Wise thoughts and quotes
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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
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We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.
Marianne Williamson
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
Pablo Neruda
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur Miller
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Lao Tzu
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You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.
Tupac Shakur
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
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It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
Frank Zappa
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Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
Steve Jobs
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You love me. Real or not real? I tell him, Real.
Suzanne Collins
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
André Gide
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
Jack Kerouac
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We love the things we love for what they are.
Robert Frost
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
André Gide
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
