"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory."
-Georges Duhamel The Heart's Domain
"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
-John Lancaster Spalding Aphorisms and Reflections
"The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it."
-Anon.
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
-George Bernard Shaw
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do."
-Helen Keller
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."
-Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
-Aristotle Politics
"Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream."
-Roger Rosenblatt The Man in the Water, 1994
"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."
-Stendhal On Love, 1822
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
-Ernest Hemingway
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
-George E. Woodberry
"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant."
-J. Petit-Senn Conceits and Caprices
"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."
-J. B. Priestley All About Ourselves and Other Essays
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
-James Baldwin
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
-Henry Drummond
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor Hugo
"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
-Joan Borysenko
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
-William James
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
-W. M. Lewis
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
-Albert Camus
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
-Rudyard Kipling
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-William Jennings Bryan
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."
-Dag Hammarskjöld Markings, 1964
"No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give."
-French Proverb
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
-Henry Ford
"Not all who wander are lost."
-J. R. R. Tolkien
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
-William Shakespeare
"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?"
-William Makepeace Thackeray
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"
-Emiliano Zapata
"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
-Edward W. Howe
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
-Mark Twain
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
-Alan Saporta
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-Confucius
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
-Leo Rosten
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
-Anon.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
-Seneca
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
-Bertrand Russell
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"
-John Greenleaf Whittier "Maud Muller"
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
-Kahlil Gibran "The Voice of the Poet"
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
-Bertrand Russell
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
-M Scott Peck
"Time is the fire in which we burn."
-Gene Roddenberry
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
-John Powell
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
-E. M. Forster Two Cheers for Democracy
"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."
-Harry Firestone
"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond."
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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
-Eric Hoffer
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
-Robert Anthony "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
-Henry Miller
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
-Chinese Proverb
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
-Bertrand Russell
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
-Douglas Adams
"Of all things, One i must remember is that what nourishes me, also destroys me "
anonymous

Wow, these are so good where did u get them from?My favourites are;

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

I totally agree if there is nothing in the world that you love so much you are prepared to die for it then what is the point of being alive as you are gaining absolutely nothing from your existence. I think at the moment the world is full of valueless people. People who only believe in what the media is telling the public is important to believe in now and when you question them why dont you like this or why do you believe in this they cant explain. I think it will also dispel a lot of ignorance in society if people really believed in values instead of just concepts.

"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."

Couldn't have said it better myself.

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
-Bertrand Russell

I think this writer is really strange some of what I've read on your list by him seems a bit huh? I think he is just anti-authoritarian or anti-establishment. We'd get along great then. Ye

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
-E. M. Forster Two Cheers for Democracy

Definitely. I hate patriotism. UGh. I mean its irrational and its a form of supremacy and leads to bigotry. I mean you think your country is better then everyone elses what is that gonna lead to. Ill tell you what its gonna lead to. Its gonna lead to an arrogant group of people who think their culture and way of life is superior to everyone elses because they have been taught to love their nation. And it also makes you less rational dont you think. I mean you dont look at whats right and wrong all you think about is your allegiance to your flag or whatever. Definitely agree with this as I think you should have allegiance to a cause not to a nation.

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
-Bertrand Russell

Totally, totally agree. Down with formal education!!!! It makes you in to a crazy person dont you think. All that studying, all that pressure. People actually commit suicide cause they cant deal with the pressure. Obviously a system that can drive people to want to end their lives is definitely bad for us. But i dont hate education necessarily. I just hate the way things are taught. I mean school, college, the education system kill off your love of learning. Because they make it a task and they dont pause to consider the beauty of what they have learnt, instead its just about learning the facts so that you can pass your exam. I mean knowledge is supposed to be beneficial to you right and when you are just learning things because you have to then obviously its not benefitting you. As a verse in the quran says (and this is not a direct quote its just generally what it is) those who have knowledge but dont act on it are like donkeys carrying books on their backs. If anyone here knows the exact quote can you put it up please. But this is so true its like you've learnt nothing if you come out of a classroom and your ideas are the same or you do not come out with an appreciation of the world or for what you have learnt. The knowledge is heavy on you then just like the books are on the donkey. Its not something you want to have. thats why you want to leave school, thats why you feel so stressed when it comes time for exams, thats why people commit suicide. Hmm what is the difference between ignorance and stupidity by the way. Im not quite sure.