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The most beautiful quotes in history
We have decided to change from the usual and for this we have written the most beautiful phrases in history in alphabetical order:
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Thinking ill of others makes you sin, but many times you guess. ~ Julio Andreotti
Sometimes the most important thing in a day is the pause we take between two deep breaths. ~ Etty Hillesum
Some are considered perfect only because they are less demanding with themselves. ~ Hermann Hesse
In the end, what matters is not the years of your life, but the life you put into those years. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Eventually, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silences of our friends. ~ Martin Luther King
Love everyone, believe in a few and do no harm to anyone. ~ William Shakespeare
I love my unstable balance, between wisdom and madness, serenity and anger, because it makes me damn real. ~ Anna Magnani
Even a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~ Lao Tzu
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ Helen Keller
Whether you think you can or not, you'll be right anyway. ~ Henry Ford
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ~ George Orwell
Whoever says what he wants must expect in response what he does not want. ~ Euripides
Who looks, dreams. The one who looks inside wakes up. ~ Carl Gustav Jung
Who has a why to live, can bear almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ~ Albert Einstein
Those who are silent and those who bow their heads die every time they do so, those who speak and those who walk with their heads held high only die once. ~ Giovanni Falcone
Whoever you are, be a good person. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde
There are two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want, the other is getting it. ~ Oscar Wilde
There are two ways to live life. One is to think that nothing is a miracle. The other is to think that everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein
There are times when a rose is more important than a piece of bread. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
There are only two days a year when nothing can be done: one is called yesterday, the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and, above all, live. ~ Dalai Lama
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ EE Cummings
What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. ~ Napoleon Hill
What does not kill you only makes you stronger. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who can make you believe nonsense can make you commit atrocities. ~ Voltaire
Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do. ~ Steve Jobs
How wonderful it is that there is no need to wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world. ~ Anne Frank
With kindness, you can rock the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Keep love in your heart. A life without love is like a garden without sun where the flowers have died. ~ Oscar Wilde
So many books, so little time. ~ Frank Zappa
Believe you can do it, and you're halfway there. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ~ Aristotle
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. ~ George Sand
The most beautiful quotes in history: DH
As a child, my continual selfless outbursts of altruism earned me a reputation for being good. When I grow up, what a fool. ~ Massimo Troisi
Beware of false knowledge, it is much worse than ignorance. ~ George Bernard Shaw
We should be grateful to the people who make us happy, it is the lovely gardeners who make our souls bloom. ~ Marcel Proust
We have to do the best we are capable of doing. This is our sacred human responsibility. ~ Albert Einstein
Where there is love there is life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
We should all start living before we get too old. Fear is stupid, and so are regrets. ~ Marilyn Monroe
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, but I still have doubts about the universe. ~ Albert Einstein
Two paths diverged in a forest. I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference. ~ Robert Frost
Heretic is not the one who burns in the fire, but the one who lights it. ~ William Shakespeare
Being modest is often easier for someone who has done something than for someone who has never done anything. ~ arthur graph
Being yourself in a world that is constantly trying to change you is the greatest achievement. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one is not. ~ André Gide
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being considered a fool than to speak up and dispel any doubts. ~ Abraham Lincoln
It is curious to see that men of much merit always have simple manners, and that simple manners have always been taken as an indication of little merit. ~ Giacomo Leopardi
It is better to have something to remember than something to regret. ~ Frank Zappa
It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one is not. ~ André Gide
It is better to be optimistic and wrong than to be pessimistic and right. ~ Mark Twain
A falling tree makes more noise than a growing forest. ~ Lao Tzu
Do one thing every day that scares you. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Always do what you are afraid to do. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always do the best you can. What you plant now, you will reap later. ~ Og Mandino
Do silly things, but do it with enthusiasm. ~ Colette
You were not made to live like beasts but to follow virtue and knowledge. ~ Dante Alighieri
Look at a blade of grass blowing in the wind and feel it. Your anger will also pass. ~ Tiziano terzani
Do you have enemies? Good. This means that you have fought for something at some point in your life. ~ Winston Churchill
