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We’re adding quotes all the time (we have over 3,000 waiting to be added), so please check back, we’re getting there…! “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorised and flattened by trivialities, we… “It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally… “People have different ‘love languages,’ for some people, touch makes them feel loved; for others it’s meaningful conversations, or how much time you spend together. But if you’re married to… “Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to… “Don’t prioritise your looks my friend, they won’t last the journey. Your sense of humour though, will only get better. Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak… “Hope’s home is at the inner most point in us and in all things. It is a quality of aliveness. It does not come at the end as the feeling… “I have been asked over 25,000 questions about relationships. A client today asked me if I had to give one answer to all of those questions, if I had only… “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries… “When a Clown moves into the Palace, he doesn’t become a King, The Palace becomes a Circus.” – Turkish Proverb “I was ashamed of myself when I realised that life was a masquerade party, and I attended it with my true face.” – Franz Kafka “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke… “What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.” – Seneca “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and… “The world is vast and our own powers are limited. If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life… “Peace comes in pieces”. – Unknown “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson “Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.” (The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.) – Pascal “Maybe this isn’t happening to you. Maybe it’s happening for you.” – Unknown THE GREAT SPIRITUAL BYPASS “The Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist John Welwood coined the wonderful phrase “spiritual bypassing”, which means, in his own words, “trying to rise above the raw and… “You might the sweetest peach on the tree, but some people just don’t like peaches.” – Unknown “Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero.” – Unknown “The same boiling water that hardens the egg softens the potato.” – Russian Proverb “Come back my soul, How much longer will You linger in the garden of deceit? I have sent you a hundred messages I have shown you a hundred ways Either… “You will never find the same person twice. Not even in the same person.” – Unknown “Your ignorance about something is not an argument against it.” – Unknown “Whatever we may wish to think, we are creatures of Earth our life is part of the life of the Earth; and we draw our nourishment from it just as… “Our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to… “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” – Amelia Earhart “The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each… “Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to… “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” – Henry David Thoreau “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you’re not allowed to criticise.” – Voltaire “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma “Your failure says nothing about your worth as a person. Embrace failure, and learn from it, and you will progress faster than those that simply avoid doing things that they… “You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themself into.” – Unknown “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.” – Maya Angelou “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Edward Everett Hale “The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.” – Rumi “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” – Marcus Aurelius “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides “Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie”. – Miyamoto Musashi “The Dildo of consequence is rarely lubed.” – Amanda Keller “[Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is… “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson “The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to… “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly…. ”We can so easily slip back from what we have struggled to attain, abruptly, into a new life we never wanted; can find that we are trapped, as in a… “You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.” – Charles C. Noble “We are all of us richer than we think we are.” – Michel de Montaigne “Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.” – Chuang-Tzu “The covetous man is always poor.” – Claudian “Too many people overvalue what they are not, and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm Forbes Shakespeare did not have the makings of a bank president. Mozart could never have… “In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height; In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.” – Rabindranath Tagore “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” – Sidney J. Harris “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” – African proverb “Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice…you don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you…. “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.” ― Aldous Huxley I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken – the choosing was not. You have to move on. – Stephen Sondheim When we ask how good a man is, we do not ask what he does, nor even what he believes, but what he loves. – Augustine “A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher “We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.” – T.S. Elliot “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo… “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” ― Michelangelo “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” – Rumi “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.” ― Stephen R. Covey “For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech… “Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” – George Bernard Shaw Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. – Søren Kierkegaard “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni” ‘We Go Round and Round in the Night and are Consumed by Fire’ “Anxiety and depression can be the result of your unconscious mind withdrawing its approval of your life choices. Confidence comes from living in a way that you can be proud… “Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.” – W.S. Merwin “We continue to kill those who kill others, because killing is wrong.” – Unknown “Most people want affirmation, not information.” – Unknown “Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient”. – Russell Brand “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – Allen Saunders “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle (possibly) “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi “Truth will liberate you. Before it does, how about a game of hide and seek, a game of being right, of softly pampering the ego one brushstroke at a time…. “You can’t fix what you can’t see.” – Unknown “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly.” – Marcus Aurelius “And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain. And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the… “A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.” – Kurt Vonnegut “We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want… “It is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated […] that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance,… “I can do anything you want, but I can’t do everything you want.” – Unknown “Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.” – Serbian proverb “If it’s popular and most people agree with it, walk on. Interesting and unfashionable is where the real fun is – and, likely, the values of tomorrow.” – Peter Thiel “I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.” – Unknown “I’ve always thought that each person invented himself. We are each a figment of our own imagination. Some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.” – David Geffen “Always gift people in the currency they value.” – Unknown “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”… “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung “The highest form of debate isn’t about one person declaring victory. It’s about both people making a discovery. The goal isn’t to defend your reasons and attack theirs. It’s to… “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ―… “There’s a huge difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. We talk in fact-deficient, obfuscating generalities to cover up our lack of understanding.” – Richard Feynman “If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.” – T.S. Eliot “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce “People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.” – Tim Ferriss “No one loves the man he fears.” – Aristotle “It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.” – Albert Camus “How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.” – Freud “Every man hears only what he understands.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Character is determined by choice, not opinion.” – Aristotle “No.” – Rosa Parks “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “Philosophy, like regular life, is best experienced with an attitude of intellectual grace. ‘What can this person teach me?’ is a much more productive question than ‘How is this person… “I have no special gift. I am just passionately curious” – Albert Einstein “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” – John Wooden “Changing your mind is not a sign of losing integrity. It’s often a mark of gaining wisdom. Realising you were wrong doesn’t mean you lack judgment. It means you lacked… “Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the solitary waster of her life, seeking… “To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour” –… “If the version of you from 5 years ago could see you right now, they’d be so proud of you. Keep going.” – Unknown “Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.” – Serbian proverb “The Forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he… “Whiteboards are remarkable.” – Unknown “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” – Arthur Schopenhauer “Don’t hire a dog, then bark yourself!” – David Ogilvy “The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to observe them at work in another person.” – Alain de Botton “Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” – Socrates “If you’re sad about being alone on Valentine’s Day, just remember.. Nobody loves you on the other days of the year either.” – Very Grumpy Cat @verygrumpycat “Never make permanent choices when in a highly emotional state. Act from love not for love.” – Unknown “A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” ― Albert Einstein “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live” – George Carlin “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,… “There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.” – Shaw “To will to be that self which one truly is, is indeed the opposite of despair.” – Kierkegaard “If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.” – Joe Rogan “People buy what they think they need, not what you think they need.” – William Pietri “Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.” – Stanislaw J. Lec “It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear.” – Frank Luntz “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ― Viktor E…. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau “If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.” – Dorothee Sölle “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – Honoré de Balzac “A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.” – Titus Livius “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.” ― Anne Frank “Damage is indicative of vulnerability, which I think always feels a little dangerous. It is evidence that a person can feel deeply, that they can be open…then that delicious wall… “And when nobody wakes you up in the morning and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it,… “As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries… “When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” – Victor Frankl “A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.” – Kurt Vonnegut “An important part of freedom is not having to make sacrifices for people who don’t have to make sacrifices for you.” – Sebastian Junger “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire “Vision is the bottleneck of talent. Most talent is wasted because people do not clearly know what they want. It’s not a lack of effort, but a lack of direction…. “Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold,… “Pessimists are usually right, but it’s the optimists who change the world.” – Leigh Gallagher “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.” ― V. S. Naipaul “You cannot make new old friends.” – Irvin Yalom “Imagine if dogs found out they’re actually full of bones.” – Jake Lambert “Honesty, integrity and compassion are expensive traits, dont expect them from cheap people.” – Steven Brooks “Life will present you with unexpected opportunities, and you won’t always know in advance which are the important moments. Above all, it’s the quality of your relationships that will determine… “It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” – The Bhagavad Gita “I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take.” – Nietzsche “If you look for the light, you will often find it. But if you look for dark, it is all you will ever see.” – Uncle Iroh (Avatar: The Last… “Everyone is self centered, only the radius differs.” – Unknown “People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.” – Charles Bukowski “Fascism is cured by reading and racism is cured by travelling.” – Miguel de Unamuno “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth…. “Confidence isn’t built with rolemodels. Confidence is created by continually overcoming difficult situations.” – Unknown “You develop confidence after the successful repetition of any endeavor.” – Debbie Millman “Everything that’s fun in life is either immoral, illegal, or will make you fat.” – P.G. Wodehouse “Be true to yourself. But that’s something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that… “Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.” – Esther Perel “Forgiveness doesn’t sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.” – Cheryl Strayed “The key to finding happiness in this life is realising that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art… “Damage is indicative of vulnerability, which I think always feels a little dangerous. It is evidence that a person can feel deeply, that they can be open…then that delicious wall… “Perfectionism is the belief that something is broken — you. So you dress up your brokenness with degrees, achievements, accolades, pieces of paper, none of which can fix what you… “In most of our decisions, we are not betting against another person. Rather, we are betting against all the future versions of ourselves that we are not choosing.” – Annie… “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” – Isabel Allende “Friendship depends on trust, not money, not power, not mere education or knowledge. Only if there is trust will there be friendship. Trust is related to whether we have a… “I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe… “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca “I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary’. It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an… “Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm. Don’t spend time arguing with people over things that won’t matter in 3 hours, let alone 3 years. Don’t take advantage… We’re all a little weird and life’s a little weird, And when we find someone who’s weirdness is compatible with ours, We join up with them and fall in mutual… “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of… ‘She was a storm. Not the kind you run from. The kind you chase.’ – R.H. Sin “The best relationship advice I ever got was this: If they love you, you will know. If they don’t, you will be confused.” – Unknown “Just because there is potential doesn’t mean it will be fulfilled. Just because they aren’t a bad person doesn’t mean they are good for you.” – Unknown “It’s ok to feel all emotions. However, it is not ok to act on all emotions.” – Dr Gottman “Stop trying to borrow wisdom and think for yourself. Face your difficulties and think and think and think and solve your problems yourself. Suffering and difficulties provide opportunities to become… “Have you ever noticed how much emphasis some people place on even the smallest amount of difficulty in their lives, and how little time they spend reflecting on moments of… “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” – Abraham Lincoln “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” — Winston Churchill “Man is not fully conditioned and determined; he determines himself whether to give in to conditions or to stand up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man… “Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard “Today may be your last chance to be you, someone you forgot to completely immerse yourself in because you were too worried about the details. The details that, no matter… “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,… “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have,… “You make time for the things and people you care about.” – Unknown “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation… You will always be fond of me. I represent to you… “Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them.” – Epictetus “A measure of the emptiness of people’s lives exists: the degree to which they need to stick their claws into other people lives.” – Unknown “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it… “How we spend our days is of course, how we spend our lives.” – Unknown “In a world where you can be anything, be kind” – Unknown “If you look at the people in your circle and you don’t get inspired, then you don’t have a circle…you have a cage.” – Unknown (Attributed to Nipsey Hussle) “I’ve loved quite a few people, and by that I mean I really feel happy in their company. That’s pretty much it – the joy of someone’s company. That’s what… “You have to want what you’re working for.” – Unknown “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” ― Franklin Leonard “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out that’s not progress…. “Think carefully before accepting someone’s criticism if you wouldn’t accept their advice.” – Unknown “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding… “Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt… “Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, power over people is an expression of superior strength in a… “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” ― Dante Alighieri “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin “The axe forgets what the tree remembers.” – Zimbabwean proverb (Shona tribe) “Happiness, if you think about it, is the biggest conundrum we face. The pursuit of it is why we do basically everything that we do, and yet, none of that… “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” ― Oscar Wilde “Where you spend your attention is where you spend your life.” – James Clear “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and… “We’ve been falling so long, we’ve had to convince ourselves that we’re flying.” – Unknown “Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.” ― Robert Brault “Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect” – Margaret Mitchell “Love someone because their soul inspires you, not because you’re interested in the relief from loneliness and companionship they can provide. Anybody can do that. Not just anybody can show… “You teach people how to treat you.” – Unknown “It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous… “Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.” – Roger J. Corless “Maybe what gives meaning is people who made a difference in your life and hopefully you make a difference in theirs.” – Alfonso Cuarón “There is a formula for success in business, and it goes like this: You set out to find the very best talent in the marketplace, and then give them a… “Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realise that it’s not the deer that is crossing the road, rather it’s the road that is crossing the forest.” –… “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” – Elie Wiesel “Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.” – Ali ibn Abi Talib “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, and all is well.” – Dale Carnegie “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and… “Accept reality as it is, as opposed to what you wish it were.” – Elon Musk “We chase what’s sexy and miss what matters. While excitement starts something, execution completes it. While speed makes a good story, velocity makes an outcome. While complexity makes you sound… “When we ignore the body we are more easily victimised by it.” – Milan Kundera “Nothing in nature blooms all year round.” – Fearne Cotton “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” – Hunter S. Thompson “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ― John Quincy Adams “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.” – Arthur Conan Doyle “Balance is timing, not intensity. It is not doing multiple tasks at 80%, but developing the skill of turning it on and turning it off. Sleep fully, then work intensely…. “The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what… “Despite how open, peaceful and loving, you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.” – Matt Kahn “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out… “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard” – Winnie The Pooh Becoming the Child In seafoam, in swirlings and imaginings I am fish, tadpole, crocodile. I am an urge, an idea, a portent of impossible dreams. I lie between heaven and… “As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately,… “Your new life is going to cost you your old one. It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. It’s going to cost you relationships… “It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an… “Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our… “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” – Unknown “Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” – Albert Camus “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… “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… “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… “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… “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… “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 “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… “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… “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… “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… “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… “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 “Trust your gut when you have the experience to back it up.” – James clear “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grow flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they? – Virgina Wolf “It’s never too late to be who you might have been.” – George Eliot “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake.”… “You don’t need another human being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul… “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”… “Be the person you needed when you were younger.” – Ayesha A. Siddiqi “Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.” – Miyamoto Musashi “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” – Aldous Huxley “Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerising video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight…. “How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.” – David Foster Wallace “I don’t like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: “Somewhere along the way, someone is going to… “Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is… “Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.” – Khalil Gibran “Education is not memorising that Hitler killed 6 million Jews. Education is understanding how millions of ordinary Germans were convinced that it was required. Education is learning how to spot… “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost “You’re the oldest you’ve ever been, and you’ll never be this young again.” – Unknown “Only open your mouth if what you have to say is more beautiful than silence.” — Unknown “Until the unconscious becomes conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” — Carl Jung “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and… “People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” – Isaac Asimov “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius “We live in a age where we have to prove to machines that we are not machines.” – Unknown “When we win, we try for more; when we fail, we cut back.” – Unknown “We cannot get anywhere important in one go. We must forgive ourselves the horrors of our first drafts. We have not seen enough of the rough drafts of those we… “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in their own way.” – Leo Tolstoy “Try to be the person you needed when you were younger.” – Unknown “When life gives you lemons, stop thinking of having lemons as a fucking achievement. Dude, life literally threw those goddamn lemons at you, so don’t be a prick about it…. The difference between expectations and reality is disappointment (and sometime annoyance/anger). So when you are feeling disappointed, take a step back and ask the following questions: 1. Were my expectations… “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “If you run into assholes all day maybe you are the asshole” – Unknown “If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti “True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” – Seneca “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” – Albert Einstein “You keep a lot to yourself because it’s difficult to find people who understand.” – Unknown “I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent – no one can ever know what you are capable of,… “A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” – African proverb “People are not against you, they are for themselves.” – Unknown “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” – Charles Bukowski “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke… “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” – Mark… “Sometimes scepticism is to mask discomfort with something, it’s your coping mechanism for shielding yourself from experiences that you don’t want to have because you’re simply afraid of them. –… “Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.” – Thomas Stephen Szasz “The person you are most compatible with probably falls right in the middle of making you want to be a better person, and making you perfectly happy with who you… “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde “If they gossip with you, they’ll gossip about you” – Unknown “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” – W. C. Fields “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein “An opinion and an argument are two different things.” – Unknown “Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.” – Ellen DeGeneres “Procrastination is not a time management problem. It is an emotion regulation problem – we delay activities which might make us feel not-so-good today or in the near future.” –… “We each come by the gifts we have to offer by an infinite series of influences and lucky breaks we can never fully understand.” – MacKenzie Bezos “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a… “If you cut corners you’ll just end up going in circles.” – Unknown “Never take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.” – Unknown “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire “Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.” – Unknown “Those who are hardest to love need it the most.” – Socrates “In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention. And in an age… “Faced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.” – J.K. Galbraith “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Winston S Churchill “I saw appear / Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears / Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars” – Dante Alighieri “A man without enemies is a man without character.” – Paul Newman “If you punish them for telling the truth, you teach them to lie.” – Unknown “The grass is greener where you water it.” – Unknown “If you have a problem that can be fixed, there is no use in worrying. If you have a problem that cannot be fixed, there is no use in worrying.”… “The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.” — Horace Walpole “We suffer more from imagination than from reality.” — Seneca “You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis “If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.” – Grace Hopper “It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.” — Marcus Aurelius “Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of it.” – Unknown “The most important relationship you have is your relationship with yourself.” – Unknown “When someone tells you what kind of person they are, believe them.” – Unknown “Tact – A Keen discernment of what to do or say in dealing with others without giving offence.” – Unknown “Common things are common, when you hear hooves, think horses not zebras” – Unknown “Opposite personalities attract, opposite values and interests do not” – Unknown “Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, wait and hope.” – Count of Monte… “Our intelligence helps us regulate our emotions. Fear, for example, is based on mistrust and a lack of self-confidence. If, on the other hand, we remain honest and truthful, open… “We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in.” – Ernest Hemingway “Life’s too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If… “Don’t wait for the right moment for everything to be perfect to take action, instead of just take actions and make the moments right” – Unknown “Always do what you’re afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Where there is evidence, no one speaks of ‘faith’. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak… “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in… “You aren’t the voice in your head, you’re the one who listens to it”. – Unknown “Attack the problem, not the person.” – Unknown “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.” – Zora Neale Hurston Q. What does Santa suffer from if he gets stuck in a chimney? A. Claustrophobia. Q. What do you get if you cross a bell with a skink? A. Jingle… “He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.” – Chinese Proverb “Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.” — David Steindl-Rast “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Hard work sometimes pays off over time. Procrastination always pays off right now.” – Unknown “It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.” – Millard Fuller “The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what… “Happiness is like a butterfy. The more you chase it, the faster it will flutter away. It’s when you ignore it, and focus on other things, that it will land… ‘We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart’ – Blaise Pascal “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth…. “We should stop thinking we don’t deserve success: the universe does not distribute its gifts and its horrors with divinely accurate knowledge of the good and bad within each of… “Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.” – George Saunders “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung “Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she has laid an asteroid.” – Mark Twain “Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.” – Chuck Close “I like them worn around the edges, those whose hearts have outgrown their bodies.” – Kim @selfmyths “We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are… “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Jonathan Swift “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even… “My best friends in the world, we express our love for each other through a whole lot of shit-taking. Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use… “Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” – Jonathan Safran Foer “You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye” ― Margaret Atwood “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau “Human rights are what make us human. They are the principles by which we create the sacred home for human dignity.” – Kofi Annan “Learning is the process of using our innate abilities to construct—or create—new understandings of the world.” – Sandy Speicher “Stop talking about being good, just be one” – Marcus Aurelius “We don’t fall in love with those who care for us in ideal ways, we fall in love with those who care for us in familiar ways.” – Alain De… “I don’t know if Shalon became the woman that she ultimately wanted to be. But I do know that she wanted to be the woman she was.” – Wanda Irving “The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.” – Hunter S. Thompson “The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality…” – Andrew Solomon “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.” –… “This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy,… “There are three things people tend to confuse: depression, grief and sadness. Grief is explicitly reactive. If you have a loss and you feel incredibly unhappy, and then, six months… “…not all success is due to hard work, and not all poverty is due to laziness. Keep this in mind when judging people, including yourself.” – Morgan House “There’s no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.” – Andrew Solomon “We were together. I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman “The one thing that keeps us out of connection is the fear that we’re not worthy of connection.” – Brene Brown “Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist.” – George Carlin “Do not just slay your demons; dissect them and find what they’ve been feeding on.” – Unknown “There are two types of people, those who can extrapolate from incomplete data…” – Unknown “The only decent bone in her body was mine.” – Ernest Hemingway “People don’t listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.” – Chuck Palahniuk “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert… “You need to be healthy also. And not just physical health. But emotional healthy. Mental health (your idea muscle must be exercised every day) and Spiritual health (cultivating a sense… “After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.” – Alain… (Loneliness) is a”debilitating psychological condition characterised by a deep sense of emptiness, worthlessness, lack of control and personal threat”. – John Cacioppo “A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” – Robert Frost “Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she has laid an asteroid.” – Mark Twain “I am free and that is why I am lost.” – Franz Kafka “Patience [is] a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.” – Ambrose Bierce “Your perception of me is a reflection of you; my reaction to you is an awareness of me.” – Unknown “It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey?” – Soren Kierkegaard “No amount of regret/shame can change the past. No amount of anxiety will change the future.” – Unknown “This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.” – Joe Rogan “The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.” – James Matthew Barrie “To settle an argument, think of what is right, not who is right.” – Practical Wisdom @RobbyGreer “Management is about handling complexity. Leadership is about creating simplicity.” – Peter Docker “Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.” – Terry Pratchett “We’re surrounded by stories of success that conspire to make success seem easier than it in fact is – and therefore that unwittingly destroy the confidence we can muster in… “Revolution doesn’t have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then… I suspect the most we can hope for, and it’s no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love… “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to… “Reading isn’t important because it helps get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. Reading makes the world better. It… “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.” – Hunter S. Thompson “We need to broaden our definition of what leadership looks like. When we see behaviour that’s different, it gets judged in a negative light” – Carolyn Tastad “When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.” – Unknown “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman “Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.” – John Steinbeck “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that is counted truly counts.” – Unknown ‘Wasting time’ is mostly just fear. – Alain de Botton “Think it over, think it under.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh “The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at… “We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores… “We crave not admiration, but to be properly known, and yet, still liked and forgiven.” – Alain De Botton “Power does not necessarily corrupt, but power always reveals.” – Robert Caro “Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.” – Naval Ravikant “It is never to late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot “The void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.” – Jean-Luc Godard “The strength of one’s opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.” – Eric Hirzel “A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your… “The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.” – Albert Einstein “I can only hope the rest of your day is as pleasant as you are” “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea… “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” – Walter Cronkite “Some people don’t think, therefore they aren’t.” – @TheTweetOfGod “The “7th generation” principle is taught by Native Americans and says that in every decision, be it personal, governmental, or corporate, we must consider how it will affect our descendents… “I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.” – Anaïs Nin “When dealing with something new, ask a lot of why and what if questions, forsaking the what and how questions.” – Chip Conley “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – James Watkins “To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.” – Stephen Covey “I’d always end up broken down on the highway. When I stood there trying to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But when I pushed my own car, other drivers would… “The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” – Unknown missing some – call wanna meet up – invite wanna be understood – explain have questions – ask don’t like something – speak up like something – share it want… “Everything will be okay in the end. If everything isnt okay, then it isnt the end.” “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself” – Søren Kierkegaard “Race is just a pigment of the imagination” – Glen Highland “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” – Aldous Huxley “First rule of Thesaurus Club: You don’t talk, converse, discuss, chat, confer, consult, or speak about Thesaurus Club.” “Medical care at its best, is a focused scientific form of empathy.” – Rana Awdish “Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.” – Henry David Thoreau “The person who reads will have lived 5000 years. He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired the infinite. Reading is immortality going backwards”…. “May you live every day of your life.” – Jonathan Swift “A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.” – Walt Whitman “People are a product of their environment Lists like this often claim that ‘people are inherently kind’ or ‘people are inherently the same’. I’m not sure this is true. I… “No amount of anxiety will make any difference to what is going to happen.” – Alan Watts “Don’t be strong. Be weak. Unclench your fists. Dare to be vulnerable. Honest weakness takes courage” – Pete Greig “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” – Walt Whitman “Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.” – Shunryu Suzuki “Happy people tend to be positive thinkers who don’t get caught up in things they can’t control” – Unknown ‘Comparison is the thief of joy’ – Theodore Roosevelt “Don’t be humble. You’re not that great.” – Golda Meir “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou “You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.” – Robert Brault “We’re surrounded. That simplifies the problem.” – Chesty puller “A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.” – Thomas Fuller “Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.” – Stephen Covey “In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my idea of them.” – Anaïs Nin “Paths are made by walking” – Franz Kafka “Everybody is weird. Thus, nobody is weird. And yet we all feel weird because we assume (wrongly) that no one else is as weird as we are.” – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz “We would rather be right than happy” – Unknown “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson “A cynic is usually nothing more than a wounded, ex-idealist.” – Unknown “Strategy is the route on the map, tactics are the means of travel.” – Jerry Neumann “Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.” — John Cogley Commonweal “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into… “It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves… “Always be prepared to face the consequences of what you do.” – Unknown “When your screen is filled examples of the strongest, richest, and smartest, it’s easy to overvalue the outcome and undervalue the process.” – James Clear “Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution” – Unknown “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” – Benjamin Franklin “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha “A farmer had only one horse and one day the horse ran away. The neighbors came to console him over his terrible loss. The farmer said, “who knows what is… “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” – Democritus “When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Henry Ford “Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” – Isaac Newton “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” – Albert Einstein “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all… “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” – Groucho Marx “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” – Winston S. Churchill “There is no work-life balance. It’s all just life.” – Unknown “Too Often We Enjoy The Comfort Of Opinion Without The Discomfort Of Thought” – John F. Kennedy * People buy for their reasons, not my reasons * Get out of my prospects’ way and their decision to buy * I will only perform to the level my… “Focused human attention is still by far the most powerful optimisation device we have.” – Unknown “Basically, we are all extras in someone else’s storyline.” – The guyliner “It was one of the most painful experiences of my life… but it turned out to be one of the greatest experiences of my life because it changed my attitude… “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in… “I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung “Evil often comes from those who want to impose good on others.” – Tzvetan Todorov “Love is a promise.” – Unknown “Heartbreak is unpreventable; the natural outcome of caring for people and things over which we have no control…Heartbreak begins the moment we are asked to let go but cannot, in… “He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet.” – W. B. Yeats “Unrequited love is the love human beings experience most of the time. The very need to be fully requited may be to turn from the possibilities of love itself. Men… “How do you feel about women’s rights? I like either side of them.” – Groucho Marx “Our discontent has grown roots, and these faithless limbs, once fluent, relearn old affections.” – Kim @selfmyths “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, “So what.” That’s one of my favorite things to say. “So what.” – Andy… “I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.” – John Steinbeck “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,… “Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen,… “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey “The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.” – Thomas Babington Macaulay “Would you like to know one of the most dangerous phrases in the language? It is the one that goes, ‘I will be happy if…’ Every time we utter such… “All we ever truly have, is the state we are in… at any given moment. And I added how it makes sense, therefore, to remain mindful and choose a desirable… “What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions…. “There are unknowable forces in this universe that I’ll never understand, and none of us will ever fully understand, and I hold these forces in great reverence, and to that… “Because we can reason, doesn’t mean there is one.” – John P. Morgan “Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.” – Mark Twain “The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.” – Eric Sevareid “Control is just a button on a keyboard.” – Deepandmeaningless “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” – George Orwell “Act as if you’re already loved, safe and secure. You matter to people.” – Kuldeep Brar “You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.” – Robert Brault “You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it. You yourself have… ”What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you… “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it” – Maya Angelou “There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.” – Dorothy Parker “Death twitches my ear. “Live” he says, “For I am coming.” – Virgil ‘No’ is a complete sentence. – Gavin DeBecker “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” – Hunter S. Thompson “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H L Mencken “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime… “If you can change it, there is no need to worry. If you can’t change it, there is no point to worry.” – Unknown “Close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere” – Paulo Coelho “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides “Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you… “It’s so cold outside, I saw a politician with his hands in his own pockets.” – Unknown “Instead of wondering where your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Seth Godin “If hard work brought fortune, donkeys would be kings.” – Spanish Proverb “The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” – Gibson “My New Years resolution is to resolve not to resolve. To stop seeing myself as a Russian doll with better versions inside. To just be.” – Matt Haig “Yesterday I was Clever, So I wanted to Change the World. Today I am Wise So I am Changing Myself.” – Rumi “Next year you will finally start living your best life and it won’t be very good.” – Frankie Boyle “If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.” – Jack Dixon “Doing something you don’t care about kill you inside. And a lot of money won’t change that.” – Matthew Berry “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton “Whenever you start to feel too good about yourself, remember that you’re just a bag of water with a bunch of sticks holding you together” – @chrisrockoz “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not…what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus “People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being… “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.” – George Carlin “I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.” – Ken Dodd “All great truths begin as blasphemies.” – George Bernard Shaw “Love may be sanctified and ennobled by its commitment to the unconditional horizon of perfection, but what makes love real in the human world seems to be our moving, struggling… “You have to be odd to be number one” – Dr.Suess “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable” – John F. Kennedy “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” – Herman Hesse “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” – John Milton “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or… “The fear of being an Impostor gets resolved not when we become deeply sure of our abilities but when recognise that we’re not unusual in doubting ourselves. It’s not that… “You only stand a chance if you take one.” – Unknown “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity”. – WB Yeats “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the… “Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has… “Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can… “I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.” – John Keats “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act… “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” – Jane Austen “These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” – Najwa Zebian “People who are born deaf and happen to be schizophrenic have some weird experiences. Someone born deaf, that has never been able to hear, uses Sign Language as their actual… All planets in the solar system fit between the earth and the moon. The sun does not. Sharks are older than trees. “In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.” – Harry S Truman “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” – George Carlin “Self esteem comes from doing hard things, not easy ones.” – Unknown “All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable;… “Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.” – Claude McDonald “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” – HL Mencken “If someone tells me they’re offended, I’m still waiting to hear their point.” – Christopher Hitchens “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.” – Rainer Maria Rilke “How do you feel about women’s rights? I like either side of them.” – Groucho Marx “A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it.” – Albert Einstein “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. – Henry Ford “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” – Rumi “It’s not your job to walk into the room with the right answer, but with a great question.” – Paul Bennett ” When “everything you do is wrong”, you stop doing anything at all.” – Unknown “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum…” – Noam Chomsky “Loneliness is the tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind.” – School of life “In the end we’re the person we pretend to be. It’s the person we thought was pretending who never existed.” – Robert Brault “The mindset that life is a series of problems to be fixed leads to obsession with the means rather than the end.” – John pavlus “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” – Carl Jung “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway “Passive learning creates knowledge. Active practice creates skill.” – Unknown “I oftentimes find that when one finds oneself deeply distressed or sad, there is always one central question to be asked: where did I tie my horse? Where did I… “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” – CS Lewis “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” – Benjamin Franklin “Write hard and clear about what hurts.” – Ernest Hemingway “Your perception of yourself has an enormous impact on how others perceive you.” – Erin Falconer “I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.” – Florence Nightingale “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained.” – Mark Twain “When the winds of change blow, some build walls and others build windmills.” – Chinese proverb “6 specks of dust inside Waterloo Station represent-or rather over-represent-the extent to which space is crowded with stars.” – Sir James Jeans “What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re… “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. – Henry Ford “Practice random acts of kindness, and senseless acts of beauty”. – Ann Herbert ‘The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love. The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. He advices “Be careful, protect yourself” Whereas love says… “A relationship based on love…is one in which each partner allows the other to be what he chooses, with no expectations and no demands. It is a simple association of… “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” – Dorothy Parker “The only ‘normal’ people are those you don’t know very well.” – Joe Ancis “There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, religion without sacrifice, politics without principal, science without humanity, and business without ethics.”… “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway “We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and… “What did it mean for a person to be free? she would often ask herself. Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren’t you just in another, larger… “I don’t know why people say grow some balls. Balls are weak. Grow a vagina. Now those can take a pounding.” – Betty White “Why should you be sad? You lost someone who didn’t want to be with you. She lost someone who loved her.” – Unknown “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain “If you’re not helping each other to become better people, then there’s no point in being together.” – Unknown “The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.” – Voltaire “Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a… “The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love…. “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” – Thomas Aquinas “Always go for the decision that makes a better story.” – Unknown “Modern business rules: If you make stuff, it’s difficult to make money. If you move it or market it, you’ll be fine.” – Unknown “Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.” – Herodotus “Procrastination is a lot like masturbation, it feels good when you do it but in the end you’re only fucking yourself.” – Unknown “If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” – Raylan Givens “Most relationship problems condensed: someone is standing too close, someone is standing too far.” – Alain de Botton “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it… “Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or another, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world.” – Søren Kierkegaard “Family is not family. “Family” is bullshit. It’s an excuse for people to enable each other. Everyone has issues in their family that they cover up with flimsy transparent band-aids.”… “Our doubts are our traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” – Shakespeare “What I do is an expression and not a definition of me.” – Sundeep Sidhu “Friendship is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with… “I’m good friends with 25 letters of the alphabet. I don’t know Y.” – Unknown “Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” – Epicurus ‘And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.’ –… “Actions speak louder than words. We can apologize over and over, but if our actions don’t change, the words become meaningless.” – Unknown ”Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln “The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there – you build yourself.” – Ursula K. Le Guin “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself… “Congratulations on your ability to create drama out of absolutely nothing.” – Very Grumpy Cat “It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can… “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain “It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.” – Robert Anton Wilson “Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt… “Question the beliefs you hold about yourself, and the beliefs you feel others hold about you. Reject those beliefs, even if just for a little while, and see if it’s… “The secret to happiness, you see, is not in gaining more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” – Socrates It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. – Max Frisch “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can… “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is… Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow,… “The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force… “We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of… “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats “They say ignorance is bliss…they’re wrong ” – Franz Kafka “One should as a rule, respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is… “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the… “I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much.” – Emery… “I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national… “Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from?… “Whatever worries you, masters you.” – John Locke “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” – Unknown “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely… “You don’t need anyone’s permission, not even your own mind’s, to live a life full of the things that matter to you. Happiness is not the absence of pain, but… “This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy,… “In giving, you throw a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery “The Wound is the Place where the Light enters You” – Rumi “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” – Winston Churchill “In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.” – J. William Fulbright “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.” – Muhammad Ali “Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.” – Richard Bach “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.” – Carol Shields “Lfe is a series of choices, any one of which could be either aggrandizing or disastrous.” – Kierkegaard “Discomfort with the fact that evolution is weirder and less straightforward than our brains can imagine is not an argument for endorsing wishful thinking.” – PZ Myers “Love is made in the gritty ups and downs of being with someone who is as flawed as you.” – Mark vernon “I’m certain I can explain something to you, but I can’t understand it for you.” “To which foundation do I need to donate to help you?” “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you… “How much of my brain is willfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what I have read and heard and lived?” – Sylvia Plath “If someone you know/are friends with/date is always a victim, it is only a matter of time before you will victimize them.” – Unknown “There’s no coming to consciousness without pain.” – Carl Jung “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… “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” – Carl Jung “No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” – Edward R. Murrow “Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.” – Helen Keller “People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.” – Hellen… “Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives…… “Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.” – Hellen Keller Emotions people feel, but can’t explain: Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own. Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in… “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” – Douglas Coupland “If we knew each other’s secrets, what comfort we would find.” – John Churton Collins “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style” – Maya Angelou “As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science… “Effort follows attention and results follow effort. So be careful what you think about.” – David McCourt “Success, failure are almost artificial. People fall into the way of thinking that there’s one or the other, it’s black or white, that there’s no in between. Of course, we… “I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the… “Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.” – Penelope Lively “Great intellects are skeptical.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.” – David Hume “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” – Galileo Galilei “People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them. They don’t accomplish what they set out to do because they lose… “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle “Nothing looks more ugly than reason when it is not on our side.” – George Savile “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain “A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.” – Unknown “Always go for the decision that makes a better story.” – Unknown reddit comment “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” – Eleanor Roosevelt “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” – Charles M. Schulz “The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master” – Unknown “I put the pro in procrastinating.” – Very Grumpy Cat @VeryGrumpyCat “If I’m going to imagine something, I imagine it in my favour.” – Arul Subramaniam “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going,… “However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.” – Albert Einstein “I have discovered that, important as self-discipline is to a child, it is increasingly important as one grows older. Then it is really essential for your well-being to regulate your… “You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole – like the world, or the person… You just want to open the space around it so that you can expand your vision to see things just as they are.” – Kyodo Williams “No one is as strong as they seem – or as daunting as we fear.” – Alain De Botton “Almost universally, the kind of performance we give on social media is positive. It’s more ‘Let me tell you how well things are going. Look how great I am.’ It’s… “You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love… “We have taken self-criticism too far when it no longer has any effect on our level of achievement, when it simply saps our morale and our will to get out… “I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look… “Doesn’t it seem to you, that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to… “I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.” – Roger… “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” – Upton Sinclair “You never hear about the 100 other people who gave up everything for their goal but failed. Your best is sometimes just not enough.” – Unknown “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” – Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek) “Duality is a part of life. The sun sets and the sun rises. We inhale and we exhale. We must create and we must rest. Don’t expect to be productive… “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is, let it rain.” – H. Wadsworth Longfellow “Sometimes you are the bad guy.” – Unknown “Three little words that broke my heart. She. Chose. Him.” “Knowledge of syphilis is not instruction to get it. Likewise, knowledge of an opposing point of view is not instruction to eradicate it—nor embrace it.” – Lenny Bruce “One cannot both feast and become rich.” – Ashanti proverb “Ultimately the root of any conspiracy theory is a strong desire to believe that someone, somewhere, is competent at what they’re doing.” – Amy Dentata “One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.” ― Gustave Flaubert “Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick. A shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow.” – George R. R…. “There is no truth. There is only perception.” ― Gustave Flaubert “If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There… “Intuition is simply knowing something without knowing how you got there.” – Daniel Dennett “If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry … (you have) no good reason for thinking as you do.” – Bertrand Russell “Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.” – Margaret Cho “Responsibility is a unique concept: it can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate… “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon” – Napoleon “Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail & never get to try again. The fall breaks them and some are given a… “Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.” ― Gustave Flaubert “Being nice to someone doesn’t entitle you to anything. Decency to others should just be base behaviour.” – Anonymous “Introversion has nothing to do with social anxiety, shyness, or fear of people. It just means that being around people is mentally and physically ‘draining’. Introverts can be extremely social… “Loneliness is not cured by the presence of people.” – Anonymous “You see things; and you say: “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say: “Why not?” – George Bernard Shaw “We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability,… “Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.” – Pat Conroy “Life, a good life, a great life is about “Why not?” May we never forget it.” – Danielle Steel “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” – Jonathan Swift “Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.” – John Muir “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” – Ursula K. Le Guin “One day in the country Is worth a month in town” – Christina Rossetti “Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Greeks have given us one of the most beautiful words of our language, the word “enthusiasm” — a God within. The grandeur of the acts of men are measured… “It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering.” – Byron Katie “It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.” – Anne Brontë “The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference” – elie wiesel “Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”… “It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to… “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” – Ernest Hemingway “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” – Michelangelo “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” – John Locke “Interpretation can be a great misconception, and all my troubles can be likes sophisms to which we can say nothing.” – Kierkegaard “Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.” – Bertrand Russell “You can’t trust your thinking to give you an accurate description of how you’re doing.” – Jamie Smart “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston “The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.” – Hellen Keller “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style” ― Maya Angelou “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow… “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar “Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.” – Dang Thuy Tram “I’ll hit Liston with so many punches from so many angles he’ll think he’s surrounded.” – Muhammad Ali “Don’t seek a coach who’s like a courteous waiter. Seek a coach who scares you a little.” – Daniel Coyle “May the rest of your day be as pleasant as you have been.” – Unknown “Funny that all of Richard Nixon’s crimes – anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars – are all legal now. Discuss.” – Bill Maher “A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because it’s trust is not of the branch but of its own wings.” – Robby Greer “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” –… “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one – Voltaire “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” – Orson Welles “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain… “You look like you’re going to spend your life having one epiphany after another, always thinking you’ve finally figured out what’s holding you back, and how you can finally be… “What do you call a bodybuilder with big balls? A beginner.” – Unknown “Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” — George Lois “If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.” – Michelangelo “The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation” – Terence McKenna “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese proverb “We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.” – Martin Luther King Jr. “Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato “We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.” – Marianne Williamson “Appearance too often takes the place of reality — the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless… “This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.” – Ben Okri “So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive… “All language is but a poor translation.” – Franz Kafka “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway “Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in… “Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.” – Albert Einstein “When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.” – Honoré de… “Yesterday I accidentally sent a naked picture of myself to everyone in my address book. Not only was it embarrassing but it cost a fortune in stamps.” – Unknown “Good design solves the right problem. The typical stove has four burners arranged in a square, and a dial to control each. How do you arrange the dials? The simplest… “Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not… “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down” ― Charlie Chaplin “There seems a clear correlation between intelligence and willingness to consider shocking ideas. This isn’t just because smart people actively work to find holes in conventional thinking. Conventions also have… “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt “Real progress is more likely to be found in one hundred 1% improvements than one 100% improvement.” – Unknown “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt “Pleasure depends on things, happiness does not. As long as we believe that we need things to make us happy, we shall also believe that in their absence we must… “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ― George Eliot “I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your cave.” – Rudyard Kipling “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Seven Social Sins: “Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without principle/truth.” – Gandhi “Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.” ― Emily Dickinson “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best… “Worry is a misuse of the imagination.” – Dan Zadra “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” ― William Shakespeare “They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good… The Invitation by Oriah “It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting… “Longed for him. Got him. Shit.” ― Margaret Atwood “Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing whatever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles,… “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ― Arthur C. Clarke “I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” ― Gerry Spence “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” ― Albert Einstein “War is what happens when language fails.” ― Margaret Atwood “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of… “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” – Unknown “Given enough time, hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where it is going.” – Unknown “Optimism. It’s not about believing that everything happens for the best; it’s about making the best of the things that happen” – Action for happiness “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy… “To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.” – Sir James Jeans “Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.” – Goethe “True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.” – Charles Caleb Colton “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can… “I play the unloved … people like us, the inside-out people, who live their lives as an experiment, not as a formula.” – John Hurt “People know more than you think they do, but less than they think they do.” – Unknown, reddit “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou “Nirvana is the condition that comes when you are not compelled by desire, by fear or by social commitments – when you hold your center and act out of there.”… “I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.” – Boris Pasternak “Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is… “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius “There is something in personal love, caresses, and the magnetic flood of sympathy and friendship, that does, in its way, more good than all the medicine in the world.” –… “I’m not interested if you’ve stood with the great. I’m interested if you’ve sat with the broken.” – Unknown “One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.” – Donald J. Trump “I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down” – Donald J. Trump “The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or… “There’s a difference between hot women and beautiful women. Hot women are everywhere; they abound. They are beautified, not beautiful. Beautiful women, on the other hand, are rare and a… “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”… “Moods are processes — not events. They have a coming and a going. It means knowing that because something “feels so” doesn’t make it so.” – Larry Drain “Don’t think about what you want to do, think about how you want to feel.” – Unknown “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path,… ‘Shout out to all of the people wondering what the opposite of “in” is.’ – Unknown “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political… “I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.” – Muhammad Ali “Don’t believe everything you think” – Unknown ‘Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.’ – Megan Devine “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” – Warren Buffett “A friend is someone who knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – Unknown “I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women; to enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy…. “You have to be odd to be number one” – Dr. Seuss “Make it so easy you can’t say no.” – Leo Babauta “It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There’s almost… “It is Not in the stars to hold Our destiny but in ourselves.” – William shakespeare “One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of… “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” – Hanlons Razor “I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I’ve arrived at in my… “It isn’t compulsory to earn more money, achieve more goals, realise our potential on every dimension, or fit more in. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of… “At some point I realised everything that you do is you, even it it’s the lies you tell. Even if it’s an act, it’s part of the real me because… “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren “To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.” – Tacitus “No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.” – Brendan Francis “If you think it’s going to rain, it will.” – Clint Eastwood “Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.” – Jimmy Lyons “Nothing sabotages a career as effectively as fear and lack of self-confidence. The way to conquer anxiety is identify what scares you and then ask yourself the question – What… “…we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.” – Agnes Repplier “Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the… “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.’ – Jean de La Fontaine “It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” – Sister Elizabeth Kenny “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein “Why not learn to enjoy the little things – there are so many of them.” – Unknown “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” – Schiller “None is so rich as to throw away a friend.” – Turkish proverb “Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.” – Adlai Stevenson “All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” – Charles Kingsley “The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do for themselves.” – Abraham Lincoln “Cowards die many times before their death. The valiant never tastes of death but once.” – William Shakespeare “It is not the strongest of the species…nor the most intelligent, that survives. It is the one most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin “Imagine life getting ninety-some times more enjoyable. That’s what we’re leaving on the table when we leave our attention hanging on an internal dialogue by default. It’s not the world… “I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a… “Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she… “I know five fat people and you’re three of them.” – Unknown “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line… “When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is… “The closest to perfection anyone ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.” – Stanley J. Randall “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson “He is lifeless that is faultless.” – English proverb “The best things in life aren’t things.” – Art Buchwald “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” – William James “The ideal lover: someone who corrects the biases of one’s own personality.” – Alain de Botton “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated… “Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world… “Today’s egg is better than tomorrow’s hen.” – Turkish proverb “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castenada “Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.” – Arthur… “Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.” – Brian Koslow “All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.” – Alexander Pope “If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.” – Kahlil Gibran “You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.” – Arlene Blum “The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” – William Butler Yeats “Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.” ― William Blake “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the… “I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses… “It’s called fuck off and it’s located over there.” – Very Grumpy Cat @VeryGrumpyCat “The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They… “I’m anti political parties. I don’t understand how in a country of 200 million voters, we only have two political parties. We have eight kinds of coke, but only two… “Your true self, in part you discover, in part you create.” – Julian Baggini “I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.” – Muhammad Ali “We cannot become what we want to be, by remaining what we are”. – Max DePree “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” – George Orwell “What is the ‘meaning’ of a tree? of a butterfly? of the birth of a child? or of the universe? What is the ‘meaning’ of the song of the rushing… “We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in.” – Unknown “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why… “The way you behave with everybody is more important than the work you do. Generosity, kindness, and patience will get you so far: that’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned.” –… “My warmest wishes to you Joyce. I can’t follow your banner any more than you can follow mine. But the world is wide and there is room for both of… “No one entertains the thought that maybe God does not believe in you.” – Bo Burnham “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein “The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Helen Keller “Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. Today, we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” – Khalil Gibran “I always wanted a happy ending… Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is… “The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I’m sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live… “Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.” – C.S. Lewis “Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.” – Rabindranath Tagore “In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.” – John Stuart Mill “Truth is not determined by majority vote.” – Doug Gwyn “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” – Kahlil Gibran “In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.” – Nicholas Chamfort “A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.” – William James “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” – Voltaire “Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.” – Tryon Edwards “You can spend, minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened – or you can just leave… “You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” – William Blake “I try to look on the upside. If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice: once in your mind and once when it… “Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.” – Max Frisch “Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will… “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” – Bill Patterson “You will think a lot less about what people think of you when you realise how seldom they do.” – David Foster Wallace “All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers” – François Fénelon “I contradict myself? Very well then; I am large, I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman “Write drunk; edit sober.” – Hemingway “Reality is a Mirror. When we look upon something, we see it through preconceptions, memories, and opinions we have associated with the object. So, as we look upon the world,… “Time doesn’t truly exist. We all live in the current moment and we forever will. The past is just ghosts and the future only fantasies. Tomorrow will never come.” –… “Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” – George Bernard Shaw “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then you may have underestimated the gravity of the situation.” – Jean Kerr “You are a human being first. Before race, country or religion.” – Unknown “Believe nothing merely because you have been told it, or because it is tradition, or because you yourself have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely… “The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” –… “I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.” – Steven Wright “Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.” – Michel de Montaigne “The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he… “Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars… “We shouldn’t congratulate ourselves for resisting temptations we never felt in the first place.” – Alain de Botton “I don’t mean to brag, but I’m 2 girls away from a threesome.” – Unknown “Regret is the price we pay for choice.” – Alain de Botton “It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” – Voltaire “In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its… “I cannot change the world. The only one I can change is myself. If I change myself, come to some realization, grow a little bit, maybe that’s the measure of… “What Orwell failed to predict was that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.” – Keith Jensen “Discovering one’s “purpose” in life essentially boils down to finding those one or two things that are bigger than yourself, and bigger than those around you. And to find them… The distinction between fear (a response to something proximate and present) and anxiety (a response to something anticipated and abstract) – Freud “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold… “I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate,… “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people… “I’ve seen salad that can dress better then you.” – Unknown “They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good… “There are several billion versions of normal on this planet.” – Matt Haig “To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality. ” – John Bradshaw “I you look online what you get are anonymous trolls venting spleen and the sanitised, shiny, reconstructed lives of the Instagram generation. Neither polarity represents a realistic lifestyle choice and… “This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.” – Horace Walpole “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” – Oscar Wilde “I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you… “The real obstacles in life lie in the heart of man.” – Bertrand Russell “In many shamanic societies, if you came to a shaman or medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: When did you… “If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer” – Ajahn Chah “Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the… “Loneliness isn’t a craving for just being with other people. It’s a craving for a kind of meaningful connection with other people. Without a meaningful connection, being with people can… “Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.” – Edwin Way Teale “Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully. “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.” “And he has Brain.” “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.” There was a long silence. “I suppose,” said Pooh, “that… “Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.” – Alain de Botton “It is always difficult to win an argument with someone who is not handicapped by a knowledge of the facts.” – Unknown “Love is the beauty of the soul.” – Augustine “The measure of measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” – Albert Einstein “Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.” – John Lahr “The worst enemy you can’t meet, will you yourself always be.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “Value, not prices. Experiences, not products. Outcomes, not processes.” – Unknown “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” – William Arthur Ward ”Ever has it been that love knows not it’s depth until the hour of separation.” – Kahlil Gibran. “Your portraits are so ugly they hang themselves.” – Unknown “Pessimism is enshrined as a hallmark of worldliness. Compulsive skepticism masquerades as perceptiveness. Mean- spirited irony is chic. Stories about treachery and degradation provoke a visceral thrill in millions of… “It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.” – Naguib Mahfouz “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus “Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars”. – Serbian Proverb “We think that if we have health and wealth they’re enough to be happy, but actually happiness depends on the state of our minds.” – Dalai Lama “The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.” – Isaac Asimov “Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line… “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to… “Why are trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out.” – Oliver James “So many of us chose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn’t believe that was possible for him…. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’” – William Arthur Ward “In many ways, commitment provides one with more freedom than non-commitment. And that doesn’t just go for relationships.” – Mark Manson “Scientists generally agree that no theory is 100 percent correct. Thus, the real test of knowledge is not truth, but utility. Science gives us power. The more useful that power,… ”One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead” – Oscar Wilde “Somewhere out there there’s a tree working very hard to produce oxygen so that you can breathe. I think you should go and apologise to it.” – Unknown ”I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit” – Elizabeth Gilbert “I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We… “All models are wrong, some are useful.” – George Box “There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story. ” – Mary Lou Kownacki “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – William Butler Yeats “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”… “We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.” – Honoré de Balzac “Shut your eyes and see.” – James Joyce ”I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit” – Elizabeth Gilbert “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we… “When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.” – William… “There’s an old saying – that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, I don’t believe that. I think the things that try to kill you make you angry and… “What do you care about?” Is one of the best questions to get people engaged. What are you most excited about right now’, then ‘why?’, uncovers values – Twitter “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” – Anne Lamott “There are decades when nothing happens. There are weeks where decades happen” -Vladimir Lenin “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good… “Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person” – Unknown “You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself. ” – Jeph Jacques “Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny. ” – Gregory Maguire “Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections.” – David Hume “Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” – Dalai Lama XIV “When perfectionism is driving, shame is always riding shotgun and fear is the annoying backseat driver” – Brené Brown “Whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation, take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” – Elie Wiesel “Significant images render insights beyond speech, beyond the kinds of meaning speech defines. And if they do not speak to you, that is because you are not ready for them,… “Your car is German. Your vodka is Russian. Your pizza is Italian. Your kebab is Turkish. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies are American. Your tea… “The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – Winston Churchill “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” – Jean Luc Picard “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” – Carl Jung “You will know who your true friends are when you get sick or distressed. If one you thought was your friend keeps his distance from you during trying times then… “The world is like a ride in an amusement park and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The… “Cynicism is like an armour – it will, initially, protect you. But you cannot grow in armour, you cannot dance in armour” – Caitlin Moran “Deserve your dream.” – Octavio Paz Hate doesn’t have a creed, race or religion, it is poisonous – Brendan Cox “Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice” – Mary Berry “Common communication mistake: people bias towards being exhaustive/complete rather than clear about what is most important.” – Dustin Moskovitz “Passion is the result of action, not the cause of it.” – Mark Manson “Not knowing who or what we are dealing with and feeling unsafe, we hunker down in a psychological foxhole and withhold the investment of our energy, commitment, and gifts… The… “Be the flame, not the moth.” – Giacomo Casanova “Who am I”, you ask? I am made from all the people I’ve encountered and all the things I have experienced. Inside, I hold the laughter of my friends, the… “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love,… “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” – Frank Crane “True love is when two people’s pathologies complement one another’s.” – Alex Grey “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless. The fact that you’re alive is amazing,… “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have… “Fear is temporary, regret is forever.” – Unknown “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward “Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. – William Arthur Ward “A good friend can see you through a failure, but a great friend can see you through a success.” – Unknown “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to… “Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the… “Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past” – Lily Tomlin “My course is set for an uncharted sea.” – Dante Alighieri A man walks into a doctor’s office, sits down and says “Now doctor, this may sound kind of strange, but I have five penises” The doctor, taken aback asks him… “Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.” –… “Fundamentalism has nothing to do with religion. It’s particular way of thinking, speaking, and behaving. It has more to do with the how and why someone holds an idea and… “You’re something between a dream and a miracle.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” -Susan Ertz “When people feel like they have no sense of direction, no purpose in their life, it’s because they don’t know what’s important to them, they don’t know what their values… “When you’re standing with someone and you’re on your mobile device, what you’re saying to them is, ‘You are not as important as, literally, anything that could come to me… “Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but… “My course is set for an uncharted sea.” – Dante Alighieri “Law Number XXXV: The weaker the data available upon which to base one’s conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.” –… “Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.” – John Lahr “When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.” – Alexis de Tocqueville “The question “Who ought to be boss?” is like as “Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.” – Henry Ford “This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.” – Ben Okri “Take my hands in your hands and put them where you want my memory to be.” – Kim @selfmyths “The internet to this generation of writers as alcohol was to previous ones: anxiety suppressant, enemy of talent, challenge.” – Alain de Botton “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.” – Henry David Thoreau “Life has no warning and love has no reason.” – Bean toad @beehivesy twitter “Denial is a side-effect of cowardice. Consciousness requires courage. When we are afraid to deal with an issue, we try to pretend it doesn’t exist. That’s particularly convenient when we… “Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” – Albert Einstein “Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you’re still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might… “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….” ― George Bernard Shaw “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” – Soren Kierkegaard “If it’s still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk.” – Paulo Coelho “Friction in couples much reduced with an a priori recognition that no one is ever just ‘mean’ or Not Nice. They are hurt. For reasons.” – Alain de Botton “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Nietzsche “The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell “Tone is difficult to convey via the written word, and there is a tendency for the mind to supply it when reading. Read the parent paragraph aloud, and play with… “After something happens to you, you either over dramatize it or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones.” – Sylvia Plath “The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen, but are to be lived.” – Soren Kierkegaard “A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than… “There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby “People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.” – William Sloane Coffin “I once took the pee out of a pirate. He was furious!” – cluedont @cluedont “It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man’s insignificance in the long eternity of time; the… “To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary,… “Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance… “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole…. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each. Grow green with the spring, yellow… “There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.” – Hafiz “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” (Dialectic vs Rhetoric) – Mario Cuomo “No single raindrop believes it is responsible for the flood. No single snowflake believes it’s responsible for the avalanche.” – Unknown “In a certain sense, the ideas are the villains and the people their hapless victims.” – Mary McCarthy “I am constantly putting things where they don’t belong, like the cereal in the fridge, or my keys in the laundry, or my faith in other people.” – Chris Rock “I am constructing my reality with unreal, otherworldly materials. It is almost poetic; this outstanding self-manipulation.” – Sylvia Plath “Bear in mind that a dishonest friendship isn’t worthy of further investment while an honest one offers a refuge for life.” – Mariella Frostrup “Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” – Alexander Pope “Like everyone else, you’ve probably grown up watching a lot of movies, and the thing about movies is that the stories that offer the most escapism by nature give you… “The man who waits for the right person to come along can be compared to the man who wants to paint but who, instead, of learning the art, claims that… “Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.” – Milton H. Ericsson “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil “When you’re at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.” – Unknown “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung “A man walks into a doctor’s office, sits down and says “Now doctor, this may sound kind of strange, but I have five penises” The doctor, taken aback asks him… “At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, and at eighty… “We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each… “We know too much and feel too little.” – Bertrand Russell “Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its… “If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find… “Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.” – George Box Every Day You Play Every day you play with the light of the universe. Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water. You are more than this white… “There is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness with a human being who believes in the same basic principles.” – Sylvia Plath “Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.” –… Actual Cost = Projected Cost × 10 Actual Sales = Projected Sales / 10 Actual Time = Projected Time × 20 – Unknown “We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others.” – Dalai Lama “Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive divine.” – Alexander Pope “The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either… “There reaches a point though that human beings are simply not capable of understanding the sheer horror of what is going on elsewhere in the world. Joseph Stalin said it… “Being realistic is the most commonly traveled path to mediocrity.” – Will Smith “The things that make me different are the things that make me.” – A.A. Milne “Pigs get fat; hogs get slaughtered.” – Mark Cuban “I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.” – Nora Ephron “I always say that the realities of life are the flour and eggs and vanilla a playwright puts into the cake that she’s baking. And when it’s all finished, who… “Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I’d decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.” – Donald E…. “There is far more opportunity than there is ability.” – Thomas Edison “He is not a lover who does not love forever.” – Euripides “Thought forms in the soul in the same way clouds form in the air.” – Joseph Joubert “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” – Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re… “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” – George Bernard Shaw “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” – Thomas Jefferson “Eighty percent of success is showing up” – Woody Allen “Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or… “If life gives you lemons, sell lemons. You got them free, so will make a profit without the laborious process of making lemonade.” – James Martin “If I agreed with you we’d both be wrong.” – Unknown “If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” – Mark Twain “She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions, and in the end doing them irreparable harm.” – Marcia Muller “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” – Groucho Marx “I told them I wanted to be a comedian, and they laughed; I became a comedian, no one’s laughing now” – Bob Monkhouse “A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.” – Charles F. Kettering “Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” – Søren Kierkegaard “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness!” – Rich Guzzi “If it takes more effort to complain about something than fix it, just frigging fix it.” – Jeff Atwood “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Isaac Asimov “There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this… “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu “A head full of fears has no space for dreams.” – Unknown “I just walked a mile in your shoes to see what you’re really like. Turns out you’re out of shape.” – Sundeep Sidhu “Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!” – Billy Connolly “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung “Big girls don’t cry… They eat.” – @VeryGrumpyCat “Don’t borrow sorrow from tomorrow.” – Sophie Heywood “If you can’t ignore an insult, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh it off; and if you can’t laugh it off, it’s probably deserved.” – J.R Lynes “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable: they… “Stop making excuses. Excuses are blocks of stones which Fools build monuments of nothing.” – Mr. T “All I have ever touched or said to others becomes only the rehearsal for you, and preserved only for this.” – Sylvia Plath “You’re all flash and no pan”. – DeepandMeaningless “If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” – Viktor E. Frankl “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” – General George Smith Patton, Jr. “Worry is the interest paid on trouble before it is even due” – William Ralph Inge “In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.” – Robert Green Ingersoll “Guys communicate by insulting each other, but don’t really mean it. Girls communicate by complimenting each other, but don’t really mean it.” – Chris Rock “Love is made in the gritty ups and downs of being with someone who is as flawed as you.” – Mark vernon “We met for a reason, either you’re a blessing or a lesson” – Frank Ocean “If I had a dollar for every time I thought about you, I would start thinking about you.” – @VeryGrumpyCat “There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely” – Milan Kundera “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick “Want to know what living in a police state looks like? Travel through an airport…” – Unknown “I had the impression it wasn’t night or day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.” – Sylvia Plath “Twinkle twinkle little star, I want to hit you with my car.” – @VeryGrumpyCat “Beauty is a light in the heart” – Kahlil Gibran “A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.” – Alan Watts “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” – Theodore Roosevelt “Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.” –… No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop “The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Mahatma Gandhi Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’… The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one. – Ben Okra “The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.” – Unknown “No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future that is not hidden in his present moment. Take… Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t… “The most importants things are the hardest to say because words diminish their meaning.” – Stephen King “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” ― Albert Einstein The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift. – Pierre Corneille The great art of giving consists in this: The gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. – Baltasar… “Decide based on love and not fear.” – Unknown “Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.” – Walker Evans “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.” – Emma Donoghue “Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.” – Nora Roberts “Learn to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like tappings behind dark glass.” – M. Rainer Rilke “We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in… “The happy life is the contemplative life. If you can read books and enjoy doing nothing, you can always be happy.” – Aristotle “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity” – Viola Davis “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope… “The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.” – Robert Green Ingersoll Dyslexia is a right pain in the ears. – James Martin @pundementalism “Close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere” – Paulo Coelho ”Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.”… Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of… “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung “Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.” Honoré de Balzac “The politician is … trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to… “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” – Pablo Neruda “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.” – Daniel Defoe “Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it.” – André Gide “Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.” – Daphne du Maurier “We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” – Gwendolyn Brooks “I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see… “You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved.”… “They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.” – Tim O’Brien “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” – Kiran Desai “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston “Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton “The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.” – Margaret Atwood “The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius “For words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson “When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.” – Hans Christian Andersen “Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.” – Sue Grafton “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving”. – Laozi “To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.” – Robert Green Ingersoll “I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.” – Anne Frank “This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.” – Ben Okri “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.” – James Fenimore Cooper “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” – Robert Frost “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.” – Henry James “She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.” – Barbara Kingsolver “What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.” – Haruki Murakami “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud “Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.” – A.A. Milne “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” – Orhan Pamuk “If a thing loves, it is infinite.” – William Blake “We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later… Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves… “Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.” – Italo Calvino “Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.” – Jonathan Kellerman “For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were… “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” – Guy de Maupassant “What is the difference between “I like you” and “I love you”? The answer is simple. When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a… “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” – Richard Feynman “Maybe that’s what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.” – Tom Perrotta “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.” – Ray Bradbury “Try things until something comes easily.” – James Clear “If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter.” – Blaise Pascal “Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.” – William Makepeace Thackeray The more questions you ask: A) The more you learn B) The less opportunities you have for sounding stupid. Facts are stupid. Questions are smart, even if they sound stupid…. “Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.” – Marshall McLuhan “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.” – V.S. Naipaul “I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt… “We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories…And those that carry us forward, are dreams.” – H.G. Wells “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” – Robert Frost “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” – Albert Einstein “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy “She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong.” – Mae West “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley “Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on.” – Ibn-e-Safi “Money is a side effect of trying to help others. Trying to solve problems. Trying to move beyond the “good enough”. – James Altucher “Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual… “Gratitude is not just about what we say, but how we live. And so it true for all of life.” – James Clear “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.” – Alex Haley “Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.” – Katherine Boo “Knowledge is Life with wings” ― William Blake “There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women.” – Robert Green Ingersoll “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” – Aristotle “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.” – Stendhal “Truth is not for comfort – it’s for liberation. It’s not a medicine – it’s a killer.” – Sadhguru “You can’t lie to your soul.” – Irvine Welsh “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is… “Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.” – William Jennings Bryan “Be a student, not a follower. Don’t just go do what someone says. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it and consider it from all angles.”… “Knowledge is Life with wings” – William Blake “You know, it’s funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.” – Wanda the Owl, BoJack Horseman “There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.” ― Maya Angelou “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.” – Maya Angelou “We’re only as needy as our unmet needs.” – John Bowlby “We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly; and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize… “In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the absurd.” – Miguel de Cervantes “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail… “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw “It always seems impossible until its done” – Nelson Mandela “Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.” – John F. Kennedy, “You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.” – Grace Hopper “There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle” – Robert Alden “You don’t need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul,… “Keep on knocking ’til the joy inside opens a window look to see who’s there…” – Rumi “If fair existed than opportunity wouldn’t exist” – Scott West “If you pay close enough attention, people will show you who they really are. When they do, believe them.” – Anonymous “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and… “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its boots on.” – Spurgeon “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson “Everyone’s mind struggle seems to be, what do I need to do to be ok, and what does everyone else need to do for me to be ok, becomes the… “It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.” – Bill Watterson “A tough experience is not necessarily a bad experience. The belief that we should avoid any kind of suffering and instead seek an easy life filled with short-term pleasures is… “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung “To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” –… “Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders,… “If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car; And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.” – Jim Steinman “But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” –… “I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.” – Sylvester Stallone “What was the best thing before sliced bread?” – George Carlin “You better cut the pizza into four slices, because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” – Yogi Berra “Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.” – Heinz R. Pagels “He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts – for support rather than for illumination.” – Andrew Lang “There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to… “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” – George Levinger “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” – E.M. Forster “Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.” – Honoré de Balzac “Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” – Edward R. Murrow “One major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.” – Edward R. Murrow “I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.” –… “I am a cage, in search of a bird.” – Franz Kafka “You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole – like the world, or the person… “We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” – Gwendolyn Brooks “If you trust in yourself…and believe in your dreams…and follow your star… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so… “Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” – Chico Xavier “Isn’t it strange how life won’t flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let… “No matter how imperfect things are, if you’ve got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.” – Tom Stoppard “History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’ and lets fly with a club.” – John W. Campbell Jr. Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast, it is not proud It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily… “We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” – Gwendolyn Brooks “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow… “In order to make a man covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.” – Mark Twain “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Unknown “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung “People who wonder about whether the glass is half empty or half full mis the point. The glass is refillable”. – Unknown “The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” – William Hazlitt “The things that we love tell us what we are.” – Thomas Aquinas “Sometimes when the whole world is telling you you’re wrong, it’s because you’re wrong.” – God @TheTweetOfGod “Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.” – Melissa Marr “Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.” – John Locke “When someone is murdered the police investigate the spouse first. And that tells you everything you need to know about marriage.” – Frankie B @frankiebrack “To be loving means to presuppose love.” – Kierkegaard “It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.” – Aristotle “When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.” – Hermann Hesse “Nine-tenths of the violence and unhappiness in this country derives from sexual repression”. – Khushwant Singh “Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.” – Bertrand Russell “The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.” – Horace Greeley “Our country right or wrong is an evil motto – what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic… “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln “Technology diverts us from the passing of life, and postpones the moment when we have to face our conscience.” – Modern Kierkegaard @KierkegaardNow “Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To… “It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war… “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” – Socrates “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “Much despair goes virtually unnoticed in the world.” – Kierkegaard “We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.” – Schopenhauer “Rule your mind, or it will rule you” – Unknown “There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.” – Alain de Botton “The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.” – Bertrand Russell “It’s weird how secretive aliens are and yet they’re still too lazy to shut off the blinking lights on their UFO.” – Loco Eric “I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you’re going to fail big or you’re gonna win big.” – Sylvester… “Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.” – David Hume “The way you do things is not the only way to do them. Respect other peoples ways of thinking.” – Unknown “You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.” – Abraham Lincoln “There comes a time when you have to stop remembering your mistakes and just move on.” – Unknown “Besides all its other good qualities, the good, the truly great and noble, has the quality of not allowing the observer to be indifferent.” – Soren Kierkegaard “It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.” – Soren Kierkegaard “Not everyone you lose is a loss” – Unknown “Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness” – Unknown “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” – Bertrand Russell “To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” – Unknown “Maturity comes when you stop making excuses and start making changes” – Unknown “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” – James A. Michener “Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.” – Anne Lammott “One cool judgement is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.” – Woodrow Wilson “Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu “The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” – Kiran Desai “Nothing changes if nothing changes” – Unknown “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a… “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou “I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers… “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.” – J.R.R. Tolkien “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou ‘If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.’ – Maya Angelou “It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.” – Aristotle “An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald “Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.” – Marcus… “Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.” – Epicurus “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” – Bertrand Russell “God gave us a heart because it often sees what the eyes cannot see and the mind cannot understand.” – Tonny Brown “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” – Plato “A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.” – Augustine “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” – Angela Schwindt “If you teach a man anything, he will never learn” – Unknown “When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.” – Lin-Chi “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything” – Nellie Bly “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. ” –… “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ― Gloria Steinem “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald “We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.” – Leonora Carrington “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.” – Unknown “In short, people tend to think of other people’s outcomes as caused by their innate personalities, while simultaneously considering their own outcomes to be largely from external events and situations.” “The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.” – Jack Kerouac “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired… “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ― Mark Twain “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.” – Clare Boothe Luce “After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security. And… “Love can make even nice people do awful things.” – Jude Deveraux “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.” – Anne Rice “I think literature is best when it’s voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.” – Rick Moody “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.” – Kazuo Ishiguro “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.” – Michel de Montaigne “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” – John Lubbock “It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” – David Hume “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill “It is always difficult to win an argument with someone who is not handicapped by a knowledge of the facts.” – Unknown “I can’t is the cousin of I don’t want to.” – Unknown “Dont run away from grief, o soul Look for the remedy inside the pain. because the rose came from the thorn and the ruby came from a stone.” – Pritpal… “Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections.” – David Hume “Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we… “Expecting perfection is the same thing as expecting disappointment” – Idea Catalog @ideacatalog “Whether your child is 3 or 13, don’t rush in to rescue him until you know he’s done all he can to rescue himself.” – Barbara F. Meltz “Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour “If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.” – Joe Rogan “Is it ok for a Buddhist monk to send emails? As long as it doesn’t have attachments…” – Unknown “We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.” – Marianne Williamson “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard “We only hear what we listen for.” – John Cage “One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” – Paulo Coelho “The way we do things is to begin.” – Horace Greeley “How do you find Will Smith in a snow storm? Just look for the fresh prints.” – Unknown “The lack of money is the root of all evil.” ― Mark Twain “It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” – Thomas Paine “Terrorism is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; war is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.” – Sydney… “Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.” – Horace Greeley “Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.” – Jean Paul “Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.” – Robert Anthony “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” – Sigmund Freud “The Earth without Art is just Eh” – Unknown “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” ― Stephen R. Covey “Great intellects are skeptical” – Friedrich Nietzsche “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can… “Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.” – Chris Rock “Never choose a wife by candlelight, nor a friend at a feast, nor a horse at a fair.” – Ovid “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde “What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re… “America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” – Walter Cronkite “True peace is not just the absence of tension, it’s the presence of justice” – MLK “And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die”… “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” – Henry Ford “I am still learning.” – Michelangelo “Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.” – Alain de Botton “While you love, that which is innate in you becomes malleable; so love shapes you.” – Amis “Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.” – Bertrand Russell “The most daring thing to do with your life is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” – Kurt Vonnegut “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.” – Edgar Allan Poe “Let our scars fall in love.” – Galway Kinnell “Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice. I intend to be part of the solution and not the problem.” – David Oyelowo “Be kind before you react to someone else, think because you never know what kind of day they are having and you could be the straw that breaks the camel’s… “Sometimes life serves you a shit sandwich. The question is if you are going to eat it or go get something better for yourself.” – Unknown “Deep down you know exactly what to do in every situation, it’s things like laziness or being a pussy that stop you from making the right decision” – Anon “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” – Epictetus “Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “And her red lips sang them a love-song Till stars grew out of the air.” -W. B. Yeats “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.” – Edith Wharton “If I were less concerned with you I should simply say it is very good.” – Samuel Beckett “Before becoming a Muslim, or a Sikh, a Hindu, or a Christian let’s become a human first” – Guru Nanak Dev Ji “Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.” – Benjamin Franklin “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” – Steve Furtick “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” – Benjamin Franklin “The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes… “When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.” – Baltasar Gracian “We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.” – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld “In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” – Henri-Frédéric Amiel “Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” – Josh Billings “Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.” – George… “Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men – bring them softness, teach them how to cry.” – Joan… “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.” – Khalil Gibran “In fairness to Sauron, it WAS HIS ring.” – Sacha Fernando “Confidence is the present tense of hope.” – Soren Kierkegaard “I always thought that ‘pick your own strawberries’ signs were farmers telling the public to leave their crops alone.” – Jeff Atwood “If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. Your passion will lead you right into your purpose.” – Robby Greer “There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.” – Socrates “Hi I’m an evil ghost with the ability to defy time & space, but I think the best example of my powers will be to slightly close this door.” –… “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo “Look up, now look down. Up is endless, down has an ending. Always look up.” – Unknown “We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.” – Alain de Botton “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” ― Stephen R. Covey “But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” – Soren Kierkegaard “March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.” – Kahlil Gibran “Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.” – Marcus Aurelius “Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.” – Bertrand Russell “Search well and be wise, and never believe that self-willed pride is better than good counsel.” – Aeschylus “Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.” – Lao Tzu “Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.” – Marcus Aurelius “There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will… “Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would… “I’m on a seafood diet — I see food, I eat it.” – Dolly Parton “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin “Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme…they must be naked and alone, they must stand… “If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don’t need an analyst.” – Joan Crawford “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without… “Don’t be afraid. There’s the two of us now.” – Diana Gabaldon “Teachers open the door, but students must enter themselves.” – Dalaï Lama “Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.” – Immanuel Kant “Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin “Keep the eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.” – Benjamin Franklin “Someone’s got to do it, why not you?” – Messing “The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.” – Brian Koslow “Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.” – Henry Greber “There is a sense in which we are all each other’s consequences.” – Wallace Stegner “Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must… “Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.” — Khaled Hosseini “You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying in the road.” – Richard Price “You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lip.” – Oliver Goldsmith “A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act.” – Soren Kierkegaard “Conventionality is not morality.” – Bronte “All my doubting, never got me far.” Idea Catalog @ideacatalog “First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.” ― Rob Gilbert “I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.” – Sylvia Plath “An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.” – Albert Schweitzer “How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you…” – W. B. Yeats “In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” – Bertrand Russell “Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object than what the imagination alone is able to attain.” – David Hume “A sudden, bold, and unexpected question can many times surprise a man, and even lay him open.” – Francis Bacon “Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.” – Omar Ibn Al-Halif “If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it.” ― Noam Chomsky “Sometimes the best way to get someone’s attention is to stop giving them yours.” ― Wiz Khalifa “Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.” – Epictetus “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John Maynard Keynes “It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.” – Friedrich Schiller “Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” – Winston Churchill “Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.” – Joe Klein “To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test… “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” – Ursula K. Le Guin “In giving, you throw a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself,… “Forever is composed of nows.” – Emily Dickinson “Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.” – Rabindranath Tagore “There are three incompatible things which man is always seeking — infinite feeling, infinite battle, infinite repose…” – W. B. Yeats “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” – Martin Luther King Jr. “Don’t judge them for their choices when you don’t know their reasons.” – Unknown “To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.” – Bertrand Russell “It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.” – Maya Angelou “Everyone has gifts to share. Gifts of the heart – what people are passionate and care about. Gifts of the head – what people know and think. Gifts of the… “A hug is the perfect gift – one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it.” – Ivern Ball “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” ― Spencer Johnson “The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.” – Charles Schwab “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” – John Milton “Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.” – Fannie Flagg “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” – Tom Bodett “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.” – James Fenimore Cooper “It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” – Noël Coward “Give a man a mask and he will show his true face.” – Oscar Wilde “Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.” – Henry David Thoreau “Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” – Hannah More “Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man cannot conceal himself.” – Confucius “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.” ― Nido Qubein “The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” – Edward Gibbon “Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.” – Bertrand Russell “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” – Abraham Lincoln “Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for… “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” – Jonathan Swift “For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.” – Edmund Spenser “Your attitude, not your aptitude will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar “The man who waits for roasted duck to fly into mouth must wait very long time.” – Ancient Proverb “See what things are in themselves, dividing them into matter, form and purpose.” – Marcus Aurelius “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” – John Locke “May I catch my reader not in the net of passion, nor by the artfulness of eloquence, but by the eternal truth of conviction.” – Soren Kierkegaard “What does it mean to love yourself? It means to embrace every aspect of your being with unconditional love. On a deeper level, it means letting your buddha nature, your… Kahlil Gibran You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together… “It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.” – Aristotle “In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher…” – The Dalai Lama “An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw “You don’t have to believe everything you think.” – Eckhart Tolle “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it” – Michelangelo “War is what happens when language fails.” – Margaret Atwood You see this goblet?