Charley-Shieedah's favorite quotes

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
— Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein)

tags: art, philosophy, science

489 people liked it

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness, it is generally the byproduct of other activities."
— Aldous Huxley

1 person liked it

"Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all

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— Dwight D. Eisenhower

2 people liked it

"Don't tell your friends about your indigestions: "How are you!" is a greeting, not a question."
— Arthur Guiterman, A Poet's Proverbs

1 person liked it

"I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. "
— Unknown to me

4 people liked it

"Cogito ergo sum.
(I think, therefore I am.)"
— René Descartes

tags: cogito, think

54 people liked it

"Man is the measure of all things.
{people decide what is true for themselves and act accordingly.} "
— Protagoras

tags: relativism

1 person liked it

"Fairness is merely what the powerful want it to be."
— Thrasymachus

tags: philosophy

1 person liked it

"I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts."
— Plato

1 person liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life

11,644 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish

11,927 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

11,323 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

8,363 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

7,903 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

5,198 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams

3,817 people liked it

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people

3,329 people liked it

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

tags: inspirational

3,318 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life

2,748 people liked it

"Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life."
— Brian Andreas

31 people liked it

"If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations.
When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.
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— Sathya Sai Baba

1 person liked it

"There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it."
— Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion)

67 people liked it

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
— Richard Dawkins

tags: atheism, philosophy

422 people liked it

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