I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.
The WeekndAll my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest HemingwayI really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.
Kevin GatesI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
Alice WalkerThe health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
Karl MarxThere is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPeople generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhy should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest HemingwayEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaFaith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise PascalMeasure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
Maya AngelouMan does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
PlatoIt is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
Albert CamusI don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.
Greta ThunbergI like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.
AuroraWhatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus AureliusFiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George EliotI like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.
Alice MunroNever in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
EpictetusNature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David ThoreauA pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert HubbardSometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.
Jim MattisIs the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
Henry David ThoreauA pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S. TrumanThere is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.
Hosea BallouNo one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve JobsNobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice WalkerLife is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar WildeIf we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Joseph AddisonThe test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard ShawI mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.
Beyonce KnowlesNo finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Jean-Paul SartreNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EpicurusThe hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
HeraclitusInstead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen KellerThe chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. MenckenThe least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl JungI don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.
Alice WalkerI’m an idealist without illusions.
John F. KennedyMy father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘
LeBron JamesThere is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
Aldous HuxleyChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYour joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.
Joyce MeyerKeep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.
Wayne DyerChildren wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William ShakespeareYou might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.
Mr. THistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon BonaparteIt is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston ChurchillIt is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David ThoreauLife is a series of commas, not periods.
Matthew McConaugheyAny experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.
Ray BradburyThieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
Joel OsteenThe world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel JohnsonIf small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart TolleI grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.
Beyonce Knowles