Quotes

This page will be updated from time to time, and will feature quotes from my real-life quote book that I've written down for safe-keeping. Unlike most of the other writings in this place, these did not originate with me, unless stated otherwise. If you find a quote interesting, I encourage you to look up more about the writings of the person I've quoted from. Enjoy!

Unreal is action without discipline, charity without sympathy, ritual without devotion. -Bhagavadgita

People could survive their natural trouble all right if it weren't for the trouble they make for themselves. -Ogden Nash

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. -Joseph Addison

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterson

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. -Bertrand Russell

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. -Bion

Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again. -Nietzsche

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. -Aesop

[Animals] are not brethern, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. -Henry Beston

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! -Anatole France

It is easy to fly into a passion -anybody can do that- but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way- that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. -Aristotle

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good. -Baltasar Gracian

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. -Mark Twain

All perecption of truth is the detection of an analogy. -Thoreau

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding. -Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. -Cyril Connoly

Misfortunes one can endure- They come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults- ah! there is the sting of life. -Oscar Wilde

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. -Pascal

I am a part of all that I have met. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake. -T. S. Eliot

When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity. -Henry Beston

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. -Heraclitus

Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. -Rabindranth Tagore

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. -John Berry