Category: Quotes

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

– Voltaire

“Vision is the bottleneck of talent.

Most talent is wasted because people do not clearly know what they want. It’s not a lack of effort, but a lack of direction.

There are many capable people in the world, but relatively few that focus on what matters.”

– James Clear

“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord.

The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”

— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Pessimists are usually right, but it’s the optimists who change the world.”

– Leigh Gallagher

“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

– George Bernard Shaw

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul

“You cannot make new old friends.”
– Irvin Yalom

“Honesty, integrity and compassion are expensive traits, dont expect them from cheap people.”
– Steven Brooks

“Life will present you with unexpected opportunities, and you won’t always know in advance which are the important moments. Above all, it’s the quality of your relationships that will determine the quality of your life. Invest in your connections, even those that seem inconsequential.”

– Esther Perel

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”
– The Bhagavad Gita

“I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take.”
– Nietzsche

“If you look for the light, you will often find it. But if you look for dark, it is all you will ever see.”
– Uncle Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

“Everyone is self centered, only the radius differs.”
– Unknown

“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”

– Charles Bukowski

“Fascism is cured by reading and racism is cured by travelling.”
– Miguel de Unamuno