Quotes
Here are some quotes that I find inspiring and thought-provoking:
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. (Albert Einstein)Except in the modern world, sexuality has everywhere and always been a physical manifestation of the holy and sacred, and the sexual act an integral action and also a means of knowledge. (Mircea Eliade)
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. (Henry Miller)
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin)
If everyone likes you, it probably means you aren't saying much. (Author/political commentator Donna Brazile)
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
It's not the perfect but the imperfect that is in need of our love. (Oscar Wilde)
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. (Audre Lorde)
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Colette)
[Some of us] would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than let our illusions die. (W.H. Auden)
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. (Jean Cocteau)
The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young. (James Hollis)
Never hate your enemies, it affects your judgment. (dialogue from The Godfather III)There's dignity and purpose in work, and grace in aging...old age is really a wonderful experience as long as the body ages well and you don't have serious economic problems. (Hedda Bolgar - age 102 - is a Los Angeles psychotherapist who still sees clients four days a week)
No wise person ever wanted to be younger (Native American Aphorism)
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy, the joy of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, "What wonderful things is this Salvador Dali going to accomplish today?" (Salvador Dali)
Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can’t Lose. (football coach Eric Taylor, the most decent man ever to anchor a TV show, on the series finale of Friday Night Lights)
