Wise thoughts and quotes
-
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
Frank Zappa -
Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!
Lady Gaga -
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Leonardo da Vinci -
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
Markus Zusak -
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill -
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
Marianne Williamson -
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 -
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama -
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
Thomas Edison -
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert A. Heinlein -
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka -
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato -
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan -
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi -
He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.
J.K. Rowling -
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard -
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson