“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8 : How I Conquered Worry,
Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
Ernesto Che Guevara
(1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”
Anaïs Nin
(1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126
Variant: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
“In order to see the boundaries of the probabilities, need to try impossible.”
Mehmed II
(1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
During the fall of Constantinople, when he said that the ships would pass by land.
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
C.G. Jung
(1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
H.L. Mencken
(1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: Heliogabalus
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
(1835–1910) American author and humorist
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240
Variant: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.”
George Orwell
book
1984
Source: 1984
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
“It matters if you don't just give up.”
Stephen Hawking
(1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
Attributed in Going Within (1990) http://books.google.com/books?id=buVs1VVUZakC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA303#v=onepage&q&f=false by Shirley MacLaine, p. 303
Attributed
Time Enough for Love (1973)
“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
Benjamin Disraeli
(1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870)
Variant: Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
“When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
(1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
This quote has been attributed to Hendrix on the internet, and is flatly denied to have ever been said by him, without presenting any evidence as to why, beyond such unsupported, derisive and denigrative statements such as the author rants about others making in "WHAT HENDRIX NEVER SAID : They Don't Want to Know What He Really Said and Demand a Slacker Fantasy Instead" (22 March 2010) by Michael Fairchild, at rockprophecy.com http://www.rockprophecy.com/hendrix_quotes_hoax.html. Whether or not he ever spoke them, they are very similar to those reportedly of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, quoted in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (1997) edited by Edward C. Goodman and Ted Goodman, p. 639: "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." A similar quotation he provides of Sri Chinmoy predates any currently located source of either the Hendrix or Gladstone attributions, yet he accuses Chinmoy of simple plagiarism of Gladstone (or "Gladwell" at one point). From Chinmoy's book My Heart Shall Give A Oneness-Feast (1993) he quotes: "My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own … World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power." An even earlier statement of Chinmoy is found in Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970): "When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God."
Disputed
Variant: When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
