Favourite quotes

To profit from a good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

What you see depends on what you're looking for.

A.C.A.B.

Passion

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~Benjamin Franklin

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~Ice T

Hypocrisy

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. ~Moliere

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. ~Georg Groddeck

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ~Jane Addams

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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