2098 Quotations Found

Sadness is easier because it’s surrender.

Author: Cameron Crowe | Source: Claire Colbert (character played by Kirsten Dunst) in the movie, Elizabethtown (2005) | Subjects: Pain & Suffering, Psychology | Behavior

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but to reveal to them their own.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Wisdom

I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Wisdom

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Author: François de La Rochefoucauld | Subjects: Fear, Wisdom

A person who lies merely hides the truth, while a person who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put the truth.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Perception | Observation, Psychology | Behavior

Only marry a man who adores you; never marry a work in progress.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Advice, Love

To comprehend all is to forgive all.

Author: Unknown | Subject: Wisdom

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.

Author: Andre Gide | Subjects: Fear, Travel, Wisdom

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Pain & Suffering, Wisdom

It is easy to make waves, it is hard to make progress.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Life & Society

Man becomes stupid when he is ruled by his theories, concepts, and ‘great truths.’

Author: Walter Fisher | Subjects: Psychology | Behavior, Wisdom

It matters not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Life & Society

Nothing can screw up the hearing like the male ego.

Author: Unknown | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Author: T.E. Lawrence | Subjects: Psychology | Behavior, Wisdom

You, enlightened, self-sufficient, self-governed, endowed with gifts above your fellows, the world expects you to produce as well as to consume, to add to and not to subtract from its store of good, to build up and not tear down, to ennoble and not degrade. It commands you to take your place and to fight your fight in the name of honor and of chivalry, … [ Read more ]

Author: John Hibben | Subjects: Advice, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

You must either discover your duty or else create it and then swear allegiance to its high behests.

Author: John Hibben | Subjects: Advice, Life & Society

Maybe the lives of the meritocrats are so crammed because the stakes are so small. All this ambition and aspiration is looking for new tests to ace, new clubs to be president of, new services to perform, but finding that none of these challenges is the ultimate challenge, and none of the rewards is the ultimate reward.

Author: David Brooks | Subjects: Culture, Life & Society

I submit that the tension between science and faith should be resolved not in terms either of elimination or duality, but in terms of a synthesis.

Author: Teilhard de Chardin | Subjects: Math & Science, Religion

Reality, for some people, is broader than it is for others, because they have looked more, lived more, read more, experienced more, and thought more.

Authors: M.D., Thomas A. Harris | Subjects: Life & Society, Perception | Observation