Favorite Quotes



Some of the quotes that are found in this blog and others that are an inspiration. Enjoy. 


On Learning:

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." - Chinese Proverb

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." -Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

On Life:

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

On Love:

"I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear."- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

On Remembering:

“You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?'
'Yeah. You remember the things you want to forget and forget the things you want to remember.”

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are."- Carlos Ruiz Zafon


On Fear:

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."- Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist

On Change:

"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody." - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

On Helping:

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” - Charles Dickens

“No one has ever become poor by giving.” -Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

On Innovation:

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose." -Steve Jobs 

On Travel: 

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." – Miriam Beard


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