Hangout Quotes

Obstacles don’t have to stop you.

If you run into a wall,

don’t turn around and give up.

Figure out how to climb it,

go through it,

or work around it.

Be thine own palace,

or the world's thy jail

John Donne

I like living.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,

racked with sorrow;

but through it all I still know quite certainly

that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Justice without force is powerless;

force without justice is tyrannical.

Today,

India is a nuclear weapons state.

There is nothing deep down inside us

except what we have put there ourselves

Richard Rorty

Under certain circumstances,

urgent circumstances,

desperate circumstances,

profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

When I saw you I fell in love,

and you smiled because you knew.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

Stay true to who you are,

and the right people will follow.

Whatever has the nature of arising

has the nature of ceasing.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines,

but it is to the one who endures that

the final victory comes.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and

you have more imagination etc.

You have less bias.

A purpose of human life,

no matter who is controlling it,

is to love whoever is around to be loved.

A person who seeks to see the future

must first understand the present.

I never had a policy;

I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I should like to know if,

taking this old Declaration of Independence,

which declares that all men are equal upon principle,

you begin making exceptions to it,

where will you stop?

If one man says it does not mean a Negro,

why not another say it does not mean some other man?

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,

if I did not laugh I should die.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid,

and I think a great deal of that grew out of

the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.