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I hope you find these Mel Brooks Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
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