My Own Big World - Wise Words

  • The shortest distance between two people is a smile.
    Victor Borge
  • The truth hurts because we live in a world so used to lies.
    Unknown
  • Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
    Mark Twain
  • Life is not about to-dos! It’s about tadaaaaas!
    Unknown
  • Take a chance on faith. Not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire and Faith leaps over it.
    Jim Carrey
  • Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
    Gary Snyder
  • We are all just one pixel. And only together, a picture comes about.
    Unknown
  • Color is the place where the mind and the universe meet.
    Paul Cézanne
  • We think too much and feel too little
    Charlie Chaplin
  • It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
    Edmund Hillary
  • You can close your eyes for something you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart for something you don’t want to feel.
    Johnny Depp
  • Actually anything is beautiful that you behold with love. The more you love the world, the more beautiful you will find it.
    Christian Morgenstern
  • We were so close to each other, there was no space left for feelings between us.
    Stanisław Jerzy Lec
  • Men have no patience. That is why they invented the zipper.
    Senta Berger
  • I admit I’m being paid well, but it’s no more than I deserve. After all, I’ve been screwed more times than a hooker.
    Sean Connery
  • It is not death that one should fear, but that one never starts to live.
    Marcus Aurelius
  • I have the simplest of tastes: I am always satisfied with the best.
    Oscar Wilde
  • No wisdom compensates against a stupidity that is in fashion.
    Theodor Fontane
  • There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
    Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wildness, it is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
    Gary Snyder
  • There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. So Today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.
    Dalai Lama
  • Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
    Mark Twain
  • I don’t think it’s good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don’t like.
    Hellen Mirren
  • Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
    Albert Camus
  • Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
    Napoleon Bonaparte
  • The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.
    Jack Nicholson
  • Success doesn’t change people. It unmasks them.
    Max Frisch
  • Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
    Paolo Coelho
  • You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way. So I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.
    Emo Philips
  • Who wants to, finds a way. Who doesn’t want to, finds reasons.
    Unknown
  • You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
    George Clooney
  • The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
    Claude Monet
  • Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
    Matt Damon
  • The purest form of insanity is to leave everything the same and hope that things will change at the same time.
    Albert Einstein
  • I’ll always be there for you and catch your fall!
    Ground
  • What makes a love life fullfilled? A balanced ratio of time with each other, without each other and on top of each other.
    Unknown
  • A computer works so quickly because it doesn’t think.
    Gabriel Laub
  • What shall impact the heart must come from the heart.
    Goethe
  • It’s not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, that constitutes our fate.
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • You see the glowing shooting star only during its decay.
    Friedrich Hebbel
  • With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.
    Jack Nicholson
  • Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
    Albert Einstein
  • What you wish to kindle in others must burn within yourself.
    Augustine of Hippo
  • Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened!
    Theodor Seuss Geisel
  • Good luck is a butterfly. Chase it and it will escape you. Stay calm and it will come sit on your shoulder.
    Unknown
  • The best camouflage is truth. Nobody ever believes it.
    Max Frisch
  • I have no solution, but I admire the problem.
    Unknown
  • The supreme happiness of life derives from conviction of being loved; being loved for oneself or rather, in spite of oneself.
    Victor Hugo
  • Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
    Franz Grillparzer
  • What we think, we become.
    Buddha
  • I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
    Vincent van Gogh
  • The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
    Mencius
  • Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.
    Unknown
  • The grief you keep inside you will whisper in your heart until it breaks.
    William Shakespeare
  • When someone gives you their time, they are giving you something that they’ll never get back. So don’t waste it.
    Unknown
  • To feel solely responsible for your actions and solely bear their consequences, even the hardest, is what defines character.
    Ricarda Huch
  • Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
    Confucius
  • Who fights can lose, who doesn’t fight has already lost.
    Unknown
  • In five to ten percent of cases rhyming is like traveling. The rhyme takes me to unknown territory and I think: Look, it’s nice around here, too!
    Farin Urlaub
  • The advantage of being smart is that you can pretend to be stupid. The opposite is rather difficult.
    Kurt Tucholsky
  • The question isn’t: What do we want to know about people? It’s: What do people want to tell about themselves?
    Mark Zuckerberg
  • We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.
    Jean-Claude Juncker
  • An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
    Agatha Christie
  • I don’t say: Can’t do that, won’t do that. I’ve never thought in that way about work. The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I’m one of the least competitive people you’ll ever meet. Except with myself.
    Daniel Craig
  • A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
    Marilyn Monroe
  • Luck is like the sun. A little shadow is indispensible to provide for one’s wellbeing.
    Otto Ludwig
  • It’s pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you’re not doing anything.
    Michio Kaku
  • I’ve always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That’s where it all begins.
    Michael Palin
  • The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
    Charles Bukowsky
  • I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.
    Homer Simpson
  • Many find their heart when they have lost their head.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Let’s be realistic and try the impossible.
    Ernesto Che Guevara
  • If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
    Abraham Lincoln
  • Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
    Heinrich Heine
  • A snob is someone who thinks the lobster is just the appetizer for the jacket potatoe.
    Hans Clarin
  • Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
    Albert Camus
  • Now are the good old times we will wish ourselves back to in ten years.
    Sir Peter Ustinov
  • Blessed are the forgetful, for they get better even of their blunders.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Instead of complaining of not having all we want, we should rather be grateful for not getting everything we deserve.
    Dieter Hildebrandt
  • I suggest it’s better you can do more than you do, than to do more than you can.
    Berthold Brecht
  • Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
    George W. Bush
  • Let go what you love. If it returns it’ll remain yours – forever.
    Unknown
  • I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
    George W. Bush
  • Don’t discuss with idiots as they drag you down on their level and then defeat you with their experience.
    Unknown
  • This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We’re making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.
    George W. Bush
  • This pretzel is like a CD and the cheese cream on top is the hidden track.
    Maximilian Junker
  • Why a sixpack if you can have a whole barrel?
    Julian Schlegel
    (on belly shapes)
  • The glass was barely empty anyway.
    Karina Werberger
  • I like to touch. I like to be touched. I am Brazilian.
    Danielle Monteiro
  • Paths are made by walking.
    Franz Kafka
  • God created mankind because he was disappointed with the monkey. After that, he resigned on further experiments.
    Mark Twain
  • Two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity. But I’m not sure about the universe.
    Albert Einstein
  • Love is the spice of life. It can sweeten it but it can also spoil it.
    Confucius
  • Our heads are round, so that our thoughts can change direction.
    Francis Picabia