Lars Onsager Quotes

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.

Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah's is the most regular and constant even though it were little.

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent.

Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

We can learn to move into the unknown with the confidence that we have a guiding force within us that is showing us the way.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

Everything is energy. All matter is energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It is the cause and affect of itself. It is evenly present in all places, at all times. Energy is in constant motion and never rests. It is forever moving from one form to another. Energy follows thought.

Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy!

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. "That's too bad," I said. "It's okay, though," she assured me. "Someday I'll show you an extraordinary boy, Macy. They do exist. You just have to believe me." "Don't worry," I said. "I do.