Category: Quotes

“Be as you wish to seem.”

– Socrates

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

― Bertrand Russell

“We should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go.”

– Seneca

“When you are good at something you will tell everyone, when you are great everyone will tell you,”

– Unknown

“If you have a problem, and then you spend a bunch of energy worrying about it, then you have two problems”

– Unknown

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”

– Yuval Noah Harari

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

– Calvin Coolidge

“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realisation of their desires.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

― Rumi

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke.”

― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

– Carl Jung

“If you look for the darkness that’s all you will ever see, but if you look for the light often you will find it”

– Unknown

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

― Rumi

“Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not.”

– Unknown