Quotes
„The future depends on what we do today.”
-Indira Ghandi
„Escape competition through authenticity.”
-Naval Ravikant
„History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
-Mark Twain
„Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
-Albert Camus
„Without music, life would be a mistake.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
„The idea that a movie should be seen only once is an extension of our traditional conception of film as entertainment rather then art.”
-Stanley Kubrick
„Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
-Sam Walton
„Treat employees like they make a difference and they will.”
-James Goodnight
„Do all things with love.”
-Og Mandino
„It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
-Harry S. Truman
„When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”
-Leo Tolstoy
„We’re all living in each other’s paranoia.”
-Rami Malek (Elliot Alderson)
„The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.”
-Simon Sinek
„Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
-Charles Bukowski
„Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.”
-W. Edwards Deming
„There is more wisdom in your body, dan in your deepest philosophy .”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
„People leave managers, not companies.”
-Marcus Buckingham
„Before you marry someone you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”
-Will Ferrell
„Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena)
„Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
-Søren Kierkegaard
„Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
-Marcel Proust
„The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.”
-Gil Scott-Heron
„When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.”
-Edmund Burke
„Change is never easy, but always possible.”
-Barack Obama
„If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”
-Carl Jung
„When in doubt, don’t.”
-Benjamin Franklin
„The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre
„Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
-Jimi Hendrix
„Sometimes you gain more from not winning but losing. Every loss is still a win.”
-Roger Lee
„If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.”
-Walt Whitman
„Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”
-Fernando Pessoa
„The more I see of men, the more I like my dog.”
-Thomas Carlyle
„Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”
-Albert Einstein
„True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”
-Karl Popper
„We can’t control everything that happens to us. We can only control how we think about it and how we perceive it.”
-Philip Cohen
„When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.”
-Marcel Proust
„Think of how stupid the average person is, and realise half of them are stupider than that.”
-George Carlin
„Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
-Albert Camus
„Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
-Mark Twain
„Don’t waste your time looking back, you’re not going that way.”
-Ragnar Lodbrok (Vikings)
„A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”
-Frank Zappa
„Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
-Albert Einstein
„I feel like I’m a better person when I’m quieter.”
-Bill Murray
„Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
-André Gide
„Even when you can’t see the light. I’ll remember where it lives.”
-Marjolijn Kiemeneij
„Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
-Vincent Van Gogh
„Social life is a distraction, real intelligence, thrives in isolation.”
-Nikola Tesla
„Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”
-Salvador Dali
„Every next level of your life will demand a different you.”
-Leonardo DiCaprio
„Change before you have to.”
-Jack Welch
„All ideas grow out of other ideas.”
-Anish Kapoor
„Social media is training us to compare our lives, instead of appreciating everything we are. No wonder why everyone is always depressed.”
-Bill Murray
„In individuals insanity is rare. But in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
„To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority.”
-Christine Caine
„Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.”
-Yoko Ono
„I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
-John Steinbeck
„If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”
-Erica Jong
„The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.”
-Wayne Dyer
„A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.”
-George Savile
„Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”
-Warren Buffet
„There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”
-Abraham Lincoln
„Your identity is your prison.”
-Etel Adnan
„People forget facts. But they remember stories.”
-Joseph Campbell
„We have no obligation to be the same person you were minutes ago.”
-Alan Watts
„Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
-Voltaire
„De wetenschap aller wetenschappen is weten dat je niets weet.”
-Geert Grote
„Humans are creatures, who spent their lives trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd.”
-Albert Camus
„Be yourself; everyone else is taken.”
-Oscar Wilde
„When exposing a crime is treated as a crime, then you are ruled by criminals.”
-Edward Snowden
„Ik ben een kletskous, en daar kan je aardig wat geld mee verdienen.”
-Koos Postema
„The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
-Arthur Conan Doyle
„If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.”
-Albert Einstein
„You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.”
-Maya Angelou
„Anything that can be measured can be improved.”
-Michael Dell
„Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”
-Edgar Allan Poe
„Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
-George Carlin
„Did I have to drink my own urine today?”
-Aron Ralston
„I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
-Anthony Bourdain
„There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
„My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
-Marcel Proust
„Als je in je geest investeert, wordt je lichaam vanzelf beter beheerd.”
-Midas Dekkers
„Without the ability to talk about government power, there’s no way for citizens to make sure this power isn’t being misused.”
-Aaron Swartz
„Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
-Oscar Wilde
„You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
-Winston Churchill
„Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
-Edward Snowden
„Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.”
-Charles Bukowski
„It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
-H. L. Mencken
„Time enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.”
