A wise man makes his own decisions;
an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
-Chinese proverb
"You are
Never forsaken
Like the
Sparrows all
Over the
Sky ; You
Maybe badly
Bedridden oh
Man yet
Trust and
You'll never
Die"
A brain you can convince,
a simpleton you have to persuade.
--Curt Goetz
(1888-1960, born Kurt Walter Götz,
Swiss German writer, actor and film director)
The two most important days in your life are
the day you are born
and the day you find out why.
--Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
better known by his pen name Mark Twain
(1835-1910, American author and humourist)
He who has a WHY to live for
can bear with almost any how.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900, German scholar and philosopher)
We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.
--Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
(1874-1965, British politician and Prime Minister of the UK)
One day, in retrospect,
the years of struggle
will strike you as the most beautiful.
--Sigmund Freud
(1856-1939, Austrian neurologist,
known as the father of psychoanalysis)
Deprived of meaningful work,
men and women lose their reason for existence;
they go stark, raving mad.
--Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
(1821-1881, Russian novelist, essayist and philosopher)
Instead of telling the world
what you’re eating for breakfast,
you can use social networking
to do something that’s meaningful.
--Edward Norton
(*1969, American actor, screenwriter, director and activist)
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish
by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life
believing it’s stupid.
--Albert Einstein
(1879-1955, German-born theoretical physicist)