In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
slip:4a1402.
Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Words
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
~ Tom Stoppard
slip:4a1401.
Change
The most reliable way to change your entire life is by not changing your entire life… Improve the whole by mastering one thing.
~ James Clear
slip:4a1400.
Sea
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
slip:4a1399.
Nature
I can do nothing without nature. I do not know how to make things up.
~ Manet
slip:4a1398.
Work
No country ever was built by people sleeping in. Austria was not built by people sleeping in. America was not built by people sleeping in. People struggled, people suffered, people worked their asses off to build this country.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
slip:4a1397.
Priority
The root of the word ‘priority’ is singular… It was a singular word—the one thing. In modern times, we’ve turned it into ‘priorities,’ but then all of a sudden it turns into eight, ten, 15 things and that defeats the purpose.
~ Shaka Smart
slip:4a1396.
Reading
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
~ William Godwin
slip:4a1395.
Enlightened
If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.
~ Ram Dass
slip:4a1394.
Path
I always tell young people to find a path in life that you can embrace and enjoy rather than something that you’re expected to do. That’s what makes life interesting. And once you achieve a certain level of success, no matter where you are, what you’re doing, don’t be content with that level. Push yourself to another level. People that are successful are always pushing.
~ Ed Viesturs
slip:4a1393.
Representation
[T]his is quite central to my fiction and to my analysis of the problems of creating a new nation today. Obviously, we can’t go back to a system in which every man is turning up in the village square—that’s in the past. But we have to find a way of dealing with the problems created by the fact that somebody says he’s speaking on your behalf, but you don’t know who he is. This is one of the problems of the modern world.
~ Chinua Achebe
slip:4a1392.
Uncertainty
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong […] In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
~ Richard Feynman
slip:4a1391.
Pressure
To achieve great things, two things are needed: A plan and not quite enough time.
~ Leonard Bernstein
slip:4a1390.
True
This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
~ Shakespeare
slip:4a1389.
Disguise
We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we are disguised to ourselves.
~ Rochefoucauld
slip:4a1388.
Purpose
To concentrate your mind on something is not the true purpose of zen. The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
slip:4a1387.
Profound
The opposite of a true statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may be another profound truth.
~ Niels Bohr
slip:4a1386.
Stubbornness
To someone who asked Newton how he had managed to construct his theory, he could reply: ‘By thinking about it all the time.’ There is no greatness without a little stubbornness.
~ Albert Camus
slip:4a1385.
Life
Whoever wants life must go softly towards life, softly as one would go towards a deer and fawn that are nestling under a tree. One gesture of violence, one violent assertion of self-will and life is gone. […] But with quietness, with an abandon of self-assertion and a fullness of the deep true self one can approach another human being, and know the delicate best of life, the touch.
~ D.H. Lawrence
slip:4a1384.
Memory
Sometimes you don’t know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
~ Gunnar Freyr
slip:4a1383.