Life

“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”
- Albert Camus

“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.”
- Henry Ford

“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.”
- Abraham J Heschel

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
- Thomas Edison

“Talk Sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
- Euripides

“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
- Tallulah Bankhead

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939

“This above all: To thine own self be true.”
- Shakespeare

“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.”
- Soren Kierkegaard

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
- Emily Dickinson

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
- Andy Warhol

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
- Mark Twain

“The way to begin living the ideal life is to begin.”
- Elbert Hubbard

“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”
- Aesop

“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.”
- Charles Dickens

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
- John Kenneth Galbraith

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
- Indira Gandhi

“Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

“You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.”
- Anonymous

“Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care.”
- William Safire

“There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.”
- Albert Guinon

“Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.”
- Demosthenes

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

“It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
- George Eliot

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”
- Aristotle

“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read, and nobody wants to read.”
- Mark Twain

“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.”
- William Shakespeare