Quotes

A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.

Simple in our tastes →

Published February 10, 2014  ·  All posts on Feb 10  ·  

We greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

~ Thucydides

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Don’t waste time →

Published January 29, 2014  ·  All posts on Jan 29  ·  

Be a good person, but don’t waste time trying to prove it.

~ unknown

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Our numbered days →

Published January 23, 2014  ·  All posts on Jan 23  ·  

Here is a list of fearful things:
The jaws of sharks, a vulture’s wings,
The rabid bite of the dog’s of war,
The voice of one who went before.
But most of all the mirror’s gaze,
which counts us out our numbered days.

~ Clive Barker

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They will laugh →

Published January 17, 2014  ·  All posts on Jan 17  ·  

First they will laugh.
Then they will copy.
Don’t. Give. Up.

~ unknown

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Time well spent →

Published January 11, 2014  ·  All posts on Jan 11  ·  

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it’s just wonderful. And … the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.

~ Douglas Adams

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Genius →

Published January 5, 2014  ·  All posts on Jan 5  ·  

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Happiness →

Published December 30, 2013  ·  All posts on Dec 30  ·  

I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

~ J. Richard Lessor

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A big yes →

Published December 22, 2013  ·  All posts on Dec 22  ·  

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”

~ Stephen Covey

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Mathematics →

Published December 14, 2013  ·  All posts on Dec 14  ·  

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. C.P. Snow talked about two cultures. I really think that those two cultures separate people who have and people who have not had this experience of understanding mathematics well enough to appreciate nature once. […] Physicists cannot make a conversion to any other language. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. She offers her information only in one form; we are not so unhumble as to demand that she change before we pay any attention.

~ Richard Feynman

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Compassion →

Published December 6, 2013  ·  All posts on Dec 6  ·  ,

All cruelty springs from weakness.

~ Seneca

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