“For my own part. I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly…besides he is a rank coward. The little king bird, not bigger than a sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district.”
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Anthony Bourdain
“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
Henry Moore
“There’s no retirement for an artist, it’s your way of living so there’s no end to it.”
Frederick Douglass
“It is not light that we need, but fire. It is not the gentle shower, but thunder.”
Charles Dickens
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
Albert Einstein
“A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it.”
Leonardo DaVinci
“For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you will long to return.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
Stephen Fry
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf
“Shapes of things before my eyes
Just teach me to despise
Will time make man more wise
Here within my lonely frame
My eyes just hurt my brain
But will it seem the same”
Mark Twain
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky.
It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.”
Henry Rollins
“No such thing as spare time. No such thing as free time. No such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.”
Gerhard Richter
“Art is the highest form of hope.”
John Lennon
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”
Peter Alexander
“Why should Americans trust you when you accuse the information they receive as being fake when you’re providing information that’s fake?
(said to President Trump)
Mark Twain
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Edmund Burke
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Rick Warren
“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”
Donald D. Quinn
“If a doctor, lawyer or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing troubled the doctor, lawyer or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the teacher’s job.”
Dalai Lama
“If someone says something unkind about you, live so no one will believe it.”
