Voltaire
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Kathleen Norris
Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Émile Zola
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Xenocrates
I have often repented of speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
George Bernard Shaw
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Søren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Pablo Picasso
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Carl Sandburg
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
Zelda Fitzgerald
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Thomas Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure.
Lao Tzu
To see things in the seed, that is genius.