John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
(1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
Steve Jobs
(1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Source: Lecture Steve Jobs gave in 1992 is a masterclass on conflict resolution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPPpo4jv4mU
“It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.”
Frederick Douglass
(1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Variant: It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones.
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Zhuangzi
(-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher
Source: Nan-Hua-Ch'en-Ching, or, the Treatise of the transcendent master from Nan-Hua
“Happiness is having a loving, close knit family in another city.”
George Burns
(1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 251
“The correct lesson to learn from surprises: the world is surprising.”
Daniel Kahneman
(1934) Israeli-American psychologist
“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”
Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
"Tonight I Can Write" (Puedo Escribir), XX, p. 51.
Variant: Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.”
Konrad Adenauer
(1876–1967) German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician (CDU)
Reader's Digest 1972, p. 194 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=ctsnAQAAIAAJ&q=adenauer
T. B. Joshua
(1963) Nigerian Christian leader
On destiny - "The Shock Of Reality" http://allafrica.com/stories/200908240244.html All Africa (August 24 2009)
“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
Helen Keller
(1880–1968) American author and political activist
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
Charles Darwin
(1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
volume I, chapter VI: "The Voyage", page 266 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=284&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image; letter to sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin (4 August 1836)
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
Source: The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
Gertrude Stein
(1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”
Theodor W. Adorno
(1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
Stephen Hawking
(1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author