- Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-Howard Aiken
- People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. -Ramona L. Anderson
- Treat a virus with antibiotics and you get better in 7 days. Do nothing and you are better in a week. - Anonymous
- The cost of living is dying. - Anonymous
- Intellect is a tool of the will. - Anonymous
- Will you remember my name, when we pass each other in the streets? Will you call out, stop and talk to me, or will you just walk on by as if you hadn't noticed me standing there, staring at you, tears thick as blood pouring down my face, crying out for someone to help me, pleading for you to rescue me, as I slowly drown in my lonely pain? - Anonymous
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
- The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Bagehot
- A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. -John Barrymore
- A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. -Claude Bernard
- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Derek Bok
- Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - Buddhist Proverb
- The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. -Thomas Carlyle
- Sometimes its not enough to do your best; you have to do what is required. -Sir Winston Churchill
- What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. -Arthur C. Clarke
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C. Clarke
- Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. -Norman Cousins
- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -Rene Descartes
- He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. -Sir William Drummond
- I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. -Albert Einstein
- The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. -Albert Einstein
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. -Albert Einstein
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -Albert Einstein
- When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say. -Ralph Waldo
Emerson
- People only see what they are prepared to see. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive. -Peter Gabriel
- First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -Mahatma Gandhi
- Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier
- Adults are obsolete children and the hell with them. -Theodor Seuss Geisel
- Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. -Natalie Goldberg
- Ultimately time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savor it.
-Ellen Goodman
- I begin to suspect that a man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. -Nathaniel Hawthorne
- I'm old enough to know better, but I'm still too young to care. -Wade Hayes
- By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind. -Claude-Adrien Helvetius
- The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye: the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. -Oliver Wendelll Holmes
- The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
- Hungarian Proverb
- Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -Thomas Henry Huxley
- As evening draws near, you regret that you did not practice early in the morning. The worldly pleasure which you enjoy now becomes suffering in the future. Why then are you attached to this pleasure? One moment of practice becomes lasting pleasure. Why then do you not practice? -Won Hyo
- One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. - Italian Proverb
- A great many people believe they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -William James
- You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. -Sam Keen
- What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. -Robert F. Kennedy
- People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones. -Charles Kettering
- I am a part of all I have read. -John Kieran
- People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. -Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
- Too often... I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. -Louis L'Amour
- The key to immortality is living a life worth remembering. -Bruce Lee
- It never gets easier, you just go faster. -Greg LeMond
- I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
-A. J. Liebling
- The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him as the destroyer of liberty. -Abraham Lincoln
- If you were born where they were born, and you were taught what they were taught, you'd believe what they believe. -Abraham Lincoln
- Television is about watching a life instead of having one. -Beth Mazur
- To a visiting diplomat; "Don't be so humble - you are not that great." -Golda Meir
- In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.
-Eddy Merckx
- We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. -Kenji Miyazawa
- Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? -Mary Manin Morrissey
- Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -Iris Murdoch
- May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. -George S. Patton
- If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking. -George S. Patton Jr.
- We never remember days, only moments. -Cesare Pavese
- There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived. -M. Scott Peck
- When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. -Robert Pirsig
- To believe everything or to doubt everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for reflection. -Jules Henri Poincare
- I used to believe in forever, but forever was too good to be true. -Winnie the Pooh
- We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live another's idea of life. -James Van Praagh
- You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. -Ayn Rand
- I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -Stephen Roberts
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. -Jim Samuels
- Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. -George Santayana
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. -Arthur Schopenhauer
- Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. -Delmore Schwartz
- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. - Seneca
- The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
-George Bernard Shaw
- The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. -George Bernard Shaw
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -George Bernard Shaw
- If you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances. -Julia Soul
- The bitterest words ever said over graves are for deeds undone and words left unsaid. -H. B. Stowe
- In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few. -Shunryu Suzuki
- The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. -Henry David Thoreau
- All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J. R. R. Tolkien
- No matter how far you've gone on a wrong road, turn back. - Turkish Proverb
- Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain
- Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - Unknown
- You're less likely to die while sitting home in your armchair. Also less likely to live. - Unknown
- Through the perception of illusions we perceive reality. - Unknown
- The act leading to conception involves half a billion sperm: Long ago each of us overcame the toughest odds we'll ever face. Life itself is a comparative afterthought, a bonus, a casual cooling-off chat in the post-game locker room. Had I learned this sooner, I might have lightened up a bit. - Unknown
- Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong. - Unknown
- Caring is the most hazardous of human experiences because it means choosing to be vulnerable. - Unknown
- Some people ask me why I run. I then ask them why they breath. - Unknown
- Your greatness is only limited by how much pain you are willing to endure. - Unknown
- Do today what others will not, so that you may do tomorrow what others can not. - Unknown
- The question isn't how much more can you take, but how much more can you give. Just when you're ready to quit your mind says push harder. You listen sensing an inner strength that wasn't there before. And suddenly you discover -- you no longer feel the pain. Now you know. Now you're one of us. - Unknown
- Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road. - Unknown
- If I'm not lying on the ground after a race, please hit me with a board because I didn't run hard enough. - Unknown
- Some people listen to themselves rather than listen to what others say. These people don't come along very often. But when they do, they remind us that once you set out in a path, even though critics may doubt you, it's okay to believe that there is no can't, won't or impossible. They remind us that it is okay to believe Impossible is Nothing. - Unknown
- Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. -Jesse Ventura
- When I thought I was learning to live, I was learning to die. -Leonardo da Vinci
- On his deathbed, in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan; "Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." - Voltaire
- To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. - Voltaire
- Common Sense is not so common. - Voltaire
- He who hesitates is a damned fool. -Mae West
- The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. -E. B. White
- Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. -Ron Wild
- I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Maintaining the status-quo is the same as regressing; while you are holding your own, others are passing you by. Be harsh on yourself. Do not ever think that you have made it; do not ever be satisfied by what you have done. Drive yourself for the rest of your life. If you do not move, you become paralyzed. Develop your potential to the fullest, for you, too, can wake the sleeping genius at will. -Kim Woo-Choong
- Never mistake activity for achievement.
-John Wooden
- I did not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. - Zhuangzi
- I cannot tell if what the world considers "happiness" is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness. - Zhuangzi