My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
Anthony HopkinsOne friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry AdamsThere is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
SocratesWe are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo EmersonChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry AdamsI am absolutely my own biggest critic.
Lando NorrisIt is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Henry David ThoreauAll human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul SartreIn Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
Will RogersYou say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich NietzschePassions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSomebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.
Dylan ThomasNo such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?
Frank OceanMan’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas CarlyleI think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.
Terry PratchettMany a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert HubbardMetaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William JamesThe truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce LeeConfine yourself to the present.
Marcus AureliusWhen you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Bob DylanIf I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. LewisIt is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEverything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
Paulo CoelhoYou carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.
Thich Nhat HanhA prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis BaconI’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Kurt CobainOnly on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry AdamsMankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas JeffersonWriting in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
Anne FrankReligion is the opium of the masses.
Karl MarxTrue virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch SpinozaWhen you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
ConfuciusKnowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Khalil GibranWhatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin FranklinDon’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.
Franz KafkaLet each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
Nelson MandelaNothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch SpinozaWhat if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?
Woody AllenIt isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale CarnegieOnly that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch SpinozaThe first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey NewtonThere are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI don’t think I get angry.
Billy GrahamNor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil GibranOne can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao TzuMan approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous HuxleyReligion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
Keanu ReevesI don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Audrey HepburnI think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence NightingaleIt is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfI am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.
Clint EastwoodHe had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac AsimovThat God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul SartreHe is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
Mahatma GandhiI had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel KantThere must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato