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âLife is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.â
â Søren Kierkegaard
âThe whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.â
â Plutarch
âLife is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.â
â George Bernard Shaw
âBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.â
â Plato
âFreedom is what we do with what is done to us.â
â Jean-Paul Sartre
âThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.â
â Jane Austen
âThe world is a traveller's inn, not his dwelling place.â
â Rumi
âDo not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.â
â Emerson
âA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.â
â Charles Darwin
âWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.â
â Aristotle
âClouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.â
â Rabindranath Tagore
âLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.â
â Seneca
âThe art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.â
âHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.â
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âHope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.â
â Desmond Tutu
âIt is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.â
â Gabriel Garcia Marquez
âA room without books is like a body without a soul.â
â Cicero
âThe peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.â
â Wendell Berry
âEverything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.â
â Confucius
âWhen you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence.â
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âThe soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.â
â John of the Cross
âThe earth laughs in flowers.â
âThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.â
â Marcel Proust
âI am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.â
â Simone de Beauvoir
âThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.â
â Thomas Merton
âWe live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.â
â Iris Murdoch
âOne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.â
âNot until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.â
â Thoreau
âIt always seems impossible until it is done.â
â Nelson Mandela
âMistakes are the portals of discovery.â
â James Joyce
âWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.â
â Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
âThere is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.â
â Martha Graham
âOne joy scatters a hundred griefs.â
â Unknown
âTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.â
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.â
â Marcus Aurelius
âBe like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others faults. Be like running water for generosity.â
âThe purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.â
â Albert Schweitzer
âWhen I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.â
â Lao Tzu
âNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.â
â James Baldwin
âHave a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.â
â Charles Dickens
âTo see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.â
â William Blake
âIn this world nothing lasts forever; the blossoms scatter, the moon wanes.â
â Murasaki Shikibu
âYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.â
â Pablo Neruda
âThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self.â
â Aldous Huxley
âThe purpose of life is a life of purpose.â
â Robert Byrne
âIt is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.â
âIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough.â
â Meister Eckhart
âLiterature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.â
â Fernando Pessoa
âDarkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.â
â Martin Luther King Jr.
âEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances.â
â Victor Frankl
âThe art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.â
âKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.â
â Mark Twain
âHappiness depends upon ourselves.â
âKnowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.â
âLife, if well lived, is long enough.â
âA goal without a plan is just a wish.â
â Antoine de Saint-Exupery
âForgiveness is the key to action and freedom.â
â Hannah Arendt
âI quote others only in order the better to express myself.â
â Montaigne
âWhatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.â
â Goethe
âThe aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.â
â Henry Miller
âSilence is a source of great strength.â
âHope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.â
â Vaclav Havel
âWere I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.â
â Michel de Montaigne
âOne must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.â
â Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
âTry not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.â
â Albert Einstein
âFollow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.â
â Joseph Campbell
âWe are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.â
â Kurt Vonnegut
âThe test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.â
â Dietrich Bonhoeffer
âIt does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.â
âNo man is free who is not master of himself.â
â Epictetus
âThe sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.â
â Baltasar Gracian
âThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.â
âFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.â
âAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.â
âI do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.â
â Mary Wollstonecraft
âArrange whatever pieces come your way.â
â Virginia Woolf
âWhat you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.â
âDo your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.â
âYou talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.â
â Gibran
âThe secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.â
â Paulo Coelho
âYou can not go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.â
â C.S. Lewis
âI exist as I am, that is enough.â
â Walt Whitman
âAnd once the storm is over, you will not remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you will not be the same person who walked in.â
â Haruki Murakami
âOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.â
â Henry David Thoreau
âThe soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.â
âThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.â
âAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.â
â Kierkegaard
âPerhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage.â
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âIt is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly.â
â Epicurus
âTo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.â
â Oscar Wilde
âThe truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.â
â Flannery OConnor
âOne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.â
âTime is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.â
â Jorge Luis Borges
âEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.â
