Stephanie > Stephanie's Quotes

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”
― Buddha, 600 Quotes of Ancient Philosophy

“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.”
― Sonia ricotti

“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
― Albert Einstein

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.”
― Minor Myers Jr.

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
― Steve Jobs

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”
― Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“There must be more to life than having everything.”
― Maurice Sendak, Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“We haven't the time to take our time.”
― Eugène Ionesco, Three Plays: Exit the King / The Killer / Macbett

“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales

“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible horrible.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I cried all the way to the bank [response to negative reviews].”
― Liberace, Liberace;: An autobiography

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

“Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.”
― Philander Chase Johnson

“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
― Don Marquis

“Nothing can be said nowadays which has not already been said”
― Terence, Terence: The Eunuch (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)

“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
― Coco Chanel

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“In vino veritas. With wine comes truth.”
― Anonymous

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?”
― Robert Browning

“Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.”
― John Updike

“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”
― George Santayana, Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies