I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.
We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.
I don’t care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.
If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.
Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.
Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.
All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.
Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.
Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.
Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you have got.
To say that math is important because it is useful is like saying that children are important because we can train them to do spiritually meaningless labor in order to increase corporate profits. Or is that in fact what we are saying?
Beauty is deeper than just what you look at in a picture. You could fancy what you like, but as a woman my mother always raised us to believe in ourselves. I’m very grateful for the fact that my mother brought me up that way.
Teaching is not about information. It’s about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students.
I don’t feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there’s a place I belong, I don’t feel I’m there.
Why don’t we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don’t trust them, that we think it’s too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?
Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
I don’t see how it’s doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.
I’ve been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I’m privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not good.
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
I didn’t set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer’s breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer – perhaps more.
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
Don’t let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn’t a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
Cats aren’t really friendly, they’re just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.
You may be assured that we won’t ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it’s only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it’s only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong.
We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.
It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.
Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.
Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher – actually and notoriously the least useful member of the community – lives in a tax-free dwelling.
“Would you tax God?” asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
Don’t take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro’s great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.
Books aren’t written – they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature–all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn’t care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal’s behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
Life is wonderful. It’s a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn’t really anything else.
Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.
