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.
                              
Confucius
- 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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