Category: Quotes

“It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear.”
– Frank Luntz

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
– Socrates

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.”
– Dorothee Sölle

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
– Honoré de Balzac

“A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.”
– Titus Livius

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
― Anne Frank

“Damage is indicative of vulnerability, which I think always feels a little dangerous. It is evidence that a person can feel deeply, that they can be open…then that delicious wall goes up and we just want to scramble over it and save (and feel) the person. It’s irresistible. I also think damage is a glimpse of something honest, and that’s always attractive.”

– Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“And when nobody wakes you up in the morning and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”

– Charles Bukowski

“As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”

— Harrington Emerson

“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

– Victor Frankl

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”

– Kurt Vonnegut

“An important part of freedom is not having to make sacrifices for people who don’t have to make sacrifices for you.”

– Sebastian Junger