Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 48
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
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...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Margaret Deland
Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.
Tim Ferriss
Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.
Karl Barth
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
Alan Alda
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
James F. Cooper
If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.
Jim Eason
Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You'll get there, I promise.
Zoe Koplowitz
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.
Robin Williams
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Herodotus
People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
Ellen DeGeneres
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The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
