Quotes

When I read, I constantly search for quotes. They are motivational, and they help you to realize things in life or sometimes something better that was unexpected...

“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord. ‘They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.’” - Jeremiah 29:11-13

“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.” -Isaiah 40:8
“Grass dries up, and the flowers wither, but the word of our God will last forever.” -Isaiah 40:8

“You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.” - Sophocles

“A man who views the world same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of life.” -Muhammad Ali

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” -David Brinkley

“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?”- Logan P. Smith

"What we need is not to strive for a perfect social justice — which never existed and never will — but for social harmony. Harmony in music is, by its nature, exhilarating and soothing. In an orchestra, the different players and instruments perform together, in support of an overall melody. Today, our democracy, a miraculous gathering of diverse players, desperately needs such unity. If all participants play fair and strive for the common good, we can achieve a harmony that eluded the doctrinaire socialist projects. But if just one section, or even one player, is out of tune, the music will disintegrate into cacophony." - Milos Forman (NY Times Article)

"I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right there." -The Hours

"What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear.” -The Hours


"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. It's contrast." -Virginia Wolf

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments" -Guatave Flaubert

“Music is a tool of communication, not a tool of self-presentation." – Anne-sophie Mutter

"(김)수한무~ 거북이와 두루미~ 삼천갑자 동방삭~ 치치카포 사리사리센타~ 워리워리 새프리카~무두셀라 구름이~ 허리케인 담벼락~ 서생원에 고양이~ 바둑이는 돌돌이..."-현빈

“Excellence cannot be achieved without a constant practice.”-Pride & Prejudice

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” -Pablo Picasso

"Have no fear of perfection-- you will never reach it," - Dali

"I am not smart-- I just stay with my problems longer." - Einstein

"The only difference between a mad person and me is that I am not mad." - Dali

"Who can say if I have been changed for the better? But because I knew you, I have been changed for good." - Wicked (the Musical)