Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 44
Be the change you want to see.
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
Bill Bryson
The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.
Isaac of Nineveh
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole
Knowing is not enough; we must apply!
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.
Guy Debord
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.
What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.
John Eliot
When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.
Sasha Azevedo
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
A long time ago individuals looked at life and saw that most people aren't happy. They saw this was obviously an inefficient system. So they combed the universe and found immeasurable happiness inside of us, our spirits.
If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.
Nadia Comaneci
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things.
Ray Davies
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein
