Below I have grouped a couple of quotes. Each indicating a different perspective or outlook on life. I'll go into further detail later but at the moment I am at work (bored as shit no doubt). See which group of quotes attract you the most. There is a method to my madness which I will explain at a later date.
Group 1
"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for..."
When asked why she never married, Gloria Steinem replied, "I don't mate well in captivity."
Group 2
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything."
"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
Group 3
"I do not know whether we can be saved through the intellect, but I do know that I can be saved by nothing else."
Group 4
"We do not need more knowledge, we need more character."
"I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."
"There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved."
Group 5
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
"I love luxury ... not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity ... the ugliest word in our language."
Group 6
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
Group 7
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the
ability to function."
"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
Group 8
"I do not seek. I find."
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes
without having asked any clear question."
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
Group 9
"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."
"Why not seize the pleasure at once?"
Group 10
"Only the fool hopes to repeat an experience; the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing."
"I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything."
Group 11
"To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop."
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."
Group 12
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
