2099 Quotations Found

Money changes circumstances but relationships change lives.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Life & Society, Relationships

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.

Author: William W. Purkey | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Poetry

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

Author: Bernard M. Baruch | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

In a free society where you don’t fear being locked up for our opinions, true moral courage isn’t standing up to the people with whom you disagree. It’s standing up to the people with whom you agree — on behalf of those with whom you disagree. Are you strong enough to do that? That, I believe, is one way we can live up to Jesus’ … [ Read more ]

Author: Arthur C. Brooks | Source: The Washington Post | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Personal Improvement, Religion

Your possessions should set you free like a boat or a pair of hiking boots. If you work for your possessions and they don’t set you free, what are you working for?

Author: Billy Harris | Subjects: Consumerism, Life & Society, Material Possessions, Personal Improvement

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Author: Voltaire | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Author: John F. Kennedy | Subject: Personal Improvement

Our Earth is in need of care. Generally governments and most citizens have a cavalier attitude towards nature. We use it, we play in it, we admire it, we exploit it, we talk about it, we enjoy it, but we seldom actively care for it.

Author: Stephen Altschuler | Subject: Environment | Sustainability

The only way you can expect someone to understand your point of view is to provide them with the substance from which your outlook was developed. Essentially then, the task is education and not argumentation.

Author: Herb Cohen | Subjects: Communication, Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

For centuries, our culture conditioned us to “see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving,” which in turn conditioned us to believe that the hardest thing about love is finding the right person to love us, but once we do, love is easy. [Erich] Fromm inverted this equation. […] he observed that the key to love is … [ Read more ]

Authors: Erich Fromm, Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Love

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains… the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.

Author: Walt Whitman | Subjects: Environment | Sustainability, Life & Society

Freedom gives no one license to change a heritage that belongs to the ages.

Author: Sigurd F. Olson | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Life & Society

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

Author: Frances Moore Lappé | Subject: Life & Society

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Author: Henry David Thoreau | Subject: Personal Improvement

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure

People say what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will resonate within our innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Author: Joseph Campbell | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Meaning, Personal Improvement

We don’t experience natural environments enough to realize how restored they can make us feel, nor are we aware that studies also show they make us healthier, more creative, more empathetic and more apt to engage with the world and with each other. Nature, it turns out, is good for civilization.

Author: Florence Williams | Subjects: Environment | Sustainability, Life & Society

One feels that among all the lessons which men require for carrying on the struggle against the inevitable imperfections of their lot on earth, there is no lesson which they more need, than not to add to the evils which nature inflicts, by their jealous and prejudiced restrictions on one another.

Author: John Stuart Mill | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Politics & Public Policy

The worst sort of pride [is] that which values itself upon accidental advantages not of its own achieving.

Author: John Stuart Mill | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

Author: John Stuart Mill | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement