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Homemade Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Homemade Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein

To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I want to know all Gods thoughts;
all the rest are just details.
- Albert Einstein

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

When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck

Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
- Henry David Thoreau

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu

Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell

We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates

Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police
because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
- Ilie Nastase

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison

The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung

God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
- Henry David Thoreau

Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous

He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
- John Lennon

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha

Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)

Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

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