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Genius Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. – Isaac D’Israeli

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. – Albert Einstein

Everybody is born a genius, but the process of growing up de-geniuses you. – Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – George Lichtenberg

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sticking to it is the genius! – Thomas Edison

The secret to genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age. – Aldous Huxley

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. – Marshall McLuhan

Unrewarded geniuses are almost a proverb. – Calvin Coolidge

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know her by this sign, the dunces are all in confederacy against her. – Jonathan Swift

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Word Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

A word after a word after a word is power. – Margaret Atwood

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. – Emily Dickinson

Action speaks louder than words, but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain

All I know is what I have words for. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

Among the things you can give and still keep is your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. – Zig Ziglar

And curious creatures that we are, in every sense of the word. Not only are we the sole animal in all of nature capable of believing in Santa Claus, we are also the only one that can come to grips with the unpleasant truth that he doesn’t exist. – Jon Franklin

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. – Stephen King

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking. – Warren Buffet

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace. – Buddha

Consciousness comes into manifestation only when the man has used the word with full knowledge of what it means. – James Frederick Ferrier

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? – Marcel Marceau

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk… Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking. – Stephen Hawking

From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn plays wasted words… disillusioned words like bullets bark. – Bob Dylan

Great music doesn’t take words, but great songs do. – Polo Hofer

He was in love with words, as was I. It was a magical time. – Jennifer Warnes

Hippocrates had no means of recognizing the heart as a pump because there was no such item in his world and no such word in his vocabulary. – Guido Majno

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. – Frances Hodgson Burnett

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way, things I had no words for. – Georgia O’Keeffe

I have no words for my reality. – Max Frisch

I like good strong words that mean something. – Louisa May Alcott

I simply set music to the words of defeat and turn it into a song. – Napoleon Hill

I think people talk too much, that’s the truth of the matter. I do. I don’t believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. – Michelangelo Antonioni

If the word doesn’t exist, invent it. But first, be sure it doesn’t exist. – Charles Baudelaire

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. – Gaius Plinius the Elder

In the beginning is the word. – Word-masters

In the true sense of the word, are we using what we’ve learned? In the true sense of the word, are we losing what we were? – Jack Johnson

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. – Susan Sontag

Lying is done with words, and also with silence. – Adrienne Rich

Maybe the many words is what’s preventing you from finding peace. – Hermann Hesse

Words become works. – Seneca

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our words misunderstand us. – Adrienne Rich

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. – Rumi

Speak the words with the exact precision with which you would check out a laundry list. There’s a blaze of light in every word. Think of the words as science, not as art. – Leonard Cohen

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. – Martin Luther King Jr

Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. – Carl Jung

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. – Mark Twain

The mistake of mistakes is the apparently plausible notion that to say something one has to say something. But what the artist has to present is wordless. – Joseph Campbell

The moment I write about the tiger, the tiger isn’t the tiger, he becomes a set of words. – Jorge Luis Borges

The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That, with the squalid interpretation put on the word success, is our national disease. – William James

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish. – Terence McKenna

The word water is itself undrinkable, and the formula H20 will not float a ship. – Alan Watts

The words a child speaks do not flow in a straight line, but in a curve, as if they wanted to fall back again into the silence. – Max Picard

The words fill my head and they fall to the floor – If God’s on our side he’ll stop the next war. – Bob Dylan

The words of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts, and their thoughts the preview of their actions. – John Locke

The words you speak become the house you live in. – Hafiz

There are meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. – Haruki Murakami

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions. – Mike Dooley

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. – Claude Monet

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating. – Patrick Rothfuss

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. – Lao Tzu

What a word means, a sentence cannot say. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Words are not only in open books, they are an open book themselves. – Spinosa

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. – Rudyard Kipling

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly. They’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. – Aldous Huxley

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. – Richard Feynman

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around. – Jane Goodall

Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. – Susan Sontag

You are the deep innerness of all things. The last word that can never be spoken. To each of us, you reveal yourself differently. To the ship as a coastline, to the shore as a ship. – Rainer Maria Rilke

You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. – Milan Kundera

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you, that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass. – Bruce Lee

Love Quotes Worth Reading Twice

All is fair in love and war. – Shakespeare

All work is empty, save when there is love. And when you work with love, you bind yourself to yourself and to one another, and to God. – Kahlil Gibram

And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who loved only trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. – Anaïs Nin

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are indistinguishable. – David Augsberger

Do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell you, I love you. Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. – Maya Angelou

Each day, we must learn again how to love. –  Barbara Crooker

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground. – Meister Eckhart

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. And think not that you can guide the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course. – Kahlil Gibram

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. – Carl Sagan

Guilt and love cannot reside within the same framework. Guilt and obligation maybe, but not guilt and love. – Debra Jones

