"Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of
drowning them." (Mark Twain)
"Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After
enlightenment, chop wood and carry water."
(Zen Master)
"Anyone
who angers you, conquers you." (Unknown)
"Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and
achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes."
(Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
"Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of
inspiration." (Rudolf Nureyev)
"...and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was
more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais
Nin)
"You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long
time." (Moliere)
"All cats are
gray in the dark."
(Benjamin Franklin)
"Bad people don't go to hell, they are already there."
(Dan Millman)
"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
"It is never too late to have a happy childhood."
(Tom Robbins)
"You may fail many times, but you are not a failure until you
start blaming others." (Olaus Petri)
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king." (N.
Machiavelli)
"The stronger the wind, the stronger the tree."
(J. Willard Marriott)
"If you knew the time it took me to gain my mastery, it
wouldn't seem so wonderful." (Michelangelo)
"That which cannot stand being joked about seldom deserves to
be taken seriously." (Sigfrid Lindstrom)
"Many wise words are told as jokes, even more
stupid words are told seriously." (unknown)
"To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature."
(Jevtusjenko)
"Each of us is ultimately alone."
(Sheldon B. Kopp)
"Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the
truth." (Oscar Wilde)
"Do not say a little in many words, but a great
deal in a few." (Pythagoras)
"Education is a good thing, but you should sometimes remember
that nothing worth knowing can be taught." (Oscar
Wilde)
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
(John Gardner)
"I
can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you." (Losje)
"When it gets dark enough, you can see the
stars." (Charles A. Beard)
"There is a hell to be alone, and a heaven to be
able to be it." (Paul Bjerre)
"Any idiot can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most idiots do." (Dale Carnegie)
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
(Winston Churchill)
"The one who is not being born is dying."
(Bob Dylan)
"The one who loses his head no longer cares
about his hair." (Nikita Khrushchev)
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong
attempt discarded is another step forward." (Thomas Edison)
"Medical research has made such enormous
advances that there are hardly any healthy people left."
(Aldous Huxley)
"If you get upset about small things, you are
probably not much larger than them."
(Alf Henrikson)
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him
that is part of yourself. What isn't a part of ourselves
doesn't disturb us." (Hermann Hesse)
"The way to the starting place is the longest."
(Arne Hirdman)
"Don't expect people to respect you for what you
are "planning" to do." (Henry Ford)
"I have my ignorance to thank for the few things
I know." (Sacha Guitry)
"Never tear down a fence until you know why it
was raised." (Robert Frost)