Category: Quotes

“Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.”

– Rumi

“There are people we meet in this world who anchor us. They reassure us with their presence. They bring us comfort simply by being. They love us by osmosis, radiating it out and diffusing it in effortlessly. Quietly they walk among us, treading lightly but providing stability and influence because it’s second nature. The thing that’s so special about these people is that they don’t know they are doing it.”

– The Other Side by Kim Holden

“Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times, if one just remembers to turn on the light.”

– J.K. Rowling (Albus Dumbledore character)

“Once you carry your own water, you will learn the value of every drop.”

– African Proverb

“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the “good life”, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”

– Hunter S. Thompson

“Are you having a bad day, or did you have a bad five minutes and are letting it ruin your whole day?”
– Unknown

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges”
– Joseph Fort Newton

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

– Winston S. Churchill

You were born together, and together you shall be forever more.

You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your
days.

Yes, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness.

And let the winds of heaven dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but each one of you be
alone – even as the strings of a lute are alone though the quiver
with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not in each other’s keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the Cyprus grow not in each other’s shadows

– Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet

“Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore.”
– James Clear

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”

– Haruki Murakami

“…nothing delights the mind so much as fond and loyal friendship. What a blessing it is to have hearts that are ready and willing to receive all your secrets in safety, with whom you are less afraid to share knowledge of something than keep it to yourself, whose conversation soothes your distress, whose advice helps you make up your mind, whose cheerfulness dissolves your sorrow, whose very appearance cheers you up!”

– Seneca

“Familiarity dissolves fear, in part because many of our idiosyncratic fears require ignorance of the thing in question to even make sense.”

– David Cain

“The chief enemy of good decisions is a lack of sufficient perspectives on a problem.”

– Alain de Botton