Famous Quotes

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Joseph Heller, "Catch-22":

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Soren Kierkegaard:

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence:

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903:

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Benjamin Disraeli:

We make our fortunes and call them fate.

Albert Camus:

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Dorothy C. Fisher, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003:

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin):

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Emily Dickinson, No. 1333:

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

Mahatma Gandhi:

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Molly Wiest:

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

Lewis Ward:

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.

Krishnamurti:

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.

Publilius Syrus:

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Hippocrates c. 460-400 BC, Breaths, bk. I:

"Opposites are cures for opposites.