Popular quotes

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“Worrying is like praying for something you don't want.”

Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor

“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”

Egon Schiele (1890–1918) austrian painter

“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

“My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn’t live much longer.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

“I'm walking on the sky I see the moon I see the light”

Gigi D'Agostino (1967) Italian DJ

“Beat it, beat it,
No-one wants to be defeated,
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight,
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right.
Just beat it.”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

“The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee…”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.”

Miguel ángel Asturias book Men of Maize

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“may you be happy, may you be well
may you be peaceful and at ease
may you be filled with loving kindness
And compassion for all beingslk”

Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido

“Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.”

Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer

“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer

“You can never take the violence back.”

Ozzy Osbourne book I Am Ozzy

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”

Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker

“Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now