Favorite Quotes

I absolutely love and adore quotes! There's nothing like finding a new quote that touches you to core of your soul. I love collecting other people's words of wisdom and it's an addictive hobby of mine. These are some of my favorite quotes:




“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.” Bill Watterson

I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." ~Edmund Burke
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"I arise in the morning torn by a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." ~ E.B. White

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." Albert Einstein

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. " E.E. Cummings

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" ~ Mahatma Gandhi

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
~ Aristotle

"The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not want to destroy." ~ Rev. Sean Parker Dennison

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever." ~ Margaret Cho

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." ~Mark Twain

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." ~ William Shakespeare

"To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom." ~Confucius

"Beauty is as beauty does. "

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. " ;)

"Know what's weird? Day by day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything is different."