· 6 years ago · May 13, 2019, 01:12 AM
1In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
2Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. – Abraham Cowle
3Pressure makes diamonds. – General George S. Patton
4The life which is unexamined is not worth living. – Plato
5We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way. – John Halt
6Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. – Baruch Spinoza
7If life’s journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. – Rabindranath Tagore
8The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson
9We are the sum of our decisions, and as long as you’re happy, that’s all that matters. – Antigone Morris, Erica’s classmate
10Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. – Thomas Moore
11Sarcasm: the last refuge of the modest people when the privacy of the soul is intrusively invaded. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12Let your net always be cast, and in the pool which you least expect, there will be a fish. – Ovid
13There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. – Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne in The Matrix)
14Chasing the past, she stumbled into the future. – T.A. Sachs
15You don’t miss your water until your well runs dry. – William Bell
16While we are postponing, life speeds by. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 5 BC
17Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies. – George Bernard Shaw
18Oops… I did it again. – Britney Spears
19Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go–it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. – Alice M. Swain
20Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. – Prime Minister Winston Churchill
21No party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. – Desiderius Erasmus
22It takes a lot of courage to grow up and be who you really are. – e.e. cummings
23The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
24There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen
25You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. – Zig Ziglar
26Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller
27We cannot, we will not, choose the path of surrender. – President Woodrow T. Wilson
28There is no try, only do. – Yoda
29To err is human, but to forgive is divine. – Alexander Pope (paraphrased)
30They screw you up, your mom and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. – Philip Larkin (paraphrased)
31Your parents will mess you up. They don’t mean to, but they do it anyway. – Philip Larkin (I am unsure if this is the way Dr Tom quotes it or if he paraphrases as above. When I rewatch this episode this portion will be edited.)
32Labels are for cans, not people. – Anthony Rapp
33Being entirely honest with oneself is a worthwhile exercise. – Sigmund Freud (paraphrased)
34A man has two reasons for doing anything – a good reason and the real reason. – J.P. Morgan (I also found out that the original person who said this was Thomas Carlyle and his version is “A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.â€)
35He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.. – George Orwell (paraphrased)
36We create our fate every day we live. – Henry Miller
37There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. – Aeschylus
38Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly. – Chinese Proverb
39Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with good grace all that you are not. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel (paraphrased)
40Thinking is easy, acting is difficult – and to put one’s thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe