quotes from famous people

.~[quotes from famous people]~.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

- Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

- Geri Weirzman

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

- Bernadette Devlin

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

- W. C. Fields

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

- Sigmund Freud

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

- Aldous Huxley

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

- Eugene Ionesco

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

- William James

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

- William James

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

- Lady Bird Johnson

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

- Carl Jung

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

- Sam Keen

It was hard to communicate with you. You were always communicating with yourself. The line was busy.

- Jean Kerr

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

- Robert Frost

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

- Edward Gibbon

Of course I believe in luck. How otherwise to explain the success of some people you detest?

- Jean Cocteau

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

- Bill Cosby

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

- Bill Cosby

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

- Quentin Crisp

If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.

- Rudyard Kipling

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