Wise thoughts and quotes
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
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Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao Tzu
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
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Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci
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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
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Will you love me in December as you do in May?
Jack Kerouac
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I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
J. D. Salinger
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You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
Truman Capote
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My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
Coco Chanel
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No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
