Quotes - Ovi N. (Abu Dhabi, 01, The United Arab Emirates) Showing 1-30 of 784

#1

“If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.”
― Regina Brett

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#2

“No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: audrey-hepburn

156 likes

#3

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

tags: apothegm, common-sense

1832 likes

#4

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
― Voltaire

tags: guilt

1285 likes

#5

“Dare to think for yourself.”
― Voltaire

tags: freedom-of-thought

1138 likes

#6

“The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities. ”
― Jane Roberts

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#7

“You create your own reality”
― Jane Roberts

31 likes

#8

“Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.”
― Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

116 likes

#9

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art

3110 likes

#10

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
― Pablo Picasso

1322 likes

#11

“It takes a very long time to become young.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: ignorance, innocence, knowledge, wisdom, youth

1027 likes

#12

“Yet there is so much that fills me: plants,
animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The
more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has
grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. In fact it
seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me
from the world has become transferred into my own inner world,
and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with my self.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

5 likes

#13

“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
― Lily Tomlin

tags: humor, life, rat-race

1682 likes

#14

“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.”
― Lily Tomlin

tags: funny, goals-in-life, humor, inspirational, wish

826 likes

#15

“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
― Lily Tomlin

tags: apothegm, complain, humor

464 likes

#16

“I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.”
― Lily Tomlin

tags: life, motivation

252 likes

#17

“The road to success is always under construction”
― Lily Tomlin

tags: motivation

228 likes

#18

“Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?”
― Lily Tomlin

116 likes

#19

“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”
― Lily Tomlin

119 likes

#20

“Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.”
― Lily Tomlin

107 likes

#21

“belief is the death of intelligence.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

tags: atheism, belief, faith, intelligence, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

987 likes

#22

“We all see only that which we are trained to see.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Masks of the Illuminati

tags: bias, perception

168 likes

#23

“Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Masks of the Illuminati

tags: john-babcock

27 likes

#24

“Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Masks of the Illuminati

tags: george-cecil-jones

17 likes

#25

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

11873 likes

#26

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love, ordinary, people

12028 likes

#27

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

10906 likes

#28

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde