The Quotables

One of my many strange hobbies is quote-collecting. Rolling out the endless page…

“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.” -Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

“Pain in the price of every precious thing.” -Mystery Author

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” -Albert Einstein

“In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell

“Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles.” -Charles Chaplin

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” -Herman Melville

“Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.” -William Shakespeare

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” -Earnest Hemingway

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” -Ben Okri

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.” – Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” -Abraham Lincoln

“We cannot always choose our external circumstances, but can always choose how we respond to them.” -Epictetus

“We have the power to imagine better.” -J.K. Rowling

“Women will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.” -Elizabeth Katie Stanton

“To see the world in a grain of sand

And heaven in a wild flower

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour.” -William Blake

“Short as life is, we make it shorter by the careless waste of time.” -Victor Hugo

“I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.” -William Shakespeare

“We are not meant to be realists. There must be idealism in us in order for our world to move forward and for us to strive for a better tomorrow.” -me

“Success is the sum of small efforts, day in and day out.” -Robert Collier

“A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.” -Mystery Author

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” -Henry Ford

“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” – Buddha

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle

“It always seems impossible until it is done.” -Nelson Mandela

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to man in his language, it goes to his heart.” -Nelson Mandela

“There is no passion to find playing small –in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” -Nelson Mandela

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Gandhi

“I failed my way to success.” -Thomas Edison

“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” -Chinese Proverb

“She turned her can’ts into can’s and her dreams into plans.” -Kobi Yamada

“Life must change from time to time if we are to go forward in our thinking.” -Under Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

(more to come)