is folly."
170. "A friend is a gift you give yourself."
171. "He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good."
172. "Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass."
173. "More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown."
174. "Who knows most speaks least."
175. "Friends are gods ways of apologizing for our families"
176. "I can resist anything but temptation."
177. "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
178. "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
179. "Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks; and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks."
180. "Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
181. "If you don't have the best of everything, make the best of everything that you have."
182. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
183. "No one can go back and make a brand new start, my friend, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end."
184. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt."
185. "Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf."
186. "Beware the wrath of a quiet man."
187. "Don't lie and you won't have to remember any."
188. "When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear."
189. "He that has no children brings them up well."
190. "Everything should be as simple as possible- but not simpler."
191. "I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."
192. "It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
193. "The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know."
194. "To generalize is to be an idiot."
195. "When the doors of perception are cleansed, everything appears as it truly is- infinite."
196. "Will the impossible, accept the inevitable"
197. "That which shatters the silence we call noise.
That which enhances the silence we call music."
198. "Strange coincidences may be but the normal workings of the universe."
199. "A teacher teaches the student to teach himself."
200. "The highest form of control is knowing when to let go."
201. "The simplest melodies are the hardest to play"
202. "Seeing in the dark isn't done with ones eyes"
203. "The greatest gift that one can give to another is to reveal onself"
204. "The secret to concentration is the acceptance of endless distractions"
205. "My responsiblility for the world begins and ends with myself"
206. "Forget to remember; remember to forget"
207. "We speak of the individual and the Universe. But within the individual there is a universe as well."
208. "Synchronicity is the primary law of the Universe."
209. "An element of uncertainty is inherent in any act of observation"
210. "We must learn when to indulge and when to deny hunger"
211. "The shadow in each of us is not to be feared, but to be better known"
212. "All multiplicities of spaces and times exist in one Space and one Time."
213. "Understanding begins, but does not end, with the act of perception"
214. "There is always something smaller, and always something bigger"
215. "Sometimes we must learn to ask for what we need"
216. "The most amazing place you will ever be in your life is where you are right now."
217. "In the realms of love, the power of choice is fully revealed."
218. "An artist is an instrument through which the universe reveals itself."
219. "If you want to know what to do next, look around you. The clues are there."
220. "The sun brings both life and death."
221. "The movement of music happens not in the notes themselves, but between the notes, in the silences."
222. "In his arrogance, man thinks he is capable of destroying nature."
223. "Everything is related."
224. "Acceptance of what happens is essential to the discovery of truth."
225. "We are at once the same- and worlds apart."
226. "Caution should not be mistaken for cowardice."
227. "All life is sacred"
228. "The most difficult way is not always the best"
229. "We create nothing, express nothing; we only discover or uncover what is already there."
230. "The most interesting person you may ever meet in your life may be yourself"
231. "Following our dreams can lead us to freedom or imprisonment."
232. "Falling in love to easily and too often may in fact be an expression of disaffection with oneself."
233. "An aesthetic person sees the beauty in the ordinary"
234. "Awakening others carries tremendous responsiblity"
235. "The hand is the map-the heart is the guide"
236. "Many tragedies are enacted in the name of love"
237. "Each of us confronts our own truth on our own path"
238. "Beauty is not always something you must search for"
239. "Astrology is the psychology of the universe"
240. "To be a skillful detective, one must have a good criminal mind"
241. "Everything has to be paid for sooner or later-even when it is given away for free"
242. "Loosing with grace can be an important win"
243. "Learning to quiet the mind is the first step to enlightenment"
244. "Getting out of the way and letting things happen is sometimes the very best thing we can do"
245. "Relinquishing power may at certain times be the most powerful thing one can do"
246. "See first what is directly before you"
247. "In some obscure corners of the world, the Ideal and the Real have consummated a secret marriage"
248. "Verbal cuts do not heal as quickly as those made with a knife"
249. "True greatness may be found in the humblest places"
250. "Hope is a dangerous thing to lose"
251. "There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth"
252. "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure"
253. "Money has never yet made anyone rich"
254. "To know what we do not know is the beginning of wisdom"
255. "Long is not forever"
256. "You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar"
257. "Every moment is both a beginning and an ending"
258. "Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know"
259. "The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all"
260. "He who does not understand anothers silences will not understand his words either"
261. "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently"
262. "The cautious seldom err"
263. "The good person loves people and uses things, while the bad person loves things and uses people"
264. "The future is endowed with essential unpredictability and this is the only prediction we can make"
265. "Heaven means being one with God"
266. "Nothing is worth more than this day"
267. "The man who was born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it"
268. "I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act"
269. "Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements, but in virtuous activities"
270. "Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on the outward circumstances"
271. "A fair-weather friend is always there when they need you"
272. "A person is persuaded more by the depth of your convictions than by the breadth of your knowledge"
273. "People forget how quickly you completed a job, but they will remember how well you did it"
274. "Much of what we see depends on what we are looking for"
275. "It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude"
276. "Your past is important, but it is not important enough to control your future"
277. "He climbs highest who helps another up"
278. "To do something, however small, to make others happier and better is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being"
279. "In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends"
280. "Strive to be a friend, and you will find them everywhere"
281. "He who would become the greatest among you must become the servant of all"
282. "To change your friends, family and lifestyle, you must first change yourself"
283. "Our future would be assured if we did as much today as we expect to do tomorrow"
284. "Humble people don't think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less"
285. "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice"
286. "Great things are accomplished with slow movement. Nothing is accomplished by standing still"
287. "Our purpose in life should be to see one another through, not through one another"
288. "Remember, some of us learn from other people's mistakes, and the rest of us have to be the other people"
289. "The things that count most in life are the things that can't be counted"
290. "Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions"
291. "With great power comes great responsibility"
292. "He is wise who gives what he cannot keep in order to gain what he cannot lose"
293. "A man who does not think for himself does not think at all"
294. "Better to be hated for who you are, than loved for who you are not"