#motivation quotes
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,The Brothers Karamazov
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.
Haruki Murakami,Kafka on the Shore
I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
Salman Rushdie,Midnight’s Children
The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.
Brandon Sanderson,Oathbringer
We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like “if”.
Fredrik Backman,A Man Called Ove
It takes a very long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we’re wrong is courage, not weakness.
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.
Philip K. Dick
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
J.R.R. Tolkien,The Return of the King
So I tried to write a song to make you blush but I’ve a feeling that the whole thing may well just end up too clever for its own good.
Alex Turner,Science Fiction
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats,Letters of John Keats
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
Paulo Coelho,Veronika Decides to Die
I want to sink into your arms and feel the festival and the firelight.
Virginia Woolf,Letter to Vita Sackville-West, c. March 1931
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
Harper Lee,Go Set a Watchman
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Isaac Asimov,Foundation
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
Guy de Maupassant,Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
