Flickr Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

And so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation through teachings. To nobody, O Illustrious One, can you communicate in words and teaching what happened to you in the hour of your enlightenment. That is why I am going on my way - not to seek another and better doctrine, for I know there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach my goal alone - or die — Hermann Hesse

I'd been going up for things, but I hadn't got anything, and then 'Anne Frank' came out, and there was a sudden flurry. I got a call saying they wanted to see me at the Globe, which was incredible because I'd been coming here since I was 12. — Ellie Kendrick

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece — Percy Bysshe Shelley

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time. — Dean Inge

The art of Navigation demonstrates how, by the shortest good way, by the aptest direction, and in the shortest time, a sufficient ship, between any two places (in passage navigable) assigned, may be conducted; and in all storms and natural disturbances chancing, how to use the best possible means, whereby to recover the place first assigned.
Mathematical Preface — John Dee

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy. — Rabindranath Tagore

It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin. — Avi

The beauty of sleep is the way the world around you disappears. — Susan Henderson

Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime — Stuart Adamson

Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma. — Josephine De La Baume

There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true. — F.K. Preston

What trumps the 'How' of Leadership is the 'Why — Todd Stocker

Lightspeed travel between worlds had let him skip like a stone over the surface of time. — Orson Scott Card

Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, save to the facts themselves, because, for thought, submission would mean ceasing to be. — Henri Poincare

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts. — Warren Farrell