Good Quotes

Hell, there are no rules here – we're trying to accomplish something. -Thomas Edison

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Less than 15 percent of people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. -Luther Burbank


We discover, perhaps to our astonishment, that our greatest moments come when we find that we are not unique, when we come upon another self that is very like our own. The discovery of a continent is mere idle folly compared with this discovery of a sympathetic other-self, a friend or a lover.
J. B. Priestley

Resist much. Obey little.
Walt Whitman

The greatest service that you can do mankind is to expose hypocrisy, question authority, and blow the whistle … If you really want to make a difference, stand up for an unpopular cause.
Ed Asner


We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer ---
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
Maya Angelou


why lie when the truth is so much more ridiculous
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream. Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf

" One good thing about music - when it hits you feel no pain!" Bob Marley

Everyone shows harmony or disharmony according to how open he is to the music of the universe. The more he is open to all that is beautiful and harmonious, the more his life is tuned to that universal harmony, and the more he will show a friendly attitude to everyone he meets, his very atmosphere will create music around him.
Hazrat Khan

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It's not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heart breaks.
Lin Yutang

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusions and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
Simone Weil

I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
Han Suyin

The ten thousand things are all there in me. And there's no joy greater than looking within and finding myself faithful to them.
Mengzi Chinese Philosopher

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.
Emerson

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Vincent Van Gogh

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying.
Joan of Arc

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
King

It is very nearly impossible … to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin

Conventional thinking is the ruin of our souls,
something borrowed which we mistake as our own.
Ignorance is better than this; clutch at madness instead.
Rumi Afghani-Turkish Sufi Mystic,

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Montaigne

Disagreement shakes us out of our slumbers and forces us to see our own point of view through contrast with another person who does not share it.
R. D. Laing

What is opposition?
It is the arena of hostility, of conflict and turmoil.
Where duality is transcended peace reigns.
This is the Dharma's ultimate truth.
Hanshan Deqing Chinese Chan Master,

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard

If two refuse, no one fights.
Joaquim Machado de Assis

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster – it is an opportunity.
A. N. Whitehead

To be desperate is to discover strength.
We die of comfort and by conflict live.
May Sarton

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Vernon Howard

If there's nobody in your way, it's because you're not going anywhere.
Robert Kennedy

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Kennedy

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
Samuel Johnson

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
Joseph Pulitzer

A good conversation is better than a good bed.
Galla (Ethiopia) Saying

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

The capacity of speech is not only in the tongue, the ability to talk is not just a matter of words.
Yuanwu Kekin

There is no pleasure to me without communication; there is not so much as a sprightly thought that comes into my mind but I grieve that I have no one to tell it to. - Montaigne

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
Emerson

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Thoreau

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Archibald MacLeish

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man. Consciously or unconsciously, we are all actors in this life playing to the audience in a part and style approved by them.
Lin Yutang

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order, to know what is the world order in contradistinction to the wishful thinking orders we wish to impose upon one another.
Henry Miller

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despair of success, thou shalt not succeed.
Khemetic Saying

If you have no confidence in yourself, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Cicero

Lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty; the difficulty comes from a lack of confidence.
Seneca

You must act as if it is impossible to fail.
Ashanti (West Africa) Saying

When you realize where you come from,
you naturally become tolerant,
disinterested, amused,
kindhearted as a grandmother,
dignified as a king.
Immersed in the wonder of the Tao,
you can deal with whatever life brings you,
and when death comes, you are ready.
Laozi

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent light.
Patanjali

Heaven is calm and clear,
Earth is stable and peaceful.
Beings who lose these
Qualities die,
While those who emulate
Them live.
Calm spaciousness is the
House of spiritual light;
Open selflessness is the
Abode of the Way.
Huai-nan-tzu

When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.
Marcus Aurelius

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius


Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to taking repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.
Hazrat Khan

The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow … Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.
Morihei Ueshiba

Inner calm is possible only when man is not disturbed by the vicissitudes of fortune.
Lin Yutang

When the mind is free from all its projections, there is a state of quietness in which problems cease, and then only the timeless, the eternal comes into being.
Krishnamurti

To live peacefully every day means you have no nationality, religion, dogma, or authority. Peace means to love, to be kind; if you haven't that, then you are responsible for all the confusion.
Krishnamurti

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Kindness effects more than severity.
Aesop

We are to live so that no harm or pain is caused by our thoughts, words, or deeds to any other being.
Patanjali

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Seneca

I was hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in.
Jesus of Nazareth

Constantly remind yourself, "I am a member of the whole body of conscious things." If you think of yourself as a mere "part," then love for mankind will not well up in your heart; you will look for some reward in every act of kindness and miss the boon which the act itself is offering. Then all your work will be seen as a mere duty and not as the very porthole connecting you with the Universe itself.
Marcus Aurelius

Those desiring speedily to be
A refuge for themselves and other beings
Should interchange the terms "I" and "other,"
And thus embrace a sacred mystery.
Shantideva

You must constantly guard against the trap of falling into a routine of remaining busy with unimportant chores that will provide you with an excuse to avoid meaningful challenges or opportunities that could change your life for the better.
Og Mandino

As you think so shall you become.
Khemetic Saying

As a man acts, so does he become. As a man's desire is, so is his destiny.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha

Better than a thousand sayings composed of meaningless statements is a single meaningful statement on hearing which one becomes calm.
~ Buddha ~