Quotes to inspire and reflect

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

 

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. William S.

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

In the end, everything is a gag.

How do I know what I have to say until I see what I have said? E. M.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

 

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

 

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

 

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

 

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

 

Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.

 

Witness at all times. If necessary, use words. St.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. William S.

A functioning police state needs no police. William S.

The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. J. R. R.

 

Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. J. R.R.

 

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Die, but do not retreat.

The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself. J. R. R.

 

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? J. R. R.

 

For though I do not ask for aid, we need it. J. R. R.

 

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. J. R. R.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! J. R. R.

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. J. R. R.

 

I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size. J. R .R.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... J. R. R.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

 

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Their plans were improved with the best advice. J. R.

 

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

 

The difficulty in life is the choice.

 

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to. J. R.

 

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. J. R. R.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. St.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming.

Yet such is off the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. J. R.