Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2015

Love Quotes 02

  1. We loved with a love that was more than love.
  2. All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
  3. If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
  4. Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
  5. The course of true love never did run smooth.
  6. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
  7. True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
  8. We are born of love; Love is our mother.
  9. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
  10. Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Love Quotes 01

  1. Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
  2. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
  3. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
  4. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
  5. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
  6. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
  7. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
  8. Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
  9. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
  10. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Friday, April 24, 2015

A Few Selected Quotes of George Washington Carver

A Few Selected Quotes of George Washington Carver
  1. Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
  2. How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
  3. Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
  4. Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
  5. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
  6. There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
  7. When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
  8. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
  9. I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
  10. Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
  11. I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
  12. Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
  13. No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
  14. Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
  15. Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
  16. If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
  17. When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
  18. Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Selected Quotes Of Lewis Carroll

Selected Quotes Of Lewis Carroll
  1. If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
  2. I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
  3. One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
  4. Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
  5. 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
  6. Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
  7. 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
  8. Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
  9. Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
  10. There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
  11. While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
  12. But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
  13. Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
  14. She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
  15. Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
  16. 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
  17. Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
  18. Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
  19. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
  20. There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
  21. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
  22. The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
  23. That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
  24. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
  25. Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
  26. We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
  27. His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
  28. No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
  29. 'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
  30. Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
  31. I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

25 Beautiful Quotes of Jim Carrey

25 Beautiful Quotes of Jim Carrey
  1. For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.
  2. My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
  3. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
  4. I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.
  5. I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
  6. I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'
  7. Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!
  8. You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.
  9. I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
  10. I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
  11. I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
  12. Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
  13. But, you know, you can't be a star at home.
  14. I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
  15. I just want to be myself.
  16. I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.
  17. Originality is really important.
  18. One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
  19. If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
  20. Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.
  21. I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.
  22. I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.
  23. We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
  24. My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
  25. I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

Famous Quotes of Jim Carrey

Famous Quotes of Jim Carrey
  1. Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
  2. I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
  3. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
  4. My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
  5. I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
  6. It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
  7. If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
  8. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
  9. Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.
  10. People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
  11. I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.
  12. Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
  13. If you've got a talent, protect it.
  14. I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.
  15. Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
  16. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
  17. I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
  18. I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
  19. I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
  20. My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
  21. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
  22. I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
  23. Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
  24. Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.
  25. I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

Some Inspirational Quotes From Dale Carnegie

Some Inspirational Quotes From Dale Carnegie
  1. Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
  2. Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
  3. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
  4. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
  5. There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
  6. If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
  7. First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
  8. You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
  9. The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
  10. The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
  11. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
  12. You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
  13. The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
  14. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
  15. If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
  16. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
  17. It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
  18. Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
  19. The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
  20. There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
  21. Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
  22. Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
  23. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
  24. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
  25. Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Inspirational Quotes From Dale Carnegie

Inspirational Quotes From Dale Carnegie
  1. One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
  2. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
  3. When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
  4. Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
  5. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
  6. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
  7. If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
  8. Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
  9. Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
  10. People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
  11. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
  12. Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
  13. Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
  14. There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
  15. Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
  16. Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
  17. If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
  18. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
  19. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
  20. The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
  21. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
  22. Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
  23. Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
  24. When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
  25. Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

28 Inspiring Quotes From Thomas Carlyle

28 Inspiring Quotes From Thomas Carlyle
  1. A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
  2. He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
  3. No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
  4. If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
  5. No pressure, no diamonds.
  6. The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
  7. A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
  8. Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
  9. Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
  10. Endurance is patience concentrated.
  11. When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
  12. The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
  13. Wonder is the basis of worship.
  14. Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
  15. It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
  16. Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
  17. Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
  18. Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
  19. Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
  20. The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
  21. No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
  22. History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
  23. To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
  24. What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
  25. A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
  26. Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
  27. Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
  28. Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Amazing Quotes From Thomas Carlyle

Amazing Quotes From Thomas Carlyle
  1. Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
  2. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
  3. Every noble work is at first impossible.
  4. Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
  5. Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
  6. There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
  7. Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
  8. Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
  9. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
  10. Silence is more eloquent than words.
  11. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
  12. I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
  13. If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
  14. Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
  15. Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
  16. A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
  17. Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
  18. If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
  19. Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
  20. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
  21. The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
  22. The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
  23. A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
  24. He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
  25. No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

25 Life Quotes of Albert Camus

25 Life Quotes of Albert Camus
  1. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
  2. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
  3. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
  4. He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
  5. A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
  6. There is no love of life without despair of life.
  7. All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
  8. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
  9. A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
  10. The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
  11. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
  12. As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
  13. Integrity has no need of rules.
  14. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
  15. What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
  16. Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
  17. The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
  18. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
  19. The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
  20. Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
  21. Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
  22. After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
  23. It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
  24. No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
  25. To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Some popular Quotes of Albert Camus

Some popular Quotes of Albert Camus
  1. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
  2. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
  3. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
  4. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
  5. In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
  6. Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
  7. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
  8. The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
  9. I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
  10. A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
  11. Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
  12. Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
  13. I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
  14. Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
  15. For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
  16. It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
  17. In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
  18. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
  19. Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
  20. Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
  21. Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
  22. The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
  23. Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
  24. There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
  25. Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Some Famous Quotes C.S Lewis

Some Famous Quotes C.S Lewis
  1. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
  2. Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
  3. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
  4. No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
  5. Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
  6. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
  7. The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
  8. Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
  9. Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
  10. I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
  11. Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
  12. Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
  13. What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
  14. The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
  15. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
  16. Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
  17. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
  18. The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
  19. A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
  20. The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
  21. Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
  22. An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
  23. This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
  24. With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
  25. There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

25 Famous Quotes From C.S Lewis

25 Famous Quotes From C.S Lewis
  1. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
  2. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
  3. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
  4. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
  5. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
  6. Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
  7. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
  8. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
  9. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
  10. A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  11. There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
  12. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
  13. We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
  14. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
  15. We are what we believe we are.
  16. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
  17. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
  18. You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
  19. Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
  20. Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
  21. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
  22. Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
  23. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
  24. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
  25. A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Famous Quotes Of George Carlin

Famous Quotes Of George Carlin
  1. Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.
  2. At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
  3. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
  4. When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
  5. What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
  6. The status quo sucks.
  7. Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
  8. I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
  9. Electricity is really just organized lightning.
  10. There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
  11. I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
  12. The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
  13. I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
  14. Think off-center.
  15. I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
  16. Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
  17. You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
  18. Religion is just mind control.
  19. If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
  20. Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
  21. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
  22. Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
  23. 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
  24. I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
  25. One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

25 Most Famous George Carlin Quotes

25 Most Famous George Carlin Quotes
  1. Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
  2. Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
  3. There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
  4. Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
  5. Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
  6. Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
  7. Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
  8. Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
  9. When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
  10. You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.
  11. The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
  12. Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
  13. One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
  14. The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
  15. People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.
  16. When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
  17. If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
  18. In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
  19. I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
  20. When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
  21. By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
  22. I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
  23. I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
  24. If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
  25. Always do whatever's next.

25 Must Read Quotes Of John Lennon

25 Must Read Quotes Of John Lennon
  1. Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
  2. Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
  3. You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
  4. The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
  5. These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
  6. If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
  7. Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
  8. The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
  9. The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
  10. Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
  11. You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
  12. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
  13. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
  14. And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
  15. We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
  16. When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
  17. I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
  18. It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
  19. If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
  20. There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
  21. I believe time wounds all heels.
  22. All you need is love.
  23. I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
  24. Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
  25. It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

Some Amazing John Lennon Quotes

Some Amazing John Lennon Quotes
  1. We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
  2. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
  3. Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
  4. I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
  5. Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
  6. Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
  7. Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
  8. Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
  9. As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
  10. I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
  11. Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
  12. Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
  13. Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
  14. I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
  15. You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
  16. If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
  17. Everything is clearer when you're in love.
  18. My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
  19. Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
  20. If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
  21. The more I see the less I know for sure.
  22. You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
  23. All we are saying is give peace a chance.
  24. He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
  25. Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

30 Most Famous Bruce Lee Quotes

30 Most Famous Bruce Lee Quotes
  1. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
  2. If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
  3. Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
  4. Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
  5. A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
  6. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
  7. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
  8. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
  9. I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
  10. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
  11. Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
  12. The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
  13. Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
  14. To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
  15. To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
  16. I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
  17. As you think, so shall you become.
  18. It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
  19. Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
  20. Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
  21. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
  22. Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
  23. Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
  24. All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
  25. A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
  26. Real living is living for others.
  27. You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
  28. The possession of anything begins in the mind.
  29. Obey the principles without being bound by them.
  30. The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Famous Quotes From Dalai Lama 02

Famous Quotes From Dalai Lama 01
  1. All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
  2. Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
  3. The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
  4. Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
  5. We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
  6. We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
  7. There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.
  8. It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
  9. As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
  10. I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
  11. If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
  12. The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
  13. Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
  14. I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
  15. I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
  16. Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
  17. When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
  18. Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
  19. Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
  20. World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
  21. My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
  22. Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
  23. Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
  24. Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
  25. Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.