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There is always some madness in love

  There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. - Edgard Varese You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. - Salvador Dali In a mad world only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein (attributed) There is no great genius without some touch of madness. - Seneca If you don't risk anything you risk even more. - Erica Jong Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy READ MORE

Dreams come true

  Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Friedrich von Schiller The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. - Oscar Wilde The wisest men follo...

Those who dream by day

  Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe, 'Eleanora,' 1842 I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977 One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952 To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.  - Emily Dicki...

Courage is the price

  Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. --Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927 Love truth, and pardon error. --Voltaire Walking is man's best medicine. --Hippocrates The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. --Benjamin Franklin In summer, the song sings itself. --William Carlos Williams How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. --Henry David Thoreau At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. --Friedrich Nietzsche Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. --Napoleon Bonaparte Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. --Ralph Waldo Emerson READ MORE INTERESTING

Love is the reason for it all

  Dorothy Fields Love is the reason for it all. --Dorothy Fields In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. -- Robert Heinlein What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do...? --Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. --Dr. Seuss A short saying oft contains much wisdom. --Sophocles Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. --Oscar Wilde I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. --Calvin Coolidge The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. --Whitney Young It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing...

10 Quotes

John Kenneth Galbraith. Photo: Wikipedia Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. - Dick Cavett To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. - Franklin P. Adams It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. - Jean Nidetch Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. - H. G. Wells It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. - Robert Louis Stevenson Creditors have better memories than debtors. - Benjamin Franklin, One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. - Friedrich Nietzsche When I was younger, I cou...

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Henry David Thoreau. Photo: Google What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. - Henry David Thoreau The pleasure of love is in loving. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle The price of greatness is responsibility. - Sir Winston Churchill Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. - Anton Chekhov There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire Love is an irresistible desir...