A Curated Selection of Quotes (April 2025)

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"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

— Booker T. Washington

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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them."

— Maya Angelou

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“Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, you are not the rain.”

— source unknown

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"Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.”

— Astrid Alauda

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"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know."

— Pema Chödrön

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"It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind."

— Steve Maraboli

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“Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.”

— J. Lynn

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"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."

— Charles Darwin

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"A scholar is just a library's way of making another library."

— Daniel Dennett

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"If you can write clearly, you can think clearly — and that carries across every medium."

— Scott Galloway

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"The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.”

— Ernest Becker

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“What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. This is bad for everyone; the majority lose all genuine taste of their own, and the minority become cultural snobs.”

— W. H. Auden

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“Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.”

— W. H. Auden

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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”

— W. H. Auden

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"How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself."

— Kenneth Tynan

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"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

— Kurt Vonnegut

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“When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

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"Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity."

— Arnold Toynbee

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"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."

— Rachel Carson

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"The good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

— Lin Yutang

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"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

— Albert Einstein

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"Part of the thing with human beings is that we handle transitions badly."

— Reid Hoffman

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"What can be worse than tyranny? Anarchy."

— John Gray

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"[...] Real trolls living under virtual bridges."

— Ezra Klein

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"I like to think of uncertainty as wisdom in motion."

— Maggie Jackson

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"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

— Michael John Bobak

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“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”

— Ray Goforth

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"The biggest risk of all is not taking one."

— Mellody Hobson

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“One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

— Arthur Miller

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“The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.”

— Jeremy Bentham

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“A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.”

— Paul Valéry

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"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."

— Anthony Trollope

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"I learn that ten percent of all the world's species are parasitic insects. It is hard to believe. What if you were an inventor, and you made ten percent of your inventions in such a way that they could only work by harnessing, disfiguring, or totally destroying the other ninety percent?"

— Annie Dillard

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