143 Quotes

001. "I don't want to have the terrible limitation of those who live only on what makes sense. Not me - I want a invented truth." -- Clarice Lispector

002. "I think, therefore I am." -- Descartes

003. "To be or not to be? That is the question." -- William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

004. "It's only because we end that every gesture has a meaning." -- Geórgia Sibele

005. "The question isn't finding out if the idea is crazy, but if it is crazy enough to be true." -- Bohr

006. "In order to be great, be whole. Nothing is exagerated or excludable. Be one in each thing. Put how much you are in every little thing you do. This way, in every lake the whole moon shines, because high she lives." -- Fernando Pessoa

007. "Criativity consists in seeing what everybody sees and thinking of what nobody thought." -- Szent Gyorgi

008. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -- William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

009. "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls." -- William Shakespeare (Iago, on Othello)

010. "The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious." -- William Shakespeare (King Lear)

011. "Speak low, if you speak love." -- William Shakespeare (Don Pedro, on MuchAdo About Nothing)

012. "This above all: to thine ownself be true." -- William Shakespeare (Polonius, on Hamlet)

013. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." -- William Shakespeare (Juliet Capulet, on Romeo and Juliet)

014. "Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're gonna get." -- Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)

015. "Welcome to the real world! It sucks - you're gonna love it." -- Friends (Monica Geller-Bing)

016. "Oh, yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it." -- The Lion King (Rafiki)

017. "I know you want it to stay “Pleasant“ around here, but, there are so many things that are so much better: like Silly... or Sexy... or Dangerous... or Wild... or Brief... And every one of those things is in you all the time if you just have the guts to look for them." -- Pleasant Ville (David)

018. "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!" -- The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy Gale)

019. "No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world." -- Dead Poets Society (John Keating)

020. "The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." -- Whitman

021. "Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think." -- Bohr

022. "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -- Victor Borge

023. "If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think." -- Clarence S. Darrow

024. "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." -- Richard Bach

025. "A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend." -- Henry David Thoreau

026. "Lay this unto your breast: old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best." -- John Webster

027. "The man who has no imagination has no wings." -- Muhammad Ali

028. "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

029. "The mind is everything. What you think you become." -- Buddha Gotama

030. "To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise." -- Horace (the Epistles)

031. "Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

032. "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -- Ellen Parr

033. "There are no misteries, truths nor lies in love." -- Fabio Jśnior

034. "Smile with your soul, not only with your lips." -- Lea Waider

035. "A country is made of people and books." -- Monteiro Lobato

036. "Every unanimity is stupid." -- Nelson Rodrigues

037. "Few things change as easily as the future." -- Ben Williams

038. "Using your imagination is the only way you can trully go anywhere." -- Ann Patchett

039. "Most people stop listening way before losing their audition." -- B. R. K. Bouma

040. "We have to enjoy our own stupidity, so we can go on with our wisdom." -- Nietzche

041. "Sometimes the hardest things to say are the ones that matters the most." -- Dawson“s Creek (Joey Potter)

042. "The best things of life are not things." -- Joann Davis

043. "The human being is a sintesis of infinite and infite, etern and transitory, freedom and necessity." -- Kierkegaard

044. "Being rancorous is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die." -- William Shakespeare

045. "Life is much more than every each thing." -- Anonymous

046. "Words can lie. The body never lies." -- Reich

047. "Use the pencil before you waste the eraser." -- Clarisse Ilzenfritz

048. "Everything is a checkers game in a chess board." -- Celso Esteves Jśnior

049. "Believe on those who look for the truth; doubt of those who found the truth." -- André Gide

050. "Each person, with their taste, their habits, their crazyness, and thinking the other is weird." -- Elisabete Maia

051. "Education is what stays with you after you forget what the school taught." -- Albert Einstein

052. "Friend is the person who calls you ridiculous when you are ridiculous." -- Gisela Gold

053. "Love is the best state for men to see things the way they really are." -- Nietzche

054. "Crazy is being too normal. Crazyness is always say whatever." -- Babi

055. "Happy is he who can laugh of himself. He will always be amused." -- Habib Bourguiba

