Quotes of Scott Alexander

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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying,losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy.

- Scott Alexander

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“ We should have more reasons to smile than to cry. You will be surprised, even the saddest things could result in something to smile about. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ Love is blind, they saybut isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ I've always kept one emotional suitcase packed. With you, I live out of one, every day, and I keep a cab on speed dial. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato

“ If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. ”

- Nicholas Sparks

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare