Today Quotes
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We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.Sigmund Freud, Letter to Carl Jung, January 17, 1909
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.Jean Cocteau, Journey to Freedom (1969)
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.Karl von Bonstetten
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936
...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996
Assassins!Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), To his orchestra
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.Mother Teresa
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere.Tim McGraw
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
