Quotes - Kira (kirado) (Cambridge, MA) Showing 1-30 of 177

#1

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

114163 likes

#2

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America

1135 likes

#3

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

tags: happiness

2534 likes

#4

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

1673 likes

#5

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

21660 likes

#6

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

tags: love

1585 likes

#7

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

tags: imagination

2275 likes

#8

“Keep on truckin'”
― R. Crumb

707 likes

#9

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

3870 likes

#10

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

3459 likes

#11

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

2205 likes

#12

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

1478 likes

#13

“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
― John Cowper Powys

898 likes

#14

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

1859 likes

#15

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

3221 likes

#16

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: flattery, praise, words

1834 likes

#17

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

tags: criticism, history

1408 likes

#18

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

984 likes

#19

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

1097 likes

#20

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6607 likes

#21

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3585 likes

#22

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

1760 likes

#23

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading

4088 likes

#24

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

2137 likes

#25

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

4664 likes

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