Famous Quotes

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

~ Brian Tracy

Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

~ Gary L. Francione

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

~ Susan Sontag

Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.

~ R.l. Lafevers

Penetrate deep into the word Om. Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.

~ Amit Ray

To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

~ Margaret Thatcher

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

~ Benjamin Franklin

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.

~ Hermann Hesse

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

~ Brian Tracy

I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.

~ Marissa Meyer

I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

~ Robert Burns

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

~ Dion Boucicault

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

~ Robert Jordan

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

~ Marcus Porcius Cato

There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach perfection. It may be in the arts of music and painting or it may be in commerce, law, or medicine. It may be in the study of war or the study of peace. Each is as important as any other. Spiritual enlightenment through religious meditation such as Zen or in any other way is as viable and functional as any Way.... A person should study as they see fit.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

~ Epicurus

It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?

~ Nora Ephron

Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections.

~ Daphne Delacroix

For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.

~ Anonymous

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

~ Plutarch

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

~ Confucius

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

~ Henry James

A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

~ Dale Carnegie

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

~ Alan Cohen

When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.

~ Milan Kundera

Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

~ Brian Tracy

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

~ Amit Ray

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of life, the waters of emotion and sexuality. She shows us how to embrace our instinctive sexuality and sensuality so that we can affirm the essence of our feminine nature, the wisdom of our bodies, and the playfulness of our spirits. She symbolizes our connection with our deepest instinctive feelings, our wild and untamed animal nature that exists below the surface of outward personalities. She is able to respond to her mysterious sexual impulses without abandoning her more human, conscious side. What happened to the girls who dreamed of being mermaids?

~ Anita Johnston

Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin