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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…! 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
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