Quotes

• “Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.” — Chinese Proverb
• “If you ain’t aim too high. Then you aim too low.”, J Cole
• “We’re all just walking each other home.”, Ram Dass
• “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”, Franz Kafka
• “I am a cage, in search of a bird”, Franz Kafka
• “Be conservative (careful) in what you do. Be liberal in what you accept.”
• “Is it not madness and the wildest lunacy, to desire so much, when you can hold so little.”, Seneca
• “Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.”, Marcus Aurelius
• “The future has an ancient heart.”, Carlo Levi
• “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”, Elbert Hubbard
• “We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”, Bryan White
• “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library”, Jorge Luis Borges
• “We cannot rewrite history, but we can right history”, Mark Hayes
• “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”, Mae West
• “The value of history is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”, R. G. Collingwood
• “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”, George Santayana
• “I am here to live out loud”, Emile Zola
• “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”, Leo Tolstoy
• “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”, Lao Tzu
• “Little by little, one travels far.””, J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential.”, Ai Wei Wei
• “All grownups were once children, but only few of them remember it.”, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• “There are no limits, there are only plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”, Bruce Lee
• “Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”, Annie Dillard
• “Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will”, Charles Baudelaire
• “Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary”, Tamora Pierce
• “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” Martin Luther King, Jr
• “Cheer up, the worst is yet to come”, Mark Twain
• “Regrets, I’ve had a few. But then again, too few to mention.” Frank Sinatra
• “For myself I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.” Winston Churchill
• “To try and fail is at least to learn”, Chester Barnham
• “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sometimes rhymes.” ??
• “Your margin is my opportunity.” Jeff Bezos
• “Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.” Samuel Johnson
• “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard
• “Man can only enjoy that with which he acquires through hard work and toil. The harder you work for something, the more you enjoy that. If something is easy, how much reward is there?”, Unknown
• “Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance and defend them as they would their estates because they are born heirs to them.”, Alan Watts
• “All human knowledge is uncertain, inexact, and partial” Bertrand Russell
• “Beyond mountains there are mountains”, Haitian proverb
• “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”, Martin Luther King Jnr
• “ Don’t grow up, it’s a trap”
• “The river meanders because it can’t think.”
• “The time is always right to do what is right.”, Martin Luther King Jr.
• “Once you get fancy, fancy gets broken”, Unknown
• “Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers”, Lewis Mumford
• “First a reader, than a leader”, Unknown
• “You can observe a lot by just watching” Yogi Berra
• “There’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” James Baldwin
• “What’s the good of living if you don’t try a few things?” Charles M. Schulz
• “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” Amy Bloom
• “Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We protect it by changing the world”, Elie Wiesel
• “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself”, George Bernard Shaw
• “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”, Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Do your little bit of good wherever you are. It is those little bits together that overwhelm the world.” Desmond Tutu
• “Time is the wisest counselor of all.”, Pericles
• "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", Maya Angelo
• "Risk by its very nature is mysterious. It is mystery lived, for it ventures into lands that are not controlled or charted.", John Paul Lederach
• "Communicate sacredness; build it, share it and spread it", Unknown
• "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping’", Fred Rogers
• "In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts there are few", Shunryu Suzuki
• "Here is my secret. It is very simple: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye" Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• "The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." Epictetus
• "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading" Logan Pearsall Smith
• "The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy", Alex Carey
• "A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul", Saadi