Category: Quotes

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”

― Michelangelo

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
– Rumi

“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
― Stephen R. Covey

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”
– Stephen Hawking

“Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
– Søren Kierkegaard

“In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”

‘We Go Round and Round in the Night and are Consumed by Fire’

“Anxiety and depression can be the result of your unconscious mind withdrawing its approval of your life choices. Confidence comes from living in a way that you can be proud of.”
– Random Redditor

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
– W.S. Merwin

“We continue to kill those who kill others, because killing is wrong.”
– Unknown

“Most people want affirmation, not information.”
– Unknown

“Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient”.
– Russell Brand

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
– Allen Saunders

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
– Aristotle (possibly)