Guin's quotes

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""A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory"---Memoirs of a Geisha"
— Arthur Golden

15 people liked it

"Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.
-Sayuri"
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

6 people liked it

"We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

tags: direction, life
3 people liked it

""The heart dies, a slow death,
shedding each hope like leaves...
... until one day there are
none. No hopes. Nothing remains.""
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

tags: death, hope
16 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,886 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,279 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,504 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,518 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,648 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,819 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
8,357 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,373 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
8,088 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,279 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, madness, misfits, nonconformity, progressive, quo, rebels, status, think, troublemakers
7,282 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,153 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,220 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,832 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,863 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

4,910 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,406 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,657 people liked it

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
5,337 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,957 people liked it

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion
4,122 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,948 people liked it

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

tags: dreams
3,812 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

3,547 people liked it

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
3,085 people liked it

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
— George Orwell

tags: language, politics
233 people liked it

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
198 people liked it

"A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things."
— Barack Obama

tags: activism, commitment, politics
157 people liked it

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women
1,277 people liked it

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, men, women
616 people liked it

"In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
— Margaret Thatcher

tags: men, women
348 people liked it

"Every woman is a rebel."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: rebel, women
254 people liked it

"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world. "
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
227 people liked it

"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, women
81 people liked it

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: love, war
10 people liked it

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

tags: choice, poetry
1,625 people liked it

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
— Plato

tags: love, poetry, song
705 people liked it

"Resist much. Obey little."
— Walt Whitman

tags: poetry
426 people liked it

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
— Albert Einstein

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
17 people liked it

"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie."
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: democracy, politics
4 people liked it

"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."
— Mao Zedong

2 people liked it

"Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution."
— Karl Marx

5 people liked it

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
— Karl Marx

tags: karl, marx
23 people liked it

"The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs."
— Karl Marx

4 people liked it

"If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living."
— Friedrich Engels (Collected Works 38 1844-51)

tags: engels, french, marx, women
5 people liked it