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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.
Mark Twain1835–1910
How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Eloisa to Abelard (1717), Line 207.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Letter to Henry L. Sprague (26 January 1900)
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur1822–1895
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Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius⁠—and a lot of courage⁠—to move in the opposite direction.
ESE. F. Schumacher1911–1977Often credited to Albert Einstein
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
HHHenry Stanley HaskinsOften credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886)In context
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Citizenship in a Republic (1910)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948From an article on dealing with snake bites, published in Indian Opinion dated August 9th, 1913, in the Gujarti language edition, English translation available in the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 12, April 1913—December 1914, p. 158.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru’ narrow chinks of his cavern.
William Blake1757–1827
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Bernard Baruch1870–1965Often credited to Dr. Seuss
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain1835–1910More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson