Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
“What is most personal is most universal.”
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.”
I.303 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&q="we+often+contradict+an+opinion+for+no+other+reason+than+that+we+do+not+like+the+tone+in+which+it+is+expressed"&pg=PA137#v=onepage
Human, All Too Human (1878)
“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
Often misattributed to Twain, this is actually by Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657:
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Translation: I have only made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the opportunity to make it shorter.
Misattributed
Source: The Provincial Letters
“You can achieve anything in life. It just depends on how desperate you are to achieve it.”
The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”
Likely spurious quote, UNVERIFIED ATTRIBUTE - Quoted in The Lexington Observer & Reporter (16 June 1864)
1860s
Variant: I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”
“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Anonymous American proverb; since 1998 this has often been attributed to Mark Twain on the internet, but no contemporary evidence of him ever using it has been located.
Variants:
It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that matters.
"Stub Ends of Thoughts" by Arthur G. Lewis, a collection of sayings, in Book of the Royal Blue Vol. 14, No. 7 (April 1911), cited as the earliest known occurrence in The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, edited by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro, p. 232
It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.
Anonymous quote in the evening edition of the East Oregonian (20 April 1911)
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, declaring his particular variant on the proverbial assertion in Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast (31 January 1958) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11229
Misattributed
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Source: Notebook
“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
“Some mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
Cut It Out (2004)
Source: Wall and Piece