Systemize Your Life Quotes & Sayings

Maybe it was as simple as believing things were what you wanted them to be? Maybe that was all it took? If there was anything Byron had learned that summer, it was that a thing was capable of being not one but many different things, and some of them contradictory. Not everything had a label. Or if it did, you had to be prepared to re-examine that label from time to time and paste another alongside it. The truth could be true, but not in a definite way. It could be more or less true; and maybe that was the best a human being could hope for. — Rachel Joyce

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. — Henry David Thoreau

I simply took refuge among women. As you know, they don't really condemn any weakness; they would be more inclined to try to humiliate or disarm our strength. This is why woman is the reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal. She is his harbor, his haven; it is in a woman's bed that he is generally arrested. Is she not all that remains to us of earthly paradise? — Albert Camus

Because what touches His heart is not how much we know, but how much we love. Not how pure we are, but how passionate. Maybe that is why, when Pharisees were fighting over theology, prostitutes were falling at the Savior's feet and slipping into the kingdom of God on their tears. — Ken Gire

People turned around and came back to watch. An enormous crowd formed. Ampol Oil took films. When we left Australia, we also left our boards for the Aussies. Those films were shown all over the country to different clubs. The films and our boards became the basis for the modern surfboard movement in Australia. — Greg Noll

I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him. — James Monroe

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work. — Eyvind Kang

Any time things go to infinity in physics, we know we haven't gotten it right. — Andrea M. Ghez

I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons. — Cathy Freeman

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows. — Baltasar Gracian

With love, we rise; with hate, we sink! Always remember this golden law! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

[Asiaticus responds] Ask your sons, Suillius. They will testify to my masculinity. — Tacitus

It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if he really imagined he could think the same thoughts now as then, and be interested in the same ideas and images as had interested him once ... not long ago. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky