quotes

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” Henry David Thoreau

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.” Oscar Wilde

“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
Blaise Pascal

“If you want to really hurt your parents and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing art, no matter how well or badly, is a what to make your soul grow, for heavens sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
Kurt Vonnegut

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill

“Yes it’s important to love ourselves. But come on. Doing only that gets boring after a while.” Melody Beattie

*Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.* Lucille Ball

“There is just one life for each of us: our own.” Euripides

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost

“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.” Margaret Thatcher

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.” Henry Kissinger

“Never confuse movement with action.” Ernest Hemingway

“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.” Albert Camus

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” Anais Nin

“For I have learned the truth: there are greater pursuits than self-seeking. Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. It is not a prize for being the most clever, the strongest, or the boldest. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people whom you rely, and who rely on you in return.”
John McCain

“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking; I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.” William Shakespeare

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
Thomas A. Edison

“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.” Hannah Arendt

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” Carl Jung

“The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.” Margo Kaufman