Wise thoughts and quotes 5
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We love the things we love for what they are.
Robert Frost
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark Twain
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.
Ellen DeGeneres
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The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
Karl Marx
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Søren Kierkegaard
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
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All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honoré de Balzac
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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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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
Coco Chanel
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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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The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
Pablo Picasso
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I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Albert Camus
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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 does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.
Elbert Hubbard
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
J. R. R. Tolkien
