Daily Quote Archives

“You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

“A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.”

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

“The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.”

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”

“Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.”

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
And what I assume you shall assume.
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.”

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

“If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. ”

“That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.”

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”

“I think the key is for women not to set any limits.”

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

“You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.”

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”

“Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.”

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.”

“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.”

“Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.”

“It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power and living for yourself, not for everyone else.”

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.”

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”