Determinism Quotes

"What's for you will not pass you by."
Moloko, Familiar Feeling

Quotes From Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture

Quotes from Randy Pausch's "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"

Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and give his 'last lecture' after he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. 

What would you say in your last lecture?


Randy Pausch:


It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

I probably got more from that dream and not accomplishing it than I got from any of the ones that I did accomplish.

You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

Head fake learning is absolutely important, and you should keep your eye out for them because they’re everywhere.

Don’t complain. Just work harder. That’s a picture of Jackie Robinson. It was in his contract not to complain, even when the fans spit on him.

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.

It’s pretty easy to be smart when you’re parroting smart people.

It’s very important to know when you’re in a pissing match. And it’s very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

On whether the 'virtual worlds' created by his student project teams' work: 'I can’t tell you beforehand, but right before they present it I can tell you if the world is good by the body language. If they’re standing close to each other, the world is good.'

If you’re going to do anything that is pioneering you will get those arrows in the back, and you just have to put up with it. I mean everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

And he said: "Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant. Because it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life."

You just have to decide if you’re a Tigger or an Eeyore.

I have a theory that people who come from large families are better people because they’ve just had to learn to get along.

Loyalty is a two way street.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.


Be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.

Don’t bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.

Syl said: "It took me a long time but I’ve finally figured it out. When it comes to men that are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do." It’s that simple. It’s that easy.

You can’t get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest.

I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

Apologise when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.


Be good at something, it makes you valuable.


Get a feedback loop and listen to it. Your feedback loop can be this dorky spreadsheet thing I did, or it can just be one great man who tells you what you need to hear. The hard part is the listening to it.

Don't Take It Too/Desperately Seriously - It Won't Work That Way Quotes

"Tom cursed himself for having been so heavy-handed and so humourless today. Nothing he took desperately seriously ever worked out. He'd found that out years ago."
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley

Competence Quotes

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

Brian Tracy

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Competence & Jealousy

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert Heinlein

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it. Brian Tracy

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

Brian Tracy

Unfortunately, fostering competence in individuals has proven immensely more difficult than expanding opportunities for competent citizens.

Lawrence M. Mead, The New Politics of Poverty

Success and Failure Quotes

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.
Brian Tracy

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
Brian Tracy

Criticism Quotes

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Dale Carnegie

On How To Live Life Quotes

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.
Plato

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Anon

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Anon

Career Quotes

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
Charles M. Schwab

The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world."
Laurence G. Boldt

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. Buddha

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
John Rockefeller

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do, are better than the best days of those who don't.
E. James Rohn

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Benjamin F. Fairless

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.Hillary Clinton

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Lou Holtz

As important as school was, I found that it could be very disruptive to a steady income.
Michael Dell


The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Mark Twain

Talents are common, everyone has them - but rare is the courage to follow our talents where they lead. Anon

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother Teresa
A musician must make his music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to ultimately be at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.
Tyra Banks


Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
Orison Swett Marden


The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week”
Robert Frost


Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
Denis Waitley

There is no security in life, only opportunity.
Mark Twain

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard

Infidelity Quotes - Unfaithfulness Quotes

“The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is little better than infidelity.”
François de la Rochefoucauld

"My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old."
Gracie Allen

“The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.”
Alexandre Dumas fils

“Now here you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well who am I to keep you down?
It's only right that you should
Play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of the memory
of what you had
And what you lost
And what you had
And what you lost”
Dreams, Deep Dish (ft Stevie Nicks)

"Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislike being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived."
Ninon De Lenclos

"I'm unfaithful with women, but I have always been faithful to myself."
Jack Nicholson

“Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands”
Samuel Johnson

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
Oscar Wilde

"It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be."
Brigitte Bardot

"An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't."
Sacha Guitry

“It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.”
Cyril Connolly

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Infidelity - cheating - is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do."
Joy Browne



"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."
Jimmy Carter

“She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.”
Ada Leverson

“No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.”
Marquis De Sade

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
Oscar Wilde

Same words but quite different meaning:

"Those who are unfaithful know the pleasures of love; those who are faithful know its tragedies."
Oscar Wilde



"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."
Jerry Hall



“When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.”
François de la Rochefoucauld

"In order to stop themselves from cheating, some guys carry around a picture of their wife so they can pull it out and remind themselves of what they have. That didn't work for me, so I carry around a picture of my wife's attorney."
Chico Marx

"People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well."
Jane Welsh Carlyle

"I think a man can have two, maybe three affairs while he is married. Three is the absolute maximum. After that, you are cheating."
Stevie Nicks

"A wife is faithful to her husband. Another is unfaithful two times per week to hers. On average, those two wives cheat on their husband once every week."
Alfred Sauvy

Being Wise Quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Crisis - Danger - Opportunity Quotes

In Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters: one represents danger and one represents opportunity.

Become Who - What You Want To Be Quotes

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude

Teaching Quotes - Teacher Quotes

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Latin Proverb

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Ward

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
Aristophenes

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Walter Bagehot

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Confucius

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Carl Rogers

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Thomas Carruthers

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vernon Law

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

Realize Your Dreams Quotes - Wishing Quotes

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Aesop

Give Your Best Quotes

"Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day. "
Booker T. Washington

"If I opened a bakery shop, I know I would make a lot of money, because I would make sure that I'm the best baker in town."
Quote from a self-made man/millionaire, on how he could get rich in many different fields

Languish Quotes - Laziness Quotes

"Styana: A person suffering from languor has no goal, no path to follow and no enthusiasm. His mind and intellect become dull due to inactivity and their faculties rust. Constant flow keeps a mountain stream pure, but water in a ditch stagnates and nothing good can flourish in it."
B.K.S. Iyengar (on the distractions and obstacles to the aspirant's practice of yoga), Light on Yoga

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses Simpson Grant

"A lazy man loves nothing."

A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.
Ayn Rand, The Voice of Reason


On the positive side:

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie

Courage and Self-Confidence Quotes

Somehow I can't believe there are many heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy. And the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all over, implicitly and unquestioningly.
Walt Disney

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian

Walt Disney Quotes

"Somehow I can't believe there are many heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy. And the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all over, implicitly and unquestioningly."
Walt Disney

Giacomo Casanova Quotes

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova


The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Giacomo Casanova

The Best Baker In Town

"If I opened a bakery shop, I know I would make a lot of money, because I would make sure that I'm the best baker in town."
Quote from a self-made man/millionaire, on how he could get rich in many different fields

Falling In Love Quotes

"The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness. "
Victor Hugo

"You call it madness, but I call it love."
Don Byas

When you can't stop wanting to talk about him/her: that's when you've fallen in love..., or as William Shakespeare put it:
"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking
the imagination and bottling common sense."
Helen Rowland

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions."
Isaac Bashevis

"If you love something, set it free; if it comes back it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was."
Richard Bach

"It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. "
Bertrand Russell

"To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. "
Bess Myerson

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
Mignon McLaughlin

"Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. Falling in love is not."
M. Scott Peck

"The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest."
John Keats


Don’t miss this quote - superb!

"Love stories have so overworked the power
of love's gaze, that finally people agreed to
discount it. We hardly dare, nowadays, to admit
that two human beings loved one another
because they looked at one another. Yet—
love dawns thus, and only thus. The rest—
comes afterwards. Nothing is more true, more real,
that the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls
may communicate to one another, through the
tiny sparks of a moment's glance."
Victor Hugo

Dating Quotes

"When a man goes on a date, he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows."
Frederick Ryder

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
Katharine Hepburn

"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love."
Theodor Reik

“I don't conquer, I submit.”
Giacomo Casanova

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship -- never."
Charles Caleb Colton

"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night."
Woody Allen

“There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men think, ‘I know what I’m doing. Just show me somebody naked.”
Jerry Seinfeld

“When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.”
Scott Wolf

"A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings."
Olin Miller

"Men always want to be a woman's first love -- women like to be a man's last romance."
Oscar Wilde

“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
Scott Adams

Ovid Quotes

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.


First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.


Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.


Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor. I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

To be loved, be lovable.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

It is not any particular type of beauty that sets my heart on fire. A hundred motives compel me to be always in love. Here is a girl that drops her gaze demurely. That is enough, my heart catches fire and her modesty is the lure that ensnares me. And here is one that is out for booty. To her I fall a willing victim because she is no novice and because she bids fair to be keen and enterprising on a downy couch. And then, if I see one with an expression that recalls to me the Sabine dames, I forthwith tell myself that she has longings but knows how to conceal them. Are you a learned lady? I fall in love with your rare accomplishments. Unlearned? Your naïveté enthralls me. ...

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.

Medio tutissimus ibis. You will be safest in the middle.

I have not the strength nor the will-power to govern my passions; they bear me along with them, even as the swift tide hurries away the slender bark.


The gods have their own rules.

The result justifies the deed.

Time the devourer of all things.

Luck Quotes

"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish."
Ovid

“Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction."
Ashleigh Brilliant

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson

"Luck never gives; it only lends."
Swedish proverb

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca

What To Say Every Morning Quotes

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.
Ovid

Chinese Proverbs

These could have been quotes from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - but they're just some great Chinese proverbs and other stuff :-) .

The old horse in the stable still yearns to run 1000 li.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Your neigbour's wife looks prettier than your own.

Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.

When a person achieves ultimate enlightenment and goes to heaven, his chicken and dog go with him.

A successful man can bend and stretch.

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Free from debt is free from care.

A good debt is not as good as no debt.

One who restrains his appetites avoids debt.

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it. (!)

Over a long distance, you learn about the strength of your horse; over a long time, you learn about the character of your friend.

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

If a person has ambition, things will be accomplished.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

... Next time you're in Chinatown, don't hesitate to share your wisdom!

Flirting Quotes - Flirtation

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
Henry Louis Mencken

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
Helen Rowland

Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Charles Reade

There are times not to flirt: When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.
Joyce Jillson

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
Margaret Oliphant


Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
Helen Rowland

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
François de La Rochefoucauld

“A man acting according to the inclinations of a girl should try to gain her over so that she may love him and place her confidence in him. A man does not succeed either by implicitly following the inclination of a girl, or by wholly opposing her, and he should therefore adopt a middle course. He who knows how to make himself beloved by women, as well as to increase their honour and create confidence in them, this man becomes an object of their love. But he who neglects a girl, thinking she is too bashful, is despised by her as a beast ignorant of the working of the female mind. Moreover, a girl forcibly enjoyed by one who does not understand the hearts of girls becomes nervous, uneasy, and dejected, and suddenly begins to hate the man who has taken advantage of her; and then, when her love is not understood or returned, she sinks into despondency, and becomes either a hater of mankind altogether, or, hating her own man, she has recourse to other men.”
Kamasutra

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words.
Corey Ford

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Victor Hugo

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Samuel Johnson

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
Oscar Wilde

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
John Gay

If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
Mignon McLaughlin

Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another's beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire.
Ecclesiasticus 9:8

Blackadder Quotes

"You look as happy as a man who thought a cat had done its business on his pie but then it turned out to be a really big blackberry."
Blackadder III

Dog Quotes

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
Aldous Huxley


“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Abraham Lincoln


"To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace."
Milan Kundera


“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
Buddha



"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien."
Plato


The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.
French Proverb


Mark Twain on Dogs

"By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a "noble" animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward- you will never get her full confidence again."


"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's."

"If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man."

"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”

The Essential is Invisible to the Eye

"Now, here is my secret, a ver simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
From The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement."
William Yeats

"You are eternal, and the invisible essence of you can never die. You have the ability to turn any thought into form with the power of your mind."
Wayne Dyer

Love and Persistence...Life and Persistence

This quote:

"The art of love... is largely the art of persistence."
Albert Ellis


is also applicable to life, don't you think?

"The art of life...is largely the art of persistence."

Keep It Simple, Stupid! - Simplify Quotes

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
George Earle Buckle

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify!
Henry David Thoreau

KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid!

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher

Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
Papa Ramadas

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
William James

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Charles Mingus

Education Quotes

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

It All Depends On You!

Fantastic quote from a very wise man (French writer)

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself. "It all depends on me."
Andre Gide

The Past Quotes

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

Man cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
Pliny the Elder

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
T.S. Eliot

I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.
Charlie Munger

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf

The past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Marilyn Ferguson