If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. By Seneca the Younger Quick View Author All Quotes, Seneca the Younger Tag: #goals
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. By Stephen King Quick View Author All Quotes, Stephen King Tag: #reading, #writing
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. By Henry David Thoreau Quick View Author All Quotes, Henry David Thoreau Tag: #carpe-diem, #live-in-the-moment
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. By Robert Frost Quick View Author All Quotes, Robert Frost Tag: #carpe-diem, #education, #inspirational, #learning, #mentoring
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. By Mahatma Gandhi Quick View Author All Quotes, Mahatma Gandhi Tag: #carpe-diem, #education, #inspirational, #learning
I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam. By J.R.R. Tolkien Quick View Author All Quotes, J.R.R. Tolkien Tag: #friendship, #frodo
Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven’t friends. Go find some. By Ray Bradbury Quick View Author All Quotes, Ray Bradbury Tag: #friendship, #writing
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. By A.A. Milne Quick View Author A.A. Milne, All Quotes Tag: #friendship, #inspirational
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. By C.S. Lewis Quick View Author All Quotes, C.S. Lewis Tag: #friendship, #inspirational
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. By Bob Marley Quick View Author All Quotes, Bob Marley Tag: #friendship
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. By Helen Keller Quick View Author All Quotes, Helen Keller Tag: #friendship
Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing. By E.B. White Quick View Author All Quotes, E.B. White Tag: #friendship
Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . . By C.S. Lewis Quick View Author All Quotes, C.S. Lewis Tag: #friendship
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them. By Orson Scott Card Quick View Author All Quotes, Orson Scott Card Tag: #enemy, #epiphany, #hate, #love, #understanding
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? By Abraham Lincoln Quick View Author Abraham Lincoln, All Quotes Tag: #enemies, #enemy, #friend, #friends, #friendship, #life, #lincoln
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. By Plato Quick View Author All Quotes, Plato Tag: #discipline, #education, #mentoring, #philosophy
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. By Confucius Quick View Author All Quotes, Confucius Tag: #complexity, #philosophy, #simplicity
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. By Gabriel García Márquez Quick View Author All Quotes, Gabriel García Márquez Tag: #aging-well, #disillusionment, #growing-older, #philosophy
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Quick View Author All Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson Tag: #essay, #inspirational, #lecture, #philosophy, #self-reliance, #social-commentary, #transcendentalism
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. By Carl Gustav Jung Quick View Author All Quotes, Carl Gustav Jung Tag: #addiction, #psyche, #psychology
We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. By Santosh Kalwar Quick View Author All Quotes, Santosh Kalwar Tag: #addiction, #life-lessons, #philosophy, #thinking
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. By Mo Willems Quick View Author All Quotes, Mo Willems Tag: #fairy-tales, #humor, #humorous, #philosophy, #psychology
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. By Gandhi Quick View Author All Quotes, Gandhi Tag: #actions, #habits, #values
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. By H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quick View Author All Quotes, H. Jackson Brown Jr. Tag: #actions, #disappointed, #disappointment, #dream, #dreams, #explore, #misattributed-mark-twain, #sail
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. By Dale Carnegie Quick View Author All Quotes, Dale Carnegie Tag: #friends, #friendship, #self-help
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. By Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quick View Author All Quotes, Lucius Annaeus Seneca Tag: #adversity, #challenges, #character, #inspirational
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Quick View Author All Quotes, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Tag: #adversity, #beauty, #empathy, #people, #understanding
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. By Oprah Winfrey Quick View Author All Quotes, Oprah Winfrey Tag: #adversity, #friends, #friendships, #money, #wealth
While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. By Groucho Marx Quick View Author All Quotes, Groucho Marx Tag: #money
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. By August Wilson Quick View Author All Quotes, August Wilson Tag: #character, #courage, #self-assessment, #self-esteem, #strength
The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925. By Frederick Lewis Donaldson Quick View Author All Quotes, Frederick Lewis Donaldson Tag: #character, #commerce, #conscience, #happiness, #humanity, #knowledge, #misattributed-to-gandhi, #money, #morality, #pleasure, #politics, #principle, #sacrifice, #science, #sin, #sins, #wealth, #work, #worship
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce. By Mark Twain Quick View Author All Quotes, Mark Twain Tag: #humor, #men, #women
Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make? By Terry Johnson Quick View Author All Quotes, Terry Johnson Tag: #humor, #misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, #philosophy
Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. By Mark Twain Quick View Author All Quotes, Mark Twain Tag: #humor, #writing
I’m not a psychopath, I’m a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research. By Steven Moffat Quick View Author All Quotes, Steven Moffat Tag: #humor, #sherlock-holmes
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. By Narcotics Anonymous Quick View Author All Quotes, Narcotics Anonymous Tag: #humor, #insanity, #life, #misattributed-ben-franklin, #misattributed-mark-twain, #misattributed-to-einstein
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying. By Marilyn Vos Savant Quick View Author All Quotes, Marilyn Vos Savant Tag: #humor, #intelligence
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! By Friedrich Nietzsche Quick View Author All Quotes, Friedrich Nietzsche Tag: #humor, #philosophy
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! By Dr. Seuss Quick View Author All Quotes, Dr. Seuss Tag: #humor, #philosophy
have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are. By Lewis Carroll Quick View Author All Quotes, Lewis Carroll Tag: #humor