Quotes and That

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Remember that if you can do one thing better than anybody it’ll make life a hell of a lot easier for you in this world — which is a pretty mean world when you get to know it.

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.

Some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: “Is this the condition that I feared?”

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

By far the most vital lesson I have ever learned is the importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.