Famous Quotes

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Plato:

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Natalie Goldberg, O Magazine, October 2002:

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

J. S. Bach:

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954):

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Albert Einstein:

"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

John Kenneth Galbraith:

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

Albert Schweitzer:

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

Ovid:

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Katharine Hepburn:

Enemies are so stimulating.

Woody Harrelson:

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912):

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.

Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962:

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Joseph Addison:

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Italian Proverb:

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

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.