Recommended quotes
„You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.“
— Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964
„When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.“
— Audre Lorde writer and activist 1934 - 1992
The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997, p. 13.
„Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.“
— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
„Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
„We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body. Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.“
— Paracelsus Swiss physician and alchemist 1493 - 1541
„A deep sense of humor and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual acquaintances.“
— Eugene Paul Wigner mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning physicist 1902 - 1995
Context: A deep sense of humor and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual acquaintances. He could be blunt when necessary, but was never pompous. A mind of von Neumann's inexorable logic had to understand and accept much that most of us do not want to accept and do not even wish to understand. This fact colored many of von Neumann's moral judgments. "It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature." Only scientific intellectual dishonesty and misappropriation of scientific results could rouse his indignation and ire — but these did — and did almost equally whether he himself, or someone else, was wronged.
Biographical memoir: "John von Neumann (1903 - 1957)" in Year book of the American Philosophical Society (1958); later in Symmetries and Reflections : Scientific Essays of Eugene P. Wigner (1967), p. 261
„Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider that even the simplest actions you take for your lives matter beyond measure... and they matter forever.“
— Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
„When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.“
— Andy Andrews author and corporate speaker 1959
„Where There is a will
there is a will
to search and discover
a better day
Where a positive heart
is all you need
to rise beyond
and succeed
Where young minds grow
and respect each other
based on their deeds
and not their color
when times are dim
say as I say
"Where there's a will
there's a way!“
— Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete
„Think different and then again.“
— Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011
„I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
„A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces“
— Wole Soyinka Nigerian writer 1934
Context: I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
Janheinz Jahn (trans. Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger) A History of Neo-African Literature (London: Faber, 1968) pp. 265-6.
Explaining, in Berlin in 1964, a criticism of the concept of négritude he had made at a conference in Kampala in 1962.
