Quotes

Yvon Chouinard photo

“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”

Yvon Chouinard (1938) American mountain climber

Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Margaret Thatcher photo

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

This quote is widely attributed to Margaret Thatcher on various websites, and also appears in a number of books, including The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press (1989), ed. Robert Andrews, p. 320 : ISBN 0231069901. 9780231069908 , but without any further source information such as date, location or any other context.
One valid Thatcher quote which may be the basis for the version above appears in the Second Carlton Lecture http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105799 (‘Why Democracy Will Last’), delivered at the Carlton Club, London (November 26, 1984) : Mr. Chairman, each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can’t take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew. You know that marvellous quotation from Goethe : ‘That which thy fathers bequeathed thee / Earn it anew if thou would possess it.’
Thatcher also expressed this thought in a Speech to Atlantic Bridge (May 14, 2003) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/111266, delivered at the St. Regis Hotel, New York City : My friends, every generation has to fight anew the battle for liberty.
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Hélène Cixous photo

“There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.”

Hélène Cixous (1937) French philosopher and writer

Source: Stigmata: Escaping Texts

John Updike photo

“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

A Month of Sundays (1975)
Source: A Month Of Sundays

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Paulo Coelho photo

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130 <!-- also p. 156 -->
Context: Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

H.L. Mencken photo

“We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy

Bertrand Russell photo

“Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Source: Sceptical Essays

“More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.”

Source: Island of the Blue Dolphins

Cassandra Clare photo

“I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

Thomas Mann photo

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate

Source: Essays of Three Decades (1942)

“I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.”

Source: Lust for Life