A Curated Selection of Quotes (September 2024)
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"One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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“Over the course of my lifetime, books have helped me know that I’m not alone, even when I’m at my loneliest.”
- Oprah
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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
— Terry Pratchett
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“Anyone who is confident that we’re going into recession is dramatically overstating how much we understand about the economy.”
- Jason Furman
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"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization."
- Samuel Johnson
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"Self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you."
- Gloria Gaynor
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"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."
- Stephen Hawking
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“All stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.”
— José Saramago
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"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers."
- Janis Joplin
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“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.”
― Susan Sontag
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“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”
― Susan Sontag
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“Rules of taste enforce structures of power.”
― Susan Sontag
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“Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.”
― Susan Sontag
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"May your body forget the score."
- Sandra Kohler
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“It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.”
— Hannah Arendt
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“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.”
— Hannah Arendt
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“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“If a man is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we were to excuse a bad man on the same grounds we would be laughed at.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“And then, again, the more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.”
— Matt Haig
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“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive.”
— Haruki Murakami
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"Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate."
- Amy Winehouse
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“To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.”
- Simon Sinek
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"Professionals simply show up. Especially when they don’t feel like it."
- Seth Godin
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"A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."
- William Faulkner
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"Don't go through life, grow through life."
- Eric Butterworth
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"Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love."
- Truman Capote
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“Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it.”
— Anton Chekhov
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“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
— J. D. Salinger
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“Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.”
— Anton Chekhov
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“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.”
— Montesquieu
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