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Richard Bach photo

“Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Sophie Scholl photo

“I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.”

Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member

Response to the closing question of whether she hadn't "indeed come to the conclusion that your conduct and the actions along with your brother and other persons in the present phase of the war should be seen as a crime against the community, but in particular against our troops fighting arduously in the east, that merits the severest sentence?" in the official examination transcripts (February 1943); Bundesarchiv Berlin, ZC 13267, Bd. 3 http://www.bpb.de/themen/5H3ZT3,3,0,Ausz%FCge_aus_den_Verh%F6rprotokollen_von_Sophie_Scholl.html#art3

Marilyn Monroe photo

“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variant: Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

Heartbreaking , Sad , love , Cute
Joseph Conrad photo

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”

Joseph Conrad book Chance

Source: Chance (1913) part II, Ch. 5

For women , Men
Ernest Hemingway photo

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Marita in Ch. 11
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)

Happy , People , Intelligence , Happiness
Jacque Fresco photo

“Although we accept the inevitability of change, humans meet it with a lot of resistance. In most cases, change threatens those in positions of advantage and for the most part they are there in the first place to keep things the way they are.”

Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer

Designing the Future (2007)

Way , Parting , Change
Jordan Peterson photo

“There are only three options in dealing with people: it will either be slavery, tyranny, or negotiation.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

Other

People
Nikola Tesla photo

“Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
Life
Vincent Van Gogh photo

“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

As quoted in Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (1997) by Jan Phillips, p. 176
Undated

Dreams , Painting
N.T. Wright photo

“You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.”

N.T. Wright (1948) Anglican bishop

Source: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

John Lydon photo

“If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right”

John Lydon book Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

Source: Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

People
Sigmund Freud photo

“The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Thomas Sankara photo

“he who feeds you, controls you”

Thomas Sankara (1949–1987) President of Upper Volta
Albert Einstein photo

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

In answer to a question asked by the editors of Youth, a journal of Young Israel of Williamsburg, NY. Quoted in the New York Times, June 20, 1932, pg. 17 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40617F83B5A13738DDDA90A94DE405B828FF1D3
Unsourced variant: Only a life in the service of others is worth living.
1930s
Variant: I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

Wise , Life , Life
Diogenes of Sinope photo

“Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."”

Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 27
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

Men , Boy

“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting… Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: Carlos Castaneda (1971) Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan. p. 85; As cited in: Eugene Dupuis (2001) Time Shift: Managing Time to Create a Life You Love. Ch. 5: Self Management

Life , Knowledge , Thinking
Frank Zappa photo

“One size does not fit all.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer