Quotes
Here are some quotes that influence, entertain, and enlighten me. With quotes from Shakespeare's plays and Dr. Seuss, they may seem somewhat disparate but all tied together in the general theme of self-reflection and betterment.

A little wisdom from the wisest of people... My friends:



• Let's find a good reason to stay up for no good reason.
  
  Herman William Schleifer IV



Inspiration:



• What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
  how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
  express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
  in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
  world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
  what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
  me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
  you seem to say so.
  
  Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2)
  
  
  
• Music creates order out of chaos; for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
  
  Sir Yehudi Menuhin




• When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
  
  Confucius




• Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words. Be careful of your words, for your words become your actions. Be careful of your actions, for your actions become your habits. Be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character. Be careful of your character, for your character becomes your destiny.
  
  Anonymous




• Music, Beauty, are within us...great works are those that awaken our spirit, great men are those who give them form.
  
  Louis-Ferdinand Celine




• After all, what is reality but a collective illusion on which most people agree?




• Adults are obsolete children.
  
  Dr. Seuss
  
  
  
• The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
  
  Ruth Benedict
  
  
  
• The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.
  
  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
  
  
  
• The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
  
  Elizabeth Drew
  
  
  
• When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
  
  Chinua Achebe
  
  
  
• You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
  
  Anonymous
  
  
  
• Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
  
  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  
  
  
• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
  
  W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  
  
  
• Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished, one creates something that is new.
  
  Mao Zedong
  
  
  
• When we live with resentment toward another our hearts close down. Letting go of our resentment frees us from placing blame on them and allows us to look toward ourself for peace.
  
  Tigress Luv
  
  
  
• The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is.
  
  Tigress Luv
  
  
  
• Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
  
  William A. Ward
  
  
  
• The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking.
  
  Nancy Kline
  
  
  
• Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
  
  Luigi Pirandello
  
  
  
• Those who are going to be in business tomorrow are those who understand that the future, as always, belongs to the brave.
  
  William Bernbach
  
  
  
• If one man gains spiritually, the whole world gains with him, and if one man fails, the whole world fails to that extent.
  
  Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
  
• A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one and the real one
  
  John Pierpont Morgan
  
  
  
• The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
  
  Socrates, quoted in Cicero, 44 BC.
  
  
  
• A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
  
  Gore Vidal
  
  
  
• There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
  
  Mark Twain
  
  
  
• Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
  
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
  
• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
  
  Napoleon I
  
  
  
• The best of healers is good cheer.
  
  Pindar
  
  
  
• Remembrance is the secret of reconciliation.
  
  Rudolf Scharping
  
  
  
• Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.
  
  Leonardo da Vinci
  
  
  
• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
  
  A.W. Pinero
  
  
  
• Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.
  
  Danish proverb
  
  
  
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
  
  Buddha
  
  
  
• The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.
  
  S�ren Kierkegaard
  
  
  
• Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
  
  James Buckham
  
  
  
• Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
  
  Henry Fielding
  
  
  
• Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
  
  Ann Landers
  
  
  
• The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
  
  Marcus Aurelius
  
  
  
• The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
  
  Marya Mannes
  
  
  
• The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
  
  William Ralph Inge
  
  
  
• To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
  
  Novalis
  
  
  
• We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.
  
  Mary Blake
  
  
  
• Once space is conquered, all that will be left is here.
  once time is conquered, all that will be left is now.
  Do not lament on our parting, for between here and now,
  should we not meet again?
  
  Anonymous
  
  
  
• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
  
  Nicholas Murray Butler
  
  
  
• Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
  
  Samuel Butler
  
  
  
• Without music, life would be a mistake.
  
  Nietzsche
  
  
  
• To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities.
  
  Grenville Kleiser
  
  
  
  
  
A little Latin:



• Dimidium facti qui bene coepit habet - Well begun is half done
  
  
  
• De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum - Of two evils, the lesser is always chosen




• Sum Deus Meus et Solus Deus Me Potest Iudicare - I am my only God and God alone can judge me




• Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit - What nourishes me destroys me
  
  
  
• Vita vinum est - Wine is Life
  
  
  
• Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
  Or
  Si vis Pacem, Para bellum - If you want Peace, prepare for War
  
  "Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius




• Solitudinem fecerunt, pacem appelunt - They made a desert, and then called it peace
  
  Tacitus on Carthage