Have you ever thought about leaving and never coming back? Escape and lose all your traces, to go to a distant place and start living again, live a new life, only yours, truly live. Have you ever thought about it? ~ Luigi Pirandello
I've learned that people forget what you said, people forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou
I've missed over 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times they gave me confidence to make the winning shot at the last second and I was wrong. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. That is why I have been successful. ~ Michael Jordan
I've always tried I've always failed. Don't argue. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett
The most beautiful quotes in history: I - L
I'm not young enough to know everything. I'm not young enough to know everything. ~ Oscar Wilde
Children learn more from how you behave than from what you teach them. ~ William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Cemeteries are full of people who thought they were indispensable. ~ Georges Clemenceau
The two most important days in life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. ~ Mark Twain
Failures fall into two categories: those who acted without thinking and those who thought without acting. ~ Juan Carlos Salack
Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. ~ Aldous Huxley
Yesterday I was smart and I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise and I am changing. ~ Gialal al-Din Rumi
The heart was made to be broken. ~ Oscar Wilde
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. ~ Augustine of Hippo
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you can't do. ~ Walter Bagehot
The problem with humanity is that the stupid ones are overconfident, while the intelligent ones are full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Russell
The wise man knows that he is stupid, it is the stupid who thinks he is wise. ~ William Shakespeare
The secret to moving forward is to start. ~ Mark Twain
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: what matters is the courage to keep going. ~ Winston Churchill
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. ~ Steve Jobs
The real punishment for those who lie is not that they no longer believe them, but that they cannot believe anyone. ~ George Bernard Shaw
In two words I can summarize everything I have learned about life: continue. ~ Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: keep going. ~ robert lee frost
I'm so smart that sometimes I don't understand a single word I say. ~ Oscar Wilde
Good manners do not lie in not putting the sauce on the tablecloth, but in not showing that you notice if someone else does. ~ Anton ÄŒechov
The hardest thing is the decision to act, the rest is just tenacity. Fears are paper tigers. You can do whatever you decide to do. You can take action to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. ~ Amelia Earhart
The greatest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. ~ Michel de Montaigne
The most persistent and urgent question in life is: "What are you doing for others?" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Happiness is not something ready-made. That comes from your own actions. ~ Dalai Lama
Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
People have an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing. ~ Oscar Wilde
Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain
Freedom is such a great good that everyone wants to have theirs and a little of someone else's. ~ Francois Dominique de Reynaud
Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ~ Albert Einstein
Magic is believing in ourselves. If we can do it, then we can make anything happen. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mind is like a parachute. It only works if it's open. ~ Frank Zappa
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The surest way to succeed is to always try one more time. ~ Thomas Edison
The peace begins with a smile. ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The clearest proof that there are other forms of intelligent life in the Universe is that none of them have ever tried to contact us. ~ Bill Watterson
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. ~ Thomas Mann
Your big opportunity may be right where you are right now. ~ Napoleon Hill
The truth is seldom pure and never simple. ~ Oscar Wilde
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards, but you have to live it forward. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you have to keep moving. ~ Albert Einstein
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react. ~ Charles R. Swindoll
Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. ~ allen saunders
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched. You have to feel them with your heart. ~ Helen Keller
Women are made to be loved, not to be understood. ~ Oscar Wilde
Witches ceased to exist when we stopped burning them. ~ Voltaire
Read, study and always work with ethics and passion; think with your head and learn to say no; be rebels for a just cause, defend nature and the weakest; do not be conformists and do not follow the winner's car; be strong and be free, otherwise when you are old and weak you will regret the mountains you have not climbed and the battles you have not fought. ~ Mario Rigoni Stern
Freedom and love are one. ~ Novalis
Friendship arises when one person says to another: “What? You too? I thought it was just me." ~ CS Lewis
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ~ Marilyn Monroe
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings. ~ Salvador DalÃ
An eye for an eye will blind the whole world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can! ~ Martin Luther King hijo
Darkness does not drive out darkness: only Light can. Hate does not drive away hate: only love can. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing. ~ Socrates
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. ~ Steve Jobs
The most beautiful quotes in history: M - N
Never confuse a single defeat with a definitive defeat. ~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Many people spend more energy talking about problems than solving them. ~ Henry Ford
No one saves us except ourselves. No one can and no one could. We ourselves must take the path. ~ Buddha
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
No one, not even a poet, has ever measured the capacity of a heart. ~ Zelda fitzgerald
Do not love those who treat you as if you were ordinary. ~ Oscar Wilde
Dont wait. The time will never be right. ~ Napoleon Hill
Don't walk behind me, I can't guide you. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow you. Just walk by my side and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus
There is no substitute for hard work. ~ Thomas Edison
There is nothing noble about being superior to someone else. True nobility consists in being superior to what we were yesterday. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Never doubt that a small group of conscientious and committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that has ever happened. ~ Margaret Mead
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~ Native American proverb
Do not worry about me. I am from another planet. I still see horizons where you draw borders. ~ Frida Kahlo
Do not judge each day by the harvest you have obtained, but by the seeds you have sown. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I haven't failed. I just found 10.000 ways that don't work. ~ Thomas Edison
I have never allowed my education to interfere with my education. ~ Mark Twain
I have no particular talents, I'm just passionately curious. ~ Albert Einstein
No matter how slow you go, the important thing is not to stop. ~ Confucius
Don't dwell on the past; Don't dream about the future, focus your mind on the present moment. ~ Buddha
Don't let the noise of other people's opinions drown out your inner voice. ~ Steve Jobs
Don't let your past determine your destiny. ~ Confucius
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. ~ Del Dr. Seuss
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. ~ Del Dr. Seuss
Do not bend it and do not let it be diluted, do not try to make it logical: do not change your soul according to fashion. Rather, it ruthlessly follows your most intense obsessions; because it is the only way to appease them. ~ Franz Kafka
I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everyone at all times. ~ Herbert Bayard Swope
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ Christopher columbus
You will never be happy if you keep searching for what happiness is. You will never live if you search for the meaning of life. ~ Albert Camus
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he didn't. ~ Jules Renard
I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it to the death. ~ Evelyn Beatrice Salon
Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent species that survives, but the one that best adapts to changes. ~ Charles Darwin
It's never too late to be what you wanted to be. ~ George Eliot
It is not in the stars that our destiny is preserved, but in ourselves. ~ William Shakespeare
It is not what we say or think that defines us, but what we do. ~ Jane Austen
It is not only for what we do that we are responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ Molière
The most beautiful quotes in history: O - R
Every moment is a new beginning. ~ T. S. Eliot
Each person has their own secret pains, which the world does not know, and we often say that a person is cold, when he is only sad. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every saint has a past, while every sinner has a future. ~ Oscar Wilde
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. ~ Voltaire
To understand who bosses you, just find out who you are not allowed to criticize. ~ Voltaire
For every minute you spend angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. ~ Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing bothers them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde
Carry love wherever you go. Don't let someone walk away from you without being happier than when they arrived. ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
They can cut off all the flowers, but they can't stop spring. ~ Pablo Neruda
I'd rather die of passion than boredom. ~ Vincent van Gogh
I'd rather be happy than worthy. ~ Charlotte Brontë
Worry about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. ~ Lao Tzu
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, make sure you're not surrounded by assholes. ~ W
Before you judge my life or my character, put on my shoes, walk the path I've walked. Live my pains, my doubts, my laughter. Live the years that I lived and fall where I fell and rise as I fell. Each one has their own story. And only then can you judge me. ~ Luigi Pirandello
First they ignore you, then they make fun of you, then they fight you. So you win. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
When one door to happiness closes, another opens, but often we stare at the closed door for so long that we don't see the door that has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller
The higher we rise, the smaller we seem to those who cannot fly. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What is mysterious, elusive, incomprehensible in me, leave me. ~ Gabriele D'Annunzio
He who knows how to do, does; those who do not know how to do, teach. ~ George Bernard Shaw
What we have behind and what we have in front of us are small things compared to what we have inside. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is not useful for the swarm is also not useful for the bee. ~ Marco Aurelio
