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215 quotes

Confessions · 398

★ 7.9

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

Our heart is restless until it rests in you.

St. Augustine

Confessions · 400

★ 7.8

Autobiography and memoir

Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 7.8

Autobiography and memoir

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 7.8

Autobiography and memoir

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 7.1

Autobiography and memoir

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 7.1

Autobiography and memoir

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 7.1

Autobiography and memoir

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975

★ 7.1

Autobiography and memoir

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

Long Walk to Freedom · 1994

★ 7.1

Autobiography and memoir · Travel writing

There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1883

★ 7.0

Autobiography and memoir

Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road · 1942

★ 7.0

Autobiography and memoir

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

1717

★ 6.9

Autobiography and memoir · Travel writing

We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1879

★ 6.9

Autobiography and memoir

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams · 1907

★ 6.9

Autobiography and memoir

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence · 1974

★ 6.9

Autobiography and memoir

There is nothing in the world which does not have its decisive moment, and the masterpiece of good management is to recognize and grasp this moment.

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

1717

★ 6.9

Autobiography and memoir

Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

1939

★ 6.9

Speech · Autobiography and memoir

Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Autobiography · 1910

★ 6.2

Autobiography and memoir

You will laugh when you learn that I thought nothing of deceiving idiots, scoundrels and fools when I needed to do so. As for my deceptions of women, these are not of the sort to be tallied, since when love has a hand in things, each party usually dupes the other.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791

★ 6.0

Autobiography and memoir

I decided it is better to scream. This pitiful sound, which sometimes, goodness knows how, reaches into the remotest prison cell, is a concentrated expression of the last vestige of human dignity. It is a man's way of leaving a trace, of telling people how he lived and died. By his screams he asserts his right to live, sends a message to the outside world demanding help and calling for resistance. If nothing else is left, one must scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Hope Against Hope · 1970

★ 6.0

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