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Quotes I like

 
Here are some quotes that I have collected over the years that resonate with me for different reasons.
 
If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story - Orson Welles
 
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple - Jack Kerouac
 
The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates
 
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily - Napoleon
 
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Leonardo da Vinci
 
“Oh, you can’t help that”, said the cat. “We’re all mad here” - Lewis Carroll
 
Cowards never start, the weak never finish - Father Fehily
 
Pretend to be completely in control, and people will assume you are - Nolan Bushnell to Steve Jobs
 
Good artists copy, great artists steal - Picasso
 
The best way to predict the future is to create it - Abraham Lincoln
 
Better to be a pirate than join the navy - Steve Jobs
 
Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come - Haruki Marakami
 
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton
 
We beat well worn paths
 
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past - Scott F. Fitzgerald
 
You should be aware of the system but lose yourself in it
 
Wise too late, old too soon - Father Fehily
 
Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party - Jimmy Buffett
 
There are many things of which a wise man may wish to be ignorant - Ralph Emerson
 
The reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once - Einstein
 
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet - Shakespeare
 
We feel free when we escape, even if it be but from the frying pan and into the fire - Eric Hoffer
 
We can’t change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sails - Cora L.V. Hatch
 
Without leaps of imagination, you lose the excitement of possibility. - Gloria Steinem
 
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won - Churchill
 
There’s nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self - Hemmingway
 
One that has loved not wisely, but too well - Shakespeare
 
I find my truest self in solitude
 
To cure the soul by means of the senses, and senses by means of the soul - Oscar Wilde
 
His sturdy egoism could no longer sustain his peremptory heart - Scott F. Fitzgerald
 
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain - Batman
 
People are who they are
 
Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and stare for a while, it might pass you by - Ferris Bueller
 
The end is where we start from - T.S. Eliot
 
Parting is such sweet sorrow - Shakespeare
 
All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way - Leo Tolstoy
 
The truth is everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for - Bob Marley
 
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself - Oscar Wilde
 
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all - Oscar Wilde
 
In the end, it’s all about old friends
 
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened - Dr. Seuss
 
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal - C.S. Lewis
 
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that counts. It’s the years in your life - Abraham Lincoln
 
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory - Dr. Seuss
 
We’re not all one thing
 
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin
- André Berthiaume
 
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – Haruki Murakami
 
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. – C.S. Lewis
 
Never make decisions when you’re reeling from a loss
 
This too shall pass
 
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man - Heraclitus
 
The best things in life lie on the other side of sacrifice
 
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is - Charles Bukowski
 
I know no better purpose for life than to die in service of the great and the impossible - Nietzsche
 
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible shouldn't be a reason to not pursue it. That's exactly what makes it worth pursuing, where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk. The only true failure is shrinking away from life's challenges.
- Nietzsche