Quotes
Power is not an institution , and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with, it is the name that one attributes to to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
– Michel Foucault
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn – latin proverb He who asks is a fool for five minutes; he who doesn’t remains a fool forever.
– Chinese proverb
Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you got.
– Janis Joplin
Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of moments
– Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great
– Jose Ortega y Gasset
We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things – its just a different kind of the same thing.
– Susan Glaspell
All men by nature desire knowledge
– Aristotle
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed. I am simply smothered and sickened with with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.
– Jane Addams
“Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant, alone without people. It means something else.” “Don’t tell your friends about your indigestion. How are you? Is a greeting not a question.”
– Arthur Guiterman
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joys in the world.
– Helen Keller
Its not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up.
– Vince Lombardi
Its afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man (or partner) didn’t necessarily prove that you loved him.
– Marguerite Dura
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families, what were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Confidence is the best proof of love
– Marie Edgeworth
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
– Alice Walker
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity and undue depression in adversity.
– Socrates
Anywhere is walking distance if you’ve got the time.
– Steven Wright
You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
– Edna Ferber
Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.
– May Sarton
Everyday should be a good day to die.
– Dave Matthews Band
No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.
– CS Lewis
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
– Abraham Lincoln
Grow old with me
The best is yet to be
The last of life but for which the first was made.
– Robert Browning
We don’t see things as they are, we seem them as they are.
– Anais Nin
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned the hard way that some poems don’t rhyme, some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what is going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
– Gilda Radner
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
– Shirley Maclaine
Life is what you make it, always has been, always will be.
– Grandma Moses
Not doing more than average is what keeps the average down. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
– Maya Angelou
There are two types of people – those who come into a room and say, Well here I am and those who come in and say, ah, there you are.
– Frederick L. Collins
The best way to cheer yourself up, is to cheer someone else up.
– Mark Twain
Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.
– Anais Nin
Please all and you will please none.
– Aesop
We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don’t.
– Frank A Clark.
The man who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
– Alan
Ashley Pitt
Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are right. Learn to say no, it will be of more use to you than to learn to be able to read latin.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
How can you get very far if you don’t know who you are. How can you do what you ought, if you don’t know what you got.
– Tao of Pooh