Wise thoughts and quotes 9
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
Mitch Albom
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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Rumi
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.
Stephen Hawking
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Oprah Winfrey
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Carl Gustav Jung
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank Zappa
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
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You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
Charlie Chaplin
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There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
Marianne Williamson
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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Douglas Adams
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
André Gide
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
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It takes a very long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
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I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
Tupac Shakur
