28 Awesome quotes

 

1. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein 2. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” – Sigmund Freud 3. “In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.” – Unknown 4. “Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is a fruit of love, the verb.” – Stephen Covey 5. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl 6. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” – Michel De Montaigne 7. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill 8. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi 9. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller 10. “Challenges is what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine 11. “If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a life time – help someone else.” – Chinese proverb 12. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” – Viktor Frankl 13. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes 14. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius 15. “Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality” – Anthony Robins 16. “True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” – Paul Sweeney 17. “The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.” – C. Joybell 18. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” – Mary Engelbreit 19. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernhard Shaw 20. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” – Henry van Dyke 21. “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” – Corazon Aquino 22. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr 23. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen Covey 24. “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” – Mother Theresa 25. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bil Keane 26. “Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.” – Unknown 27. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 28. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein

Inspirational Quotes on Life

 

“The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.” ~ Unknown “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot “There’s no next time. It’s now or never.” – Celestine Chua “For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.”  – Celestine Chua “When you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can’t hold on to it forever.” – Peaceful Warrior, on the fallacy of attachment “Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.”  – Celestine Chua “There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on.” – Peaceful Warrior “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.” – Celestine Chua “Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment.”  – Celestine Chua “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ~ Mark Twain “Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in.”  – Celestine Chua “The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” – Art Van Der Leeuw “My life is my message.” – Gandhi “If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.” – James A. Garfield “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” ~ Unknown “In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts – after practicing for years, you become the gap.” – J.Kleykamp (Regardingmeditation) “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn http://personalexcellence.co/blog/101-inspiring-quotes/

The teacher

 

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Learning Quotes

 

A quote from Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

 

Uma citação ao romper da aurora _ From Winston Churchil

 

 

22 Amazing Quotes from The Master of Sarcasm: George Carlin

 

Comedy can often be a sword and a shield. George Carlin is one of the few comics that comes to mind when I think of a comedian who could make a point about a touchy subject, and make you laugh at the same time. Carlin had the verbal skill to have you laughing one minute, and the next minute drop an insightful message. George Carlin was a comedian who practically defined the word “edgy”. His material was often political and he was well known for pointing out hypocrisies which earned him the title “Master of Sociological Comedy”. Very few people have had the ability to say the things that need to be said in a way that makes you think and laugh like Carlin could. Carlin’s observations on life, people, politics, and religion will certainly be missed. 22 Brilliant Quotes from George Carlin: “But when you’re in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you’re guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It’s very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That’s when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.” “If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.” “I don’t like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: “Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you: ‘There is no “I” in team.’ What you should tell them is: ‘Maybe not. But there is an “I” in independence, individuality, and integrity.'” “I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.” “I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. … These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.” “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.” “The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first; get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating …and you finish off as an orgasm.” “I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.” “Religion is like a pair of shoes…..Find one that fits for you, but don’t make me wear your shoes.” “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” “Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money!” “Life gets really simple once you cut out all the bull shit they teach you in school.” “How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?” “Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. “ “Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.” “People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.” “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.” “Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, for strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, and hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.” “Everyone smiles in the same language.” “We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.” “There’s a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.” “This is a little prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight’s last gleaming. Amen and Awomen. ”   Monique Abrams Author at IheartIntelligence.com Monique Abrams is an eternal student of all branches of philosophy with a preference of study towards metaphysics and epistemology. Natural Healing, Taoism and Astrology are long-time interests of practice.She lives in Texas with her 2 daughters where they spend most their days goofing around and eating healthy with regularly scheduled chocolate breaks. Owner of The Spiritual Intellect

Quotations

1. Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George (1863-1945)

2. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. — Thomas Szasz (1920- )

3. Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. — Jules Renard (1864-1910)

4. We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public. — Bryan White (1974- )

5. Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. — Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

6. I accept the whole damn thing. It is neither all beautiful nor all terrible, but a wash of multitudinous despairs and exhilarations about which we know nothing. Our history is so small, our experience so limited, our science so inadequate, our theologies so crammed in mere matchboxes, that we know we stand on the outer edge of a beginning and our greatest history lies before us, frightening and lovely, much darkness and much light. — Ray Bradbury (1920- )

7. Someone once said that a democratic society cannot survive for long after 51 percent of the people decide that they want to live off the other 49 percent. Yet that is the direction in which we are being pushed by those who are promoting envy under its more high-toned alias, "social justice". — Thomas Sowell (1930- )

8. American culture is, one way or another, business culture, and our business is service. Once we were a great industrial nation. Now we are a service economy. Which means we are forced to interact with each other, every day, in person and by phone and email. And it's making us all a little mad. — Peggy Noonan (1950- ) in "We Pay Them to Be Rude to Us" in the WSJ.com Opinion Journal

9. While college students may be computer-literate, they are not, as a rule, research-literate. And there's a huge difference between the two. — Todd Gilman in "Not Enough Time in the Library" in The Chronicle of Higher Education

10. We cannot undo the past,but we are bound to pass it in review in order to draw from it such lessons as may be applicable to the future. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

11. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. — Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

12. The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

13. It is better to be both right and consistent. But if you have to choose—you must choose to be right. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

14. To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

15. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. — Donna Westmoreland Oneal (1949- )

16. The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. — Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940)

17. How often in life must one be content with what one can get! — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

18. It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

19. Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. — Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

20. Money often costs too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

21. The best evidence of the fairness of any settlement is the fact that it fully satisfies neither party. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

22. Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

23. Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. — John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)

24. These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet (1906-1978)

25. All social reform... which is not founded upon a stable medium of internal exchange becomes a swindle and a fraud. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

26. It is pretty tough to reshape human society in an after-dinner speech. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

27. Enough is as good as a feast. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

28. Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. — Theodor Adorno (1903-1969)

29. You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. — Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)

30. You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

31. Fearthought is futile worrying over what cannot be averted or will probably never happen. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

32. You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else. — Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)

33. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. — Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

34. Every generation of faculty seems to have to rediscover what really works in pedagogy. — Larry G. Richards (1939- )

35. Because we don't understand the brain very well we're constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. (What else could it be?) And I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and now, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer. — John R. Searle (1932- )

36. In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. — Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001)

37. Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. — Hasidic Saying

38. In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat? — Unknown

39. Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry ... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. — George Polya (1887-1985)

40. Miss Mae West / Is one of the best: / I would rather not / Say the best what. — E. W. Fordham (1845-1925)

41. "I quite realized," said Columbus, / "That the earth was not a rhombus, / But I am a little annoyed / To find it an oblate spheroid." — E. Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)

42. Henry the Eighth / Took a thucthethtion of mateth. / He inthithted that the monkth / Were a lathy lot of thkunkth. — E. Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)

43. "Susaddad!" exclaimed Ibsen, / "By dose is turdig cribson! / I'd better dot kiss you. / Atishoo! Atishoo!" — E. Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)

44. Edgar Allen Poe / Was passionately fond of roe. / He always liked to chew some / When writing anything gruesome. — E. Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)

45. Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

46. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. — Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

47. If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. — Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944)

48. May we each be the person someone else is grateful for. — Arlyn Newcomb (1966- )

49. We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)

50. In heaven, the police are British, the chefs are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian, and everything is organized by the Swiss. In hell, the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and everything is organized by the Italians. — Unknown

Quotes by Albert Einstein

By Jennifer Rosenberg

• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
  -- Albert Einstein
• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
  -- Albert Einstein
• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
  -- Albert Einstein
• The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
  -- Albert Einstein
• Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
  -- Albert Einstein
• Isn't it strange that  who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
  -- Albert Einstein
• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
  -- Albert Einstein
• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
  -- Albert Einstein
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
  -- Albert Einstein
• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
  -- Albert Einstein
• Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
  -- Albert Einstein
• When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
  -- Albert Einstein
• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
  -- Albert Einstein
• Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
  -- Albert Einstein
• Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
  -- Albert Einstein
• I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
  -- Albert Einstein
• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
  -- Albert Einstein
• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
  -- Albert Einstein
• The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
  -- Albert Einstein
• You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
  -- Albert Einstein

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