Quotes - Dorian (Greece) Showing 1-30 of 34

#1

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

#2

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
― Elaine May

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#3

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: change, education

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#4

“Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#5

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”
― Seth Godin

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#6

“Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

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#7

“Soon is not as good as now.”
― Seth Godin, Poke the Box

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#8

“The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
People will follow.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

tags: leadership

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#9

“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: love

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#10

“People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#11

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

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#12

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

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#13

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking

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#14

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships

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#15

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

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#16

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

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#17

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy

2240 likes

#18

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

tags: ink, memory

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#19

“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

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#20

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

tags: canterbury-tales, chaucer, franklin-s-tale, patience

1562 likes

#21

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#22

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope

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#23

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

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#24

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

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#25

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

tags: love

7170 likes

#26

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

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#27