Wise thoughts and quotes 3
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
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It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
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The best fighter is never angry.
Lao Tzu
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
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We were together. I forget the rest.
Walt Whitman
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Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.
Steve Martin
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Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Carlin
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Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Theodore Roosevelt
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway
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Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
Leonardo da Vinci
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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
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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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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
