Learn Through Quotations

“Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.”

“This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by,like a torrent down a steep mountain.”

“You shall have Joy, or you shall have Power, said God: you shall not have both.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or ever touched, they must be felt with the heart. We should do everything within reason to save a good relationship. But if we are constantly trying to save it, it's probably not a good relationship.”

“All Things Bright and Beautiful . For the normal business of living man is most at ease on the ground.”

“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.”

“Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”

“Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.”

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”

“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”

“A Lizard continues it's life into the wilderness like a human into heaven. Our fate is entirely dependent on our life.”

“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.”

“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”

“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”

“When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.”

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.”

“Life is nothing without friendship.”

“Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”

“We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.”