Wise thoughts and quotes
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
Frank Zappa
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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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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
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The best fighter is never angry.
Lao Tzu
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur Miller
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
Mitch Albom
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Leonardo da Vinci
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Malcolm X
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
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I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare
