Emmanuel > Emmanuel's Quotes

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
― Albert Einstein

“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
― Woodrow Wilson

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Love is something eternal... The aspect may change but not the essence.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato

“He who knows other men is discerning;
he who knows himself is intelligent.
He who overcomes others is strong;
he who overcomes himself is mighty.
He who is satisfied with his lot is rich;
he who goes on acting with energy has a (firm) will.

He who does not fail in the requirements of his position, continues long;
he who dies and yet does not perish, has longevity.”
― Lao Tzu

“It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom”
― General George S. Patton

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall