Quotes by Great Quotes

“Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.” – Thomas Fuller

“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.” – Thomas Fuller

“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.” – Thomas Fuller

“There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.” – Thomas Fuller

“Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery.” – Thomas Fuller

“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.” – Thomas Fuller

“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.” – Thomas Fuller

“No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.” – Thomas Fuller

“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.” – Thomas Fuller

“Abused patience turns to fury.” – Thomas Fuller

“Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.” ― Thomas Fuller

“We are all in the same gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

“Interesting things happen to people who can tell interesting stories about themselves.” – Adam Grant

“Happiness is the expansion of self. Joy is the dissolving of self.” – David Brooks

“Society changes when a small group of people find a better way to live, and the rest of us copy them.” – David Brooks

“Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.” – Richard Rohr

“We’re now in a society where hatred is rewarded.” – Bill O’Reilly “It’s incentivized, it’s monetized.” – John Stewart

“If we really care about connection and compassion, we have to be curious and ask. We have to be learners, not knowers. We have to believe people.” – Brené Brown

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Lichtenstein

“Language does not just communicate emotion, it shapes emotion.” – Brené Brown

“States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.” – Plato

“We have two lives. The second one begins the day we realize we only have one.” – Confucius

“Part of the Innocence and beauty of a child is based on their natural instincts. They are totally human. The more one has to adapt to survive, the less human one becomes.” – Tim Fletcher

“We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than the love, and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.” – Eduardo Galeano

“Those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who actually do.” – Steve Jobs

“It’s not the honors and prizes of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.” – Mister Rogers

“The battle for the soul of this country isn’t right or left, it’s normal versus crazy.” – Bill Maher

“Wisdom isn’t knowing about physics or geography, wisdom is knowing about people.” – David Brooks

“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story.” – Isaac Denison

“You can know what to do next only if you know what story you’re a part of.” – David Brooks

“People need recognition from others if they are to thrive.” – David Brooks

“You may think that in everyday life, the things that you see and hear influence what you feel, but it’s mostly the other way around. What you feel alters your sight and hearing.” – Lisa Feldman Barrett

“Remember that the person who is lower in any power structure than you are has a greater awareness of the situation than you do. A servant knows more about the master than the master knows about the servant. Someone who is being sat on knows a lot about the sitter, the way he shifts his weight and moves, whereas the sitter may not be aware that the sat on person is even there.” – David Brooks

“The untrained eye is not enough.” – David Brooks

“Play isn’t an activity, it’s a state of mind.” – Diane Ackerman

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” – Professor Dumbledore

“Your rights are my responsibility.” – Jordan Peterson

“If you’re a really good negotiator, everybody walks away from the negotiation thrilled.” – Jordan Peterson

“Other people let you see who you are. It’s by being with others that you get to know who you are, not just by sitting there alone saying, ‘Who am I?'” – Esther Perel