quotes

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable." Kenyan Proverb

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. " Aristotle

"Many people reach their conclusions about life like lazy school children. They copy the answers from the back of the book without troubling to work out the sum for themselves." Soren Kierkegaard

"If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another." Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." Ayn Rand

"The more one worries, the older one gets. The more one laughs, the younger one feels." Chinese Proverbs

"It's a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." John Steinbeck

"Drawing, then, is a way of fostering interest in the world. It is a way of making connections with the things that surround us and with the forces that shape and animate and move them. It's a way of taking in the world's strangeness and power and finding comfort in it." Peter Steinhart, The Undressed Art

"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal." Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (1900-1980)

"Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you." Cynthia Kersey

"There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value." Jeanette Winterson

"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." Talmud

"Embrace the thing you fear most and break it down into the smallest manageable parts and conquer one step at a time. This will create momentum. Momentum feeds the next and allows you to break through your fears, your dramas, your bad habits and patterns until you are able to uncover your true self that is perfection at its core." Jim Donovan

"Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I really need it." Swedish proverb

"Fear does not stop death. It stops life." Unknown

"You know you've got the greatest friends when the only time they make you cry is when you're laughing too hard." Unknown

"The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other." Arthur Rubenstein

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion." Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)

"A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy." Paramhansa Yogananda

"If you have a weak candidate and a weak platform, wrap yourself up in the American flag and talk about the Constitution." Matthew Stanley Quay, senator (1833-1904)

"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)