Famous Quotes

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

~ Jack Kornfield

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.

~ Hannah Hart

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

~ William Shakespeare

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

~ Plato

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

~ E.l. Konigsburg

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.”(August 9, 1955)

~ Flannery O'connor

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

~ Otto Von Bismarck

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.

~ Bill W.

They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, Can you tell me, What is the most important mental tool a person can possess?It was a serious question, and Eragon considered it for a reasonable span before he ventured to say, Determination.Oromis tore the loaf in half with his long white fingers. I can understand why you arrived at that conclusion-determination has served you well in your adventures-but no. I meant the tool most necessary to choose the best course of action in any given situation. Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects. So, no, determination cannot be what we're looking for.

~ Christopher Paolini

Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.

~ Alexei Maxim Russell

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

~ George Burns

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

~ Craig Ferguson

All pain is the same.

~ Oprah Winfrey

For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

~ C.s. Lewis

The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.

~ John Bunyan

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

~ George Eliot

When did you get so clever?When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

~ John Connolly

We tend to live up to our expectations.

~ Earl Nightingale

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

~ John Witherspoon

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

~ Stefan Molyneux

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

~ Allan Lokos

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

~ Napoleon Hill

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

~ Bertrand Russell

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

~ Sam Keen

there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .

~ Dale Carnegie

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

~ Neil Gaiman

If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.

~ Sharon Salzberg

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

~ William Blake

The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!

~ Anonymous

Cricket Bell.” I smiled into my phone. “How did you get so wise?

~ Stephanie Perkins

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

~ Gary L. Francione

Wisdom is justified by all her children.Luke 7:35

~ Anonymous