quotes

“Lost time is never found again.” John H. Aughey

“The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.” James McNeill Whistler

“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.” Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

“The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.” W. Alton Jones

“Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning. Marcus Aurelius

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?” Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer (1884-1962)

“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” Stephen Swid, executive

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him(/her) who has the vision to recognize it as such.” Henry Miller

“A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” Anton Chekov

“You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.” Will Rogers

“A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.” Thomas Fuller

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.” Jawaharlal Nehru

“The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.” Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (1876-1973)

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.” Albert Einstein

"To possess another language is to possess a second soul." King Charlemagne, 9th century

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

“The human brain is a mirror to infinity.” Norman Cousins