Masoom Khan > Masoom's Quotes

“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)”
― Michelangelo

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein

“If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.”
― Claire Cook, Seven Year Switch

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you know the why, you can live any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
― Fredrich Nietzsche

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

“Plato was a bore.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche