Anna S. > Anna's Quotes

“it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“bagiku, tampak bahwa, bagaikan tanaman yg hidup, aku merupakan gambaran suatu dunia yang ideal; bahwa aku bukan hanya terdiri dari apa yang kuingin, apa yang kupikir -- aku juga adalah apa yang tidak aku cintai; apa yang TIDAK aku inginkan untuk menjelma”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add

“It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies”
― Zaha Hadid

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”
― Steven Furtick

“Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

“We depend on computers when we ourselves haven't mastered the principles behind what we are asking computers to design.
Glenn Murcutt - A Singular Architectural Practice page 16”
― Glenn Murcutt, Glenn Murcutt: A Singular Architectural Practice : 2002 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”
― Albert Einstein

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
― Stephen R. Covey

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now”
― Chinese proverbs traditional

“It is almost a cliche to speak of the professed atheist who cries out for help to God when he is in mortal danger. The profession of atheism is done by the conscious mind, but the subconscious still believes in God.”
― Serge Kahili King, Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way

“I stopped explaining myself when I realized other people only understand from their level of perception.”
― Anonymous

“It is both a blessing
And a curse
To feel everything
So very deeply.”
― David Jones

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic”
― Stephen Covey

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
― Stephen Covey

“I have found that this is pretty radical notion for anyone who was raised with a strong Christian background. Within that religious tradition there is an emphasis on original sin, which dictates that we area bacically not good at all but must work for our salvation. Within the Buddhist tradition we are saying the opposite: actually you are basically good. You are basically wise. You are basically kind. You just need to discover that truth and develop confidence in it.”
― Lodro Rinzler, Walk Like a Buddha: Even if Your Boss Sucks, Your Ex Is Torturing You, and You're Hungover Again

“When you are finished changing, you're finished.”
― Benjamin Franklin