Wise thoughts and quotes
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy
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You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.
Charlie Chaplin
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Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer-it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
Markus Zusak
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur Miller
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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Rumi
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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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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie
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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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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci
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No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
C. S. Lewis
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare
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Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon
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What year did Jesus think it was?
George Carlin
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He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
Stephen Chbosky
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A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
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Seven Deadly Sins:
Wealth without work;
Pleasure without conscience;
Science without humanity;
Knowledge without character;
Politics without principle;
Commerce without morality;
Worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
J.K. Rowling
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Do you hate people?
I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
Charles Bukowski
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
