![]() “One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.” - Stephen Hawking “We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” - Helen Adams Keller “It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” - Alfred Adler “Noise proves nothing-often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.” - Mark Twain “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” - Henry David Thoreau “New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, ``Why then are you not taking part in them?’’” - H.G. “It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” - Bertrand Russell “War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” - Thomas Jefferson “A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.” - Sydney J. “If words are to enter men’s minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men’s defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.” - J.B. They must be felt with the heart.” - Helen Adams Keller “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. “Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln “Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” - Heraclitus “Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.” - Tony Hoare “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.” - Soren Kierkegaard Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” - Helen Adams Keller “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” - Marcus Aurelius “Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!” - Michel de Montaigne “Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.” - Mark Twain “The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.” - Arthur Koestler “Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I’ll show you a man who can’t put his pants on.” - Arthur K. “Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” - Jonathan Kozol “Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.” - Edward Eggleston “The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” - Kahlil Gibran “Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.” - Henry Emerson Fosdick “Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” - Albert Einstein “When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” - William Arthur Ward “Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain “Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.” - Norman Mailer “We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its end which stands related to all things which is the mean of many extremes.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Some of my favorite quotes Some of my favorite quotes
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