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Incarnadine

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear

Posts tagged with "quotations"

In other words...

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"Follow your bliss." - Joseph Campbell

"I dwell in possibility." - Emily Dickinson

"Memory is the scribe of the soul." - Aristotle

"Moonlight is sculpture." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Fatigue is the best pillow." - Benjamin Franklin

"Continuity in everything is unpleasant." - Blaise Pascal

"When humor goes, there goes civilization." - Erma Bombeck

"The heart is forever inexperienced." - Henry David Thoreau

"You can never plan the future by the past." - Edmund Burke

"A questioning man is halfway to being wise." - Irish Proverb

"The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow." - H. G. Wells

"All decisions are made on insufficient evidence." - Rita Mae Brown

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear." - Jack Canfield

"Every second is of infinite value." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The greatest power is often simple patience." - Joseph E. Cossman

"A wise man hears one word and understands two." - Yiddish Proverb

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." - Richard Bach

"One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be." - Eric Butterworth

"Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." - Scottish Proverb

"I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being." - Anatole France

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge

"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." - Frank A. Clark

"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world." - Leonard Cohen

"Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played." - Grant M. Bright

"Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself." - Henry Havelock Ellis

"Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears." - Charles Caleb Colton

"It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen." - Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." - Bertrand Russell

Or so it would appear

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Yes, it's quote time once again. Forgive me...

"Thought and being are the same." - Parmenides

"Confine yourself to the present." - Marcus Aurelius

"Nothing is more real than nothing." - Samuel Beckett

"Every clarification breeds new questions." - Arthur Bloch

"Man knows much more than he understands." - Alfred Adler

"Our expenses are all for conformity." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction." - Thomas Carlyle

"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." - François de La Rochefoucauld

"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough." - Robert Heller

"By asking for the impossible, we obtain the best possible." - Giovanni Niccolini

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." - George Santayana

"Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might have been." - Arthur Mitchell Ransome

"Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!" - James Dillet Freeman

"Make the most of your regrets; to regret deeply is to live afresh." - Henry David Thoreau

"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things." - T. S. Eliot

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope." - Henry Ward Beecher

"The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event." - Bliss Carman

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." - Sam Levenson

"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth." - Gaston Bachelard

"There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain." - Samuel Butler

"Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable." - René Daumal

"Still on it creeps; Each little moment at another's heels; Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is." - Joanna Baillie

Even more "Notable Quotes"

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"Life is the sum of all your choices." - Albert Camus

"Hope is the physician of each misery." - Irish Proverb

"Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be." - Jim Horning

"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased." - Aeschylus

"Strong reasons make strong actions." - William Shakespeare

"A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope." - Aeschylus

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." - Lord Byron

"Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that." - Erich Heller

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." - George Eliot

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." - Aesop

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace." - Amelia Earhart

"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Auguste Rodin

"The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions." - Ellen Glasgow

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." - Henry David Thoreau

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." - Robert Frost

"Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves." - Lord Chesterfield

"Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them." - James Murray

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." - Dr. Alexis Carrel

"No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head." - Terry Josephson