Deep thoughts-Swami Vivekanand

A blind man asked Swami Vivekanand: "Can there be anything worse than losing eye sight?

He replied: "Yes, losing your vision!"

Famous people quotes-Single soul

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

Philosophical quotes-The life you never had

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.
- Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, "The Baby Shower"

Famous people quotes-Rich

"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
- Rita Rudner

Famous people quotes-Knives

You're young, you're crazy, you're in bed, and you've got knives.
- Angelina Jolie, explaining her scars to a newspaper reporter

Thought for the day-Start with fights

Some relationships start with fights… But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life’s not the movies.
-Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

Famous people quotes-Worth waiting

I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.
- Robert Brault

Philosophical quotes-The human mind

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
- Evelyn Waugh

Famous people quotes-Distinction

... a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
- (Leibniz, 1670)

Philosophical quotes-Void

We become aware of the void as we fill it.
- Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Famous people quotes-Parachutes

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

Famous people quotes-Procrastination

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill

Philosophical quotes-Kernel of corn

May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to.
- Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com

Deep thoughts-Real sacrifice

"The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him."
- Dwight David Eisenhower

Famous people quotes-No sin

There is no sin except stupidity.
- Oscar Wilde

Philosophical quotes-Responsible

You become responsible forever for what you've tamed.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard

Deep thoughts-Worship something

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshiping we are becoming."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Famous people quotes-Kinds of poverty

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
-Mother Teresa

Philosophical quotes-Pain

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Famous people quotes-Empirical concept

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.
-Immanuel Kant, 1781