Category: Quotes

“We each come by the gifts we have to offer by an infinite series of influences and lucky breaks we can never fully understand.”

– MacKenzie Bezos

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!”

– Hunter S. Thompson

“If you cut corners you’ll just end up going in circles.”

– Unknown

“Never take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.”

– Unknown

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

– Voltaire

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.”

– Unknown

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”

– Socrates

“In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still.”

– Pico Iyer

“Faced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.”

– J.K. Galbraith

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

– Winston S Churchill

“I saw appear / Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears / Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars”

– Dante Alighieri

“A man without enemies is a man without character.”

– Paul Newman

“If you punish them for telling the truth, you teach them to lie.”

– Unknown

“The grass is greener where you water it.”

– Unknown