“Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.”
-Lao-tzu
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
-Lao-tzu
“He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.”
-Lao-tzu
“He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.”
-Lao-tzu
“He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.”
-Lao-tzu
“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
-J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.”
-J. K. Rowling
“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”
-J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.”
-J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
-J. K. Rowling
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
-J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
-J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
-J. K. Rowling
“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”
-Douglas Adams
“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”
-Douglas Adams
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
-Douglas Adams
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
-Douglas Adams
“I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.”
-Jane Austen
“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”
-Jane Austen
“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”
-Jane Austen
A great soldier, A great politician, A great president, and A great man:
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
-John F. Kennedy
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
-John F. Kennedy
“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.”
-John F. Kennedy
“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
-John F. Kennedy
“We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.”
-John F. Kennedy
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
-John F. Kennedy
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“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.”
-Peter Ustinov
“Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.”
-Peter Ustinov
“Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.”
-Peter Ustinov
“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”
-Peter Ustinov
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“Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?”
-Peter Ustinov
“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.”
-Peter Ustinov
“I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.”
-Peter Ustinov
“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”
-Peter Ustinov
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
-Peter Ustinov
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“Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”
-David Broder