Jaakkk > Jaakkk's Quotes

Showing 1-23 of 23
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    176827 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151210 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135430 likes

    • like
  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101560 likes

    • like
  • #5
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “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
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
    165146 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
    74287 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
    42310 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
    47064 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
    23595 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Jon Krakauer
    “Happiness [is] only real when shared”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
    tags: family, happiness, inspirational, love, marriage
    3923 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Jon Krakauer
    “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
    2985 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Malcolm X
    “My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: books, reading
    2401 likes

    • like
  • #13
    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
    93493 likes

    • like
  • #14
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
    9133 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials
    10713 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
    5743 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: attitude, choice, giving, happiness, inspirational, kindness, life-and-living, life-lessons, motivational, positive-affirmation
    9943 likes

    • like
  • #18
    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
    62153 likes

    • like
  • #19
    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
    60231 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Mahmoud Darwish
    “We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”
    ― Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
    92 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Pope Francis
    “Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants.”
    ― Pope Francis, Lumen Fidei: Enciclica sulla Fede
    tags: faith, idolatry, polytheism
    27 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Pope Francis
    “We don't have to expect everything from those who govern us; that would be juvenile.”
    ― Pope Francis
    23 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Pope Francis
    “Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”
    ― Pope Francis, ENCYCLICAL LETTER LAUDATO SI' ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME
    18 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From Jaakkk’s Quotes

attributed-no-source
be-yourself
gilbert-perreira
honesty
inspirational
misattributed-oscar-wilde
quote-investigator
books
humor
simile
soul
charles-bayard-mitchell
best
life
love
misattributed-marilyn-monroe
mistakes
out-of-control
truth
worst
music
philosophy
edison
failure
paraphrased
contentment
friends
friendship
novelist-quotes
family
happiness
marriage
reading
misattributed-albert-camus
beginnings
fresh-start
mistake
new-day
start-over
tomorrow
adversity
life-lessons
problems
trials
perfection
attitude
choice
giving
kindness
life-and-living
motivational
positive-affirmation
actions
disappointed
disappointment
dream
dreams
explore
misattributed-mark-twain
sail
faith
idolatry
polytheism