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water… “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The… “The problem for me is not what I don’t know, it’s what I don’t do.” – John Niland “The most common lies a man tells are to himself.” – Nietzsche “People do not change, they are merely revealed.” – Anne Enright “Life was alone, no name, no memory; it had hands, but no one to touch. It had a tongue, but no one to talk to. Life was one, and one… “Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at… “I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.” – Johann… “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.” – D.H. Lawrence “What most people need, is a really good listening too.” – Kate McCartney “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” – Henry Ford “The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “Values are the ideals and standards that you live by, regardless of external pressures or incentives.” – Unknown “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou “Follow the hope in your heart, not the fear in your mind.” – Unknown “Sometimes it’s good to remember to improve the things that you do well rather than focus on the things that you do badly” – Unknown “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger, but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the… “We fear the thing we want the most.” – Robert Anthony “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” – Ivan Turgenev “Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises.” – William Shakespeare “In a time of destruction, create something.” – Maxine Hong Kingston “How foolish is man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past!” – Ali ibn Abi Talib “And her red lips sang them a love-song Till stars grew out of the air.” – W. B. Yeats “You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” – A.A. Milne “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the… “A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.” – Tolkien “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal”. – Martin Luther King “Expecting life to treat you well because you’re a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you’re a vegetarian.” – Shari Barr “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened.. or you can just leave the… “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Arthur C. Clarke “For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca “What I represent in fact, what I’m trying like hell to represent every time I go into that hotel room, is myself. That’s what I’m trying to do. And I… “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.” – Honoré de Balzac “One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn’t do you any good.” – Abe Lemons “There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.” – Janet Frame “Oi, martyrs, get off the cross, we need the wood” – Unknown “The best things in life aren’t things”. – Unknown “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force, but through persistence.” – Ovid “Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.” – David Hume “Wit, is the epitaph of an emotion.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” – Voltaire “Your dreams don’t run on excuses” – Unknown “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not” – Unknown “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” – Rumi “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.” – Rabindranath Tagore. “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” – Wallace Stevens “Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.” – Mary Stewart “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.” – Thomas Wolfe “Your soulmate is not someone that comes into your life peacefully. It is who comes to make you question things, who changes your reality, somebody that marks a before and… “If you love someone set them free…if they don’t come back, call them up later…when you’re drunk.” – JC @awesomeJCwood “What you eat in private, you wear in public.” – Unknown “Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance.” – Albert Maysles “Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.” – Joe Klein “There’s no ‘should’ or ‘should not’ when it comes to having feelings. They’re part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that,… “Reputation grows at the speed of a coconut tree and drops at the speed of a coconut.” – Unknown “One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.” – Mary Renault “Thing’s don’t have to change the world to be important” – Steve Jobs “Friendship is like wetting your pants. Everyone can see it but only you can feel its warmth.” – Unknown “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change… “Friendship is like peeing your pants. Everyone can see, but only you can feel its warmth.” – Unknown “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” – Swedish Proverb “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back– Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless… “There are six basic human needs certainty, uncertainty, significance, love, growth and giving” – Anthony Robbins “This is a cliché, but never listen to anyone who says “You can’t do that”. Those are usually the people who can’t do it. Not you.” – James Altucher “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” – Chuck Palahniuk “You don’t need to make a judgment. I know that doesn’t sound like liberation, because we live and work in an opinion-based economy. But it is. Not having an opinion… “People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.” ― Edward St. Aubyn “Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.” – Leonardo Da Vinci “People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” – Soren Aabye Kierkegaard “Pessimism is the prison you put yourself in, hope is the means of escape” – Tony Benn “To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.” – Schopenhauer “Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.” – Ambrose Bierce “Your car is German. Your vodka is Russian. Your pizza is Italian. Your kebab is Turkish. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies are American. Your tea… “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” – Socrates “Controversy is the junk food of ideas.” – Paul Graham “I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.” – Matisyahu “The words here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.” – Saint Augustine “See things as they are, not worse than they are.” – Unknown “But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.” – Aristotle Q. Why aren’t Spanish actors allowed in the pub? A. Because Javier Bardem. – James Martin @Pundamentalism “The most common mistake a serial killer can make is to fail to get elected President first.” – Frankie Boyle “The typical American car spends 96% of its time parked.” – Unknown “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it” – Richard Branson “What is permissible is not always honourable.” – Cicero “Part of being a feminist is giving other women the space to make choices you don’t necessarily agree with.” – Lena Dunham “Your room is not your prison. You are.” – Sylvia Plath “There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.” ― Abraham Lincoln “Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life’s pleasures or what kills you” – Bill Gates “You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” – Albert Camus “In order to experience happiness, you have to experience everything, you have to be able to define happiness by what it’s not as much as by what it is.” –… “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a… “There’s no such thing as instant results. There’s only such thing as practice and progress. All you have to do is check the box on progress. Progress compounds every day… “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke… “Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.” – Serbian proverb “Everyone has gifts to share. Gifts of the heart – what people are passionate and care about. Gifts of the head – what people know and think. Gifts of the… “Live less out of habit, and more out of intent.” – Unknown Happy birthday to us! It’s been a year since we started think*Mindful That’s 365 quotes! Our goal has been, and will always be to make a difference. To move. To… “I’ve always had the feeling that life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you, give you experiences. They may not all be… “A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits… “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi “Some people are so poor, that the only thing they have is money” – Unknown “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you” – Maori Proverb “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost “They say people don’t fall in love with people, they fall in love with a quality they want to possess.” – Sathnam Sanghera “The power of accurate observation is called ‘cynicism’ by those who have not got it.” – George Bernard Shaw “Live as if you were living for the second time” – Vikor E. Frankl “I will not censor my opinion to comfort your ignorance” – Unknown “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates “The past is simply a story we tell ourselves.” – Unknown “Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “When someone shows you who they are, believe them, the first time.” – Maya Angelou “You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.” – Jordan Belfort “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.” – Hilary Mantel “The only person that has to live with you is yourself, so speak the truths that allow you to feel good and look at yourself in the mirror. The truth… “‘Single’ and ‘Relationship’ are just titles. Your heart determines your true relationship status.” – Unknown “I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.” – Matisyahu “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe “Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know… “Is a mountain heavy? It may be heavy in and of itself, but as long as we don’t try to lift it up, it won’t be heavy for us.” –… “A wedding is a funeral for your former friendships.” – Unknown “Do you know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? Medicine.” -Tim Minchin “Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.” – Cicero “Civilization, comprising all the achievements of art and science, technology and industry, is the result of man’s invention and manipulation of symbols – of words, letters, numbers, formulas and concepts,… “I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” –… “When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.” – Japanese proverb The entire universe was created for the benefit of those members of one species on one planet who correctly believe in an invisible entity. – @TheTweetOfGod “A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.” – Robert A. Heinlein “Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.” – Mary Higgins Clark “Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” – Oliver Sacks “I’m not okay, you’re not okay, and that’s okay.” – William Sloane Coffin “A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.” – John Lubbock “God save us from people who mean well.” – Vikram Seth “The near enemy of loving-kindness is attachment. At first, attachment may feel like love, but as it grows it becomes more clearly the opposite, characterised by clinging, controlling and fear…. “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” – Amy Bloom “Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is… “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” ― Sholem Aleichem “Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius “The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways… “We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.” – Ethel Barrett “If a tree falls in a forest and your wife isn’t around to hear it you are still wrong.” – Unknown “You’re a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made from stardust.” – Unknown “You have no friends, you have no enemies, you only have teachers.” – Unknown “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” –… “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Unknown “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is who you really are, while your reputation is merely what people think you are” – John Wooden “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” – Hugh Downs “When you kiss you basically make a long tube with an anus at each end.” – Unknown “Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.” – Marion Zimmer Bradley “Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo” – Jon Sinclair “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” – George Orwell “What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.” – Emerson “The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years research into the feminine soul, is ‘What do… “The first to apologise is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.” – Unknown “The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.” – Lieutenant General David Morrison “Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato “If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression of something beautiful, but annihilating.” – Silvia Plath “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” – Bertrand Russell “I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.” – Mark Twain “Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious… “Beware of those with answers.” – Socrates “It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.” – Jimmy Buffett “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar “I am the effect of small actions, multiplied over time, and the laws that govern a warm body.” – Kim @selfmyths “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” – Joyce Carol Oates “I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” – Thomas Carlyle “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” – Confucius “Hire character. Train skill.” – Unknown “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi “There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.” – Rainer Maria Rilke “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw “Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.” – Epicurus “Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.” – W. B. Yeats “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou “He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.” – David Hume “The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson “A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains it original dimension.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr “Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.” – James Magary “People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.” – Ann Landers “We’re all on the same side. Everyone. We all have the same goal. We all just want happiness. There isn’t any need to fuss about it. Just recognize that my… “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” – Mario Cuomo “People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: ‘Don’t decide what you don’t have to decide.’ That’s not evasion, it’s… “When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the… “If you are too serious about everything, you will only know thoughts and emotions. You will not know life.” – Sadhguru “Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.” – Whoopi Goldberg “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” – Pablo Picasso “People say that what we are seeking is a meaning of life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of… “Never mistake motion for action.” – Ernest Hemingway “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” – Euripides “Don’t wrestle with a pig – you’ll end up covered in mud and the pig will enjoy it” – Unknown “If you put someone on a pedestal, they have no choice but to look down on you.” – Unknown “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” ― Mark Twain “Our two goals in life are human connection and achievement.” – Freud “Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritances.” If herchildren inherit her values, anything else is just money.” – Ruth E. Renkel “Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.” – Ben Okri “Doing is better than thinking, and over thinking will cause under-doing.” – Kanwer Singh, Humble the Poet “All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.” – Woody Allen “You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in… “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” – George Levinger “The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” – Mignon McLaughlin “Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.” – Arabic saying “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” – Rumi “Not only anxious thoughts, but also resentment, grievances, pointless complaining, guilt and regret, criticism of self and others, perpetual discontent…… are ways in which we unconsciously create suffering for ourselves…. “I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” – Emo Phillips “A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.” – Steven Wright “It may be, it does not exist to be found, but instead, to be created. And that you can create it.” – Sundeep Sidhu “I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” – Robert Brault “Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I’ve ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to… “Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.” – Kobi Yamada “Choosing doesn’t limit choices — it just changes them.” – Claire Williams “Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.” – Unknown “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx “If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.” – Mark Twain “The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I’m sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live… “Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” – Nietzsche “Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.” – Unknown “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” – Mark Twain “Expecting life to treat you well because you’re a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you’re a vegetarian.” – Shari Barr “A relationship is like a fart. If you have to force it, it’s probably shit.” – Unknown “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” ― A.A. Milne “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy “There is a sacredness in tears….They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving “The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” – William Wordsworth “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ― Dr. Seuss life (n) a sexually transmitted disease which is always fatal. there is currently no known cure. – Unknown “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” – Winston Churchill “It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before. To test your limits. To break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it… “One of my philosophies is to always pick the choice that scares you a little. The status quo, the path of least resistance, the everyday routine — that stuff is… “Our thoughts create our reality – where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.” – Peter McWilliams “To realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.” – Bertrand Russell “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams “I loved you head over handles like my first bicycle accident — before the mouthful of gravel and blood, I swore we were flying.” – Sierra Demulder “And then there was the agnostic dyslexic insomniac who stayed up all night wondering if there really is a dog.” – Unknown “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” ― Mark Twain “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” ― Mark Twain “Spend 80 percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” – Brian Tracy “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” – Isaac Newton “Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.” – Golda Meir “His ignorance is encyclopedic” – Abba Eban “Make your decisions for your tomorrows not just your todays.” – Patricia Fripp “Two things are needed to achieve great things: a plan, and not quite enough time.” – Leonard Bernstein “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance… “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The… “The plural of anecdote is not statistics.” – Unknown “Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything.” – Unknown “My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it, you will regret both.” – Kierkegaard “If young women often do marry men like their fathers, no wonder their mothers cry at their weddings.” – Robby Greer “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ― Mark Twain “To know what people really think, observe what they do, not what they say.” – Descartes “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” – Robert Brault “Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.” – James Thurber “Why is there only one monopolies commissioner?” – Unknown “I wish people on Facebook would remind me that life is short & I should follow my dreams” – Chris Rock “Dust is made mostly of us, so perhaps that is why it chooses to settle.” – @eidolonhex “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus “I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.” – Pablo Neruda “I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count”. – Muhammad Ali Be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air. And like the baseless… “They did not know it was impossible so they did it” ― Mark Twain “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” – Tom Bodett “When you’re happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.” – Frank Ocean “The hammer doesn’t build the house.” – Tony Horton “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is.” “Life is like a camera; Focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if it goes wrong, take another shot” – Unknown “What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?” “I drink to make other people more interesting” – Ernest Hemingway “We men ask ourselves and each other for the following: the right to be vulnerable, to be uncertain, to be wrong, to be intuitive, the right not to know, to… Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then… “I don’t think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”… “Life is never so bad that it can’t get worse.” – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes “You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.” – Soren Kierkegaard “You have to do, whatever you can’t not do.” – Unknown “For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.” – Tom McNeal “I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” ― Steve Maraboli “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky “Throw your heart out in front of you and run ahead to catch it.” – Arab proverb “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ― Unknown “Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.” — Terry Pratchett “Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.” — Russell Brand “You learn so much by daring to explore what it would feel like to believe the opposite of what one does.” – Alain de Botton “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But… “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” – Gilles Deleuze “It amazes me how 26 letters can be comprised into hundreds of words and arranged into thousands of sentences that speak to our souls in millions of ways.” – Ayden… “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” ― Albert Einstein “We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.” – Stephen M.R. Covey “You couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom.” – Unknown “When things go wrong, consider this as just another splinter in your arse as you slide down the bannister of life” – Toby J. McCartney “I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we… “…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for… “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” – Francis Bacon Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle “Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.” — Stephen Covey “When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” – Prince Philip “Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.” – Ishmael Beah “Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.” – Isaac Asimov “People aren’t against you; they are for themselves.” – Unknown “If logic tells you that life is a meaningless accident, don’t give up on life. Give up on logic.” – Shira Millgrom “Worrying is like praying for what you don’t want.” – Aileen Norton “The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.” – Alain de Botton “Somewhere in the world someone is pushing on a pull only door.” – Tasiv “Three people are called a threesome, four people are called foursome, so you must be handsome.” – Unknown “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” ― Robert Frost “The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but are to be lived.” – Soren Kierkegaard “The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.” – Eric Fromm “Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.” – Haruki Murakami “Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like ‘struggle’. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or… “Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and… “The chicken came after the egg – Birds evolved from earlier egg-laying reptiles.” – Unknown “Life moves pretty fast; if you don’t stop and look around every once in awhile, you could miss it.” – John Hughes “Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others, we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to… “The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.” – Václav Havel “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” – W.B Yeats “None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime.” – Gail Godwin “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill What year did Jesus think it was? – George Carlin “Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ― Alfred Tennyson “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against… “Think about your goal in terms of getting better, rather than being good. When we are focused on personal growth and development, on making progress rather than on proving ourselves,… “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing” – Abraham Lincoln “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest… “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget… “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do,” – Mark Twain “Some people die at age 25, but aren’t buried until 75.” – Ben Franklin “Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you’re keeping all… “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George F. Burns “A good gift is something you didn’t know you wanted.” – Unknown “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh “Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To… “Go in search of your Gift. The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.” – Brida “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.” –… “Imagine if dogs found out that they are actually full of bones!” – Jake Lambert “Inaction breeds doubt and fear…If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren “Our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” – Wilhelm von Humboldt “We live in our desires rather than in our achievements.” – George Moore “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy “I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.” – Peter O’Toole, 1932 – 2013 “Love has reasons that reason knows not.” – Augustine of Hippo “In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” – Unknown “True friends stab you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” – Unknown. “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” ― Orson Welles “How I worship at my own altar since I know that she loves me!” