Quotes

Continuing a thread

"Responsibility is the inevitable price one has to pay for independence."

C. S. Forester
Commodore Hornblower

Here to die, gone tomorrow

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

- Frederick Douglas

Praise in public, criticize in private.

- me

"even when you see everything, never believe anything"
- Moliere

When faced with senseless drama, spiteful criticisms and misguided opinions, walking away is the best way to stand up for yourself. To respond with anger is an endorsement of their attitude. -- Dodinsky

"She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired." - Virginia Woolf, The Years.

Judging a person doesn't define who they are, it defines who you are.

"When you write the story of your life don't let anyone else hold the pen."

^^ I like that one and it reminded me of another.

I am the author of my life unfortunately I am writing in pen therefore my mistakes can't be erased. < something like that anyhow

Love these quotes especially the die today gone tomorrow. Am now frantically picking my brain to come up with something profound x

No matter how deep goes, deeper goes deeper

"Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us."

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."

- Muhammad Ali

"if a b*tch beef with me, we gon have beef fo Eva' - Cardi B

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate:
only love can do that."

Of course we have free will....we have no other choice - Christopher Hitchens.

" For me, great algorithms are the poetry of computation. Just like
verse, they can be terse, allusive, dense, and even mysterious.
But once unlocked, they cast a brilliant new light on some
aspect of computing. " -- Francis Sullivan

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

Pablo Neruda

"I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in the darkness,
The Astonishing Light
Of your own Being!"

Hafiz

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

Albert Camus

^
<3

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming." - Pablo Neruda

Do not correct a fool, or he will hate you; correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.

"Quote someone sent me"

^^

wise words Ddavid x

Thanks Em. I am delighted that you liked it.

"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

-- Martin Luther King --

This is so weird but I sent this quote this morning to one of my friends, ddavidd.

:) :) Dear Thelma it must be an omen or something

If all rivers are sweet
where does the sea get its salt?"
~Pablo Neruda

"No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers."

Horace, (65 -8 B.C.)

^ my poems are soon to die or they are already dead

Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
But today is a gift
That is why it is called "THE PRESENT"

By: Master Oogway of kungfu panda

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. _Plato_

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice."
SOPHOCLES, Antigone

"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error." Descartes

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

^^^^^ "my poems are soon to die or they are already dead"

Luce, you drink in such an elixir of youthful brilliance and spirit that the water you drink is converted to wine upon imbibing it.

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
--Aristotle--

Mr. Larry, aww thank you

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
_Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel_