Quote Worthy

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. - Eugene Delacroix

If someone treats you like crap, just remember that there is something wrong with them, not you. Normal people don’t go around destroying other human beings. - Unknown

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room. - George Eliot

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest. - Unknown

Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top. - Paul Coffey

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. - Mark Twain

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. - Winnie-the-Pooh

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable. - Judith Martin

One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else. - Soren Kierkegaard

It doesn't matter what others are doing. It matters what you are doing. - Unknown

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes. - Marcel Proust

The more you want, the more you stand to lose. - Aesop

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Definitions You Won’t See In The Dictionary

Etc.: end of Thinking Capacity. - Unknown

Family: a social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. - Evan Esar

Future: that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. - Ambrose

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. - Ambrose Bierce

Heathen: a benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel. - Ambrose Bierce

History: an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. - Ambrose Bierce

Imagination: a warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. - Ambrose Bierce

Immortality: the condition of a dead man who doesn’t believe that he is dead. - H. L. Mencken

Jealousy: that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. - Henry Havelock Ellis

Laziness. unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. - Ambrose Bierce

Leisure: fun taken seriously. - Mary Addink

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Love: a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. - Unknown

Food for Thought

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. - Anthony Robbins

Dreamers may like dreaming, inventors may like inventing, but not so many of them like the effort of putting their ideas into action. In fact the action part of the cycle involves more creativity and innovation than ever, perhaps even recreating yourself as a person of action. - Unknown

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough. - Marissa Mayer

A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom. - George Eliot

Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting. - Tatiana Maslany

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Humorous Quotes

I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it’s relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one? - Jarod Kintz

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. - Unknown

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old. - John Green

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy’s pocket on an airplane and made a run for it. - Rodney Dangerfield

You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it. - Evan Esar

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up. - Ellen Goodman

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them. - Dick Francis

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. - Marilyn Monroe

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. - Oscar Wilde

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. - S. E. Hinton

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Love - Quotes

The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of money or under pressure or hungry. Love is different. Love is choosing to serve someone and be with someone in spite of their filthy heart. Love is patient and kind, love is deliberate. Love is hard. Love is pain and sacrifice, it’s seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship. - Unknown

Something good is bound to happen when love is in your heart, for love and human kindness is where good things always start. There's goodness in your neighbour, there's goodness close at hand. Oh, let's spread love and kindness throughout all this blessed land! - Eli Bloodshy

Let someone love you just as you are. As flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you might feel, as unaccomplished as you might think you are; let someone love you just as you are. And let that someone be you. - Sandra King

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Quote Worthy

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. - Sigmund Freud

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. - G. K. Chesterton

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. - Robert A. Heinlein

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it’s the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. - David Allan Coe

If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up. - Brigham Young

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller

Listen with ears of tolerance. See through the eyes of compassion. Speak with the language of love. - Unknown

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one. - George Herbert

If we don’t get lost, we’ll never find a new route. - Joan Littlewood

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A Parable

            There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
            “Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn.”

Moral of the story:

            So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all...

Food for Thought

I don’t believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are – an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew. - Donald Barthelme

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. - Miguel Angel Ruiz

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed… It feels an impulsion… this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons. - Richard Bach

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself. - Walter Anderson

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Humorous Quotes

I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labour, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way for numerous more months. - Artemus Ward

Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them is making a poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge. - Jerry Seinfeld

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis Diller

Monday is like a math problem. Add the irritation, subtract the sleep, multiply the problems, divide the happiness. - Unknown

I was born at home on newspapers ... I still have a story on my butt, although now the print is much larger. - Phyllis Diller

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be. - George Carlin

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world. - Jarod Kintz

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. - George Carlin

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes. - Abraham Lincoln

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. - Woodrow Wyatt

I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they? - Jess C. Scott

Age and glasses of wine should never be counted. - Unknown

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Friends n Friendship Quotes

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. - Jerome Cummings

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. - Maya Angelou

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold Glasgow

A man’s enemies are those he should endeavour first to make his friends. - Norman MacDonald

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. - William Penn

A true friend, with an annual oiling, will run a lifetime, like a good watch. - Austin O’Malley

Don't let the grass grow on the path of friendship. - Native American Saying

False friends leave you in times of trouble. - Aesop

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. - Sarah Dessen

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. - C.J. Langenhoven

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. - Euripedes

In order to make friends you must first be friendly. - Dale Carnegie

No friendship is an accident. - O. Henry

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. - Jean de La Fontaine

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