A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
As the Island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance—the boundary between the known and unknown. Learning more about the world doesn’t lead to a point closer to a final destination—whose existence is nothing but a hopeful assumption anyways—but to more questions and mysteries. The more we know, the more exposed we are to our ignorance, and the more we know to ask.
~ Marcelo Gleiser
Elsewhere, this is 4a785. — slipbox
A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
~ Lord Mancroft
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There are no radical creative choices that do not carry with them an inherent risk of equally radical failure. You cannot do anything great without aggressively courting your own limits and the limits of your ideas. […] There is nothing more powerful than failure to reveal to you what you are truly capable of. Avoiding risk of failure means avoiding transcendent creative leaps forward. You can’t have one without the other.
~ Aisha Tyler
Elsewhere, this is 4a783. — slipbox
To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
~ John Gunther
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
~ Henry Ford
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We have far more control in our lives than many embrace. We create or co-create our experiences in life, and each day is a new opportunity to be fully engaged in the present moment. It’s the present moment where glimpses of our potential are revealed and expressed. A living masterpiece is not drawn on a canvas or etched in stone or inked by pen. It’s the pursuit and expresssion of applied insight and wisdom.
~ Michael Gervais
Elsewhere, this is 4a775. — slipbox
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
Elsewhere, this is 4a773. — slipbox