Insights
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible”
-Stanislaw Lec
“He who looks outside dreams; He who looks inside wakes”
“Those who wonder are not always lost”
-JR Tolken
“My life has been the poem I would have writ
But I could not both live and utter it”
-Henry David Thoreau
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul”
-Marcus Aurelius
“A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams”
-John Barrymore
“Solitude is better than a bad companion”
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
-Andre Gide
“Propaganda is that branch of lying which often deceives your friends without ever deceiving your enemies.”
“God gave man two ears and one mouth so we could listen twice as much as we speak”
“Youth is not a time of life but a state of mind…
A predominance of courage over timidity…
of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease…”
-Robert F Kennedy
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
“Self-praise depreciates.”
-Miguel de Cervantes
“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Life is not having and getting but being and becoming”
-Mathew Arnold
“Small minds discuss people
Average minds discuss events
Great minds discuss ideas”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm it had in pursuit”
“We would be better off ignoring what we notice and noticing what we ignore.”
“There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.”
– Albert Einstein
“If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.”
-Aldous Huxley
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
-Andre Gide
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
-Frank A. Clark
“People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.”
“I never let my schooling interfere with my education”
-Albert Einstein”
“You can’t change the wind, but you can adjust your sails”
“Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening
-Barbara Tober
“Beware of the light at the end of the tunnel, it may be an oncoming train”
“It is our choices that show who we are, far more than our abilities”
-JK Rowlings
“Interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority”
-Alfred Adler
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words but in the choices one makes”
-Elanor Roosevelt
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting”
-Ben Franklin
“No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it”
-Ellen Glasgow
“Poetry is what happens when anxiety meets technique”
-Lawrence Durrell
“The core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences.”
-Chris McCandless
“There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your hearts desire, the other is to gain it”
-George Bernard Shaw
“What is happiness but the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads”
-Albert Camus
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.”
-Tolstoy
“Not until we have lost the world do we begin to find ourselves”
-Thoreau
“You cannot teach a man anything. Only help him find it within himself
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives”
-Albert Einstein
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves”
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“If you make people think they’re thinking they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you”
“The two most compelling forces in the history of the world have been the love of power and the power of love”
“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all”
-Rebecca West
“The key to finding happiness is not to pursue it”
“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued is always beyond our grasp,
But which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
“A man with outward courage dares to die. One with inward courage dares to live”
“Its never too late to be who you might have been”
-George Elliot
“One does not stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams”
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant”
-A. Bronson Alcott
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish”
-Thomas Gray
“We judge others by their behaviors. We judge ourselves by our intentions”
-Ian Percy
“If you’re upset by every rub, how will you ever become polished”
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple, the philosophy is kindness”
-Dalai Lama