Browse Quotes

618 quotes in the collection

• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H.L. Mencken

• Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.

  James Dean

• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

  Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

• Imagination is more important than knowledge

  Albert Einstein

• The great question...which I have not been able to answer...is, What does a woman want?

  Sigmund Freud

• We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

• However innumerable sentient beings are, I vow to save them. However inexhaustible the defilements are, I vow to extinguish them. However immeasurable the dharmas are, I vow to master them. However incomparable enlightenment is, I vow to attain…

  Bodhisattva vows

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Lao-Tzu

• Smart people spend time alone. They don't fill their days with appointments from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., as many politicians and executives do. Great science does not emerge from hard logic and grinding hours. It comes from the mysterious resources of…

  Philip K. Howard

• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together

  William Shakespeare, 1600

• In general, I have been surprised at how few people have appreciated the unique research opportunities presented by our existing preserved areas. Too much of our wildlife research today is ad hoc and superficial.... Too frequently have we set a…

  A. Cowan

• Find in Nature a world of peace Find in each other, a Universe of life We wish you love, luck, long life, and happiness from this day forward

  Anonymous toast

• It’s funny when people accuse science of being narrow merely because it asks for proof. Science expanded the number of elements from 4 to over 100. It expanded treatment options from bloodletting, herbs and purgatives to the untold riches we have…

  William Lawrence Utridge

• What do I really want in my relationships? Attention, Appreciation, Affection, Acceptance and Allowing

  David Richo

• Love is a choice, not an emotion. Love is an action, not a feeling. Love is deliberate, not passive. Love is not something that happens to you; Love is something you do

  Kris Gage

• Be Happy Have a simpler sense of wonder Stay inspired Help others Do things you’re good at Read books Limit television Love your work Exercise Face your fears Believe in yourself Stay close to family and friends Let your heart be…

  Monica Sheehan

• How To Be Happy Enjoy simplicity Smile as much as possible Live for today Love each other Watch the sunset Read hundreds of books Listen to great music Love yourself Learn from your mistakes Understand no one is perfect Eat ice cream in…

  Judy Jennings

• When in due course Charon ferries me across the Styx and everyone is telling everyone else what a rotten writer I was, I hope at least one voice will be heard piping up, 'But he did take trouble.’

  P. G. Wodehouse