"In my mind, I am free." - Stephen Hawking
"This is one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong (on the Moon)
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Why is it that, as a culture, we are più comfortable seeing two men holding pistole than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines
"Two roads diverge in a yellow wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." - Vincent furgone, van Gogh
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases da being shared." - Buddha
"Imagination is più important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"All our dreams can come true - If we have the courage to pursue them.” - Walt Disney
“To invent, te need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” - Thomas A. Edison
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if te just sit there." - Will Rodgers
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.” - Stephen Hawking
“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” - Thomas A. Edison
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ~William Shakespeare
"It's better to be hated for what te are, than to be loved for what you're not." - Kurt Cobain
“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here." - Arthur C. Clarke
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
”An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” - Mahatma Gandhi
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein
”I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
”That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth." - Unknown
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” - Albert Einstein
"I feel that there is nothing più truly artistic than to Amore people." - Vincent furgone, van Gogh
"You're an artist ... that means te see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make te crazy--just different. There's nothing wrong with being different." - Cassandra Clare
"When te take a fiore in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to o not." - Georgia O'Keeffe
"You must be the change te want to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi
"A picture is worth a thousand words." - Napoleon Bonaparte
“If we could see the miracle of a single fiore clearly, our whole life would change.” - Buddha
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them!” - Dr. Seuss
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill
“You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where te can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always Amore you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” - Peter Pan
"In peace sons bury their fathers, in war fathers bury their sons." - Unknown
“I've learned that people will forget what te said, people will forget what te did, but people will never forget how te made them feel.” - Maya Angelou
"At the touch of Amore everyone becomes a poet."- Plato
"Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that." - Walt Disney
”Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” - Roy Goodman
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” - Helen Keller
“There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path te take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his o her path is wrong.” ~Hindu proverb
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean;
if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." - Mahatma Gandhi
"What good am I, if I see and don't do?" - Bob Dylan
“If te do not express your own original ideas, if te do not listen to your own being, te will have betrayed yourself.” – Rollo May
“Shoot for the moon. Even if te miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Brian Littrell
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty o eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” ~Plato
"Nature is painting for us, giorno after day, pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have the eyes to see it" - John Ruskin
"Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the Amore of our Lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy" - Eskimo Proverb
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong
"Whatever we do to nature, we do to ourselves" - Kurt Heidinger
"To truly laugh, te must be able to take your pain, and play with it!" - Charlie Chaplin
“I hated every minuto of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” - Muhammad Ali
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe" - Albert Einstein
"There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other one is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door!" - Milton Berle
"Just keep swimming!" Dory (Finding Nemo)
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” - Marie Curie
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. These two are not rivals.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
"With every passing ora our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress."- Ransom K. Ferm
"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream." - Vincent furgone, van Gogh
"The 'Earth' without 'art' is just 'eh'" - Unknown
"No human being is più important than the other." - Unknown
"The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least." - Unknown
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
"I’d rather live with a good domanda than a bad answer." - Aryeh Frimer
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Ellen Parr
"I have a dream,
that my four little children will one giorno live in a nation,
where they will not be judged da the color of their skin,
but da the content of their character." - Martin Luther King Jr.
“If I were invited to a cena party with my characters, I wouldn't mostra up.” - Dr. Seuss
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”- George Bernard
"Just when the bruco, caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly." - Unknown
“I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers” - Stephen Hawking
"If te are not criticized, te may not be doing much." - Donald H. Rumsfeld
"I would rather have a mind opened da wonder than one closed da belief." - Gerry Spence
“Even death is not to be feared da one who has lived wisely.” - Buddha
“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then te win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
"All te need is love." - The Beatles
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde
“1.Never put off till tomorrow what te can do to-day.
2.Never trouble another for what te can do yourself.
3.Never spend your money before te have it.
4.Never buy what te do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5.Pride costs us più than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6.We never repent of having eaten too little.
7.Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8.How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
9.Take things always da their smooth handle.
10.When angry, count ten, before te speak; if very angry, a hundred.”
- Thomas Jefferson
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” - Carl Sagan
“Each secondo we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do te know what te are? te are a marvel. te are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way te move. te may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. te have the capacity for anything. Yes, te are a marvel. And when te grow up, can te then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? te must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.” - Pablo Picasso
"Learning never exhausts the mind. ” - Leonardo da Vinci
"When words are both true and kind, they can change our world." Buddha
"If te can dream it, te can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started da a mouse." - Walt Disney
"I like your Christ I do not like your Christians." - Mahatma Gandhi
"When the power of Amore overcomes the Amore of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
"Only when the last albero falls, when the last river is polluted, and when there is not a breath of clean air left, people will realize...you can't eat money." -Unknown
"Looks may capture the eyes but it is the personality which captures the heart." - Unknown
"Even the most beautiful rose have thorns." - Unknown
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed”- Mahatma Gandhi
"Look deep into nature, and then te will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein
“It is never too late to be what te might have been.” – George Eliot
"Believe nothing, no matter where te read it, o who detto it, no matter if I have detto it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha
"Magnificent desolation." - Buzz Aldrin's descrizione of the Moon (and perhaps outer space)
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the culla of true art and true science.” - Albert Einstein
“Weeds are flowers, too, once te get to know them.” - A.A. Milne
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” - Stephen Hawking
"Hunting isn't a sport. In a sport, both sides should know their playing. It is not a game either, because in game, both sides are playing for fun." - Unknown
“Unless someone like te cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.” - Dr. Seuss
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” - Stephen Hawking
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because te were born in it.”- George Bernard
"Anyone who conducts an argument da appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. ” - Leonardo da Vinci
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come" - Victor Hugo
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” - Elizabeth Kubler Ross
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” - Isaac Asimov
"Let us all rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we did get sick, at least we didn't die. So let us all be thankful."-- Buddha
"An insincere and evil friend is più to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may would your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." - Buddha
"How many times can a man turn his head
and pretend that he just doesn't see?" - Bob Dylan
"Remember that when te leave this earth, te can take with te
nothing that te have received - only what te have given." - Francis of Assisi
"Twenty years from now, te will be più disappointed da the things te didn't do
than da the things te did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the sicuro, cassetta di sicurezza harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. discover." - Mark Twain
"I just wanna make the world dance, forget about the price tags." - Jessie J
"People react to fear, not Amore - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. ” - Leonardo da Vinci
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." - Howard Zinn
"Do not believe in anything simply because te have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored da many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when te find that anything agrees with reason
and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
- Buddha
"A good friend would visit te in jail.
A great friend would bail te out.
An awesome friend would be in the cell successivo to te saying, 'Let's do that again!'" Unknown
“I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. te are not scared. te are an asshole.” - morgan Freeman
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.” - Stephen Hawking
"The world doesn't owe te anything. It was here first." - Mark Twain
"Through our eyes all forms of life are equally important.
To us, we are simply one part woven into the great creation.
the wind is our breath, the sun our eyes, the ocean waves our cuore beat,
the rivers and streams our veins. Through our eyes, we are no greater than the wolf,
the farfalla o even the pine tree. All creation is connected to us and we to it. We are one."
- Unknown Native American
"A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Don't it always seem to go:
te don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.
te paved paradise and te put up a parking lot." - Joni Mitchell
“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither te nor I would exist” - Stephen Hawking
"We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but . . . we have to earn it. And that's something te can't achieve da taking the easy way out. Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives te true satisfaction." - Anne Frank
"I am going to stop calling te a white man and I'm going to ask te to stop calling me a black man." - morgan Freeman
“You know you're in Amore when te can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” - Dr. Seuss
"Everybody is a genius. But if te judge a pesce da its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
"To be honest, I can't imagine how anyone could say "I'm weak" and then stay that way. If te know that about yourself, why not fight it, why not develop your character?" - Anne Frank
"A person's a person. No matter how small." - Dr. Seuss
"Expect the unexpected." - Unknown
"Your religion is irrelevant to me. I care not what te think happened
at the dawn of creation o what will happen at the end of time. I care only how te lived your life:
Were te kind to strangers? Did te honor and respect the world around you? Were te honest and hard-working? Did te help everyone te could?
Did te fight for justice and equality? Did te Amore without fear, laugh without conceit
and sing as loud as te could? Will te die knowing te did your best?
These are the only things that matter." - Unknown
"Maybe this is what the Mayans predicted. Not an asteroid o a solar flare, but the end of what we are. We no longer cherish life, o the other people, o even the earth o the animali o the resources put on it. War, Genocide, Abuse, senseless mass murder, animal cruelty, Greed, Waste, and lust. Look around you, the end of the world is already here." - Unknown
"Hakuna Matata!" - The Lion King
And then these are some of my own:
"Live a life, not an existence."
"Pride is good. But is best when it is unmentioned."
"Don't be upset because of your flaws. Admire them. Flaws are what makes things interesting If te were perfect, te would be quite a boring person."
Well that's it! Hope te enjoyed my collection of my preferito quotes! =)
~hetalianstella
