A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Not only could nobody tell me, but nobody even had the sense that it was an interesting question. They looked at me funny. I asked my parents; I asked my parents’ friends; I asked other adults. None of them knew. My mother said to me, “Look, we’ve just got you a library card. Take it, get on the streetcar, go to the New Utrecht branch of the New York Public Library, get out a book and find the answer.”
~ Carl Sagan
slip:4a786.
“You have a grand gift of silence, Watson,” said he,
~ Arthur C. Doyle
“It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
slip:4a34.
I’ve seen the whole world six times over
~ The Police
Sea of Japan to the cliffs of Dover,
Overkill. Overview. Over my dead body.
Over me. Over you. Over everybody.
Too much information /
Runnin’ through my brain.
slip:4a535.
A person who is nice to you, but is not nice to the waiter, is not a nice person.
~ unknown
slip:4a144.
You will succeed because most people are lazy.
~ unknown
slip:4a100.
• A man does the job no one else wants to do.
~ “Atticus Finch”
• A man lives with integrity every day.
• The most important form of courage is moral courage.
• Live with quiet dignity.
slip:4a31.
An educated man can…
~ Brett McKay
entertain himself;
entertain a friend;
entertain a new idea.
slip:4a161.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.
~ Mark Twain
slip:4a64.
If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
~ unknown
If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
slip:4a114.
Giving up and moving on are two very different things. There comes a point when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but it’s not giving up, and it’s not the end. It’s a new beginning. It’s realizing, finally, that you don’t need certain people and things and the drama they bring.
~ Marc Chernoff
slip:4a537.
My father used to say, “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.”
~ Desmond Tutu
slip:4a41.
Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.
~ Homer J. Simpson, in The Simpsons (“Lisa the Greek”), (1992 TV series, s3e7)
slip:4a84.
Everything in life is temporary. So if things are going good, enjoy it because it won’t last forever. …and if things are going bad, don’t worry; It won’t last forever either.
~ unknown
slip:4a49.
The pessimist complains about the wind;
~ William A. Ward
The optimist expects it to change;
The realist adjusts the sails.
slip:4a137.
No character can be simple unless it is based on truth — unless it is lived in harmony with one’s own conscience and ideals. Simplicity is the pure white light of a life lived from within. It is destroyed by any attempt to live in harmony with public opinion. Public opinion is a conscience owned by a syndicate — where the individual is merely a stockholder. But the individual has a conscience of which he is sole proprietor. Adjusting his life to his own ideals is the royal road to simplicity. Affectation is the confession of inferiority; It is an unnecessary proclamation that one is not living the life he pretends to live.
~ William G. Jordan
slip:4a540.
You can’t stop nothin’
~ Jack Johnson
if you got no control.
…
You can’t stop wishin’
if you don’t let go.
…
You keep on rollin’
put the moment on hold.
slip:4a334.
The only way out is through.
~ Robert Frost
slip:4a348.
I find the harder I work,
~ unknown
the more luck I seem to have.
slip:4a546.
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
~ Federico Fellini
slip:4a541.
The less you care about what others think, the better your life will become.
~ unknown
slip:4a113.