Carpathia Collaborative Quotes & Sayings

Being simple and complicated at the same is what makes Jay-Z so great. — Rapsody

Life is a series of obstacles and setbacks; living is overcoming them. — Dean Karnazes

I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases. — Wolf Kahn

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles. — C. JoyBell C.

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair. — Bono

Parenting needs to come to the forefront. — Bill Cosby

I just want to be a better guitar player, really. — Colin Hay

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living. — Marilyn Monroe

Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy — Will Shortz

Of what use are words of wisdom to the man who is unwise?
Of what use is a lamp to a man who is blind?
Hear the essence of thousands of sacred books: to help others is virtue: to hurt others is sin.
A man rises or goes down by his own actions: like the builder of a wall, or the digger of a well.
The narrow-minded man thinks and says: 'This man is one of us; this one is not, he is a stranger. To the man of noble soul the whole of mankind is but one family.

- quoted in the introduction, ascribed to the Hitopadesa — Juan Mascaro