25 Favorite Quotes
25 Favorite Quotes
1. If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer. . . If you are a pretender, come sit by my fire. For we have some flax golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! - Shel Silverstien
2. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. – Albert Einstein
3. If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate. – Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
4. Though I do not agree with what you say, I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire
5. Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. – Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
6. Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible but the mark of a fake messiah. – Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
7. . . . you can’t help but wonder at how sweet and sad and innocent all moments in life are rendered by the tripping of a camera’s shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest. – Generation X
8. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. – Jean Houston
10. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. – C. G. Jung
11. And all the world will be your enemy . . . and whenever they catch you, they will kill you . . . but first they must catch you. – Watership Down
12. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. – Colette
13. We have built a greenhouse – a human creation – where there once bloomed a sweet and wild garden. – Bill McKibben
14. “But it isn’t easy,” said Pooh. “Because Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they are things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.” - The House at Pooh Corner
15. When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. - The House at Pooh Corner
16. To design with flowers. To paint with clouds. To write with water. To register the May wind, the fall of a leaf. To work for a storm. To anticipate a glacier. To bend the wind. To direct the water and the light. – Nils Udo
17. The truth will not penetrate a preoccupied mind. – Charles Darwin
18. The truth is that human beings are now the dominant species in all the world’s ecosystems and the most powerful geological force on Earth. From this perspective, we do not have environmental problems, the biosphere has a people problem. – William Rees
19. The true mission of religion is to help people manifest the power within themselves to overcome their difficulties and be happy.
20.The birth of an idea in your mind an the birth of a celestial star in distant space both arise from the same latent field of cosmic energy.
21. It is not our abilities which determine who we are. It is our choices. – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
22. In one of the stars I shall be living, in one of them I shall be laughing, and so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night. – The Little Prince
23. There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; its what we do with them that’s important. – Ruth Ross
24.All of the most successful human being I’ve known were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished thes leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it. – Walter Anderson
25. The threshold between right and wrong is pain. – Dalai Lama
1. If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer. . . If you are a pretender, come sit by my fire. For we have some flax golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! - Shel Silverstien
2. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. – Albert Einstein
3. If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate. – Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
4. Though I do not agree with what you say, I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire
5. Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. – Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
6. Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible but the mark of a fake messiah. – Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
7. . . . you can’t help but wonder at how sweet and sad and innocent all moments in life are rendered by the tripping of a camera’s shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest. – Generation X
8. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. – Jean Houston
10. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. – C. G. Jung
11. And all the world will be your enemy . . . and whenever they catch you, they will kill you . . . but first they must catch you. – Watership Down
12. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. – Colette
13. We have built a greenhouse – a human creation – where there once bloomed a sweet and wild garden. – Bill McKibben
14. “But it isn’t easy,” said Pooh. “Because Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they are things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.” - The House at Pooh Corner
15. When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. - The House at Pooh Corner
16. To design with flowers. To paint with clouds. To write with water. To register the May wind, the fall of a leaf. To work for a storm. To anticipate a glacier. To bend the wind. To direct the water and the light. – Nils Udo
17. The truth will not penetrate a preoccupied mind. – Charles Darwin
18. The truth is that human beings are now the dominant species in all the world’s ecosystems and the most powerful geological force on Earth. From this perspective, we do not have environmental problems, the biosphere has a people problem. – William Rees
19. The true mission of religion is to help people manifest the power within themselves to overcome their difficulties and be happy.
20.The birth of an idea in your mind an the birth of a celestial star in distant space both arise from the same latent field of cosmic energy.
21. It is not our abilities which determine who we are. It is our choices. – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
22. In one of the stars I shall be living, in one of them I shall be laughing, and so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night. – The Little Prince
23. There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; its what we do with them that’s important. – Ruth Ross
24.All of the most successful human being I’ve known were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished thes leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it. – Walter Anderson
25. The threshold between right and wrong is pain. – Dalai Lama
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