Quote 2048
Quotes by theme and author
Each collection holds 17 quotes, ordered from a short proverb to the crown quote. They are the tiles of Quote 2048, a 2048 puzzle where every tile is a quote.
Themes
- BeginningsA great tree grows from a small sprout
- CalmStillness is the root of the world
- CourageI still have twelve ships
- LoveThe course of true love never did run smooth
- FriendshipSame wants and hates: true friendship
- TimeLost time is never found again
- LearningLove learning and forget old age
- HappinessHappiness is a habit—cultivate it
- EffortFocus the mind; nothing stays undone
- Failure & ComebackWe learn more wisdom from failure
- WordsTwo ears, one mouth: listen more
- HabitBy habit, we grow apart
- TravelThe real voyage is having new eyes
- NatureI went to the woods to live deliberately
- Life & DeathWe are but dust and shadow
- WisdomGreat wisdom looks like foolishness
- FreedomWe are slaves of law to be free
- LaughterLaugh, and the world laughs with you
- SimplicityGreat skill appears clumsy
- PatienceDripping water hollows the stone
- ChangeNothing endures but change
- GratitudeKindness comes back as kindness
- TodayA day dawns only once; strive in time
- DreamsA dream is the fulfilment of a wish
Author packs
- ShakespeareTo be, or not to be, that is the question
- Socrates & PlatoThe unexamined life is not worth living
- Roman WisdomLife is long if you know how to use it
- Virginia WoolfA woman must have money and a room
- NietzscheGod is dead
- Confucius & DisciplesDo not do to others what you don't want
- Oscar WildeWe're all in the gutter, looking at stars
- TolstoyHappy families are alike; unhappy ones differ
- AristotleMan is by nature a political animal.
- Marcus AureliusWhat hurts the hive hurts the bee
- Laozi & ZhuangziMan dreaming butterfly, or butterfly dreaming man?
- GandhiMy life is my message.
- Benjamin FranklinNothing is certain except death and taxes.
- GoetheAll that is transient is but a semblance
- DostoevskyTwo times two is four is the start of death
- KafkaHe woke one morning as a giant insect
- Jane AustenA rich single man must want a wife
- Mark TwainCourage is mastery of fear, not its absence
- Emerson & ThoreauHe hears a different drummer
- SosekiI am a cat. I have no name yet
- SenecaThere is no easy way from the earth to the stars
- EpictetusWish things to happen as they do
- MachiavelliOne must be a fox to know the traps, and a lion to frighten the wolves
- Sun TzuSwift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, steady as the mountain
- Emily DickinsonHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul
- MontaigneTo enjoy one's being rightfully is absolute perfection
- La RochefoucauldTrue courage acts with no one watching
- GraciánGood things, when short, are twice as good
- CaigentanA wide heart makes riches a clay jar
- Han FeiziClever deceit is no match for clumsy sincerity
- George EliotWe live to ease one another's life
- The Brontë SistersI am no bird; no net ensnares me
- Sei ShōnagonNothing graces a person like kindness
- Heo NanseolheonThe bloom fades; the scent never dies
- SchopenhauerLife swings between pain and boredom
- VoltaireWe must cultivate our garden