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. – Maya Angelou

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love. – Frank O’Hara

I am working extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure I don’t have to work extremely hard doing what I hate. – Hugh Macleod

I can well understand why children love sand. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I confess, I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love. – Jean Cocteau

I do not know anything about completeness in love, except the idea I have of it. – Colette

I firmly believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty, at least for me. – Albert Einstein   

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. – Scott Adams

I love it when people very unlike me like me. – Ron Padgett

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in. – George Washington Carver

I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. – George Burns

If lots more of us loved one another we’d solve lots more problems. This place would be a better place. Love, baby, love, that’s the secret. – Louis Armstrong

If music be the food of love, play on, play on, play on! – Shakespeare

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. – Benjamin Franklin

It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things. – St. Francis of Assisi

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. – Ella Fitzgerald

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. – Rumi

Losing love is like a window to your heart. Everybody sees you blown apart. Everybody sees the wind blow. – Paul Simon

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Love is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can read. – Mark Twain

Love is a very natural emotion. When expressed fully, love does not require anything more (that’s what makes it love). But when continually repressed, love becomes possessiveness, a very unnatural emotion. – Neale Donald Walsch

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov

Love is blind. – Shakespeare

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

Love is difficult to conjugate, its past is not simple, its present is only indicative and its future is always conditional. – Jean Cocteau

Love is like water. If it doesn’t flow it stagnates. – Deepak Chopra

Love is not a victory march. – Leonard Cohen

Love is the bridge between you and everything – Rumi

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Love me or hate me are both in my favor. If you love me, I am always in your heart. If you hate me, I’m always in your mind. – Shakespeare

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds. It dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. – Anaïs Nin

Love not what you are, but what you may become. – Miguel de Cervantes

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.  – Susan Sontag

Many come close yet few dare so boldly, to live without judgment, to give without expecting, and to love for no reason. – Mike Dooley

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. – Nelson Mandela

Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live. – Albert Camus

One thing I love about customers is that they are divinely discontent. Their expectations are never static. They go up. – Jeff Bezos

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software. – Bill Gates

People who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something greater than you and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world. – Judy Collins

Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is. – Richard P. Feynman

Sometimes the best way to remain sane is to love like crazy. Step #1 for changing the entire world is falling in love with it as it already is. Same for changing yourself. – Mike Dooley

Stop buying the unnecessary. Toss half your stuff, learn contentedness. Reduce half again. List four essential things in your life, do these first, stop doing the non-essential. Clear distractions. Focus on each moment. Let go of attachment to doing and to having more. Fall in love with less. – Leo Babauta

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

The best part of love is walking up the stairs. – Henry Miller

The best way to get approval is not to need it. This is equally true in art and business. And love. And sex. And just about everything else worth having. – Hugh Macleod

The foremost quality, there’s no success without it, is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there’s no success if you don’t do well what you’re working at. – Malcolm Forbes

The fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace, and peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa

The people who make it to the top, whether they’re musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos, are addicted to their calling … They are the ones who’d be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren’t being paid. – Quincy Jones

There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age? – Warren Buffet

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. – Mother Teresa

This is love, to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. – Rumi

To love for the sake of being loved is human, to love for the sake of loving is angelic. – Alphonse de Lamartine

Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred. – Vaclav Havel

Turning up the love turns on everything else. – Mike Dooley

Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. – Marianne Williamson

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. – Benjamin Disraeli

We are to do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it. – John Lennon

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. – Gandhi

When it comes down to it, life is about showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore. – Rebecca Walker

When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. – Byron Katie

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be. – Leo Tolstoy

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises. – Rumi

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. – Kahlil Gibram

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you. – Maya Angelou

You do not know what love is until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues. Until you’ve loved a love you’ve had to lose, you don’t know what love is. – Don Raye, Gene Depaul

You just need to love and all is joy. – Leo Tolstoy

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Theodor Geisel

You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work. You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success. – Chef Jiro Ono

You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served. – Nina Simone

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs

Simple Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. – Woody Guthrie

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. Solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. – Henry David Thoreau

Everything is simple. It’s people who complicate things. – Albert Camus

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein

Hack away at the unessential. Simplicity is the key to brilliance. – Bruce Lee

History can be written in a simple little formula: Challenge, Response. – Arnold Toynbee

How difficult it is to get simple. – Vincent Van Gogh

I have just three things to teach, simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. – Lao Tzu

Life is truly simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

Of two or more competing theories, the simpler is most likely correct. – William of Ockham

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. – Jack Kerouac

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity. – Steven Covey

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward. – Frédéric Chopin

Simplicity is the key of elegance. – Coco Chanel

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo Da Vinci

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. – Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel

That’s been one of my mantras, focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. – Steve Jobs

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth. – Leo Tolstoy