Quotes

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."- Charlie Chaplin

"Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it." - Salvador Dali

"Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you." - John De Paola

"Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard." - David McCullough

"If you don’t have an obvious passion, follow your curiosity." - Elizabeth Gilbert

"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it." - Rumi

"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains" - Rosa Luxemburg

"The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room." - Blaise Pascal

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." - Benjamin Franklin

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it." - David Starr Jordan

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists by itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more." - Herman Melville

"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things." - Herman Melville

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers." - Herman Melville

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

"Great minds have purpose, others have wishes." - Washington Irving

"We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are." - Bill Watterson

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." - Derek Bok

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" - George Eliot

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao Tzu

"Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams." - Doug Ivester

"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." - Ivan Turgenev

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

"So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"You have to believe in yourself." - Sun Tzu

"Any fool can criticize, complain, condemn, and most fools do." - Anonymous

"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox." - Lao Tzu

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are." - Charles de Montesquieu

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." - Confucius

"Using no way as way; using no limitation as limitation." - Bruce Lee

"Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working." - Anonymous

"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something in life." - Winston Churchill

"Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece." - Nadia Boulanger

"You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do." - David Foster Wallace