A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
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
Elsewhere, this is 4a1391. — slipbox
To achieve great things, two things are needed: A plan and not quite enough time.
~ Leonard Bernstein
Elsewhere, this is 4a1390. — slipbox
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
Elsewhere, this is 4a1389. — slipbox
We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we are disguised to ourselves.
~ Rochefoucauld
Elsewhere, this is 4a1388. — slipbox
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
Elsewhere, this is 4a1387. — slipbox
The opposite of a true statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may be another profound truth.
~ Niels Bohr
Elsewhere, this is 4a1386. — slipbox
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
Elsewhere, this is 4a1385. — slipbox
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
Elsewhere, this is 4a1384. — slipbox
Sometimes you don’t know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
~ Gunnar Freyr
Elsewhere, this is 4a1383. — slipbox
The real measure of our wealth is how much we’d be worth if we lost all our money.
~ John Henry Jowett
Elsewhere, this is 4a1382. — slipbox