Moe Jawich > Moe's Quotes

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

“ما زلت أؤمن
أن الانسان لا يموت دفعة واحدة
وإنما يموت بطريقة الأجزاء
كلما رحل صديق مات جزء
وكلما غادرنا حبيب مات جزء
وكلما قُتل حلم من أحلامنا مات جزء
فيأتي الموت الأكبر ليجد كل الأجزاء ميتة
فيحملها ويرحل”
― جبران خليل جبران

“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…”
― Patricia Polacco

“I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate -- even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth." Norman Cousins (in his; Anatomy of an Illness)”
― Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”
― Abraham Maslow

“For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.”
― Norman Cousins

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E. B. White

“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
― Adolf Hitler

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“دنيا غريبة ممتلئة بالكثير من المتناقضات والأعاجيب .. لكن الأمور تمضي والمركب يسير .. وهذا الخليط الكبير يعزف سيمفونية ذات نغمات مختلفة .. لكنها تعطي لحنا واحدا مميزا اسمه الحياة”
― نجيب الكيلاني, دم لفطير صهيون

“There are many ways to obtain our desires, ma petite. Remember that, for it will serve you well.”
― C.W. Gortner, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Kinky Friedman

“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
― Leonardo da Vinci