Eli > Eli's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 81
« previous 1 3
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Václav Havel
    “Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.”
    ― Vaclav Havel
    tags: life
    169 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Václav Havel
    “There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.”
    ― Vaclav Havel
    29 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Václav Havel
    “All human suffering concerns each human being”
    ― Vaclav Havel
    36 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Václav Havel
    “The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
    ― Václav Havel
    47 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    9168 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
    5652 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
    6704 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: communication, confusion
    1727 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The soul is healed by being with children.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration, love, openness, society
    2834 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    495 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: compassion, humanity
    201 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I utter what you would not dare think.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    165 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
    23148 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
    42768 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Bil Keane
    “A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.”
    ― Bil Keane
    tags: love
    101 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Stephen King
    “You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
    ― Stephen King, Night Shift
    tags: books, judging, reading
    371 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
    88118 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109341 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93564 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92239 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    84311 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81851 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71706 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Maya Angelou
    “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
    89204 likes

    • like
  • #26
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60285 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “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
    69727 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44328 likes

    • like
  • #29
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
    62216 likes

    • like
  • #30
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45317 likes

    • like
  • #31
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
    35261 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3
All Quotes



Tags From Eli’s Quotes

life
hell
love
suffering
independent-thought
self-determination
self-expression
communication
confusion
children
healing
humility
inspiration
openness
society
compassion
humanity
music
attributed-no-source
hope
inspirational
misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
past
present
widely-misattributed
books
judging
reading
friendship
friends
misattributed-albert-camus
lies
lying
memory
truth
enemies
forgiveness
strategy
intelligence
self-deprecation
actions
disappointed
disappointment
dream
dreams
explore
misattributed-mark-twain
sail
accomplishment
be-yourself
conformity
individuality
misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln
misattributed-to-mark-twain
remaining-silent
wisdom
humor
obvious
simile