Quotes

“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a centre. So we lost our center and have to find it…

“Love makes a good relationship a dream and a bad relationship a nightmare. Love does not fix a relationship — it amplifies what’s already there.” – Mark Manson

“I ask what did I do? But I think I already know. It wasn’t me, it was you. And that makes it all the more unbearable.” – DeepandMeaningless

“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller

“Do you need to start or finish? Are you building a body or building a bridge?” – James Clear

“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who…

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” – George Washington

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust

“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.” – Eric Fromm

“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…

“When a Clown moves into the Palace, he doesn’t become a King, The Palace becomes a Circus.” – Turkish Proverb

“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.” – Seneca

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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…

“The same boiling water that hardens the egg softens the potato.” – Russian Proverb

“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…

“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Edward Everett Hale

“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

“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…

“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

“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

“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

“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…

“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

“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

“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…

“Hard work sometimes pays off over time. Procrastination always pays off right now.” – Unknown

“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” – Robert Frost

“I can only hope the rest of your day is as pleasant as you are”

“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…

“Everything will be okay in the end. If everything isnt okay, then it isnt the end.”

“First rule of Thesaurus Club: You don’t talk, converse, discuss, chat, confer, consult, or speak about Thesaurus Club.”

“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…