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Below are many quotes that I find inspirational, philosophical, and/or humorous. There are some that I only partially believe in, but I have them posted as I feel they couldbe useful to others. If you have a quote that you think is inspirational, philosophical, humorousor any combination of those... send it to me via e-mail,and I will post it up as long as I approve of it. If your quote is posted, I will give you credit and provide a link to your page.
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"As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth."
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
"We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them."
"Anything that happens, happens.
"Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you."
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
"To me, computers are like tangerines, in the sense that I can't make a good analogy about either one of them right now."
"A man should always consider... how much more unhappy he might be than he is."
"The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light."
"Delay not to seize the hour!"
"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
"Being an adult means giving yourself away, being a child means taking it all in..."
"The hardest part of your life is your childhood, also the most fun ironically..."
"The world is based on a series of ilogical events, so why try to be logical?"
"Women live in their own world, try to enter and be prepared never to leave..."
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
"Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
"Never eat a place called "Mom's." Never play cards with a man named "Doc." And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than your own."
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
"If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
"Hanging is too god for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
"If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race."
"[Notre Dame football coach Knute] Rockne wanted nothing but 'Bad Losers.' Good losers get into the habit of losing."
"You are the one who must choose your place."
"If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny."
"Love - incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent - is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release."
"If you don't control your mind, someone else will."
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."
"A belief is not true because it is useful."
"The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings."
"The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides."
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark."
"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence."
"There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types never accept defeat."
"A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place."
"We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, "Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith." We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance."
"So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all of the pain and all of the struggle. We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us."
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential."
"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."
"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway."
"Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right."
"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.
"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory."
"The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education."
"Laws can be unjust because they are contrary to the common good. In no way is it permissible to observe them."
"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
"Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet."
"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
"Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company."
"As much as the living are to the dead."
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
"Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable."
"When we are free to act, we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say "no" we are also able to say "yes."
"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy."
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."
"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes."
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
"Greatness is a zig-zag streak of lightning in the brain."
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good mannerswithout seeing any."
"Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be here, but you will have ceased to live."
"I married beneath me -- all women do."
"Just deserts used to be what everyone could expect to get, in the end. Now it's a restaurant specializing in cakes."
"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
"Just do what you do best."
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?"
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If you have any quotes you would like to see on this page please e-mail me and I'll post them up. Thanks.
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