Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Associate with people who are likely to improve you.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.ÔÇØ
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Only time can heal what reason cannot.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.ÔÇØ
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting


ÔÇ£Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ÔÇØ
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Lilith7]

"There are many evils and there is no worse evil than man."
Sophocles

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Socrates

"The measure of life is its beauty not its length."
Plutarch

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The sun also shines on the wicked.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There is no genius without a touch of madness.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£As long as you live, keep learning how to live.ÔÇØ
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The sun also shines on the wicked.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from realityÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.ÔÇØ
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled. ÔÇ£


ÔÇ£Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly ÔÇô theyÔÇÖll go through anything. You read and youÔÇÖre pierced.ÔÇØ
Aldous Huxley

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.ÔÇØ
Aldous Huxley

[Lilith7]

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

"Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive."

"Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out."
Anton Chekhov

[Lilith7]

"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."

"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."
Anton Chekhov

ÔÇ£Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.ÔÇØ
Pablo Picasso

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God & destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.ÔÇØ
Hubert Reeves

ÔÇ£Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.ÔÇØ
Maimonides

ÔÇ£Men can be divided into two groups: one that goes ahead & achieves something, & one that comes after & criticises.ÔÇØ
Seneca

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Associate with people who are likely to improve you.ÔÇØ
Seneca

ÔÇ£It is better to be silent than to dispute with the ignorant.ÔÇØ
Pythagorus

"There are many evils and there is no worse evil than man."
Sophocles

[Lilith7]

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Socrates

"The measure of life is its beauty not its length."
Plutarch

ÔÇ£Beware of over concern for money or position, or glory. Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.ÔÇØ
Rudyard Kipling

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Nothing is more important than empathy for another's suffering. Not a career. Not wealth. Certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.ÔÇØ
Audrey Hepburn

ÔÇ£Its better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.ÔÇØ
Malcolm X

ÔÇ£Be a free thinker & don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical & evaluate what you believe in.ÔÇØ
Aristotle

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.ÔÇØ
Confucius


ÔÇ£A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a she is shaped by the foot.ÔÇØ
Alan Bennett

ÔÇ£The bible is a human product; it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how god sees things.ÔÇØ
Marcue J Borg

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Rather fail with honour than suceed by fraud.ÔÇØ
Sophocles

ÔÇ£There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.ÔÇØ
Isaac Asimov

ÔÇ£The saddest aspect of life now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.ÔÇØ
Isaac Asimov

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£ A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.ÔÇØ
Henry Ward Beecher

ÔÇ£One of the greatest tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion & morality have a necessary connection.
But the basis of morality is really very simple & doesn't require religion at all.ÔÇØ
Arthur C Clarke

ÔÇ£All war is based on deception.ÔÇØ
Sun Tzu

[Lilith7]

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."


Charles Dickens

[Lilith7]

"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."



"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
Charles Dickens

[Lilith7]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."
Charles Dickens

ÔÇ£He who dares not offend cannot be honest.ÔÇØ
Thomas Paine

ÔÇ£Money can't buy happinessÔÇØ
Means
ÔÇ£The mindless accumulation of excess wealth leads to diminishing returns on happinessÔÇØ
It does not mean
ÔÇ£Poor people should learn to be content without the basic neccessities & financial security.ÔÇØ
Marianne N.