Wise thoughts and quotes 5
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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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe
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A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Marilyn Monroe
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner
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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Malcolm X
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
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“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.
J.K. Rowling
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A man of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
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Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
Bill Gates
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Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.
André Gide
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
Truman Capote
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake
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Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
Bob Marley
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Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Ronald Reagan
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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
