Quotes - Brian Michels (Brooklyn, NY) Showing 1-30 of 219

#1

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6642 likes

#2

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

3441 likes

#3

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

49879 likes

#4

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#5

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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#6

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost

tags: home, homecoming, inspirational-quotes

1404 likes

#7

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43889 likes

#8

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”
― Ron Paul, The Revolution: A Manifesto

226 likes

#9

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

6764 likes

#10

“The only control you have is the amount of work you put into something. Never lose because someone else worked harder than you.”
― Candy Atkins

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#11

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69679 likes

#12

“Where is an intimate
friend
who’ll hear the secret
from me straight out–
of what human beings
have been
from the moment they began?
They
are
born
of toil
and molded
from
the clay of sorrow.
They wander the world for a time,
then
set
off.”
― Omar Khayyám, Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

tags: birth, death, humans, life, sorrow

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#13

“Drink wine and look at the moon
and think of all the civilisations
the moon has seen passing by.”
― Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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#14

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

9422 likes

#15

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

1519 likes

#16

“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: life, living

662 likes

#17

“Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.”
― Bob Marley

tags: awesome

3601 likes

#18

“There is no greater thrill in life than to find that you are not only useful, but that you can help, and that your help matters.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

16 likes

#19

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

2202 likes

#20

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

5548 likes

#21

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: science

4210 likes

#22

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

tags: books, humor

151407 likes

#23

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: cost, life, price, time, value

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#24