Quotations

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

— Anais Nin, American author, born 1903

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

— Anais Nin, American author, born 1903

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

— Anais Nin, American author, born 1903

"I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum."

— Robert De Niro, American actor, born 1943

"If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular.
To labor is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid."

— Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian nurse, born 1867

"If you're Native American and you pray to the wolves, you're a savage. If you're African and you pray to your ancestors, you're a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that's just common sense."

— Trevor Noah, South African comedian, born 1984

"For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use."

— Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, born 1833

"Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon."

— Takeda Nobushige, Japanese samurai, born 1525

"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time."

— Emil Nolde, German painter, born 1867

"There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every color holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colors are colors, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed."

— Emil Nolde, German painter, born 1867

"The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion."

— Nick Nolte, American actor, born 1941

"I needed to go. The pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth."

— Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer, born 1914

"Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs."

— Mary Norris, American author, born 1952

"Your beliefs and thoughts are wired into your biology. They become your cells, tissues, and organs. There’s no supplement, no diet, no medicine, and no exercise regimen that can compare with the power of your thoughts and beliefs. That’s the very first place you need to look when anything goes wrong with your body."

— Christiane Northrup, American physician, born 1949