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe “The past is always tense, the future perfect.” – Zadie Smith “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must invent the universe.” – Carl Sagan “Dust is made mostly of us, so perhaps that is why it chooses to settle.” – @eidolonhex “The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” –… “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye “A death is not the extinguishing of a light, but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come. Life is given to us, we earn it by… “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ― Nelson Mandela “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” –… “You aspire to do great things? Begin with little ones.” – Augustine of Hippo “The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” – Maimonides “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?” – Rumi “Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” – William James “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” – Seneca the Younger “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.” – Eric Idle “A thousand candles may be lit by a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha “To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.” – Stephen R Covey “Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed… “Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.” – Albert Einstein “Wherever you go, there you are…” – Unknown “On the first day, man created God.” – Unknown “Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.” – Diana Black “Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren’t bad… “We think too much and feel too little.” – Charlie Chaplin “Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.” – Isak Dinesen, pen name of Karen Blixen “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” – Rabindranath Tagore “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” – Charles Dickens “Advice = Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralisation” – Buchheit’s Law “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe” – Anatole France “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it – even if I have said it – unless it agrees with your own reason and your own… “There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.” – Alfred Korzybski “One today is worth two tomorrows.” – Benjamin Franklin “I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see that you’ve come unarmed.” – Shakespeare “You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you… “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end… “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” ― Henry Ford “Shyness/social awkwardness: an inability to be oneself stemming from a disbelief that other people might at heart be very much like us.” – Alain de Botton Imperturbability – it’s the result of a peace that passes understanding. For serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm. “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy… “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end… “Agere sequitur cruder (we act according to what we believe ourselves to be).” – Latin saying “The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind,… “In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.” – Mark Twain “Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life’s critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.” – Mardy Grothe “There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.” – Peter Brook “A flatterer is a man who tells you your opinion and not his own.” – Unknown. “Nagging: a complaint that takes itself insufficiently seriously.” – Alain de Botton “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha. “People change, they resist being changed.” – Margaret Wheatley “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln “They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.” – Dorothy Parker “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama “When life gives you melons… you may have dyslexia.” – Unknown “Why couldn’t the Buddhist vacuum the stairs…? He had no attachments.” – Unknown “Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” – Rabbi Julius Gordon “To end an argument, explain to counterparty THEIR position until they agree you understand it. Then make them do same with your position.” – Joel Spolsky “I don’t need any gay people to undermine the sanctity of my marriage. I’ve already done that on my own.” – Mr Roger Quimbly “Ne te quaesiveris extra. (Do not look outside of yourself)” – Latin motto “Beware the barrenness of a busy life” – Socrates “Truths and roses have thorns about them.” – Henry David Thoreau “To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false… “Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.” – William Sloane Coffin “Don’t worry what people think, they don’t do it very often.” – Unknown “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” – Carl Jung “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. – Rabindranath Tagore “We tend to promise by our hopes and live by our fears.” – Michael Grinder “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer “Suffering isn’t ennobling, recovery is.” – Christian Barnard “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” – Unknown “You may delay, but time will not.” Benjamin Franklin “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. – Douglas Adams “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius “If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.” – Katharine B. Hathaway “You only live once, so don’t forget to spend 15 hours every day on the internet, desperately searching for the validation of strangers.” – Chris Rock “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi “To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.” ― Bill Wilson “Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” – Milton H. Erickson “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius “Ask yourself this question: ‘will this matter in a year from now’?” – Richard Carlson “Character is determined by choice, not opinion.” – Aristotle “Relationships are a lot like Algebra class in high school. Have you ever looked at your X and wondered Y?” – Chris Rock “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic… “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “People speak of my drinking, but never my thirst.” – Unknown “My book on Freudian slips looks like becoming an enormous tit.” – Roger Quimbly “Who you are defines what you do. What you do defines who you become.” – Unknown “What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about… “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea… “People see the world not as it is, but as they are.” – Unknown “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw “The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.” – Alain de Botton “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.” – Neil Gaiman “It’s liberating to recognise that pessimism never protected anyone from disasters.” – Alain de Botton “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk… “Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.” – Woody Allen “You were once the youngest person on earth.” – Unknown “The grass is greener where you water it.” – Unknown “It’s our choices that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer “Some days you win. Some days you learn.” – Dr Brooke Magnanti “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh “Procrastination: working tomorrow for a better today.” – Unknown “No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.” – Dr. Leo Buscaglia “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch “If you can’t beat ’em with brilliance, baffle ’em with bullshit.” – Unknown “Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” – Zen Proverb “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb “I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?” – Jean Kerr “We avoid risks in life so we can make it safely to death.” – Unknown I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food. – Erma Louise Bombeck “Happiness is like peeing in your pants; everyone can see it, but only you can feel it’s warmth.” – Unknown “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” – Kiran Desai “When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” – Sufi proverb “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Theodore Seuss Geisel “The morning is wiser than the evening.” – Russian proverb “Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.” – Mahatma Gandhi “Our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” – Wilhelm von Humboldt… “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein “The path of least resistance leads round in a circle” – Jonathan Cainer “War does not determine who is right, only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell. “Books and minds only work when they’re open.” ― James Dewar “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We… “There’s always a good reason and there’s always a real reason.” – J.P. Morgan “May this day find you at peace and leave you with hope” – Alcia, Star Trek Voyager “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” – Oscar Wilde “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was,… “Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” – Matt Groening “A witty saying proves nothing.” – Voltaire “If you love something set it free, but don’t be surprised if it comes back with herpes.” – Chuck Palahniuk “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can… “God gave burdens, also shoulders.” – Yiddish proverb “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin Today, tell someone you love them, because life is short. But shout it at them in German, because life is also terrifying and confusing. – Unknown “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have… “Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.” – Alfred Nobel “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it’s turn.” – Hal Borland “For fast-acting relief try slowing down.” – Lily Tomlin “Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” – Albert Camus “We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives.” – Robert M. Pirsig “Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone.” – Shakespeare “If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.” – Henry Fielding “If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?” – Hasdai Ibn Shaprut In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart. – Sigmund Schlomo Freud Beauty is the promise of happiness. – Stendhal 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… Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about. – Sam Ewing Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. – Erica Jong “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 “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie “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 of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd “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… “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… “If the only tool that you have is a hammer, you tend to treat every problem as a nail.” – Abraham Maslow “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Krishnamurti “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” – Sidney J. Harris …
We’re all going to die – Charles Bukowski
Two ideas – James Baldwin
Good relationships – Michelle Weiner-Davis
Grief – David Kessler
Prioritise – Donna Ashworth
Hope – Cynthia Bourgeault
Become – Derek Hart
Foreboding of an America ― Carl Sagan
The Palace becomes a Circus – Turkish Proverb
Ashamed of myself – Franz Kafka
Pain – Marcus Aurelius
Tears – Seneca
In your – Rumi
Happiness – Bertrand Russell
Peace – Unknown
Seeds – Robert Louis Stevenson
Le Coeur – Pascal
Happening – Unknown
Spiritual Bypass – Jeff Foster
Sweetest Peach – Unknown
Story – Unknown
Boiling Water – Russian Proverb
My soul – Rumi
Same person – Unknown
Ignorance – Unknown
Happy life – Bertrand Russell
Language – Alan Watts
Kindness – Amelia Earhart
Love – James Baldwin
Mediocre Minds – Albert Einstein
Nature – Henry David Thoreau
Which port – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Criticise – Voltaire
Life – Robin Sharma
Failure – Unknown
Reason – Unknown
Thrive – Maya Angelou
Success – Edward Everett Hale
Knowing – Rumi
Happiness – George Orwell
Live it properly – Marcus Aurelius
Friends – Euripides
Truth – Miyamoto Musashi
Consequence – Amanda Keller
Life is a dance – Alan Watts
Honesty – Thomas Jefferson
Vices / Virtues – Erich Fromm
What you see – Henry David Thoreau
Excellence – Aristotle
Trapped – Rilke
Goals – Charles C. Noble
Richer – Michel de Montaigne
Happiness – Chuang-Tzu
Poor – Claudian
Undervalue – Malcolm Forbes
Stillness – Rabindranath Tagore
Regret – Sidney J. Harris
Smooth seas – African proverb
They got you by the balls – George Carlin
Hell – Aldous Huxley
Chose – Stephen Sondheim
Good man – Augustine
Mother – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
We know too much – T.S. Elliot
Happened to things – Leonardo da Vinci
Chisel away the superfluous material – Michelangelo
Messengers – Rumi
We see the world – Stephen R. Covey
Keep talking – Stephen Hawking
Patriotism – George Bernard Shaw
Pleasure – Kierkegaard
Igni – Palindrome
Life choices – Random Redditor
Poetry – W.S. Merwin
Killing is wrong – Unknown
Affirmation – Unknown
Murderers- Russell Brand
Plans – Allen Saunders
Entertain a thought – Aristotle
Fist – Indira Gandhi
Truth will liberate you – Simba Dara
Fix – Unknown
Think of yourself as dead – Marcus Aurelius
Pain – Kahlil Gibran
A step backward – Kurt Vonnegut
We write – Maya Angelou
It’s only those – General Sherman
Want – Unknown
Be humble – Serbian proverb
Interesting and unfashionable – Peter Thiel
Wrong – Unknown
Imagination – David Geffen
Value – Unknown
Books – Neil Gaiman
Direction – Dr. Seuss
Vision – Carl Jung
Great arguments – Adam Grant
Pain – James Baldwin
Knowing something – Richard Feynman
Terms – T.S. Eliot
Mistakes – James Joyce
Uncertainty – Tim Ferriss
No one loves – Aristotle
Love – Albert Camus
Loved – Freud
Understand – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character – Aristotle
No – Rosa Parks
Shadows of our feelings – Friedrich Nietzsche
Intellectual Grace – David Perell
Curious – Albert Einstein
Life – John Wooden
Adam Grant – Changing your mind
She longed for tomorrow – Gustave Flaubert
Eternity – William Blake
Version of you – Unknown
Be humble – Serbian proverb
Voting – Turkish Proverb
Whiteboards – Unknown
Loss – Arthur Schopenhauer
Hire – David Ogilvy
Bad tendencies – Alain de Botton
Learn – Socrates
Valentine’s Day – Very Grumpy Cat
Permanent choices
Safe – Albert Einstein
Well adjusted – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Santa – George Carlin
Times – Charles Dickens
Two tragedies in life – Shaw
The opposite of despair – Kierkegaard
Remember – Joe Rogan
Buy – William Pietri
Snowflake – Stanislaw J. Lec
Hear – Frank Luntz
Power to choose – Viktor E. Frankl
Education – Socrates
What you see – Henry David Thoreau
Hands – Dorothee Sölle
Leader – John Quincy Adams
Mother – Honoré de Balzac
Fraudulent intent – Titus Livius
Regret – Anne Frank
Damage – Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Freedom or loneliness – Charles Bukowski
Principles – Harrington Emerson
Meaning – Victor Frankl
Insane – Kurt Vonnegut
Freedom – Sebastian Junger
Absurdities – Voltaire
Focus on what matters – James Clear
Grief – Arthur Golden
Change the world – Leigh Gallagher
Communication – George Bernard Shaw
Lies – V. S. Naipaul
Friends – Irvin Yalom
Bones – Jake Lambert
Expensive traits – Steven Brooks
The quality of your relationships – Esther Perel
Live your own destiny – The Bhagavad Gita
Truth – Nietzsche
If you look for the light – Uncle Iroh
Self centered – Unknown
Notice – Charles Bukowski
Fascism & racism – Miguel de Unamuno
All courses of action are risky – Niccolò Machiavelli
Confidence – Unknown
Confidence – Debbie Millman
Everything that’s fun in life – P.G. Wodehouse
Version of yourself – Marie Lu
Love – Esther Perel
Forgiveness – Cheryl Strayed
The key to finding happiness – Brianna Wiest
Damage – Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Perfectionism – Edith Eva
Betting – Annie Duke
Show up – Isabel Allende
Friendship – Dalai Lama
Art – Helena Bonham Carter
True friendship – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Romantic – Catherine Breillat
Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm – Unknown
Weird – Dr.Seuss
Love – Thomas Merton
She was a storm – R.H. Sin
If they love you – Unknown
Just because – Unknown
It’s ok to feel all emotions – Dr Gottman
Stop trying to borrow wisdom – Taiichi Ohno
Focus ― Andy Puddicombe
Calling a tail a leg – Abraham Lincoln
Fanatic – Winston Churchill
Man does not simply exist – Victor Frankl
Do not take life too seriously – Elbert Hubbard
Today may be your last chance to be you – Brianna Wiest
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times – Charles Dickens
True happiness – Seneca
You make time – Unknown
Temptation – Oscar Wilde
Man is affected not by events – Epictetus
A measure of the emptiness of people’s lives – Unknown
Mental pain – C.S. Lewis
How we spend our days – Unknown
Be kind – Unknown
Cage – Nipsey Hussle
The joy of someone’s company – Joni Mitchell
Want what you’re working for – Unknown
Privilege – Franklin Leonard
Progress – Malcom X
Criticism – Unknown
Give a charlatan power – Carl Sagan
Restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom – Hunter S. Thompson
Strength – Erich Fromm
Neutrality – Dante Alighieri
I always wanted to be somebody – Lily Tomlin
The tree remembers – Zimbabwean proverb
Happiness – Brianna Wiest
Mothers – Oscar Wilde
Attention – James Clear
Lightly – Aldous Huxley
Falling – Unknown
Someone we don’t fool – Robert Brault
No obligation – Margaret Mitchell
Love someone because their soul inspires you – Brianna Wiest
You teach people – Unknown
On the Shortness of Life – Seneca
Accumulating possessions – Roger J. Corless
Meaning – Alfonso Cuarón
Formula for success in business – Cindy Gallop
Life from a different perspective – Unknown
Take sides – Elie Wiesel
A good soul and a kind heart – Ali ibn Abi Talib
All is well – Dale Carnegie
Fear is the mind-killer – Frank Herbert
Reality – Elon Musk
What matters – Shane Parrish
The body – Milan Kundera
Nature – Fearne Cotton
A man who procrastinates – Hunter S. Thompson
You are a leader – John Quincy Adams
Mediocrity – Arthur Conan Doyle
Balance – James Clear
Goals – Milan Kundera
People – Matt Kahn
Hate cannot drive out hate – Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Lucky – Winnie The Pooh
Becoming the Child – Awakening Osiris, The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Man should not ask what the meaning of life is – Viktor E. Frankl
Let it go – Brianna Wiest
Point out that the emperor has no clothes – Neil Gaiman
Unique – Pablo Casals
Failed – Unknown
Normal – Albert Camus
Be – Socrates
I might be wrong – Bertrand Russell
Where we ought to go – Seneca
Great – Unknown
Problems – Unknown
Monkey heaven – Yuval Noah Harari
Persistence – Calvin Coolidge
We have the strength – Eleanor Roosevelt
Desires – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
In each other all along – Rumi
That’s just how the world will come to an end – Soren Kierkegaard
Loneliness – Carl Jung
Darkness – Unknown
Find all the barriers within yourself – Rumi
Life – Unknown
The dawn is coming – Rumi
There are people we meet in this world who anchor us – Kim Holden
Happiness – J.K. Rowling
The value of every drop – African Proverb
Rain on the roof and instant coffee – Hunter S. Thompson
Are you having a bad day – Unknown
Bridges – Joseph Fort Newton
Destination – Winston S. Churchill
Thoughts on Marriage – Kahlil Gibran
Focus – James Clear
Cost – Henry David Thoreau
Remember me – Haruki Murakami
Friendship – Seneca
Familiarity dissolves fear – David Cain
Enemy of good decisions – Alain de Botton
Trust your gut – James clear
Raise your words – Rumi
When you consider things like the stars – Virgina Wolf
It’s never too late – George Eliot
Begin doing what you want to do now – Sir Francis Bacon
Cracks to put their love into – Emery Allen
Great Gifts – Neil Gaiman
Person you needed – Ayesha A. Siddiqi
Truth – Miyamoto Musashi
Propagandist – Aldous Huxley
Foresight – Arthur C. Clarke
Words – David Foster Wallace
Individualists – George Carlin
Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water – Finn Butler
Love Lost – Khalil Gibran
Education – Unknown
Education – Robert Frost
Oldest – Unknown
Silence – Unknown
Unconscious becomes conscious- Carl Jung
Love never dies a natural death – Anais Nin
People who think they know everything – Isaac Asimov
Senses – W.B. Yeats
Genius – Arthur Schopenhauer
Feel inferior – Eleanor Roosevelt
Wherever you go – Confucius
Machines – Unknown
When we win – Unknown
First drafts – Alain De Botton
Happy families – Leo Tolstoy
Try to be – Unknown
When life gives you lemons – Meowy
The difference between expectations and reality – Unknown
What lies within – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Assh*le – Unknown
Open-minded – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
True happiness – Seneca
Empty desk – Albert Einstein
Understand – Unknown
Unfortunate – Seneca
Child that is not embraced – African proverb
People are not against you – Unknown
Never go crazy – Charles Bukowski
External – Marcus Aurelius
I do not fear death – Mark Twain
Scepticism – Jayson Greene
Two wrongs – Thomas Stephen Szasz
Compatible – Unknown
Happiness – Oscar Wilde
Gossip – Unknown
If at first you don’t succeed – W C Fields
Genius – Albert Einstein
Opinion – Unknown
Accept who you are – Ellen DeGeneres
Procrastination – Unknown
Gifts we have to offer – MacKenzie Bezos
The price of anything – Henry David Thoreau
What a Ride – Hunter S. Thompson
Circles – Unknown
Criticism – Unknown
Atrocities – Voltaire
Discipline – Unknown
Love – Socrates
Still – Pico Iyer
Choice – J.K. Galbraith
A lie – Winston S Churchill
Once more saw the stars – Dante Alighieri
Enemies – Paul Newman
Lie – Unknown
The grass is greener – Unknown
Worrying – Buddhist proverb
Comedy / Tragedy – Horace Walpole
Suffer – Seneca
Ending – C.S. Lewis
Permission – Grace Hopper
Faults – Marcus Aurelius
Failure – Unknown
The most important relationship you have – Unknown
Believe – Unknown
Tact – Unknown
Common things – Unknown
Opposite personalities attract
Wait and hope – Count of Monte Cristo
Intelligence – Dalai Lama
How the light gets in – Ernest Hemingway
Life’s too short – Dr Seuss
Don’t wait for the right moment – Unknown
Always do – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith – Bertrand Russell
We live on a placid island of ignorance – H. P. Lovecraft
Voice in your head – Unknown
Attack the problem – Unknown
Ships – Zora Neale Hurston
Crackers
Blame – Chinese Proverb
Gratitude – David Steindl-Rast
Contradicted – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Procrastination – Unknown
New way of thinking – Millard Fuller
Patriotism – Sydney J. Harris
Happiness – Unknown
Know the truth – Blaise Pascal
Make mistakes of ambition – Niccolò Machiavelli
Deserved – Alain De Botton
The big questions – George Saunders
Irritates – Carl Jung
Noise proves nothing – Mark Twain
Inspiration – Chuck Close
Worn around the edges – Kim @selfmyths
Lost in the woods – Franz Kafka
A lie – Jonathan Swift
Find a way – Jim Rohn
Be soft – Iain Thomas
Shit-taking – Jake Gyllenhaal
My greatest regret – Jonathan Safran Foer
You fit into me – Margaret Atwood
Be good for something – Henry David Thoreau
Human rights – Kofi Annan
Learning – Sandy Speicher
Good – Marcus Aurelius
We fall in love with… – Alain De Botton
Woman – Wanda Irving
Delicate illusions – Hunter S. Thompson
Vitality – Andrew Solomon
Special – Stephen Hawking
This is what you shall do – Walt Whitman
Depression, grief, sadness – Andrew Solomon
Judging people – Morgan House
Intimacy – Andrew Solomon
Together – Walt Whitman
Connection – Brene Brown
Inside every cynical person – George Carlin
Demons – Unknown
Two types of people – Unknown
Decent bone – Ernest Hemingway
Listen – Chuck Palahniuk
Judge – Albert Einstein
Health – James Altucher
40 – Alain de Botton
Loneliness – John Cacioppo
Jury – Robert Frost
Noise – Mark Twain
Free – Franz Kafka
Patience – Ambrose Bierce
Perception – Unknown
Obey – Soren Kierkegaard
Past / Future – Unknown
Problem – Joe Rogan
The life of every man – James Matthew Barrie
What is right – @RobbyGreer
Leadership – Peter Docker
Every old person – Terry Pratchett
Every great achievement – Alain De Botton
Revolution – Joseph Campbell
Permission – Elizabeth Strout
The universe – Max Ehrmann
Reading – Matt Haig
Crime – Hunter S. Thompson
Leadership – Carolyn Tastad
Rose-colored glasses – Unknown
Toward the sunshine – Walt Whitman
Act out – John Steinbeck
Counts – Unknown
Wasting time – Alain de Botton
Think – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Laughed at – Carl Sagan
Fuck them – Hunter S. Thompson
We crave – Alain De Botton
Power reveals – Robert Caro
Cynicism – Naval Ravikant
It is never to late – George Eliot
The void – Jean-Luc Godard
Opinion – Eric Hirzel
Meet the unknown – Hiromu Arakawa
The mind that opens – Albert Einstein
Cuss
Ideas – George Bernard Shaw
Ignorant nation – Walter Cronkite
Think – @TheTweetOfGod
7th generation principle
Loneliness – Anaïs Nin
What if – Chip Conley
Persistence – James Watkins
Learning – Stephen Covey
Help yourself – Chris Rock
Truth – Unknown
To do list – @HERTWEETX
Everything will be okay
Dare – Søren Kierkegaard
Race – Glen Highland
Facts – Aldous Huxley
Thesaurus Club
Medical care – Rana Awdish
Habits – Henry David Thoreau
Reading is immortality – Umberto Eco
May you live – Jonathan Swift
Infinite possibility – Walt Whitman
People are a product of their environment – Kia Abdullah
Anxiety – Alan Watts
Be weak – Pete Greig
Truth – Walt Whitman
Every moment – Shunryu Suzuki
Happy people – Unknown
Comparison – Theodore Roosevelt
Don’t be humble – Golda Meir
Attitude – Maya Angelou
A thousand tiny surrenders – Robert Brault
We’re surrounded – Chesty puller
Look ridiculous – Thomas Fuller
Listen with intent – Stephen Covey
My idea of them – Anaïs Nin
Paths – Franz Kafka
Weird – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Right – Unknown
Plant seeds – Robert Louis Stevenson
Cynic – Unknown
Strategy – Jerry Neumann
Tolerance – John Cogley Commonweal
People – Jodi Picoult
President – Douglas Adams
Consequences – Unknown
Process – James Clear
Problem – Unknown
Courage – Winston Churchill
Excuse – Benjamin Franklin
Intelligence – Stephen Hawking
To be understood- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Be my friend – Albert Camus
Present moment – Buddha
Who knows what is good and what is bad – Unknown
Happiness dwells – Democritus
Change – Viktor E. Frankl
Leader – John Quincy Adams
Involve me – Benjamin Franklin
Success – Henry Ford
Tact – Isaac Newton
Honesty – Thomas Jefferson
Gravity – Albert Einstein
Practical politics – HL Mencken
Politics – Groucho Marx
Tact – Winston S. Churchill
Work-life balance – Unknown
Opinion – John F. Kennedy
Persuasion – Marcus Cauchi
Focused human attention – Unknown
Extras – The Guyliner
How do I know I’m right – Ray Dalio
Fail better – Samuel Beckett
Prison – Nelson Mandela
I am – Carl Jung
Evil – Tzvetan Todorov
Love – Unknown
Heartbreak – David Whyte
He made the world – W. B. Yeats
Unrequited love – David Whyte
Women’s rights – Groucho Marx
Discontent – Kim @selfmyths
So what – Andy Warhol
I shall revenge myself – John Steinbeck
What we are – William Shakespeare
What you see – Henry David Thoreau
What we achieve inwardly – Plutarch
A friend who cares – Henri J.M. Nouwen
Anything can happen – Shel Silverstein
Life isn’t about – George Bernard Shaw
Schedule your priorities – Stephen Covey
Persuasion – Thomas Babington Macaulay
I will be happy if – Jonathan Cainer
Choose a desirable state – Lisa Ames
Perspective – Margaret Atwood
Unknowable forces in this universe – Albert Einstein
Reason – John P. Morgan
Do not complain about growing old – Mark Twain
The biggest big business in America – Eric Sevareid
Control – Deepandmeaningless
Journalism – George Orwell
You matter to people – Kuldeep Brar
A thousand tiny surrenders – Robert Brault
You are everything – Krishnamurti
Folly made young people – Rohinton Mistry
The most effective way to do it – Amelia Earhart
Fail better – Samuel Beckett
Success – George Bernard Shaw
Success – Maya Angelou
Wit – Dorothy Parker
Death – Virgil
No – Gavin DeBecker
Circumstance – Hunter S. Thompson
Answer – H L Mencken
Pain and suffering – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Change & Worry – Unknown
Close some doors – Paulo Coelho
Friends – Euripides
Knowing too much about other people – Margaret Atwood
It’s so cold outside – Unknown
Set up a life – Seth Godin
Hard work – Spanish Proverb
The future is here – Gibson
New Years resolution – Matt Haig
Changing Myself – Rumi
New year – Frankie Boyle
Focus on change – Jack Dixon
Doing something – Matthew Berry
Make a life – Dolly Parton
Whenever you start to feel too good about yourself – @chrisrockoz
Desire – Epicurus
People were created to be loved – John Green
The best and most beautiful things in the world – Helen Keller
Santa is so jolly – George Carlin
Kleptomania – Ken Dodd
Blasphemies – George Bernard Shaw
Love – David Whyte
Number one – Dr.Suess
To live – Oscar Wilde
Revolution – John F. Kennedy
Hate – Herman Hesse
Hell of heaven – John Milton
Leadership – Colin Powell
Impostors – Alain De Botton
Chance – Unknown
Conviction – WB Yeats
Acceptance – George Orwell
Attitude – Chuck Swindoll
Man has a right to kill – Blaise Pascal
Tell them they are being attacked – Hermann Göring
I love you – John Keats
The most difficult thing – Amelia Earhart
Tenderness of heart – Jane Austen
These mountains – Najwa Zebian
Schizophrenic
Facts
Self-discipline – Harry S Truman
Do not wait – William Butler Yeats
Driving – George Carlin
Self esteem – Unknown
The will of the majority – Thomas Jefferson
Fools – Claude McDonald
Democracy – HL Mencken
Offended – Christopher Hitchens
The purpose of life – Rainer Maria Rilke
Women’s rights? – Groucho Marx
A calm and humble life – Albert Einstein
Best friend – Henry Ford
Beyond ideas – Rumi
Question – Paul Bennett
Wrong – Unknown
Opinion – Noam Chomsky
Loneliness – School of life
Pretending – Robert Brault
Mindset – John pavlus
Reaction – Carl Jung
Thinking – Carl Jung
Superior – Ernest Hemingway
Learning – Unknown
Where did I tie my horse – Unknown
Soul – CS Lewis
Liberty – Benjamin Franklin
What hurt – Ernest Hemingway
Perception – Erin Falconer
Distilled – Florence Nightingale
Mad – Mark Twain
Windmills – Chinese proverb
Stars – Sir James Jeans
Second-rate – Doris Lessing
Best friend – Henry Ford
Random senseless acts – Ann Herbert
The chemistry of mind – Shams Tabrizi
A union of independence – Wayne Dyer
Love – Stephen Chbosky
What God thinks of money – Dorothy Parker
Normal – Joe Ancis
Seven things that will destroy us – Gandhi
Happiness – Ernest Hemingway
The miracle of man – Robert Ardrey
Free – Haruki Murakami
Take a pounding – Betty White
Sad – Unknown
Two most important days – Mark Twain
Being together – Unknown
Reflection – Voltaire
Solitude – Sir Francis Bacon
Risks – Leo Buscaglia
Faith – Thomas Aquinas
Better story – Unknown
Modern business rules – Unknown
Know so much – Herodotus
Procrastination – Unknown
Asshole – Raylan Givens
Relationship problems – Alain de Botton
Things – A. A. Milne
Passion – Søren Kierkegaard
Family – James Altucher
Doubts – Shakespeare
What I do – Sundeep Sidhu
Friendship – David Whyte
25 letters of the alphabet – Unknown
Abundance – Epicurus
You owe me – Rumi
Actions – Unknown
Character – Abraham Lincoln
The worst walls – Ursula K. Le Guin
The opinions of others – Marcus Aurelius
Your ability to create drama – Very Grumpy Cat
Hypothesis – Milan Kundera
Travel – Mark Twain
Without changing a single idea – Robert Anton Wilson
Senseless odyssey – Hunter S. Thompson
Beliefs you hold about yourself – Unknown
Enjoy less – Socrates
True to life – Max Frisch
Truth and love have always won – Mahatma Gandhi
Encumbered with your old nonsense – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not stand at my grave and wee – Mary Elizabeth Frye
A downright moron – H.L. Mencken
The right wrong person – Andrew Boyd
Always toward the sunshine – Walt Whitman
The best and most beautiful things – Helen Keller
Grow sharper – W.B. Yeats
Ignorance – Franz Kafka
Voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny – Bertrand Russell
Attitude – Chuck Swindoll
Rawness – Emery Allen
Human being – Albert Einstein
The Public Sucks – George Carlin
Worries – John Locke
Future – Unknown
Be quiet – Franz Kafka
You don’t need anyone’s permission –
This is what you shall do – Walt Whitman
Giving – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Light enters – Rumi
Truth – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Democracy – Winston Churchill
Democracy – J. William Fulbright
Butterfly – Muhammad Ali
Your success – Richard Bach
Aim – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write the book – Carol Shields
Life choices – Kierkegaard
Wishful thinking – PZ Myers
Love – Mark vernon
Understand
Donate
Love – CS Lewis
My own – Sylvia Plath
Victim – Unknown
Consciousness – Carl Jung
Loneliness – Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness – Carl Jung
Accomplices – Edward R. Murrow
Good listeners – Helen Keller
Possibility – Hellen Keller
Succeed – Hellen Keller
Joy – Hellen Keller
Emotions
Remember – Douglas Coupland
Comfort – John Churton Collins
Thrive – Maya Angelou
Freedom – J. Robert Oppenheimer
Be careful – David McCourt
Happiness – Philip Schultz
I am the decisive element – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language – Penelope Lively
Skeptical – Friedrich Nietzsche
Perceive – David Hume
Truths – Galileo Galilei
People aren’t lazy – Tony Robbins
Significance – Aristotle
Ugly – George Savile
Courage – Mark Twain
Diamond – Unknown
A better story
Happiness – Eleanor Roosevelt
Unrequited love – Charles M. Schulz
The mind – Unknown
Procrastinating – @VeryGrumpyCat
Imagine – Arul Subramaniam
Escape the present – John Green
True friendship – Albert Einstein
Self-discipline – Eleanor Roosevelt
You couldn’t relive your life – Stewart O’Nan
See things – Kyodo Williams
No one – Alain De Botton
Social media – Ryan Holiday
Real love moves freely – Cheryl Strayed
Self-criticism – Alain De Botton
Stars in my eyes – Taylor from Ohio
Elevates the soul – Gustave Flaubert
Heroes – Roger Moore
Understand something – Upton Sinclair
Your best – Unknown
Life – Jean-Luc Picard
Duality – Unknown
Rain – H. Wadsworth Longfellow
Bad guy – Unknown
Three little words
Knowledge – Lenny Bruce
Cannot – Ashanti proverb
Conspiracy theory – Amy Dentata
Master – Gustave Flaubert
Power – George R. R. Martin
Truth – Gustave Flaubert
Something of yourself – Fred Rogers
Intuition – Daniel Dennett
Opinion – Bertrand Russell
Betrayed – Margaret Cho
Responsibility – Admiral Hyman G Rickover
Coloured ribbon – Napoleon
Chaos – George R. R. Martin
Stupidity – Gustave Flaubert
Decency – Anonymous
Introversion – Anonymous
Loneliness – Anonymous
Why not – George Bernard Shaw
Possibility – Steve Maraboli
Happiness – Pat Conroy
Why not – Danielle Steel
Vision – Jonathan Swift
Travel – John Muir
Love – Ursula K. Le Guin
One day – Christina Rossetti
Great – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Enthusiasm – Louis Pasteur
Thoughts – Byron Katie
Hero – Anne Brontë
Indifference – Elie wiesel
Destiny – Mahatma Gandhi
Meaning of life – Viktor E. Frankl
Sober – Ernest Hemingway
Inside – Michelangelo
Reading – John Locke
Interpretation – Kierkegaard
Thought – Bertrand Russell
Trust – Jamie Smart
Hiding place – Zora Neale Hurston
Attitude – Hellen Keller
Enlightened – Carl Jung
My mission – Maya Angelou
Doors of perception – William Blake
Twenty-four hour days – Zig Ziglar
Prevail – Dang Thuy Tram
Surrounded – Muhammad Ali
Coach – Daniel Coyle
Your day – Unknown
Richard Nixon’s crimes – Bill Maher
Trust – Robby Greer
Inaction – Dale Carnegie
Doubt – Voltaire
Happy ending – Orson Welles
Science – Louis Pasteur
The thing standing in the way of your dreams – xkcd
Bodybuilder – Unknown
Creativity – George Lois
Mastery – Michelangelo
Cost of sanity – Terence McKenna
Teachers – Chinese proverb
Person-oriented – Martin Luther King Jr.
Music – Plato
Present – Marianne Williamson
Appearance – William Jennings Bryan
Grow – Ben Okri
Passive sins – Eleanor Roosevelt
Language – Franz Kafka
Courage – Maya Angelou
Broken places – Ernest Hemingway
Humble – Carl Sagan
Thought – Albert Einstein
When women love us – Honoré de Balzac
Naked picture – Unknown
Good design – Paul Graham
Night falls – Margaret Atwood
Rainbow – Charlie Chaplin
Shocking ideas – Paul Graham
Beauty of their dreams – Eleanor Roosevelt
Real progress – Unknown
Do what you can – Theodore Roosevelt
Happiness – Nigarsadatta Maharaj
It is never too late – George Eliot
Cat – Rudyard Kipling
Stars – Martin Luther King Jr.
Seven Social Sins – Gandhi
Hope – Emily Dickinson
One state – Alexandre Dumas
Worry – Dan Zadra
A revolutionary act – George Orwell
It is never too late – George Eliot
Well-behaved women – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Change the world – Margaret Mead
Devils – William Shakespeare
Burns and flies – C. JoyBell C.
