In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance—when you least expect it—sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.
~ Nicholas Sparks
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Conversation
Good conversation mixes opinions, feelings, facts and ideas in an improvisational exchange with one or more individuals in an atmosphere of good will. It inspires mutual insight, respect and, most of all joy. It is a way of relaxing the mind, opening the heart and connecting, authentically, with others To converse well is surprising, humanizing and fun.
~ Paula Marantz Cohen
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Foundations
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Inevitable
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
~ Lowell
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Gratitude
Gratitude is like the good faith of traders—it maintains commerce; And we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.
~ Rochefoucauld
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Life
Pick an arbitrary, stupid goal, become totally involved in it, and pursue it with vigor, and what happens to you in that pursuit is your life.
~ Kenny Shopsin
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Thinking
If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.
~ Don Marquis
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Wonder
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.
~ Rachel Carson
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Violence
Gratuitous violence in argument betrays a conscious weakness of the cause, and is usually a signal of despair.
~ Junius
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Pleasure
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
~ Seneca
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Betrayal
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friends, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
~ E.M. Forster
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Hindsight
We’re driving faster and faster into the future, trying to steer by using only the rear-view mirror.
~ Marshall McLuhan
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Commitment
Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of it.
~ Rollo May
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Disagreement
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, and sound casuists doubt like you and me?
~ Alexander Pope
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Pictures
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.
~ Elliot Erwitt
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Work
No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.
~ Carl Jung
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Machines
If you fall in love with a machine there is something wrong with your love-life. If you worship a machine there is something wrong with your religion.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Uncompleted
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
~ William James
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Malice
Insolence is not logic; Epithets are the arguments of malice.
~ R.G. Ingerson
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Democracy
The polis or gathering place for governing, the root of our modern politics, was nothing but a physical space that designated and enabled the conversational space required for true self-governing. The capacity for talking together constituted the foundation for democracy, far more fundamental than voting. As one ancient Greek philosopher noted, “When voting started, democracy ended.”
~ Peter M. Senge
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