Wise thoughts and quotes 9
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Kurt Vonnegut
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
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Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
Steve Jobs
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
Pablo Picasso
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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
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Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
Markus Zusak
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I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs
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Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
Mae West
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honoré de Balzac
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
William Faulkner
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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
Flannery O'Connor
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Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
Chris Rock
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Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Maya Angelou
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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
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Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
Walt Whitman