The Invitation – Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Got him – Margaret Atwood
The ruin you’ve made – Margaret Atwood
Magic – Arthur C. Clarke
Mind opened – Gerry Spence
Change – Albert Einstein
War – Margaret Atwood
Meaning – Albert Einstein
Privilege – Unknown
Hydrogen – Unknown
Optimism – Action for happiness
Never forget – Arundhati Roy
Travel – Sir James Jeans
Criticism – Goethe
True contentment – Charles Caleb Colton
Change the world ― Margaret Mead
Tyrants and murderers – Mahatma Gandhi
Inside-out people – John Hurt
People – Unknown
Rainbow – Maya Angelou
Nirvana – Joseph Campbell
Fallen – Boris Pasternak
Love – Meša Selimović
Soul – Marcus Aurelius
Medicine – Walt Whitman
Broken – Unknown
Good people – Donald J. Trump
7-Eleven – Donald J. Trump
Important – Bertrand Russell
Beautiful women – Zan Perrion
Getting started – Mark Twain
Moods – Larry Drain
How you want to feel – Unknown
A single thought – Henry David Thoreau
Shout out – Unknown
Cult of ignorance – Issac Asimov
Shadow boxing – Muhammad Ali
Don’t believe – Unknown
Carried – Megan Devine
Price – Warren Buffett
A friend – Unknown
I am adjusted to myself – Anais Nin
Odd – Dr. Seuss
Easy – Leo Babauta
Ready – Hugh Laurie
Destiny – William shakespeare
Every day – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stupidity
Angels sing – Carrie Fisher
Growth – Edward Abbey
Everything that you do is you – George Michael
Children – Abigail Van Buren
Reproach resentment – Tacitus
Yesterdays – Brendan Francis
Rain – Clint Eastwood
Tomorrow – Jimmy Lyons
Fear and lack of self-confidence
Measure with judgment – Agnes Repplier
The money will come – Greer Garson
Sadness – Jean de La Fontaine
It’s better – Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Every difficulty – Albert Einstein
The little things – Unknown
Happy – Schiller
Throw away – Turkish proverb
Newspaper editors – Adlai Stevenson
Enthusiastic – Charles Kingsley
The worst thing – Abraham Lincoln
Cowards and the valiant – William Shakespeare
Adaptable – Charles Darwin
– David Cain
Only last week – Muhammad Ali
Love – Mr Rogers
You’re three – Unknown
The line dividing good and evil – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Mistaken – Pascal
Perfection – Stanley J. Randall
Wisdom – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lifeless – English proverb
The best things – Art Buchwald
Art of being wise – William James
The ideal lover – Alain de Botton
Delusion of his consciousness – Albert Einstein
Goodness – Pablo Casals
Egg – Turkish proverb
Miserable or strong – Carlos Castenada
Adversity – Arthur Golden
Trust your instincts – Brian Koslow
Jaundiced – Alexander Pope
Do not blame the wind – Kahlil Gibran
The wind – Arlene Blum
The innocent and the beautiful – William Butler Yeats
Love – William Blake
Downright moron – H.L. Mencken
Illumination – David Ogilvy
It’s called – Very Grumpy Cat
Two parties ― Jon Stewart
Eight kinds of coke – Jon Stewart
True self – Julian Baggini
Before the room was dark – Muhammad Ali
What we want to be – Max DePree
Every generation – George Orwell
Meaning – Joseph Campbell
Broken – Unknown
Fool – Roald Dahl
The way you behave – Jake Gyllenhaal
There is room – H. G. Wells
Entertain the thought- Bo Burnham
Life – Albert Einstein
Education – Helen Keller
Yesterday – Khalil Gibran
Happy ending Gilda Radner
Infinite possibilities – Randall Munroe (xkcd)
Forgiveness – C.S. Lewis
Noisy crowd – Rabindranath Tagore
Debates – John Stuart Mill
Truth – Doug Gwyn
Surf – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Generosity and pride – Kahlil Gibran
Great affairs – Nicholas Chamfort
Thinking – William James
Snowflake – Voltaire
Prejudices – Tryon Edwards
Over-analyzing – Tupac
Enough – William Blake
Look on the upside – Jimmy Carr
Technology – Max Frisch
Regret – Kierkegaard
Intelligent life – Bill Patterson
What people think of you – David Foster Wallace
All wars – François Fénelon
I contain multitudes
Write drunk – Hemingway
Reality is a Mirror – Unknown
Time – Unknown
Patriotism – George Bernard Shaw
Underestimated – Jean Kerr
You are a human being first
Believe nothing – Buddha
Guided missiles and misguided men – Martin Luther King
Monopoly – Steven Wright
Bottom – Michel de Montaigne
Think – HL Mencken
Universe – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Temptations – Alain de Botton
Threesome – Unknown
Regret – Alain de Botton
Dangerous – Voltaire
In the summer – Nizam Qabbani
I cannot change the world – Martin Sheen
Nobody was watching – Keith Jensen
Purpose – Mark Manson
Fear and anxiety – Freud
Cross of Iron – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Love – Martin Luther King, Jr
No Viet Cong ever called me nigger – Muhammad Ali
Salad – Unknown
Burns and flies – C. JoyBell C.
Normal – Matt Haig
Reality- John Bradshaw
A form of disguise – Mariella Frostrup
This world – Horace Walpole
Make them laugh – Oscar Wilde
Expiry date – J.K. Rowling
Real obstacles – Bertrand Russell
Depressed – Gabrielle Roth
Certainty – Ajahn Chah
I have found a truth – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Loneliness – Unknown
Freedom from worries – Edwin Way Teale
Understands – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Bitterness – Alain de Botton
Knowledge of the facts – Unknown
Love is – Augustine
Intelligence – Albert Einstein
Veneer of noise – John Lahr
The worst enemy – Friedrich Nietzsche
Value – Unknown
Imagine it – William Arthur Ward
Separation – Kahlil Gibran
Ugly – Unknown
Pessimism – R. Brezsny
Affliction – Naguib Mahfouz
Invincible summer – Albert Camus
Be humble – Serbian Proverb
Happiness – Dalai Lama
Solve a problem – Isaac Asimov
Understand – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If only – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Power of the imagination – J.G. Ballard
Stand out – Oliver James
Take a chance – Jim Carrey
Thank you – William Arthur Ward
Commitment – Mark Manson
Scientists – Yuval Noah Harari
Real life – Oscar Wilde
Tree – Unknown
Tired of their own bullshit – Elizabeth Gilbert
Losing – Muhammad Ali
Models – George Box
Story – Mary Lou Kownacki
Magic things – William Butler Yeats
The fight is won or lost – Muhammad Ali
Exaggerate – Honoré de Balzac
See – James Joyce
Bullshit – Elizabeth Gilbert
Eaten up by nothing – Charles Bukowski
Truth – William Blake
Strength – Sons of Anarchy
Engaged – Twitter
Shining – Anne Lamott
Nothing happens – Vladimir Lenin
Anti-intellectualism – Isaac Asimov
Recommending a person – Unknown
Expect better – Jeph Jacques
Remember this – Gregory Maguire
Eloquence – David Hume
A perspective – Marcus Aurelius
Choose – Dalai Lama XIV
Perfectionism – Brené Brown
Take sides – Elie Wiesel
Beyond speech – Joseph Campbell
Pull yourself together – Unknown
Democracy – Winston Churchill
That is life – Jean Luc Picard
You are – Carl Jung
True friends – Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The world – Bill Hicks
Cynicism – Caitlin Moran
Dream – Octavio Paz
Hate – Brendan Cox
Cakes are healthy – Mary Berry
Being exhaustive – Dustin Moskovitz
Passion – Mark Manson
Psychological foxhole – Parker Palmer
Be the flame – Giacomo Casanova
Who am I – Ming Di Liu
Today ― Dalai Lama XIV
Trust – Frank Crane
True love – Alex Grey
The realist – William Arthur Ward
I’m bored – Louis C.K.
Impossible – Muhammad Ali
Fear & regret – Unknown
The great teacher – William Arthur Ward
Wise are they – William Arthur Ward
A good friend – Unknown
Champions – Muhammad Ali
Love is – Victor Hugo
Forgiveness – Lily Tomlin
My course – Dante Alighieri
Doctor doctor
Birds scream – Kurt Cobain
Fundamentalism – Jin-roh
You’re something – Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Immortality – Susan Ertz
Values – Mark Manson
Mobile device – Renny Gleeson
Saying yes – Stephen Colbert
My course is set – Dante Alighieri
Data authenticity – Norman R. Augustine
Value silence – John Lahr
The spirit walks – Alexis de Tocqueville
Who ought to be boss – Henry Ford
This is what you must be like – Ben Okri
Take my hands – @selfmyths
The internet – Alain de Botton
Life understood – Soren Kierkegaard
Fishing – Henry David Thoreau
Life has no warning – @beehives
Denial – Jonathan Cainer
Nationalism – Albert Einstein
You’re still mouthing the same nonsense – Wilhelm Reich
Patriotism is – George Bernard Shaw
Anxiety – Soren Kierkegaard
If it’s still in your mind – Paulo Coelho
Friction in couples – Alain de Botton
He who has a why – Nietzsche
The good life – Bertrand Russell
Tone – Darkandbrooding
After something happens to you – Sylvia Plath
The highest and most beautiful things in life – Soren Kierkegaard
A good writer – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Attitude – Charles Swindoll
All kinds of love – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Disorder and injustice – William Sloane Coffin
Pirate pee – cluedont @cluedont
Message of the stars – Edwin Way Teale
See the ordinary as extraordinary – Novalis
Romance – Margaret Atwood
When wireless is perfectly applied – Nikola Tesla
Live in each season as it passes – Henry David Thoreau
Rider of life – Hafiz
Campaign – Mario Cuomo
Responsible – Unknown
Ideas – Mary McCarthy
Putting things where they don’t belong – Chris Rock
My reality – Sylvia Plath
Honest friendship – Mariella Frostrup
Hope – Alexander Pope
Your life is not a character arc – Winston Rowntree
The right person – Erich Fromm
Be confused – Milton H. Ericsson
Attention – Simone Weil
Step backwards – Unknown
Understanding of ourselves – Carl Jung
Oh dear
A man – Baltasar Gracian
We need each other – Patch Adams
We know too much – Bertrand Russell
Bitterness – Harry Emerson Fosdick
Good corn – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All models are wrong – George Box
Every Day You Play – Pablo Neruda
Basic principles – Sylvia Plath
The sword – Napoleon Bonaparte
True projects – Unknown
Strengthen – Dalai Lama
Forgive – Alexander Pope
Power – John Stuart Mill
Death – Unknown
Being realistic – Will Smith
Things that make me different – A.A. Milne
Pigs get fat – Mark Cuban
Offensive – Nora Ephron
Realities of life – Sharon Pollock
Cake – Donald E. Westlake
More opportunity – Thomas Edison
Love forever – Euripides
Thought forms in the soul – Joseph Joubert
Conscience – Harper Lee
Out of focus – Mark Twain
Real courage – Harper Lee
Robs Peter to pay Paul – George Bernard Shaw
Tyranny – Thomas Jefferson
Success – Woody Allen
Man is his own star – Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher’s Honest Man’s Fortune
Lemons – James Martin
If I agreed – Unknown
Voting – Mark Twain
Archetypal mother – Marcia Muller
Politics – Groucho Marx
Be a comedian – Bob Monkhouse
Facts – Charles F. Kettering
Reality – Søren Kierkegaard
Sixty seconds – Rich Guzzi
Fix it – Jeff Atwood
Promise me – A.A. Milne
Assumptions – Isaac Asimov
Cheaply – John Ruskin
Let go – Lao Tzu
A head full of – Unknown
Mile in your shoes – Sundeep Sidhu
Walk a mile – Billy Connolly
You make the unconscious conscious – Carl Jung
Big girls don’t cry – VeryGrumpyCat
Sorrow – Sophie Heywood
Insults – J.R Lynes
The best people – Ernest Hemingway
Stop making excuses – Mr. T
All I have ever touched – Sylvia Plath
Flash – DeepandMeaningless
God – Viktor E. Frankl
Ingenuity – General George Smith Patton, Jr.
Worry – William Ralph Inge
Genius – Robert Green Ingersoll
Guys and girls – Chris Rock
Love – Mark vernon
We met for a reason – Frank Ocean
Every time I thought of you – @VeryGrumpyCat
Present moment – Milan Kundera
Someone doing it – Harry Emerson Fosdick
Police state – Unknown
Lurid third interval – Sylvia Plath
Twinkle twinkle – @VeryGrumpyCat
Beauty – Kahlil Gibran
World of illusion – Alan Watts
Kick the person responsible – Theodore Roosevelt
Birds scream – Kurt Cobain
Kindness – Aesop
Present – Mahatma Gandhi
We are meant to shine – Marianne Williamson
The greatest stories – Ben Okra
Live presently – Unknown
Heaven – Fra Giovanni
Surround yourself – Edmund Lee
Meaning – Stephen King
Learn, live, hope – Albert Einstein
Gift – Pierre Corneille
Giving – Baltasar Gracian
Decide – Unknown
Photographer – Walker Evans
Scared or brave – Emma Donoghue
Party or tragedy – Nora Roberts
Learn to love questions – M. Rainer Rilke
Choose one’s own way – Viktor E. Frankl
Read books – Aristotle
Women of colour – Viola Davis
Suffering – Charles Dickens
The present – Robert Green Ingersoll
Dyslexia – James Martin
Close some doors – Paulo Coelho
Result – T. Harv Eker
Invictus – William Ernest Henley
I am – Carl Jung
Good terms – Honoré de Balzac
Politician – Edward R. Murrow
Forgetting – Pablo Neruda
Four seasons – Edna St. Vincent Millay
The soul – Daniel Defoe
Believe – André Gide
Women and Men – Daphne du Maurier
We are – Gwendolyn Brooks
Fated – Nikolai Gogol
Relive your life – Stewart O’Nan
The carried the sky – Tim O’Brien
Looking back – Kiran Desai
Soul – Zora Neale Hurston
Open mind – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Eskimo – Margaret Atwood
The universe – Marcus Aurelius
Words – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Bird – Hans Christian Andersen
Execution of ideas – Sue Grafton
Courage – William Faulkner
Undone – Pablo Picasso
Good traveller – Laozi
To argue – Robert Green Ingersoll
Beauty – Anne Frank
Grow – Ben Okri
Imaginary brightness – James Fenimore Cooper
A poem – Robert Frost
Italics – Henry James
Rock – Barbara Kingsolver
Get better – Haruki Murakami
Years of struggle – Sigmund Freud
Care too much – A.A. Milne
Happiness – Orhan Pamuk
Infinite – William Blake
Spiritual growth – Mary Austin
Melancholy – Italo Calvino
Turn the glass – Jonathan Kellerman
Surroundings – Robert Green Ingersoll
Memory – Guy de Maupassant
Like and love – Unknown
First principle – Richard Feynman
Spark of unhappiness – Tom Perrotta
Beautiful stuff – Ray Bradbury
Try – James Clear
Time – Blaise Pascal
Life is a mirror – William Makepeace Thackeray
More questions – James Altucher
Computers – Marshall McLuhan
Lies – V.S. Naipaul
Male yardstick – Sophia Loren
Time machines – H.G. Wells
A poem – Robert Frost
Laughter of the gods – Albert Einstein
Gratitude – John F. Kennedy
Success – Mae West
Kiss – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life – Ibn-e-Safi
Money – James Altucher
Hallucination – Ward Moore
Gratitude – James Clear
Reality – Alex Haley
Matter – Katherine Boo
Knowledge – William Blake
Free women – Robert Green Ingersoll
Teach – Aristotle
Character – Stendhal
Truth – Sadhguru
Soul – Irvine Welsh
You are already naked – Steve Jobs
Eloquent speech – William Jennings Bryan
Be a student – Jim Rohn
Knowledge – William Blake
Flags – Wanda the Owl
Truth and facts – Maya Angelou
Believe – Maya Angelou
Needy – John Bowlby
Frank criticism – Michel de Montaigne
Attempt the absurd – Miguel de Cervantes
Live – J.K Rowling
Progress – George Bernard Shaw
Impossible – Nelson Mandela
Washington – John F. Kennedy,
Leadership – Grace Hopper
One small candle – Robert Alden
Wounds kissed – Amrit Sagoo
Keep on knocking – Rumi
Opportunity – Scott West
Pay close attention – Anonymous
Yearn for the vast and endless sea – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Truth – Spurgeon
Everybody has a plan – Mike Tyson
Mind struggle – Mike Singer
Selective reality – Bill Watterson
Tough experience – Graham Bower
Chemical reaction – Carl Jung
Infinity in the palm of your hand – William Blake
Drama – Rainer Maria Rilke
Life is just a highway – Jim Steinman
Solitude – Rainer Maria Rilke
Truth of their hearts – Sylvester Stallone
Sliced bread – George Carlin
Pizza – Yogi Berra
Knowledge – Heinz R. Pagels
Illumination – Andrew Lang
No barriers – J. Robert Oppenheimer
Tiny threads – Simone Signoret
Incompatible – George Levinger
Spoon feeding – E.M. Forster
Worst misfortunes – Honoré de Balzac
Difficulty – Edward R. Murrow
Slogans – Edward R. Murrow
Silence and darkness – Hellen Keller
Cage – Franz Kafka
Accept it whole – Stewart O’Nan
Each other’s magnitude – Gwendolyn Brooks
Learning things – Terry Pratchett
Start over – Chico Xavier
Life – Anita Desai
Imperfect – Tom Stoppard
History – John W. Campbell Jr
Love – 1 Corinthians 13
Each other’s magnitude – Gwendolyn Brooks
Doors of perception – William Blake
Covet a thing – Mark Twain
Life in your years – Unknown
Understanding of ourselves – Carl Jung
Glass – Unknown
Love – William Hazlitt
The things that we love – Thomas Aquinas
You’re wrong – @TheTweetOfGod
Letting go – Melissa Marr
Poisoned the fountain – John Locke
Marriage – @frankiebrack
Presuppose love – Kierkegaard
Character – Aristotle
When you love someone – Hermann Hesse
Violence and unhappiness – Khushwant Singh
Democracy – Bertrand Russell
Darkest hour – Horace Greeley
Our country right or wrong – Horace Greeley
Resolution – Abraham Lincoln
Technology – @KierkegaardNow
Gift suggestions – Oren Arnold
Propaganda of fear – General Douglas MacArthur
Wonder – Socrates
Stress – William James
Illusion – Friedrich Nietzsche
Despair – Kierkegaard
Three-quarters of our lives – Schopenhauer
Rule your mind – Unknown
Work-life balance – Alain de Botton
Creative impulses – Bertrand Russell
Aliens – Loco Eric
Fail big or win big – Sylvester Stallone
Beauty – David Hume
Respect – Unknown
Strengthen – Abraham Lincoln
Mistakes – Unknown
Indifferent – Soren Kierkegaard
Significant – Soren Kierkegaard
Loss – Unknown
Silence – Unknown
Eccentric – Bertrand Russell
Criticism – Unknown
Maturity – Unknown
Character – James A. Michener
Design – Steve Jobs
The voice of the oppressor – Anne Lammott
Cool judgement – Woodrow Wilson
Kindness – Lao Tzu
Competitor – Henry Ford
Realist – William Arthur Ward
Education – W.B. Yeats
Looking back – Kiran Desai
Nothing changes – Unknown
Orcs – John Rogers
You may not control – Maya Angelou
Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt – Maya Angelou
Fear – J.R.R. Tolkien
Priority – Maya Angelou
Amazing – Maya Angelou
Actions – Aristotle
An artist – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Death hangs – Marcus Aurelius
What we enjoy – Epicurus
Three parts dead – Bertrand Russell
Heart – Tonny Brown
Wise men and fools – Plato
True – Augustine
Go confidently – Henry David Thoreau
Our children – Angela Schwindt
Learn
Wise men – Lin-Chi
Energy – Nellie Bly
Dark parts – August Wilson
Truth – Gloria Steinem
I turned away – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The silent garden – Leonora Carrington
Knowledge – Unknown
Fundamental Attribution Error
In a dream – Jack Kerouac
Travel – Mark Twain
Kindness – Mark Twain
Money – Clare Boothe Luce
You learn – Jorge Luis Borges
Love – Jude Deveraux
Change – Anne Rice
Literature – Rick Moody
Another life – Kazuo Ishiguro
Love – Henry Miller
Wisdom – Michel de Montaigne
What we see – John Lubbock
Liberty – David Hume
A goal – Napoleon Hill
Facts – Unknown
I can’t – Unknown
Grief – Pritpal Singh
Eloquence – David Hume
Life moves on – Henry Miller
Expecting perfection – Idea Catalog
Rescue – Barbara F. Meltz
Great people – Ziad K. Abdelnour
Flying monkeys – Joe Rogan
Attachments – Unknown
Love – Marianne Williamson
Spend our days – Annie Dillard
Listen – John Cage
One day – Paulo Coelho
Begin – Horace Greeley
Will Smith – Unknown
Root of all evil – Mark Twain
Enquiry – Thomas Paine
Terrorism – Sydney J. Harris
Sorrow – Horace Greeley
Danger – Jean Paul
Hope – Robert Anthony
Cigar – Sigmund Freud
Earth – Unknown
Understand – Stephen R. Covey
Skeptical – Friedrich Nietzsche
Accomplish great things – Anatole France
Free – Walter Mosley
Comedy – Chris Rock
Never – Ovid
Be yourself – Oscar Wilde
First-rate – Doris Lessing
American health care – Walter Cronkite
True peace – MLK
Sadness – W. B. Yeats
Reputation – Henry Ford
Learning – Michelangelo
Mental health – Alain de Botton
Love – Amis
Fear thought – Bertrand Russell
Loneliness – Kurt Vonnegut
Religion – Edgar Allan Poe
Scars – Galway Kinnell
Excellence – David Oyelowo
React – Unknown
Sandwich – Unknown
Deep down – Unknown
Philosophy – Epictetus
Paradox ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars – W. B. Yeats
Light – Edith Wharton
Simply – Samuel Beckett
Become a human – Guru Nanak Dev Ji
Selling himself – Benjamin Franklin
Insecurity – Steve Furtick
Justice – Benjamin Franklin
Wise – Alden Nowlan
Counsel – Baltasar Gracian
Common sense – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Health – Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Health – Josh Billings
Health – George Bernard Shaw
Women – Joan Baez
Children – Khalil Gibran
Precious – Sacha Fernando
Confidence – Soren Kierkegaard
Strawberries – Jeff Atwood
Passion – Robby Greer
Disease – Socrates
Ghosts – Rob Fee
Angel in the marble – Michelangelo
Look up – Unknown
Lose our tempers – Alain de Botton
Understand ― Stephen R. Covey
Happiness – Soren Kierkegaard
March on – Kahlil Gibran
Corpse – Marcus Aurelius
Beliefs – Bertrand Russell
Be wise – Aeschylus
Health – Lao Tzu
Leisure – Marcus Aurelius
Present – Maria Edgeworth
He wishes for the cloths of heaven – W.B. Yeats
Seafood diet – Dolly Parton
Well done – Benjamin Franklin
True – Philip Levine
Common sense – Joan Crawford
Look up at the stars – Stephen Hawking
Afraid – Diana Gabaldon
Teachers – Dalaï Lama
Morality – Immanuel Kant
Certainty – Benjamin Franklin
Marriage – Benjamin Franklin
Someone’s got to do it – Messing
Responsibility – Brian Koslow
Leisure – Henry Greber
Consequences – Wallace Stegner
Compassion hurts – Andrew Boyd
Beauty – Khaled Hosseini
Burnt socks lying the road – Richard Price
Sermon – Oliver Goldsmith
Tyranny – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Knowledge – Soren Kierkegaard
Conventionality – Bronte
Doubting – Idea Catalog
Habits – Rob Gilbert
Richly alone – Sylvia Plath
Colourblind – Albert Schweitzer
Pilgrim soul – W. B. Yeats
Question mark – Bertrand Russell
Belief – David Hume
Unexpected question – Francis Bacon
Four things – Omar Ibn Al-Halif
Wrong ― Noam Chomsky
Attention ― Wiz Khalifa
Passions – Epictetus
Facts – John Maynard Keynes
Criminal – Friedrich Schiller
Diplomacy – Winston Churchill
Cynicism – Joe Klein
Preparation – Rainer Maria Rilke
Remade – Ursula K. Le Guin
Giving – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Make mistakes – Neil Gaiman
Now – Emily Dickinson
New country – Rabindranath Tagore
Incompatible things – W. B. Yeats
Peace – Martin Luther King Jr.
