April 2024 Collected Quotes
"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
— Marvin Gaye
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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
— James Branch Cabell
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“The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation.”
— Albert Camus
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“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
— Johannes Kepler
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"People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.”
— Albert Camus
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"Life is not a spectator sport."
— Jackie Robinson
Notably, you sometimes just see this chopped version of Robinson's quote. But here's the quote in full:
"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion, you're wasting your life."
— Jackie Robinson
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“Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.”
— Nikola Tesla
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"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
— Nikola Tesla
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“That which we experience when we are in love is perhaps our normal state. Being in love shows a person who they should be.”
— Anton Chekhov
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“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”
— Jean Cocteau
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"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
— Charles Baudelaire
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"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"You become what you think about all day long."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
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"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you're keeping."
— Kenneth Tynan
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“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
— Karl Popper
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“No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.”
— Karl Popper
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"Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.
– The Big Book
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"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back."
— Maya Angelou
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“It seems that I have spent my entire time trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”
— A. J. Ayer
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“The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.”
— A. J. Ayer
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"The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip."
— Robert Peary
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"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom."
— FDR
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"A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better."
— Sidney Poitier
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“The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.”
— Albert Camus
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"We must be our own before we can be another’s."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
— Bertolt Brecht
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"All mankind love a lover."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Nietzsche
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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."
— Nietzsche
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"He who has a why in life can tolerate almost any how."
— Nietzsche
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Nietzsche
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"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals."
— Dorothy Height
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"Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow."
— Pat Tillman
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“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.”
— Henry Miller
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"I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes."
— Anthony Trollope
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"To have ego means to believe in your own strength."
— Barbra Streisand
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"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty."
— Edward R. Murrow
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"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate action of its members."
— Coretta Scott King
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“The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
— Erich Fromm
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