Quotes

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

You are not just the drop in the ocean, but the entire ocean in each drop.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

What you seek is seeking you.

Be like melting snow — wash yourself of yourself.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

What is past is prologue.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Experience is merely the name men give to their mistakes.

True friends stab you in the front.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Fashion is what one wears. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Nothing succeeds like excess.

Still I rise.

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

When we know better, we do better.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

I'm a woman phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that's me.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Kites fly highest against the wind, not with it.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The future depends on what you do today.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory.

Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people.

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I hope the exit is joyful - and I hope never to return - FRIDA

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I am my own muse, my own subject. I know myself better than anyone else.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Think different.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Study the past if you would define the future.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place while all the stars turn around it.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Work is love made visible.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with perfect virtue.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Well begun is half done.

Hope is a waking dream.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Books have no more reality than dreams. They are mirrors of the mind.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Language has no single use, no single meaning. It is a wine with many flavors.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes swims to the surface.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes swims to the surface.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, in company we give passionate attention to others.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

A warrior of light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.

Maktub. It is written.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which cannot yield to water.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

The wise are not learned; the learned are not wise.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

I know that I know nothing.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Virtue is knowledge.

No one can harm you without your permission.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

The root of suffering is attachment.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Science is the basis of human progress.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Confine yourself to the present.

How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

The little things are infinitely the most important.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible. For the fainthearted, it is unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is ideal.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

Love life more than the meaning of it.

Beauty will save the world.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

Money is coined liberty.

The soul is healed by being with children.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

The earth soaks up the blood of the murdered, but tears it cannot drink.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time.

Can you have despair without hope? Can you have hope without despair?

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart.

Compassion is the most important, perhaps the only law of human existence.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Realism is nothing more than the truthful reproduction of reality.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight.

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

We have all come out of Gogol's overcoat.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything.

The formula 'two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone but only his friends.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Reason is the slave of passion.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

We are all happy if we but knew it.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone around him.

The world will be saved by beauty.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Love alone is a beautiful thing, Jo, but there is something sweeter than that... to know that the heart we have won, however tender, will never grow cold or fail us.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.

I think you know you've found someone special when you meet them for the first time, and it feels like you're remembering them from somewhere, somehow.

A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.

how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

You deserve someone who is utterly obsessed with you.

Love is not about finding someone to complete you. Love is about finding someone who accepts you completely.

She was like the moon - part of her was always hidden away.

Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde. Te amo sencillamente, sin problemas ni orgullo.

Te amo más que a mi propia piel.

Aimer, c'est agir.

On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

ভালোবাসা হলো দুটি আত্মার মধ্যে একটি বন্ধন যা কখনো ভাঙে না।

المحبة لا تملك ولا تُملك، فالمحبة تكتفي بالمحبة.

愛是生命的橋樑

愛人者，人恆愛之

عاشقان را در جهان هیچ غمی نیست، که دل بر دوست بسته باشد آسان است

عشق آن آتش است که چون بر افروخت، جز خاکستر عاشق هیچ نگذارد

愛は心の花である

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

Я вас любил: любовь еще, быть может, в душе моей угасла не совсем.

Любить — значит жить жизнью того, кого любишь.

Amar é a eterna inocência, e a única inocência é não pensar.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

Resist much, obey little.

Be curious, not judgmental.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies.

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - Too? Then there's a pair of us!

The Brain—is wider than the Sky—For—put them side by side—The one the other will contain With ease—and You—beside.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I dwell in Possibility — A fairer House than Prose.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Forever is composed of nows.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Laughter is the language of the soul.

They can cut all the flowers but they cannot keep spring from coming.

I confess, I have lived.

Love is a clash of lightnings, and two bodies defeated by a single sweetness.

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

Living is an art, like everything else. I make it up as I go along.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

I am, I am, I am. The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

Jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the thing.

I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.

Tomorrow, I'll be at the table when company comes.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Love is never any better than the lover.

The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.

Water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Something that is loved is never lost.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Ships at a distance carry every man's wish on board.

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets.

There are two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

No man may make another free.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.