Danyel's Collection of Quotes

Not that I have any time these days to sort these quotes, but I think as I add new ones I will put them in categories and eventually sort the others.

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Miscellaneous Quotes

Anyone who cannote cope with mathematics is not fully human -- at best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
— Robert Heinlein

I began to understand that in the answers given by faith was to be found the deepest source of human wisdom and I had no reasonable right to reject them on the ground of reason.
— Leo Tolstoy

Read as though it made sense and perhaps it will.
— I.A.Richards

Following a precedent is an easy substitute for thinking.
— Ruth Smeltzer

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
— Okakura Kazuko

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
— John Ruskin

Creative minds are like parachutes...they work only when they are open.
— Anonymous

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
— Franz Kafka

Every great achievement once seemed impossible.
— Anonymous

Seek not every quality in one individual.

To think a thing is impossible is to make it so. Courage is victory; timidity is defeat.
— Anonymous

It is the mind that makes the body rich.
— William Shakespeare

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
— John Wanamaker

If I try, knowing there is little hope of succeeding, I risk failure. Not to try assures it.
— Anonymous

I pass hours looking at a tree or a flower. And sometimes I cry at their beauty.
— Pablo Casals

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
— John G. Diefenbaker

Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject.
— Thomas Mann

The world makes way for a man who knows where he is going.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every failure teaches a man something if he will learn.
— Dickens

He that can have patience can have what he will.
— Benjamin Franklin

He who aims at nothing hits it with remarkable success.
— Anonymous

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
— Indian Proverb

Friends should be preferred to kings.
— Voltaire

Success is important, but defeats are valuable.
— C. M. Jones

To be prepared is half the victory.
— Cervantes

A good book has no ending.
— R. D. Cumming

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
— Henry David Thoreau

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
— Disraili

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the whole world.
— Muhammed Ali
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
— Rabindranath Tagore [Gitanjali]
Cuando no se puede tener lo que se quiere, es hora de empezar a querer lo que se tiene.
When you can't have what you want, you have to start liking what you have.
— Kathleen Sutton
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
— Anonymous
Aprende a escuchar. La oportunidad a veces toca muy quedo.
Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
— Anonymous
Things would be so different if they were not as they are.
— Anna Russell
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
— Anonymous
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know."
— Andre Maurois
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
— Hermann Hesse
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity, what it gains in intensity.
— Albert Camus
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
— Thomas Paine
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
— Mohandas Gandhi
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
— Ursula K. LeGuin
Most people don't know that there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss your life.
— Brian Andreas
For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present...
— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
— Alice Walker
To be a star, you must follow your own light,
Follow your own path, and never fear the darkness,
For that is when the stars shine the brightest."
— Anonymous
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
— Allan K. Chalmers
Cuando alguien este relatando alguna experiencia importante, no trates de rebasarlo con una anecdota tuya. Deja que ocupe toda la atencion de los demas.
When someone is relating an important event that's happened to them, don't try to top them with a story of your own. Let them have the stage.
— Anonymous
Nunca prives a otros de la esperanza; puede ser lo unico que posean.
Never deprive anyone of hope; it might be all they have.
— Anonymous
Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends, tell me where to get more wax.
— Anonymous
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
— Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]
You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.
— Alex Morrison, Golf Teacher
You teach best what you most need to learn.
— Richard Bach
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
— Niels Bohr
Life is not a fairy tale. The prince doesn't always come along and wake up us. You've got to have faith in yourself.
— The Profiler
Even if you do trip, just pretend it's part of the dance; the important thing is to just keep dancing.
— The Profiler
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everyone.
— Mother Teresa
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life, and I've never let it keep me from doing things I wanted to do.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
— Lewis Carroll [Through the Looking Glass] (1832-1898)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?
—Hillel

Quotes on Love

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
— C.S. Lewis
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
— Rose Franken
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.
— Dorothy Parker
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
— Jonathan Carroll
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
— George Bernard Shaw
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
— Plato
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
— Elizabeth Ashley
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Whom we love best, to them we can say least
— English proverb
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
— George Bernard Shaw
Love one another and you will be happy.
It's as simple and as difficult as that.
— Michael Leunig
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and amoung all, never...never forget it.
— Curtis Judalet
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
— Amy Carmichael
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
— Francis De La Rochefoucauld

Quotes about Service

Past the beggar and the suffering walk he who asks, 'Why, oh God, do you not do something for these people?' To which God replied, 'I did do something, I made you.'
— Sufi saying

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you are alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach

Just remember: Noah's Ark was built by amateurs. The Titanic was built by professionals.
— Anoymous

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