“Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 4 of 303
“Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.”
“An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.”
“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
“It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.”
“The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don’t have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.”
“Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.”
“I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything.”
“The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.”
“Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.”
“Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.”
“There is something more important than logic: imagination”
“Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.”
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
“Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.”
“Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!”
“The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.”
“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.”