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We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.
Franz Kafka on life

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant on humility

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant on morals

The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Alphonse Karr on change

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats on beauty

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats on human

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
John Keats on imagination

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
John Keats on immortality

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller on happiness

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller on happiness

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have o
Stella Adler on art

The brave man is not he who feels nofear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Joanna Baillie on courage

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis on change

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis on identity

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy on change

Conformity is the enemy of thought and the jailer of freedom.
John F. Kennedy on conformity

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insis tupon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy on courage

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy on education

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
Leo Kennedy on time

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy on change