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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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"Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is still there."
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers; you can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
"I demolish my bridges behind me... then there is no choice but forward."
"Vision is where tomorrow begins, for it expresses what you and others who share the vision will be working hard to create. Since most people don't take the time to think systematically about the future, those who do, and who base their strategies and actions on their visions, have inordinate power to shape the future."
"Middle age: when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you."
"All art is a kind of subconscious madness expressed in terms of sanity."
"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."
"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
"I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel."
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."
"There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear."
"Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love."
"Never let yesterday use up today."
"I never liked the middle ground - the most boring place in the world."
"What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable."
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one."
"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability."
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"When you press a stone, the stone presses back."
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
"Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream."
"'Every man has his price.' This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait that he cannot resist swallowing."
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently."
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless."
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that this new world is born."
"It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."
"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself."
"All that is necessary is to accept the unacceptable, do without the indispensable, and bear the unbearable."
"If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it."
"The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide."
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
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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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