Oblivion Quotes

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley

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There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee

We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato

Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett

Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer

Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter

No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

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

Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle

In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein

You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky

You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli

Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie