Friday, July 22, 2011

Quotes I like

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Jim Henson

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."
— Dr. Seuss

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."
— Bill Gates

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Lao Tzu

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
— Pablo Neruda

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you."
— A.A. Milne

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

"I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.."
— Nicholas Sparks

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