â Victor Hugo
âThe man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.â
âWe do not what we ought, what we ought not we do, and lean upon the thought that chance will bring us through.â
â Matthew Arnold
âA thousand-mile journey begins with a single step, and a life of purpose begins with a single honest thought.â
âBe joyful though you have considered all the facts.â
âOne who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.â
âSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.â
â Mary Oliver
âNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.â
â Heraclitus
âIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.â
â John Muir
âWe must cultivate our garden.â
â Voltaire
âDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.â
âEven after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, you owe me. Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.â
â Hafiz
âEvery man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.â
âOne day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.â
âThe superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.â
âNot life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.â
â Socrates
âIt is not length of life, but depth of life.â
âI dwell in possibility.â
â Emily Dickinson
âA book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.â
â Franz Kafka
âThe wise man is one who knows what he does not know.â
âWho looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.â
â Carl Jung
âThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.â
âEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.â
â Leo Tolstoy
âYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.â
âMan is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.â
âOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.â
â T.S. Eliot
âNo man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.â
â Marcus Valerius Martial
âIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.â
âWe know what we are, but know not what we may be.â
â William Shakespeare
âThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.â
â Eleanor Roosevelt
âThe most common form of despair is not being who you are.â
â Soren Kierkegaard
âI leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.â
â Camus
âFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.â
â Zhuangzi
âThe soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.â
âThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.â
âWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.â
âNo one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.â
â Terry Pratchett
âBegin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.â
âLife is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.â
â Helen Keller
âThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.â
âLive as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.â
â Mahatma Gandhi
âTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.â
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âTo know the road ahead, ask those coming back.â
âThe soul is healed by being with children.â
âI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.â
âLive to the point of tears.â
â Albert Camus
âSome of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.â
â Hermann Hesse
âEach day provides its own gifts.â
â Martial
âTo the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.â
âLife is made up of marble and mud.â
â Nathaniel Hawthorne
âKeep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.â
â Whitman
âThe 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.â
âThe world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.â
â William Makepeace Thackeray
âThe past is never dead. It is not even past.â
â William Faulkner
âIf you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.â
âThere is no story that is not true.â
â Chinua Achebe
âThe meaning of life is that it stops.â
âLife can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.â
âLet everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.â
âDo not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.â
â Gautama Buddha
âThe whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.â
âIf you want to be happy, be.â
â Tolstoy
âWe do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.â
â Anaïs Nin
âExperience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.â
âThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.â
â Dostoevsky
âLife is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.â
â Hippocrates
âThe greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.â
âAll of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.â
â Blaise Pascal
âBetween your birth and your death, wander through this world in wonder.â
âThe unexamined life is not worth living.â
âThe sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.â
âDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.â
âThe meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.â
â Alan Watts
âYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.â
â Harper Lee
âOne day you will wake up and there will not be any more time to do the things you have always wanted. Do it now.â
âYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.â
â Khalil Gibran
âYou are your best thing.â
â Toni Morrison
âThe affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.â
â Milarepa
âAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.â
â Simone Weil
âWe live, not as we wish to, but as we can.â
â Menander
âYou were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?â
âIn examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.â
â Oliver Sacks
âNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.â
âThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.â
â Zora Neale Hurston
âAt the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.â
âLife well spent is long.â
â Leonardo da Vinci
âThe world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful.â
âBeauty will save the world.â
âLife is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.â
âWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.â
âFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.â
â Carl Sagan
âAct as if what you do makes a difference. It does.â
â William James
âWe are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.â
â Thomas Fuller
âBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.â
â Rilke
âLife is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.â
âDo not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.â
âThe morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe, before it's gone.â
âTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.â
âThings do not change; we change.â
âWhoever is happy will make others happy too.â
â Anne Frank
âThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.â
â Bertrand Russell
âLife shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.â
â Anais Nin
âBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.â
âVulnerability is not winning or losing; it is having the courage to show up and be seen.â
â Brene Brown
âLet your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.â
