quotes

2303 items found

153428965627

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

— Yoda

153425623792

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

— Ayn Rand

153254802937

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

— Gustave Eiffel

153241758862

None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.

— Christopher Walken

153001171572

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

— Steve Jobs

152913971253

When the race gets hard to run, it means you just can’t take the pace.

— Bob Marley

152871203212

I never listen to what a person says. I look at what a person does because what they do tells me who they really are.

— Patty Houser

152849473722

Which man can save his brother’s soul? Oh man, it’s just self control.

— Bob Marley

152809681007

Values are the definition of our actions in life

— Armin Houman

152781392932

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

— Mark Twain

152759253487

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.

— Sakyong Mipham

152698623691

152637556707

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

152635438307

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn’t matter whether you’re bold or cowardly, or whether you’re stupid or intelligent. Doesn’t get you anywhere.

— Werner Herzog