Quotes

A collection of quotes that I particularly enjoy.

What is everyday but a series of conflicts between the right way and the easy way.

 The path to her heart is paved with the shards of past heartbreaks. 

We were born too early too soon to explore the cosmos, and too late to explore the oceans. Our frontier is the human mind. Religion is the ocean we must cross. 

Little by little, one gets far.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
   Dean Karzanes 

You are sad because you are not merry.
   Salarino, Merchant of Venice

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

   Theodore Roosevelt 

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

   Jordan Belfort 

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
   Jean-Paul Sartre

I've never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
   Henry David Thoreau

We're born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we are not alone.

          True friends stab you in the front.
             Oscar Wilde

This abstract attitude is the spacesuit, the padding of habits and preconceptions, the armour with which one habitually distances oneself from one's experience.
   Francisco Varela, et al.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
   Antoine de Saint Exupéry