Category: Quotes

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken – the choosing was not. You have to move on.
– Stephen Sondheim

When we ask how good a man is, we do not ask what he does, nor even what he believes, but what he loves.
– Augustine

“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”
– T.S. Elliot

“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

“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

“In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”

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

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