Don’t judge – Unknown
Save the world – Bertrand Russell
Forgive – Maya Angelou
Gifts – Unknown
Hug – Ivern Ball
Integrity ― Spencer Johnson
Trims himself – Charles Schwab
Heaven of hell – John Milton
Two steps – Fannie Flagg
Three things – Tom Bodett
History – James Fenimore Cooper
Honesty – Noël Coward
Mask – Oscar Wilde
Thought – Henry David Thoreau
Obstacles – Hannah More
Motives – Confucius
Circumstances ― Nido Qubein
Navigators – Edward Gibbon
Experts agree – Bertrand Russell
Slavery – Abraham Lincoln
Scientist and artist – James Agee
Vision – Jonathan Swift
Lost – Edmund Spenser
Attitude – Zig Ziglar
Roasted duck – Ancient Proverb
Things – Marcus Aurelius
Actions of men – John Locke
Eternal truth – Soren Kierkegaard
Love yourself – Sogyal Rinpoche
On Marriage
Character – Aristotle
Tolerance – The Dalai Lama
Artist – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Creating – George Bernard Shaw
Believe – Eckhart Tolle
Discover it – Michelangelo
War – Margaret Atwood
The glass is already broken – Achaan Chaa
Credit – Theodore Roosevelt
Knowing and doing – John Niland
Lies – Nietzsche
Revealed – Anne Enright
Desire – Eduardo Galeano
One day – Jean-Paul Sartre
Noble soul – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A woman – D.H. Lawrence
What most people need – Kate McCartney
Money – Henry Ford
Forgetting – Friedrich Nietzsche
Values – Unknown
Normal – Maya Angelou
Hope – Unknown
Do well – Unknown
Do bold things – Macchiavelli
Fear – Robert Anthony
Begin – Ivan Turgenev
Expectations – William Shakespeare
Create something – Maxine Hong Kingston
Foolish – Ali ibn Abi Talib
Stars – W. B. Yeats
Go to them – A.A. Milne
Other people ― Oscar Wilde
Dream – T.E. Lawrence
A friend – Aristotle
Shortcut – Tolkien
Legal – Martin Luther King
Life – Shari Barr
Move the fuck on – Unknown
Two possibilities exist – Arthur C. Clarke
Acquisition of wealth – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Represent – Maya Angelou
Solitude – Honoré de Balzac
Practice – Abe Lemons
Tenses – Janet Frame
Martyrs – Unknown
Things – Unknown
Persistence – Ovid
Beauty – David Hume
Wit – Friedrich Nietzsche
Questions – Voltaire
Excuses – Unknown
Holds you back – Unknown
Busy – Henry David Thoreau
Keep breaking – Rumi
Stars – Rabindranath Tagore
Truth – Wallace Stevens
Light has shadow – Mary Stewart
Make your mistakes – Thomas Wolfe
Soulmate – Unknown
If you love someone – JC @awesomeJCwood
What you eat – Unknown
Tyranny – Albert Maysles
Cynicism – Joe Klein
Feelings – Mr. Rogers
Reputation
Live – Mary Renault
Change the world – Steve Jobs
Friendship – Unknown
Change the earth – William Faulkner
Friendship – Unknown
Worry – Swedish Proverb
Boldness – Goethe
Six basic needs – Anthony Robbins
You can’t do that – James Altucher
Forget – Chuck Palahniuk
Not having an opinion – Paul Ford
Remember ― Edward St. Aubyn
Last and first – Leonardo Da Vinci
Freedom – Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Pessimism – Tony Benn
Give – Schopenhauer
Egoist – Ambrose Bierce
Immigrants – Unknown
Wonder – Socrates
Controversy – Paul Graham
Dig – Matisyahu
Experiences – Saint Augustine
See things – Unknown
Happiness – Aristotle
Spanish actors – James Martin
Serial killer – Frankie Boyle
Parked cars – Unknown
Hopes – Nelson Mandela
Why you do it – Richard Branson
Honourable – Cicero
Feminist – Lena Dunham
Prison – Sylvia Plath
War ― Abraham Lincoln
3 of life’s pleasures – Bill Gates
Undergo experience – Albert Camus
Experience everything – Simon Pegg
Two novels – John Rogers
Practice and progress – James Altucher
Distressed ― Marcus Aurelius
Be humble – Serbian proverb
Gifts – Unknown
Intent – Unknown
Happy birthday [to us]!
Life loves the liver of it – Maya Angelou
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Secrets of change – Socrates
Success – Vince Lombardi
Poverty – Unknown
Sun – Maori Proverb
Life – Robert Frost
Fall in love – Sathnam Sanghera
Accurate observation – George Bernard Shaw
Second time – Vikor E. Frankl
Ignorance – Unknown
Marry – Socrates
The past – Unknown
Loving – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Believe – Maya Angelou
Your past – Jordan Belfort
Absence of facts – Hilary Mantel
Speak truths – Kanwer Singh
Titles – Unknown
Dig – Matisyahu
Imagination – Mark Twain
Character – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Don’t hurry – Malcolm X
Heaviness of mountains – Ajaan Suwat
Weddings – Unknown
Alternative medicine – Tim Minchin
Habit – Cicero
Symbols – Alan Watts
A person – Maya Angelou
Character – Japanese proverb
Benefit – @TheTweetOfGod
A prude – Robert A. Heinlein
Reality – Mary Higgins Clark
Imagination – Oliver Sacks
I’m not ok – William Sloane Coffin
Worry – John Lubbock
God save us – Vikram Seth
Attachment – Jack Kornfield
Imperfect – Amy Bloom
Sea and the stars – Finn Butler
Life ― Sholem Aleichem
Perspective – Marcus Aurelius
Thoughts – Unknown
Others think of us – Ethel Barrett
Tree falls – Unknown
Stardust – Unknown
Teachers – Unknown
Aim – Unknown
Be kind – Unknown
Character – John Wooden
Attitudes – Hugh Downs
Kiss – Unknown
True to yourself – Marion Zimmer Bradley
Failure – Jon Sinclair
Be understood – George Orwell
What you do – Emerson
What do women want – Sigmund Freud
The first – Unknown
Standards – Lieutenant General David Morrison
Music – Plato
Moon smile – Silvia Plath
Fear love – Bertrand Russell
Loving good heart – Mark Twain
Humanity – James J. Lachard
Answers – Socrates
Good side – Jimmy Buffett
Motivation – Zig Ziglar
Small actions – Kim @selfmyths
Head, Heart – Eleanor Roosevelt
Reading – Joyce Carol Oates
Collective wisdom – Thomas Carlyle
Revenge – Confucius
Hire – Unknown
Raise your words – Rumi
Classes in life – Rainer Maria Rilke
Life – George Bernard Shaw
Abundance – Epicurus
Sacrifice – W. B. Yeats
Feel – Maya Angelou
Temper – David Hume
Curiosity – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stretched mind – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
Computers – James Magary
Drink – Ann Landers
Sides – Unknown
Campaign – Mario Cuomo
Politicians – Mario Cuomo
Creativity – Cynthia Heimel
Life – Sadhguru
Normal – Whoopi Goldberg
Computer – Pablo Picasso
Meaning of life – Joseph Campbell
Action – Ernest Hemingway
Clouds – Rabindranath Tagore
Fool – Euripides
Pig wrestling – Unknown
Pedestal – Unknown
Envelope ― Mark Twain
Goals – Freud
Inheritance – Ruth E. Renkel
Stories – Ben Okri
Doing – Kanwer Singh
Socrates – Woody Allen
Marriage – Kahlil Gibran
Marriage – Simone Signoret
Marriage – George Leving
Courage – Mignon McLaughlin
Sand and Marble – Arabic saying
Stop acting so small – Rumi
Present moment – Eckhart Tolle
Brain – Emo Phillips
Conclusion – Steven Wright
Create it – Sundeep Sidhu
Cherish friend – Robert Brault
I award you no points – Billy Madison
Build your wings – Kobi Yamada
Choosing – Claire Williams
Philosophy and Religion – Unknown
Wonderful evening – Groucho Marx
Voting – Mark Twain
Infinite possibilities – Randall Munroe
Convictions – Nietzsche
Questions – Unknown
We are all mad – Mark Twain
Good person – Shari Barr
Relationship – Unknown
Stop to think ― A.A. Milne
Changing – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Tears – Washington Irving
Kindness and love – William Wordsworth
What you look at – Henry David Thoreau
Answers ― Dr. Seuss
Life – Unknown
Courage – Winston Churchill
Courage – Anaïs Nin
Right decisions – Jeff Atwood
Thoughts – Peter McWilliams
Time – Bertrand Russell
Go – Douglas Adams
Love – Sierra Demulder
Agnostic dyslexic insomniac – Unknown
Getting ahead – Mark Twain
Raise your words – Rumi
Moral courage ― Mark Twain
Opportunities of tomorrow – Brian Tracy
Madness of people – Isaac Newton
Humble – Golda Meir
Ignorance – Abba Eban
Decisions – Patricia Fripp
Two things – Leonard Bernstein
Life — Nelson Mandela
Doer of deeds – Theodore Roosevelt
Statistics – Unknown
Challenge – Unknown
Regret – Kierkegaard
Marriage – Robby Greer
Walk – Thích Nhất Hạnh
Kindness ― Mark Twain
What people really think – Descartes
Life – Robert Brault
Wanderer – James Thurber
Monopolies – Unknown
Facebook – Chris Rock
Dust – eidolonhex
Love – Oscar Wilde
Be my friend – Albert Camus
Spring – Pablo Neruda
Sit ups – Muhammad Ali
The Tempest – William Shakespeare
Impossible – Mark Twain
A person needs – Tom Bodett
Music – Frank Ocean
Hammer – Tony Horton
Theory and practice – Unknown
Life – Unknown
Rhetorical joke – Unknown
Drink – Ernest Hemingway
Men – Grayson Perry
Empty your cup – Nyogen Senzaki
Life – Norman Mailer
Life – Bill Watterson
Beautifully empty ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love – Soren Kierkegaard
Do whatever – Unknown
Book of love – Tom McNeal
Love someone ― Steve Maraboli
Love – Stephen Chbosky
Throw your heart – Arab proverb
Thorns ― Unknown
Old person — Terry Pratchett
Murderers — Russell Brand
Believe the opposite – Alain de Botton
Known knowns – Donald Rumsfeld
Concept is a brick – Gilles Deleuze
26 letters – Ayden Foster
Common sense ― Albert Einstein
Intentions and behaviour – Stephen M.R. Covey
Directions – Unknown
Bannister of life – Toby J. McCartney
Direction – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Hope and desire ― William Faulkner
Hope – Francis Bacon
Quality — Aristotle
Character and habits – Stephen Covey
Car door – Prince Philip
Some nights our wishes – Ishmael Beah
Writing – Isaac Asimov
People – Unknown
Life or Logic – Shira Millgrom
Worrying – Aileen Norton
The difference between hope and despair – Alain de Botton
Pull – Tasiv
Handsome – Unknown
Awakener ― Robert Frost
Live beautiful things – Soren Kierkegaard
Tolerate insecurity – Eric Fromm
Seeking – Haruki Murakami
Love – Mr. Rogers
An hour to kill – Mark Z. Danielewski
Chicken or Egg – Unknown
Stop and look around – John Hughes
Judging others – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Salvation – Václav Havel
Conviction – W.B Yeats
Preparations – Gail Godwin
Success – Winston Churchill
Jesus – George Carlin
Hope ― Alfred Tennyson
To be, or not to be – William Shakespeare
Get better – Heidi Grant Halvorson
Your own resolution to succeed – Abraham Lincoln
Start today – Karen Lamb
Wear sunscreen ― Mary Schmich
Surprise yourself – Neil Gaiman
Twenty years – Mark Twain
Dead and buried – Ben Franklin
Life’s balls – Brian Dyson
Happiness – George F. Burns
A good gift – Unknown
Today is a gift – A.A. Milne
Christmas gift suggestions – Oren Arnold
Understand the world – Brida
Gift and servant – Albert Einstein
Dogs – Jake Lambert
Conquer fear – Dale Carnegie
Spend time, not money – Abigail Van Buren
Events of life – Wilhelm von Humboldt
Desires and achievements – George Moore
Happy families – Leo Tolstoy
Stir the smooth sands of monotony – Peter O’Toole
Loves reasons – Augustine of Hippo
Three things matter – Unknown
Friends – Oscar Wilde
Ploughing fields – Unknown
Happy ending ― Orson Welles
Love – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Past, future – Zadie Smith
From scratch – Carl Sagan
Dust – @eidolonhex
Guided missiles, misguided men – Martin Luther King, Jr
Everyone knows something – Bill Nye
Life and death – Tagore
You are capable – Nelson Mandela
Head, Heart – Nelson Mandela
Little things – Augustine of Hippo
Decisions – Maimonides
Polish – Rumi
Uncompleted task – William James
Religion – Seneca the Younger
Sticks and stones – Eric Idle
A thousand candles – Buddha
Holy ground – Stephen R Covey
Tragedy – Stephen Jay Gould
Awareness – Albert Einstein
There you are – Unknown
On the first day – Unknown
Big egos – Diana Black
Ride to the airport – Jay Leno
Thoughts and feelings – Charlie Chaplin
Man, Woman – Isak Dinesen
Winter – Hal Borland
Butterfly moments – Rabindranath Tagore
Destiny – William Shakespeare
Lighten burdens – Charles Dickens
Advice – Buchheit
Dream – Anatole France
Believe nothing – Buddha
Believe or doubt – Alfred Korzybski
One today – Benjamin Franklin
Yo mama – Shakespeare
Believe in better – Abraham Lincoln
Belief – Mahatma Gandhi
Think you can – Henry Ford
Shyness – Alain de Botton
Imperturbability – Unknown
On life – Arundhati Roy
You are what you believe yourself to be – Mahatma Gandhi
Action follows belief – Latin saying
Unchallenged convictions – Bertrand Russell
Beliefs and convictions – Mark Twain
Head, heart, decisions – Mardy Grothe
Prophets, guides, argumentative people – Peter Brook
Flattery – Unknown
Nagging – Alain de Botton
See, hear – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Anger – Buddha
Change – Margaret Wheatley
Character – Abraham Lincoln
Calm : Storm – Dorothy Parker
Mosquito – Dalai Lama
When life gives you… – Unknonw
Attachments – Unknown
Love is not blind – Rabbi Julius Gordon
End arguments – Joel Spolsky
Gay marriage – Roger Quimbly
Do not look outside of yourself – Latin motto
Busy lives – Socrates
Truth and roses – Henry David Thoreau
Laugh often – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rat race – William Sloane Coffin
Other peoples thoughts – Unknown
One size fits one – Carl Jung
Favourable winds – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Old and new – Rabindranath Tagore
Hopes and fears – Michael Grinder
A true friend – Bernard Meltzer
Suffering and recovery – Christian Barnard
Tension and relaxation – Uknown
Time – Benjamin Franklin
Your thoughts, your life – Marcus Aurelius
Where you need to be – Douglas Adams
Go with all your heart – Confucius
Life and fear – Katharine B. Hathaway
Validation – Chris Rock
Change – Rumi
You are the world – Bill Wilson
Life, Pain, Joy – Milton H. Erickson
Fact, opinion, perspective – Marcus Aurelius
Time – Richard Carlson
Character and choice – Aristotle
Relationships and Algebra – Chris Rock
Letter to the Corinthians – St Paul
Artists and amateurs – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thirst – Unknown
Freudian slip – Roger Quimbly
Definition of you – Unknown
Possibility and capability – Albert Camus
Ideas and apples – George Bernard Shaw
See the world – Unknown
Imagination – George Bernard Shaw
Normal – Alain de Botton
Life – Neil Gaiman
Liberation – Alain de Botton
Right and wrong – Rumi
Confidence – Woody Allen
Youth – Unknown
Green grass – Unknown
Choices and abilities – J.K. Rowling
Sadness and happiness – Jonathan Safran Foer
Win and learn – Dr Brooke Magnanti
Yesterday, tomorrow and today – A.A.Milne
Procrastination – Uknown
Share, celebrate, love – Dr Leo Buscaglia
Comfort zone – Neale Donald Walsch
Brilliance or bullish*t – Unknown
Knowledge, Wisdom – Zen proverb
Start today – Karen Lamb
Beauty – Jean Kerr
Avoiding risks – Unknown
Glutton – Erma Louise Bombeck
Happiness – Unknown
Looking back – Kiran Desai
Grief and joy – Sufi proverb
Questions and answers – Theodore Seuss Geisel
Morning wisdom – Unknown
Fear – Mahatma Gandhi
Events of life – Wilhelm von Humboldt
Learn, live, hope – Albert Einstein
Circles – Jonathan Cainer
War – Bertrand Russell
Open minds – James Dewar
Deepest fear – Marianne Williamson
Reasons – J.P. Morgan
Peace and love – Star Trek
Consistency – Oscar Wilde
The trouble with the world – Bertrand Russell
Pale blue dot – Carl Sagan
Love is a snowmobile – Matt Groening
Witty saying – Voltaire
Set love free. – Chuck Palahniuk
Ever been in love? – Neil Gaiman
Burdens and shoulders – Yiddish proverb
Life shrinks or expands – Anais Nin
Tell someone you love them, in German
Impossible is not a fact, it’s an opinion – Muhammad Ali
Nature’s veil – Alfred Nobel
No winter lasts forever – Hal Borland
Slow down – Lily Tomlin
Generosity – Albert Camus
Unseen – Robert M. Pirsig
Remembrance – Shakespeare
God of Money – Henry Fielding
Cruelty & compassion – Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
Mind or heart – Sigmund Freud
Promise of happiness – Stendhal
Habitual thoughts – Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing – Sam Ewing
Advice – Erica Jong
Be who you are, say what you feel – Theodore Seuss Geise
Looking at the stars – Oscar Wilde
Today is the tomorrow – Dale Carnegie
Eternity’s sunrise – William Blake
A journey – Lao Tzu
A ship in the harbour – John A. Shedd
Three passions – Bertrand Russell
Past, present, future – Lao Tzu
If the only tool you have is a hammer – Abraham Maslow
Well adjusted – Krishnamurti
Twenty years – Mark Twain
Regret – Sidney J. Harris