Some of my favorite quotes

There are wise and beautiful words uncounted, I cannot begin to list them all. These are but a few I've managed to capture as I came across them.

 

The meaning of life? Life has no meaning, we bring meaning to it

 

When love is not madness, it is not love

 

Don't knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run, he hates that

 

The giving of love is the truest reward

 

What is to give light must endure burning

 

Being prepared to receive what thought is not prepared to think is what desreves the name of thinking

 

Planning is everything, the plan is nothing

 

Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans

 

Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition

 

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys

 

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not

 

If you judge people, you have no time to love them

 

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart

 

Circles though small are yet complete

 

Who, being loved, is poor?

 

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

 

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon

 

To be without some of the things you want is an indespensible part of happiness

 

The center of your heart: the hardest place to get to but the easiest place to be

 

Dwell not upon your weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

 

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

 

The heart has reasons that reason does not know

 

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

 

First deserve, then desire.

 

Pleasure is very seldom found where sought

 

Avoid evil, and it will avoid thee.

 

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

 

Words must be weighed, not counted

 

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known

 

Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement

 

Doubt is not a very pleasant status, but certainty is a ridiculous one

 

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost

 

You cnn't hold a man down without staying down with him

 

There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience

 

Absence diminishes weak passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire

 

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

 

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room

 

They are never alone that are accompanied by noble thoughts

 

A friend is a present you give yourself

 

If you want something done, ask a busy person

 

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question

 

Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards

 

The soul is born old but grows young, that is the comedy of life. The body is born young but grows old, that is life's tragedy

 

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once

 

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards

 

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage

 

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up

 

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him

 

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty

 

If men believe, as I do, that this present earth is the only heaven, they will strive all the more to make heaven of it

 

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering

 

He only profits from praise who values criticism

 

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul

 

The person who pursues revenge should dig two graves

 

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better

 

The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on earth

 

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society

 

It doesn't hurt to be optimistic, you can always cry later

 

To teach is to learn twice

 

The only death you die is the death you die everyday by not living. Dream big and dare to fail

 

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than reality

 

Reality is an oppressive word

 

I am erecting a barrier of simplicity between myself and the world

 

Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything they do not make more clear

 

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones

 

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people

 

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

 

We have two ears but only one mouth, so that we may listen more and talk less

 

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be

 

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything

 

He who gives thanks has no time to complain

 

Nothing is worth more than this day

 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes

 

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coin to a thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness

 

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

 

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well

 

It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust

 

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

 

In this world you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough

 

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore

 

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

 

Never be haughty to the humble. Never be humble to the haughty.

 

Men take more pains to mask than mend

 

All the faults of humanity are more pardonable than the means employed to conceal them

 

Yes, I am a dreamer.For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world

 

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious

 

After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation

 

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone

 

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have

 

Remember, stepping out your front door is dangerous business

 

We do not believe in rheumatism or true love until after the first attack

 

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong

 

The surest cure for vanity is lonliness

 

Only a mediocre person is always at his best

 

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own

 

The best armor is to keep out of range.

 

A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood.

 

In Greece , poverty is always a guest

 

Here's what the truth is: We are all ddicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on

 

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace

 

I believe in comulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more war.

 

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

 

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

 

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.  Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine  times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in  pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

 

 

....and whether he thinks Bush is evil or just stupid. ("I think he is smart but willfully ignorant, and he uses his ignorance for strategic advantage, which is appalling. He substitutes belief for thought. It protects you from self-doubt.")

 

"When I talk to wounded veterans, I usually don't ask them what they think the mission was. I don't presume, because their lives are wrenching enough without the suggestion that their sacrifices may have been without meaning. Moreover, if that is so, it will become apparent to them soon enough . . . The young men and women who we've repeatedly put in harm's way are paying the price for this misbegotten mission, and as long as it continues, I, like so many of our countrymen, must walk this strange line between hating the war but honoring the warrior. I don't know how long we can keep it up. . ."

-Garry Trudeau

 

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

 

"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by 
experience.  And then there is California ."

"Serenity is for the gods- not becoming in a mortal.  Better to be 
partisan and passionate on this earth; be plenty objective enough 
when dead."

 

Arise, sluggard, there is time enough for sleep in the grave.

 

Every animal knows more than you do.