"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction,
both are transformed."
Carl Jung
(Swiss psychologist)
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Theresa
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit
a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein
(1879 - 1955)
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Thomas Huxley
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could
always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength
into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to
go on without effort, then I am filled with music."
George Eliot, (English novelist)
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people.
Forget yourself."
Henry Miller, (U.S. author)
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
Henry David Thoreau
(U.S. Transcendentalist author)
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
Albert Camus, (existential philosopher)
"Follow your bliss"
Joseph Campbell
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
William Jennings Bryan (American orator, pacifist, politician)
"I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none."
"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."
T. S. Eliot
"Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it."
Andre Gide (French writer and moralist)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted
as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer
(German philosopher)
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong."
R. Buckminster Fuller
(U.S. architect & engineer)
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet
untouched by tragedy."
Alfred North Whitehead
(English mathematician
and philosopher)
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
Aristotle, Greek (critic, philosopher, physicist & zoologist)
"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming ...
suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you."
Agatha Christie, mystery author
"When one door closes another door opens; but we
so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Alexander Graham Bell
(Scottish inventor)
"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell."
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
"The words that enlighten the soul are more
precious than jewels."
Hazrat Inayat Khan (founder of the Sufi order in the West)
“Arguments are to be avoided; they are always
vulgar and often convincing.”
“I think that God in creating Man somewhat
overestimated his ability.”
"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not
getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
Oscar Wilde
“I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there
when it happens.”
“Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a
date on Saturday night.”
Woody Allen
"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs."
Lily Tomlin
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”
Matthew Arnold
"The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves."
"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"
"What is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have not been discovered."
Ralph Waldo Emerson