All the Quotes Alphabetically

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…I thought how easy it is to destroy the past and how dif­fi­cult to for­get it. — Jeanette Win­ter­son

…When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don’t just renew the Amer­i­can tra­di­tion of giv­ing, we also renew our­selves. — Bill Clin­ton

…you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in your­self, there can be no order in the world. — Sri Nis­ar­ga­datta Maharaj

‘Edu­ca­tion’ is some­thing that some peo­ple do to oth­ers for their own good, try­ing to make them learn what they think they ought to know, can­not be reformed or car­ried out wisely or humanely, because its pur­pose is nei­ther wise nor humane. A most fun­da­men­tal human right is the right to decide for our­selves how we will explore the world around us, think about our own and other per­sons’ expe­ri­ences, and find and make the mean­ing of our own lives. Who­ever takes that right away from us attacks the very cen­ter of our being and does us a most pro­found and last­ing injury. Edu­ca­tion, with its sup­port­ing sys­tems of com­pul­sory and com­pet­i­tive school­ing, all its car­rots and sticks, grades, diplo­mas and cre­den­tials, now seems to me per­haps the most author­i­tar­ian and dan­ger­ous of all the social inven­tions of mankind. — John Holt

‘Till I loved I never lived — Enough. — Emily Dick­in­son

…the best learn­ing hap­pens in real life with real prob­lems and real peo­ple and not in class­rooms. — Charles Handy

Things had changed, what an arse­hole com­ment, I had changed things. Things don’t change, they’re not like the sea­sons mov­ing on a diur­nal round. Peo­ple change things. There are vic­tims of change, but not vic­tims of things. — Jeanette Win­ter­son

A ‘No’ uttered from the deep­est con­vic­tion is bet­ter than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trou­ble. — Mahatma Gandhi

A casual stroll through the lunatic asy­lum shows us that faith proves noth­ing. — Friedrich Niet­zsche

A civ­i­lized soci­ety is one which tol­er­ates eccen­tric­ity to the point of doubt­ful san­ity. — Robert Frost

A com­fort­able home is a great source of hap­pi­ness. It ranks imme­di­ately after health and a good con­science. — Syd­ney Smith

A con­ser­v­a­tive gov­ern­ment is an orga­nized hypocrisy. — Ben­jamin Dis­raeli, Speech on agri­cul­tural inter­ests, 17 March 1845

A decent pro­vi­sion for the poor is the true test of civil­i­sa­tion. — Samuel John­son

A free race can­not be born of slave moth­ers. — Mar­garet Sanger

A full-​​spectrum approach to human con­scious­ness and behav­ior means that men and women have avail­able to them a spec­trum of know­ing — a spec­trum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit. — Ken Wilber

A good apho­rism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the cen­turies, although it serves as food for every epoch. — Friedrich Wil­helm Niet­zsche, Mis­cel­la­neous Max­ims and Opin­ions, no. 168

A great book should leave you with many expe­ri­ences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live sev­eral lives while read­ing it. — William Sty­ron

A great obsta­cle to hap­pi­ness is expect­ing too much hap­pi­ness. — Bernard de Fontanelle

A jour­ney of a thou­sand miles begins with a sin­gle step. — Chi­nese Proverb

A kind word is like a spring day. — Russ­ian Proverb

A life lived in chaos is an impos­si­bil­ity… — Madeleine L’Engle

A life with­out pur­pose is a lan­guid, drift­ing thing; Every day we ought to review our pur­pose, say­ing to our­selves: This day let me make a sound begin­ning, for what we have hith­erto done is naught! — Thomas à Kempis

A lit­tle more matri­archy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Para­graph. — Dorothy Thomp­son

A man’s eth­i­cal behav­ior should be based effec­tu­ally on sym­pa­thy, edu­ca­tion, and social ties; no reli­gious basis is nec­es­sary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of pun­ish­ment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Ein­stein

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the cen­sures of the world. — Joseph Addi­son

A man’s library is a sort of harem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A moment is a con­cen­trated eter­nity… All that ever was is now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A per­son with­out a sense of humor is like a wagon with­out springs. It’s jolted by every peb­ble on the road. — Henry Ward Beecher

A place belongs for­ever to who­ever claims it hard­est, remem­bers it most obses­sively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, ren­ders it, loves it so rad­i­cally that he remakes it in his own image. — Joan Did­ion

A pos­i­tive atti­tude may not solve all your prob­lems, but it will annoy enough peo­ple to make it worth the effort. — Herm Albright

A pur­pose of human life, no mat­ter who is con­trol­ling it, is to love who­ever is around to be loved. — Kurt Von­negut

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. — John Stein­beck

A school should not be a prepa­ra­tion for life; A school should be life. — Elbert Hub­bard

A smile is a curve that sets every­thing straight. — Phyl­lis Diller

A suc­cess­ful man is one who can lay a firm foun­da­tion with the bricks oth­ers have thrown at him. — David Brink­ley

A thou­sand fibers con­nect us with our fel­low men; and among those fibers, as sym­pa­thetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. — Her­man Melville

A well-​​developed sense of humor is the pole that adds bal­ance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. — William Arthur Ward

A woman is the full cir­cle. Within her is the power to cre­ate, nur­ture and trans­form. — Diane Mariechild

A woman’s health is her cap­i­tal. — Har­riet Beecher Stowe

A word to the wise ain’t nec­es­sary, it’s the stu­pid ones who need advice. — Bill Cosby

Accept — then act. What­ever the present moment con­tains, accept it as if you had cho­sen it. Always work with it, not against it…This will mirac­u­lously trans­form your whole life. — Eck­hart Tolle

Action is the foun­da­tional key to all suc­cess. — Pablo Picasso

Advances in com­puter tech­nol­ogy and the Inter­net have changed the way Amer­ica works, learns and com­mu­ni­cates. The Inter­net has become an inte­gral part of America’s eco­nomic, polit­i­cal and social life. — Bill Clin­ton

After you fall into a habit of accept­ing what other peo­ple tell you to think you lose the power to think for your­self. I sus­pect that’s why so few of us chal­lenge the premises of old-​​age homes, tele­vi­sion, day-​​care cen­ters and schools. — John Tay­lor Gatto

Age does not pro­tect you from love. But love, to some extent, pro­tects you from age. — Anaïs Nin

All change is not growth; as all move­ment is not for­ward. — Ellen Glas­gow

All expe­ri­ence is an arch, to build upon. — Henry Brooks Adams

All happy peo­ple are grate­ful. Ungrate­ful peo­ple can­not be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads peo­ple to com­plain, but it’s truer to say that com­plain­ing leads to peo­ple becom­ing unhappy. — Den­nis Prager

All inti­macy is rare — that’s what makes it pre­cious. — Amy Bloom

All progress has resulted from peo­ple who took unpop­u­lar posi­tions. All change is the result of a change in the con­tem­po­rary state of mind. Don’t be afraid of being out of tune with your envi­ron­ment, and above all pray God that you are not afraid to live, to live hard and fast. To my way of think­ing it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run. You’ll have more fun, you’ll do more and you’ll get more, you’ll give more sat­is­fac­tion the more you know, the more you have worked, and the more you have lived. For yours is a great adven­ture at a stir­ring time in the annals of men. — Adlai Steven­son

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