Monday, June 14, 2010

Worth Noting


  • When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
    — Sigmund Freud
  • An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
    — Washington Irving
  • When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
    — Helen Keller
  • Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
    I took the one less traveled by
    And that has made all the difference.
    — Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken (1916)
  • Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
    — Leo Buscaglia
  • The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
    — David Russell
  • Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too ––– even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
    — Morrie Schwartz, TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom
  • If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
    — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  • There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
    — Mahatma Gandhi
  • I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
    — Milton Berle
  • When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
    — Albert Einstein
  • They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
    — Tom Bodett 
       
  • I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
    - John Lennon 
PS: These are few of my favorite quotes!! I thought its worth sharing with my fellow blog readers       

2 comments:

Sorcerer said...

Wonderful quotes
and I particularly liked Albert Einstein quote..
:)

Anils said...

Sigmund Freud, even when I have not made an effort to read through much of his works, I feel, is quite a magician when it comes to sailing through the inner recesses of a commoner mind...I specifically used Commoner :)