“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Category: Quotes
Hire – David Ogilvy
“Don’t hire a dog, then bark yourself!”
– David Ogilvy
Bad tendencies – Alain de Botton
“The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to observe them at work in another person.”
– Alain de Botton
Learn – Socrates
“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.”
– Socrates
Valentine’s Day – Very Grumpy Cat
“If you’re sad about being alone on Valentine’s Day, just remember.. Nobody loves you on the other days of the year either.”
– Very Grumpy Cat @verygrumpycat
Permanent choices
“Never make permanent choices when in a highly emotional state. Act from love not for love.”
– Unknown
Safe – Albert Einstein
“A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.”
― Albert Einstein
Well adjusted – Jiddu Krishnamurti
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
Santa – George Carlin
“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live”
– George Carlin
Times – Charles Dickens
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
– Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)
Two tragedies in life – Shaw
“There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.”
– Shaw
The opposite of despair – Kierkegaard
“To will to be that self which one truly is, is indeed the opposite of despair.”
– Kierkegaard
Remember – Joe Rogan
“If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.”
– Joe Rogan
Buy – William Pietri
“People buy what they think they need, not what you think they need.”
– William Pietri
Snowflake – Stanislaw J. Lec
“Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.”
– Stanislaw J. Lec