âThere are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.â
â Willa Cather
âRaise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.â
âWe do not live for the sake of living, but to do something worth the while.â
â Abraham Lincoln
âIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.â
âHowever many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?â
âWhen I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.â
â Audre Lorde
âLife is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.â
â George Santayana
âAll things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruin.â
â Ovid
âWe suffer more in imagination than in reality.â
âTo be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.â
â Pema Chodron
âTo go wrong in ones own way is better than to go right in someone elses.â
âI would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze.â
â Jack London
âAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.â
âSeize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.â
â Horace
âThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.â
âAll that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.â
â Octavia Butler
âFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.â
âHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.â
âI wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.â
âImagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.â
âWhile we are postponing, life speeds by.â
âThe cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.â
â W.E.B. Du Bois
âLife is ours to be spent, not to be saved.â
â D.H. Lawrence
âThere are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.â
âHow unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.â
â Publilius Syrus
âIn the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.â
âTime is the longest distance between two places.â
â Tennessee Williams
âI hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.â
â Nikos Kazantzakis
âIt is no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.â
â Lewis Carroll
âA gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.â
âA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.â
â Tao Te Ching
âHow much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.â
âThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.â
âThe only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.â
â John Stuart Mill
âLeave no stone unturned.â
â Euripides
âIt is never too late to be what you might have been.â
â George Eliot
âOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.â
â Kahlil Gibran
âThe task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.â
â Erich Fromm
âThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty.â
â Ursula K. Le Guin
âEvery man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.â
â Hans Christian Andersen
âThe world is a traveller's inn, not an abode.â
âThe world is a great book, of which those who never stir from home read only a page.â
â Augustine of Hippo
âThe inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here.â
â Italo Calvino
âIf there is a book that you want to read, but it has not been written yet, you must be the one to write it.â
âLife is what happens to us while we are making other plans.â
â Allen Saunders
âCourage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow.â
â Mary Anne Radmacher
âThe present life of man upon earth, O king, seems to me like the swift flight of a sparrow through a banqueting hall in winter.â
â Bede
âBeware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.â
â Mary Shelley
âLife is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.â
âThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.â
â Frederick Douglass
âLife is a journey, not a destination.â
âThe only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.â
âYou must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.â
â Nietzsche
âOne must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.â
âSmile, breathe, and go slowly.â
âTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.â
âNot what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.â
âThere is no success without hardship.â
â Sophocles
âMan arrives as a novice at each age of his life.â
â Nicolas Chamfort
âLet yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.â
âHold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.â
â Langston Hughes
âI slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.â
âWhat you seek is seeking you.â
âWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.â
âI am large, I contain multitudes.â
âI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.â
âOne who has mastered himself is a far greater hero than one who has conquered a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield.â
âBecause you are alive, everything is possible.â
âKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.â
âIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.â
â Herman Melville
âThree things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.â
â Buddha
âIn three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.â
â Robert Frost
âThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.â
â Maya Angelou
âTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?â
âThe knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity; the knowledge of the world will keep you from despair.â
â Saadi Shirazi
âWe do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.â
âThere are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.â
â Kafka
âDont be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.â
âWhat is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.â
â Sappho
âI used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world. There must be someone just like me.â
â Frida Kahlo
âIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.â
âWe are always getting ready to live but never living.â
âWe can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.â
â Thornton Wilder
âI have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.â
âHe who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.â
âBetween your birth and your death there is a unique opportunity; do not let it slip by unlived.â
â Thiruvalluvar
âBetween your birth and your death, there is the life you lived and the life you wished you had lived. Make them the same.â
âThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.â
âWithout music, life would be a mistake.â
âPain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.â
âDripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.â
âWe do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us.â
âLife is what happens when you are busy making other plans.â
â John Lennon
âThere are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.â
â Edith Wharton
âWe sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.â
â Li Bai
âThe deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.â
âThe moth does not see the flame as fire; the fish does not feel the water as wet. So we do not notice the medium of our own lives.â
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