056. "I dreamt, and I, so singular, saw myself as plural." -- Lenine

057. "For every complex problem there is a clear, simple and wrong answer." -- Henry Louis Mencken

058. "Every slang is a metaphore, every metaphore is poetry." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

059. "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for." -- Epicurus

060. "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." -- Helen Keller

061. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -- Albert Einstein

062. "The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible." -- Justus Liebig

063. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -- Oscar Wilde

064. "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden

065. "Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius." -- Isaac Disraeli

066. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." -- Albert Einstein

067. "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

068. "When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard“, I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?“" -- Sydney Harris

069. "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life." -- William Osler

070. "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up but a comedy when seen in long shot." -- Charles Chaplin

071. "Good teachers are just traumatized students trying to erase whatever went wrong with their own high school experience." -- Dawson“s Creek (Jack)

072. "Friendship can really never be over or underestimated." -- Dawson“s Creek (Jen Lindley)

073. "Spend a lot of time at the ocean, because the ocean forces you to dream." -- Dawson“s Creek (Jen Lindley)

074. "To love is to live." -- Dawson“s Creek (Jen Lindley)

075. "There's no such thing as chaos, only certain patterns of order we fail to understand." -- Kierkegaard
:: submitted by Adina

076. "Well, that's the thing about life... is uh, the surprises. The little things that sneak up on you and grab hold of you." -- Father of the Bride (George Banks)

077. "I don't care too much for money, for money can't buy me love." -- The Beatles (Can't buy me love)

078. "You've just gotta figure at some point it's all gonna come together, and it's just gonna be... un-floopy." -- Friends (Monica Geller-Bing)

079. "Love doesn't have to be like a story with begining and ending." -- Fįbio Jśnior

080. "You can't be normal and alive at the same time." -- Lobćo

081. "I know life should be much better and it will be. But that doesn't stop me from repeting: it's beautiful, it's beautiful, it's beautiful!" -- Gonzaguinha

082. "Life doesn't have to be perfect in order to be wonderful." -- Annette Funicello

083. "When we can't go back, we should only worry about the best way to go foward." -- Paulo Coelho

084. "Being right is easy. Realising others are right - that's the problem." -- Mįrio da Silva Barreto

085. "It's not what happens to you, but what you do with whatever happens to you." -- W. Mitchell

086. "I wake up every morning torn between two wishes: make the world better and enjoy the world. That's what makes it hard to plan the day." -- E. B. White

087. "What's an adult? It's a kid blown up by age." -- Simone de Beauvoir

088. "Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold." -- Maurice Seitter

089. "What's real - it terrifies us. All of us." -- Dawson“s Creek (Jen Lindley)

090. "If you think that anything of any value in this world comes at an easier price, you're wrong." -- Dawson“s Creek (Jen Lindley)

091. "You can't rely on someone else to make you feel alive. It's an inside job." -- Dawson“s Creek (Jen Lindley)

092. "Be sure to make mistakes. Make a lot of them, because there's no better way to learn and to grow." -- Dawson“s Creek (Jen Lindley)

093. "Dreams aren't perfect. They come true, not free." -- Dawson“s Creek (Joey Potter)

094. "It's interesting how people use that expression -- life and death. As if to imply that life is the opposite of death, but birth is the opposite of death. Life... has no opposite." -- Dawson“s Creek (Dawson Leery)

095. "Life is a game. Learn to play." -- Anonymous
:: submitted by Plinio

096. "Success is not a sometime thing -- it is an all-time thing." -- Vince Lombardi
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097. "It all comes down to a simple choice: get busy living, or get busy dieing." -- The Shawshank Redemption (Andy)

098. "Life needs forgeting. Man's health depends on his ability to forget." -- Jostein Gaarder (Diagnosis and Other Stories)

099. "The world is many years old. But rarelly it lasts more than a century." -- Jostein Gaarder (Diagnosis and Other Stories)

100. "The only true mistery is the one we see. But it's the only one which is never talked about." -- Jostein Gaarder (Diagnosis and Other Stories)

101. "Nothing is as obscure as what is crystal-clear. Nothing is as occult as what we live everyday." -- Jostein Gaarder (Diagnosis and Other Stories)

102. "Don't hate. You don't want to put that out in the universe." -- Friends (Phoebe Buffay)

103. "If you're going to do something wrong, do it right!" -- Friends (Joey Tribbianni)

104. "Every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name." -- Pocahontas (Pocahontas)

105. "If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew." -- Pocahontas (Pocahontas)

106. "Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?" -- Pocahontas (Pocahontas)

107. "It's ok if people don't like you. You just have to like yourself." -- Reese Witherspoon

108. "Despite all that has happened, I still believe people are good at heart." -- Anne Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank)
:: submitted by Deby

109. "As man stands to nature, so stands art to man." -- Richard Wagner (Artworks of the Future)
:: submitted by Dbt

110. "The greatest thing youll ever learn is to love and be loved in return." -- Moulin Rouge (Christian)
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111. "The fronteirs of the improbable have already been crossed only by the fact that the world exists." -- Jostein Gaarder (Diagnosis and Other Stories)

112. "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god!" -- William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
:: submitted by Crystal

113. "Do what you want to do. It is your life. Fill it with your own choices." -- Ishani

114. "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." -- Oscar Wilde
:: submitted by Beamy

115. "If you had one shot, one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted One moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?" -- Eminem
:: submitted by Zareb

116. "Letting go willingly is only doing so when you are most unwilling to do so." -- Zelia
:: submitted by Zelia

117. "I've learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat, I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me." -- Dr. Seuss
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118. "Follow your heart, but not blindly." -- Pythagoras
:: submitted by Jennifer

119. "If you're going to do it, over do it. That's how you know you're alive." -- Ani DiFranco (Puddledive CD)
:: submitted by Gray

120. "Love is like sand, it slowly slips through your fingers, but every once in a while your fortunate enough to hold on." -- Daniela R Zermeno
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121. "So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others." -- Elijah Wood
:: submitted by Lisa

122. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
:: submitted by Anonimous

123. "Don“t speak, your heart will tell." -- Daniela Zermeno
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124. "Intellectual passion dries out sensuality." -- Leonardo da Vinci
:: submitted by Victoria

125. "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." -- Galadriel (Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
:: submitted by Katie

126. "A heart is a fragile thing. That's why we protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely, and why it means so much when we do. Some hearts are more fragile than others, purer somehow, like crystal in a world of glass. Even the way they shatter is beautiful." -- Everwood (Irv's Voiceover)

127. "We see everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and see what is there on the other side. If you polish the glass, you can will be able to see what is behind the glass much clearer; but you will be unable to see yourself." -- Jostein Gaarder (Through a Glass, Darkly)

128. "Men always want to be a woman's first love --- women like to be a man's last romance." -- Oscar Wilde
:: submitted by Chelle

129. "Reality is wrong, dreams are for real." -- Tupac Shakur
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130. "What's amazing is when you can feel your life going somewhere. Like your life just figured out how to get good. Like, that second." -- My So-Called Life

131. "What I like, dread, is when people who know you in completely different ways end up in the same area. And you have to develop, this like, combination you, on the spot." -- My So-Called Life

132. "I always feel like a goofy little kid." -- Julia Stiles

133. "I threw my hands up and decided to screw being popular." -- Julia Stiles

134. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more." -- Willian Shakespeare (Macbeth)

135. "One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
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136. "Be the change you want to see in the world." -- Mahatma Ghandi

138. "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." -- Anonymous
:: submitted by Emily Martin

139. "Life is how it comes. You are once born, and once passed away, but in between you live the eternal life. Not for the luxury or pleasure, but for the love and faith of God." -- Morgan Fleece

141. "A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway." -- Christi Mary Warner
:: submitted by Anonymous

142. "A friend is like gold, preciouse and delicate, so treasure it, because they are not around forever." -- Audrey
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143. "Your life is an open book, don't close it before it's done." -- Metallica
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144. "It's not the beginning or the end that matter. It's the journey in between that counts." -- Anonymous
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145. "Life is the fusion of confusions." -- Kolbie Calverley
:: submitted by Anonymous