Toynbee Historian Quotes & Sayings

...emotions fly humans toward art — Rachel Hartman

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln. — Sam Waterston

If people can...they will.
(This applies across the board; good, bad or ugly.) — Lora

It was always assumed that I would go to college. — Paul D. Boyer

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. — Epictetus

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something. — Brian Tracy

Encounters taking the form of challenge-and-response are the most illuminating kind of events a for student of human affairs if he believes, as I believe, that one of the most distinctive characteristics of Man is the he is partially free to make choices ... Encounters are the occasions in human life on which freedom and creativity come into play and on which new things are brought into existence. — Arnold Joseph Toynbee

The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others. Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy. — Marianne Williamson

. . . it is written, 'Be holy, for I am holy.'" 1 Peter 1:16 We must continually remind ourselves of the purpose of life. We are not destined to happiness, nor to health, but to holiness. — Oswald Chambers

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling. — Ryan Lewis

Look, no one wants to hear that maybe she's the reason her mother flew the coop. But my advice to you is to put this behind you. File it away in the drawer that's saved for all the other crap that isn't fair, like how the Kardashians are famous and how good-looking people get served faster at restaurants and how a kid who can't skate to save his life winds up on the varsity hockey team because his dad is the coach. — Jodi Picoult

The past and the present, might we say, go like this. The future is a maybe. Yet we look back on the darkness that obscures the path that brought us fair, we only come up with another indefinite maybe. The only thing we perceive with any clarity is the present moment, and even that just passes by. — Haruki Murakami

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that. — Daniel Radcliffe