Melancholia

"Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe"


(I am standing with one foot in the grave),

Monday, June 10, 2013

Quotes


"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mohandas Gandhi



"Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself." - Mohandas Gandhi


"Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival." - Rene Dubos


"Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The sum of one's intelligence is the sum of one's habits of mind." - Lauren Resnick



"The greatest of all weaknesses is to be conscious of none." - Harvey Mackay


"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them." - Washington Irving


"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy." - William Shakespeare


"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers


"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods." - C. S. Lewis


"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy


"A problem is your chance to do your best." - Duke Ellington


"Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness." - Friedrich Nietzsche



"Realists do not fear the results of their study." - Feodor Dostoyevsky


"Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of very man or woman." - Conrad Hilton


Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller


"What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing." - Pablo Picasso


"Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself." - Charles de Gaulle


"No one has ever drowned in sweat." - Lou Holtz


"It is what we do, rather than what we feel, or say we do that reflects who and what we truly are." - Leo Buscaglia


"Everything must be made as simple as possible but not one bit simpler." - Albert Einstein


"The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory we have in overcoming it." - Jean Baptiste Moliere



"There is no hope of joy except in human relations." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery


"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come." - Chinese Proverb


"I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have." - Studs Terkel



"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time." - Elbert Hubbard



"My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day." - Johnny Carson


What you plant now, you will harvest later." - Og Mandino


It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Anthony Robbins


"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James B. Conant


"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." - Aristotle


"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them." - Albert Camus


"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." - Robert Lewis Stevenson
 


"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock



"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books." - Chinese Proverb


"Life is an endless process of self-discovery." - John W. Gardner


"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. - Thomas a Kempis


"Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him." - Samuel Butler


"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction." - James Baldwin


Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.  - H. L. Mencken


"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust



"We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations." - Stephen Covey


"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Proverb


"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Confucius


"Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain." - John Lithgow


Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. - Dalai Lama


"You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him." - Lou Holtz


Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.  - William Morris


"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." - F. Scott Fitzgerald


"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy." - Robert Lewis Stevenson


"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli


"Our patience will achieve more than our force." - Edmund Burke


Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon


"Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind." - Buddha



"I attribute my success to this-I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale


"There is nothing so practical as a good theory." - Kurt Lewin


"Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy." - Gordon Allport


When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective." - George C. Marshall



"The dread of criticism is the death of genius." - William Gilmore Simms


Thunder is good, thunder is impressive. But it is the lightning that does the work." - Mark Twain


"If you want work well done, select a busy man: the other kind has no time." - Elbert Hubbard


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