Happyquotes
Asylum for quotes, overheard memorable stuff, sayings, thoughts and other things
worth not to be forgotten.

YOU INVITE THINGS TO HAPPEN. YOU OPEN THE DOOR. YOU INHALE. AND IF YOU INHALE THE CHAOS, YOU GIVE THE CHAOS, THE CHAOS GIVES BACK.

Dave Eggers

SERENDIPITY IS LOOKING IN A HAYSTACK FOR A NEEDLE AND DISCOVERING A FARMER’S DAUGHTER.

Julius Comroe jr.

EEN POND VEREN VLIEGT NIET ALS ER GEEN VOGEL IN ZIT

Bert Schierbeek

I CANNOT TEACH ANYBODY ANYTHING, I CAN ONLY MAKE THEM THINK

Socrates

THE WORLD OF REALITY HAS ITS LIMITS; THE WORLD OF IMAGINATION IS BOUNDLESS.

Rousseau (via Pieter Spinder)

I DID IT BECAUSE I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE.

Mike Horn

PRACTICE ISN’T THE THING YOU DO ONCE YOU’RE GOOD, IT’S THE THING YOU DO THAT MAKES YOU GOOD.

Malcolm Gladwell

FAILURE IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BEGIN AGAIN, MORE INTELLIGENTLY.

Henry Ford

A BIRD DOESN’T SING BECAUSE IT HAS AN ANSWER, IT SINGS BECAUSE IT HAS A SONG.

Maya Angelou

PEOPLE WHO SAY IT CANNOT BE DONE SHOULD NOT INTERRUPT THOSE WHO ARE DOING IT.

George Bernard Shaw via anothersomething.org via Nalden

WE MAKE A LIVING BY WHAT WE GET. WE MAKE A LIFE BY WHAT WE GIVE.

Winston Churchill

HOW LONG SHOULD YOU TRY? UNTIL.

Jim Rohn

GREAT MINDS DISCUSS IDEAS; AVERAGE MINDS DISCUSS EVENTS; SMALL MINDS DISCUSS PEOPLE.

Eleanor Roosevelt (via Liz)

STORIES TELL US OF WHAT WE ALREADY KNEW AND FORGOT, AND REMIND US OF WHAT WE HAVEN’T YET IMAGINED.

Anne Watson (via @jeroenvangeel)

HERE IS ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Bas Jan Ader

TODAY IS THE TOMORROW YOU WORRIED ABOUT YESTERDAY AND ALL IS WELL

via Do You Read Me!?

WHATEVER YOU CAN DO, OR DREAM YOU CAN DO, BEGIN IT. BOLDNESS HAS GENIUS, POWER AND MAGIC IN IT. BEGIN IT NOW.

Johan Wolfgang Goethe (via Pieter Spinder)

DO WHAT YOU DO BEST — AND LINK TO THE REST.

Jeff Jarvis

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT LIONS, GO TO THE JUNGLE, NOT THE ZOO.

Kevin Roberts (Saatchi & Saatchi)

WHEN IT CAN’T BE DONE, DO IT. IF YOU DON’T DO IT, IT DOESN’T EXIST.

Paul Arden

OOK WIE IETS KLEINS BOUWT, FLIRT MET HET HEELAL.

Jacques Bral via @alexmaslow

THE MORE CONNECTIONS I MAKE, THE FURTHER I CAN REACH ACROSS THE WORLD FINDING INSPIRATION IN EVERY PERSON THAT I MEET.

Matt Pyke, artist ‘universal everything’

IT’S LIKE A MOUSE THAT ASKS A CAT TO GET HIM SOME CHEESE.

Marcel Kampman

THERE ARE NO PASSENGERS ON SPACESHIP EARTH. WE ARE ALL CREW.

Marshall McLuhan

LIVE OUT OF YOUR IMAGINATION, NOT YOUR HISTORY.

Steven R. Covey