-T. S. Elliot
„Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
-Isaac Asimov
„Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
-Søren Kierkegaard
„Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
-James Baldwin
„The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
-Oscar Wilde
„The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
-James Baldwin
„The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.”
-Ian Curtis
„We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
-Charles Bukowski
„We zijn allemaal waarnemers van de tijd.”
-Jort Kollerie
„Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
-Buckminster Fuller
„Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.”
-Jürgen Habermas
„Ik verkoop geen bier, ik verkoop gezelligheid.”
-Freddy Heineken
„The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
-Richard Feynman
„Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
-Carl Jung
„He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
-George Orwell (1984)
„Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
-Richard Feynman
„I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve of disapprove.”
-Vincent van Gogh
„Even the best of friends need time apart.”
-Mark Evelyn Heath
„From error to error one discovers the entire truth.”
-Sigmund Freud
„Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
-Carl Jung
„We have met the enemy and he is us.”
-Pogo
„It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.”
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
„If you know the system well enough, you can do things that aren’t supposed to be possible.”
-Linus Torvalds
„What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”
-Charles Bukowski
„It’s what I do that teaches me what I’m looking for.”
-Pierre Soulages
„Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves.”
-Roy T. Bennett
„The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
„Know a man not by the loudness of his voice, but by the depth of his silence.”
-Acharya Prashant
„In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
-Abraham Maslow
„Trust gets you killed, love gets you hurt and being real gets you hated.”
-Johnny Cash
„Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
-Voltaire
„I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.”
-Les Dawson
„Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
-Niccolò Machiavelli
„Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
-Isaac Asimov
„We live in a world where there is more and more information and less meaning.”
-Jean Baudrillard
„All these people you are concerned about, did they create you?”
-al-Ghazālī
„He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your wards.”
-Elbert Hubbard
„Always do what you are afraid to do.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
„When you trust that you can shift your own anxiety or your own mind about something, then nothing is too big a problem.”
-Philip Cohen
„Why is it that people with most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths”
-Lewis Carroll
„Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
-Primo Levi
„No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
-George Orwell (1984)
„The soul is healed by being with children.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
„The best way of learning about anything is by doing.”
-Richard Branson
„Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
-Mark Twain
„Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
-Søren Kierkegaard
„We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
„It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
-André Gide
„Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
„The practise of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
-Marianne Williamson
„You become what you understand.”
-Søren Kierkegaard
„The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full in doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
-Charles Bukowski
„I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
-Oscar Wilde
„To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
-Audrey Hepburn
„If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you’d stop living to impress people.”
-Christopher Walken
„The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
„The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”
-George Bernard Shaw
„The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.”
-Jürgen Habermas
„If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”
-Harry S. Truman
„The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
-Aldous Huxley
„We learn something every day, and sometimes it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.”
-Bill Vaughn
„I’m at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you’re right - have fun.”
-Keanu Reeves
„If god made you, why are you like this?”
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
„There is nothing permanent except change.”
-Heraclitus
„The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
-Rene Descartes
„You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.”
-Bullet-Tooth Tony (Snatch)
„If you wish for peace, understand war.”
-B.H. Linddel Hart
„The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation.”
-Terence McKenna
„Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”
-Steve Jobs
„It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
-Ansel Adams
„What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
-Lord Bryon
„if you miss an opportunity don’t fill the eyes with tears; It will hide another better opportunity in front of you.”
-Thalapathy Vijay
„Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
-Anthony Bourdain
„Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ingnorance.”
-George Bernard Shaw
„Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are. Your reputation is who people think you are.”
-John Wooden
„All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.”
-Alan Watts
„There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be hacked.”
-Robert Mueller
„We’re terrible animals. I think that the Earth’s immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
„Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.”
-Ned Rorem
„I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.”
-Kabir
„The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
-Bruce Lee
„Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
„Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist.”
-George Carlin
„The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.”
-Simon Sinek
„The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.”
-Edgar Allan Poe
„Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.”
-Nikola Tesla
„Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
-Roy T. Bennett
„Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
-George Bernard Shaw
„Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
„I have to go, everybody has to go! Where the fuck does everybody go, when they have to go?”
-Gia Marie Carangi (Gia)
„People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
-Albert Camus
„It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.”
-Alan Watts
„Being alone for a while is dangerous. It’s addicting. Once you see how peaceful it is, you don’t want to deal with people anymore.”
-Tom Hardy
„The future is shit, just like the past.”
-Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
„If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.”
-Coleman Hawkins
„All colours will agree in the dark.”
-Francis Bacon
„We see what we believe rather than what we see.”
-Alan Watts
„I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
-Richard Feynman
„Lost time is never found again.”
-Benjamin Franklin
„Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.”
-Eduard Douwes Dekker (Multatuli)
„I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.”
-Richard Feynman
„Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
„The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
-Niccolò Machiavelli
„Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
-Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
„A leader’s job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be.”
-Jack Welch
„Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
-Samuel Beckett
„The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
„Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
-John F. Kennedy
„All it comes down to is: I feel like shit but look great.”
-Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
„Everyone’s crazy anyway. And those who think they aren’t, are the ones who are even crazier - because they’re in denial.”
-Michael Fassbender
„The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
-Bob Marley
„Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.”
-Will Rogers
„There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.”
-David Hume
„Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
-Hal Borland
„To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
-Oscar Wilde
„Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane…”
-Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding (The Shawshank Redemption)
„None of the evils which totalitarianism claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.”
-Albert Camus
„I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
-Thomas Jefferson
„Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
-Marcel Proust
„By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”
-Robert Bringhurst
„They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
-Carl W. Buehner
„Copy of Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.”
-Nikola Tesla
„You stop explaining yourself when you realize people only understand from their level of perception.”
-Jim Carrey
„Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.”
-Buckminster Fuller
„Niemand heeft het ooit gewonnen van de tijd.”
-Michael Pilarczyk
„Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.”
-Audrey Hepburn
„I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”
-Robin Williams
„Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.”
-John Wooden
„There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
-Tennessee Williams
„We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”
-Omar Bradley
„If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
-Lao Tzu
„In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
-Albert Camus
„A mad man sees what he sees.”
-Ned Stark (Game of Thrones)
„Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
„I think it’s better to feel good than to look good.”
-Tom Hanks
„One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.”
-Julian Assange
„The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
-Mark Twain
„It takes 20 years to build a reputation and few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it.”
-Stephane Nappo
„Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
-Rudyard Kipling
„Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
-Stephen Hawking
„Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
-Albert Einstein
„A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
-Oscar Wilde
„The real source of “stress” is actually internal; it is not external, as people would like to believe.”
-David R. Hawkins
„The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.”
-Frank Zappa
„Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.”
-Bruce Schneier
„The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
-Alexandre Dumas fils
„If you went back and fixed all the mistakes you’ve made, you erase yourself.”
-Louis C.K.
„I don’t know what the future holds. All I know is, I’m good today. Real good.”
-Chris Farley
„The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on the longest are your friends. I don’t mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren’t any of those.”
-Raymond Chandler
„Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.”
-Savielly Tartakower
„Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
-Hunter S. Thompson
„Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
-Aldous Huxley
„Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people … or find a different room.”
-Michael Dell
„Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
„The trouble with the rat race is that if you win you’re still a rat.”
-Lily Tomlin
„Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
-George Santayana
„The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
-David Russell
„So it goes.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
„People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul.”
-Carl Jung
„Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre
„I drink to make other people more interesting.”
-Ernest Hemingway
„Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.”
-Victor Hugo
„To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
„I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.”
-Anthony Bourdain
„Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
-Mark Twain
„We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.”
-Sigmund Freud
„I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
„Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”
-Thurgood Marshall
„You must tell yourself: No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.”
-Les Brown
„It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
-Henry David Thoreau
„You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
-Buckminster Fuller
„If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
-Roald Dahl
„In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
-Robert Frost
„What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
„If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.”
-Mark Twain
„If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti
„I just realized that I don’t have to have an opinion about everything – what a relief!”
-David R. Hawkins
„I can resist everything except temptation.”
-Oscar Wilde
„We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
-David Lynch
„Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.”
-Alan Watts
„Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
-Oscar Wilde
„Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.”
-Bill Murray
„Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.”
-Alan Watts
„If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
-Vincent van Gogh
„When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
-Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
„Is it said that wisdom lies in not seeing things, but seeing through things.”
-Manly P. Hall
„It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
-Steve Jobs
„I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”
-Edgar Allan Poe
„Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
-Terry Pratchett
„War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.”
-Benjamin Franklin
„Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
-James Thurber
„Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
-Francis Bacon
„Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
-Sigmund Freud
„I like criticism. It makes you strong.”
-LeBron James
„Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
„Don’t be afraid. You’re going to make it, but it’s always going to feel as if you’re not. That’s the fun, you see!”
-Alan Watts
„People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.”
-Bill Murray
„Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
-Albert Einstein
„Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”
-Will Rogers
„Be a voice, not an echo.”
-Albert Einstein
„Wie niet twijfelt, leert niet.”
-Dirck Coornhert
„Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
-Steve Martin
„All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
-Blaise Pascal
„If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre
