God of Money – Henry Fielding

“If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.”

– Henry Fielding

Cruelty & compassion – Hasdai Ibn Shaprut

“If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?”
 
– Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
 

Mind or heart – Sigmund Freud

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
 
– Sigmund Schlomo Freud
 

Promise of happiness – Stendhal

Beauty is the promise of happiness.
 
– Stendhal
 

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Quotes

Habitual thoughts – Marcus Aurelius

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then with a continuous series of such thoughts as these: for instance, that where a man can live, there he can also live well.

 
– Marcus Aurelius

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing – Sam Ewing

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about.
 
– Sam Ewing
 

Advice – Erica Jong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

– Erica Jong

 

 

Be who you are, say what you feel – Theodore Seuss Geise

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Theodore Seuss Geise

 

 

Looking at the stars – Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

– Oscar Wilde

 

 

Today is the tomorrow – Dale Carnegie

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

 
– Dale Carnegie

 
 

Eternity’s sunrise – William Blake

“He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity’s sunrise.”

 
– William Blake

 
 

A journey – Lao Tzu

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

― Lao Tzu

 
 

A ship in the harbour – John A. Shedd

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
 
– John A. Shedd
 
 

Three passions – Bertrand Russell

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy — ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness — that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what — at last — I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.”
 
– Bertrand Russell
 
 

Past, present, future – Lao Tzu

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”


― Lao Tzu