Quotes

This is a collection of inspiring, funny, and or just interesting quotes that I have found. Please, if you know of any quotes that you really enjoy, email it/them to me, and I'll be sure to put it/them up here! :) hehehe enjoy!

"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend."
-William Rotsler

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th U.S. President

"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
-William Faulkner

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
-Aldous Huxley

"We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams."
-Arthur O'Shaughnessy

"The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal."
-Pierre Boulez

"Musicians . . . own music because music owns them."
-Virgil Thomson, composer and music critic

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
-William Shakespeare

"I never knew so young a body with so old a head."
-William Shakespeare

"The rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid’s music."
-William Shakespeare

"The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was."
-William Shakespeare

"I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."
-William Shakespeare

"From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world." -William Shakespeare

"O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!"
-William Shakespeare

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
-William Shakespeare

"I tell thee Love is Nature’s second sun,
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines."
-George Chapman, English dramatist and poet

"Onion soup sustains. The process of making it is somewhat like the process of learning to love. It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry."
-Ronni Lundy

"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality."
-Theodor Reik

"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens."
-Brooks Atkinson , drama critic, New York Times

"If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second."
-Eleanor Clark

"Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
-Dr. Karl A. Menninger

"The first duty of love is to listen."
-Paul Tillich

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
-William Shakespeare

"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher

"Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself."
-Mark Putzke

"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."
-Daisaku Ikeda

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
-Mother Teresa

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Ingrid Bergman

"There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved."
-George Sand

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
-Alfred Tennyson

"Trouble is part of your life—if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."
-Dinah Shore

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell."
-Joan Crawford

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created."
-Edward Steichen

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in the world."
-Blaise Pascal, French scientist and philosopher

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us "universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-Albert Einstein

"We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are."
V.S. Pritchett

"Anything is possible if you wish hard enough."
-J.M. Barrie

"When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o’ the sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that."
William Shakespeare

"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified."
-Aesop

"If you never want to see a man again, say, 'I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children'—they leave skid marks."
-Rita Rudner

"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life."
-Dr. Karl A. Menninger

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."
-Mark Twain

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
-Mark Twain

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
-Mark Twain

"Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful . . . Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
-Mark Twain

"So go for the jump, and chase all your dreams."
-Mark van Essen

"Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it."
-Mark Twain

"These then are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
-William James

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
-Michel de Montaigne, French essayist

"Men are most apt to believe what they least understand."
-Michel de Montaigne, French essayist

"Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit; but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along."
-W.R. Matthews, Dean, St. Paul's Cathedral, London

"I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind, and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free."
-John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe."
-Anatole France

"These then are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
-William James

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."
-John Lilly

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Well, thats all I've got so far! Hope you liked 'em! :) Time to go home, but come back for a visit, cuz I'm gunna be adding more as I get them! :)