A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. —Kurt Vonnegut in The Sirens of Titan More about this quote Tags: love life purpose Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. —Elie Wiesel More about this quote Tags: love hate apathy indifference philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: ignorance reading learning intelligence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. —Robert Frost More about this quote Tags: life continuity brevity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. —Mae West More about this quote Tags: life living enough Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: love perfection imperfection health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: friendship friends virtue Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: truth power self-reliance integrity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: humanity history commonality mind power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: life others self-care easy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. —Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird More about this quote Tags: understanding understand empathy opinion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. —Aldous Huxley in The Doors of Perception More about this quote Tags: solitude alone Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. —Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray More about this quote Tags: love hate emotions apathy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. —Malcolm X More about this quote Tags: justice honesty truth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: talent genius invisible Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email