The most beautiful quotes in history: S - T
You know you're in love when you can't sleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~ Del Dr. Seuss
Choose a job you love and you won't have to work a day in your life. ~ Confucius
If we wait to feel ready, we will wait for life. ~ Lemony snicket
If you always tell the truth, you don't need to remember everything. ~ Mark Twain
If you always tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ~ Mark Twain
If you judge people, you don't have time to love them. ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
If life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show him that you have a thousand reasons to smile. ~ Authorless
If life gives you lemons, make yourself a good lemonade. ~ Elbert Hubbard
If life inevitably comes to an end, we must, during ours, color it with the colors of love and hope. ~ Marc Chagall
If life is just a passage, in this passage at least we sow some flowers. ~ Michel de Montaigne
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and improve, then you are a leader. ~ John Quincy Adams
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ~ Frederick Douglass
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
If you can't explain it to a 6-year-old, you don't understand it either. ~ Albert Einstein
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. ~ Marilyn Monroe
If one were to look from heaven to earth, what would appear to be the difference between what we do and what ants or bees do? ~ Celso
If you want your kids to be smart, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be smarter, read them more fairy tales. ~ Albert Einstein
If you want to be happy, be happy. ~ Lev Tolstoy
If you want the rainbow, you have to resign yourself to putting up with the rain. ~ Dolly Parton
If you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done. ~ Thomas Jefferson
If you want to know what a man is like, look closely at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ~ JK Rowling
Without music, life would be a mistake. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. ~ Ian Fleming
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ~ Mae West
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ~ Mae West
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us. ~ Charles Bukowski
We are all in a sewer, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~ Oscar Wilde
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who care don't matter and those who matter don't matter. ~ Bernardo M. Baruch
Be faithful in small things, because in them lies your strength. ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Be kind, because everyone you meet is already fighting a tough battle. ~ Plato
Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Gandhi
Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Be yourself, everything else is already taken. ~ Oscar Wilde
Be yourself; everyone else has already been taken. ~ Oscar Wilde
Only those who risk going too far will have a chance to find out how far they can go. ~ Thomas Stearns Eliot
Only the restless know how difficult it is to survive the storm and not be able to live without it. ~ Emily Brontë
Only I can judge myself. I know my past, I know the reason for my choices, I know what I have inside. I know how much I have suffered, I know how strong and fragile I can be and no one else. ~ Oscar Wilde
I am selfish, impatient and insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and sometimes difficult to manage. But if you can't handle my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me when I'm at my best. ~ Marilyn Monroe
I am grateful to all those people who told me no. It is thanks to them that I am what I am. ~ Albert Einstein
Stay away from those who try to curb your ambitions, new people always do, but only those who are really great make you feel like you too can become like them. ~ Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you won't be disappointed by the things you've done... but by the things you haven't done. So raise anchors, leave safe havens, catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Sleep. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
In twenty years you will not be disappointed in the things you have done but in the things you have not done. Then raise the anchor, leave the safe harbors, catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Sleep. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
You are what you do, not what you say you will do. ~ Carl Jung
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~ Lev Tolstoy
Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso
The most beautiful phrases in history: U – Z
A friend is one who knows everything about you and yet likes you. ~ Elbert Hubbard
A day without a smile is a day lost. ~ Charlie Chaplin
A man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over a man who can't read. ~ Mark Twain
A lie has time to travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. ~ Mark Twain
A ship is always safe on land, but that's not what it was built for. ~ Albert Einstein
An intelligent person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. ~ Albert Einstein
A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~ Marco Tullio Cicero
A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~ Marco Tullio Cicero
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but much more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw
You see things that exist and you wonder "why?" But I dream of things that have not yet been and I ask “why not? ~ George Bernard Shaw
Living is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all. ~ Oscar Wilde
Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
We live in a world where we hide to make love, while violence and hate spread in the sunlight. ~ John Lennon
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