Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

Elie Wiesel

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Elie Wiesel

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Elie Wiesel

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Elie Wiesel

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Elie Wiesel

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Elie Wiesel

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Elie Wiesel

My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and-I hope-with some measure of success.

Elie Wiesel

Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Edward R. Murrow

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Edward R. Murrow

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Edward Norton

I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.

Conan O'Brien

Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

Conan O'Brien

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

Conan O'Brien

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

Conan O'Brien

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

Conan O'Brien

I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Conan O'Brien

I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.

Conan O'Brien

Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more tan anything else in life.

E. W. Howe

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

E. W. Howe

The only thing some people do is get older.

Dwyane Wade

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

Dwyane Wade

I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.

Courtney Love

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

We should take inspiration from learned-people and sages and put them into practice.

Bernard Baruch

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Anne Lamott

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

Anne Lamott

A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.

Anne Lamott

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

Anne Lamott

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

Anne Lamott

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

Anne Lamott

Joy is the best makeup.