Life Editor's Pick Quotes

"We need to be the change we wish to see in the world." — Mahatma Gandhi
As quoted in "Arun Gandhi Shares the Mahatma's Message" Vol. XXVII, No. 13 (1 February 2002) p. A34 There is some argument that Gandhi never said this, however, some members of his family maintain that he did. Add Category or Author

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attributed to Emerson in Promotion of Pharmaceuticals : Issues, Trends, Options (1993) pg 74, and also Thoreau elsewhere, but no instance of the quote can be found before 1990, so the authorship of the quote is disputed. Add Category or Author

"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last." — Publilius Syrus
Syrus's Sententiae. Taken from an alphabetic book of maxims, the above quote is maxim 633 in Syrus's list. Add Category or Author

"It is only those who never do anything who never make mistakes." — A. Favre
Recherches Geologiques volume 3, (1867) pg. 76 Add Category or Author

"There's always room for improvement, it's the biggest room in the house." — Louise Heath Leber
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"Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room." — Blaise Pascal
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"Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes." — Arthur Eddington
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"There is more to life than increasing its speed." — Mahatma Gandhi
As quoted in Once Upon A Dream (2004) pg. 163 Add Category or Author

"The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it." — Jeanne Roland
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"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." — James Conant
As quoted in Gleanings in bee culture (1949) Volume 77; Volume 77 Reportedly spoken while Conant was lecturing at Harvard University. Add Category or Author

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." — William White
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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." — Vernon Law
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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." — Soren Kierkegaard
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." — Anais Nin
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"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind." — Henry James
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." — Samuel Johnson
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"I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution." — Werner Braun
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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." — George Bernard Shaw
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"My life is my message." — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma : Life of Gandhi 1869-1948 (1968) Reel 13 Response to a journalist's question about what his message to the world was. Add Category or Author

"The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere." — Anne Lindbergh
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." — Albert Einstein
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