- Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split into two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
- Jacob A. Rus (Journalist and Photographer) - If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
- Oscar Wilde (Writer) - Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates (Philosopher) - It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery (Writer and Pilot) - And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself.
A man should never think that.
My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
- Isaac Asimov (Writer) - Rule Number One: Never lose money.
Rule Number Two: Never forget rule Number One.
- Warren Buffett (Investor) - Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
- Cynthia Nelms (Writer) - The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Writer) - Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.
When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao-Tzu (Philosopher) - At times of distress, strengthen your heart.
Even if you stand at death's door.
The lamp has light before it is extinguished.
The wounded lion still knows how to roar.
- Samuel Hanagid (Poet) - As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
- Mel Brooks (Film director, Comedian and Producer) - Adversities do not make a man frail.
They show what sort of man he is.
- Thomas A Kempis (Mystic) - Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
- J.K. Rowling (Writer) - The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
- Dante Alighieri (Poet) - Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game.
You cannot lose at it; you may gain.
It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed.
Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
- Thomas Hardy (Writer) - Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein (Physicist) - Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people.
- James Russell Lowell (Editor and Writer)
Sunday, July 11, 2010
It's time for tons of quotes!
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