Some Favorites

I decided that today I would post a collection of some of my favorite quotes. What this really means is that I have been too lazy to come up with something else. So I hope you all enjoy these quotes or if you don't enjoy them, I hope they at least make you think.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington
US jazz bandleader, musician, & songwriter (1899 - 1974)

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin
French Post-Impressionist painter (1848 - 1903)

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus, Life
Jewish-Roman historian & turncoat (37 AD - 100 AD)

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Andre Gide
French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 - 1951)

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith
British-Irish author (1730 - 1774)

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)