"Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!"

Max Lucado

Forgiveness

"Man is made by the places in which he lives."

Graham Greene "Brighton Rock"

Human

Life and Death

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

Jonas Salk

Work and Laziness

"If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better."

Oliver Wendell Holmes "Over the Teacups"

Happiness

Health and Alcohol

"The only people to profit from the mistakes of others are biographers."

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Defeates and Mistakes

"Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day."

Albert Camus

Justice

Life and Death

"If you were the only person on earth, Christ would have still suffered and died for you."

St. Augustine of Hippo

God and Religion

"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

Gustave Flaubert "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Success and Fame

"The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. "

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

Nature and Animals

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see."

James A. Michener

History and Nations

Various

"Tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."

Lois McMaster Bujold

Question and Problem

"There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time."

Peg Bracken

Health and Alcohol

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

Stephen King

Reality and Imagination

Truth and Falsity

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

Donald Trump "Trump: Art of the Deal"

Richness and Money

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Michel de Montaigne

Defeates and Mistakes

Peace and War

"Genius [...] has been defined as a supreme capacity for taking trouble. [...] It might be more fitly described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds and keeping them therein so long as the genius remains."

Samuel Butler "Notebooks"

Talent and Genius

"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "The Dehumanization of Art"

Art and Culture

Education

Human

"When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love."

Franz Schubert

Art and Culture

Love

Sorrow and Nostalgia

"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Minna Antrim "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

"A man is not where he lives, but where he loves."

Latin Proverbs

Human

Love

"If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing."

John Brunner "The Shockwave Rider"

Good and Evil

"The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just."

Gertrude Stein

Human

Intellect, Judgement

Justice

"Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy."

William Hazlitt "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

Wit and Humor

"Good and evil keep very exact accounts [...] and the face of every man is their ledger."

James Branch Cabell

Good and Evil

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice."

Meister Eckhart

God and Religion

"All war represents a failure of diplomacy."

Tony Benn

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

"A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one."

Guy de Maupassant

Love

"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."

Ronald David Laing

Normality and Madness

"It is easier to know men than to know a man."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Human

"A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Journals"

Human

"When you lose, don't lose the lesson."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Defeates and Mistakes

Education

"When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice."

Lin Yutang

Freedom and Servitude

Justice

Peace and War

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Love

Pain and Tears

"The greatest tragedy is when man gives up what he wants most for what he wants now!"

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Dreams and Desires

"An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor."

Alvan L. Barach

Health and Alcohol

"When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window."

English Proverbs

Love

Richness and Money

"Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context."

Steven Erikson

Destiny and Fate

"Optimists are badly informed pessimists."

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Optimism and Hope

"Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a fever-dream made up of joys embittered by sorrows, pleasure poisoned by pain, a dream that was a nightmare-confusion of spasmodic and fleeting delights, ecstasies, exultations, happinesses, interspersed with long-drawn miseries, griefs, perils, horrors, disappointments, defeats, humiliations, and despairs - the heaviest curse devisable by divine ingenuity; but death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free."

Mark Twain "Letters From the Earth"

Life and Death

"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."

Thomas Szasz "The Second Sin"

Happiness

"Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver and gold."

Bob Marley

Wisdom and Stupidity

"The girl with a future avoids a man with a past."

Evan Esar

Woman and Man

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

Muriel Rukeyser

Human

Nature and Animals

Various

"Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself."

José Martí

Human

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

God and Religion

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

Daniel J. Boorstin

Education

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back."

Piet Hein

Question and Problem