A.J. Aaron > A.J.'s Quotes

“If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.”
― Steven Tyler

“My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon's appointments.”
― Steven Wright

“The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.”
― Steven Tyler

“Half my life is in book's written pages.
Live and learn from fools and from sages.”
― Steven Tyler

“Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?”
― Steven Tyler

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“We don't know what we don't know.”
― Dave Meier

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Love is the absence of judgment.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
― Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
― Titus Livius (Livy)

“Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“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

“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
― Epictetus

“The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.”
― Rumi

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
― Henry David Thoreau