“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
Variant: But if I’m not the same, the next question is, ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“Facts don't care about your feelings.”
Twitter https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/695638866993115136, ; , quoted in * 2018-07-13 These facts don’t care about Ben Shapiro’s feelings Frank Dale ThinkProgress
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/ben-shapiro-facts-dont-care-about-feelings-daily-wire-trump-conservative-hypocrisy-99ecd0a7940d/ 2020-03-12
2016
“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 61
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
1950s
Context: In matters concerning truth and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small; for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
(1955) as quoted in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1997) ed. , p. 388, from The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem (1979)
“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.”
Apollo mission press conference (1969); ABC World News http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/neil-armstrong-man-moon-dead/story?id=12325140&page=2#.UE0Vm67hdjw; also quoted in Of a Fire on the Moon (1970) by Norman Mailer, <!-- p. 46-47 --> and in First Man: The Life of Ronnie Petch the bender (2005) by James R. Hansen<!-- p. 399 -->
Context: I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul … we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
Variant: To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
