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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“I think therefore I am.”
— René Descartes
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”
— Plato
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Man is condemned to be free.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
— Albert Camus
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Aristotle
“One cannot step twice in the same river.”
— Heraclitus
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.”
— John Lennon
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
— Buddha
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
— Albert Einstein
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
— Albus Dumbledore
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
— Confucius
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
— Thomas Edison
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“To be is to do.”
— Immanuel Kant
“To do is to be.”
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Hell is other people.”
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
— Bertrand Russell
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
— John Stuart Mill
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
— Rene Descartes
“Man is by nature a social animal.”
“The only thing permanent in life is change.”
“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.”
— Spinoza
“To be human is to be driven by passion.”
— Nietzsche
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.”
— Charles Darwin
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
“The only journey is the one within.”
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
“I think, therefore I am.”
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
— William Shakespeare
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
— George Santayana
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
— Robert Byrne
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
— Theophrastus
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
— Lao Tzu
“The only true failure is not to try.”
— George Clooney
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“The only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing.”
“Happiness is the highest good.”
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.”
— Joseph Campbell
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— Christopher Columbus
“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”
— Eugene Ionesco
“If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.”
— John Galsworthy
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
— Alan Watts
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
— Jimmy Dean
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
— Pablo Picasso
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
— Voltaire
“What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.”
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
“The only constant in life is change.”
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
— Wayne Gretzky
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
— Michael Jordan
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing”
“I think therefore I am”
“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“God is dead”
“To be or not to be, that is the question”
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“What does not kill me makes me stronger”
“No man is an island”
— John Donne
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
“Hell is other people”
“In the beginning was the Word”
— John 1:1
“One cannot step twice in the same river”
“Cogito, ergo sum”
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness”
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
— Lord Acton
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger”
“To err is human; to forgive, divine”
— Alexander Pope
“The mind is everything. What you think you become”
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”
“Love is the absence of judgment”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards”
“I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live”
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated”
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”
“What does not kill me, makes me stronger.”
“The obstacle is the way.”
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
— Grandma Moses
“Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.”
— Sarah Louise Delany
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.”
— Carl Rogers
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
— Epictetus
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
— William Saroyan
“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke
“If you want to be happy, be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“What does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
— Sigmund Freud
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
“God is dead.”
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”
— Jeremy Bentham
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
— Adam Smith
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
— Thomas Paine
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.”
— French National Motto
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
— Patrick Henry
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
— Bible, Luke 6:31
“Knowledge is power.”
— Francis Bacon
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.”
“That man is wisest who realizes that his wisdom is worthless.”
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
“Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.”
“He who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.”
— Anne Bronte
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”
“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.”
— Lewis Carroll
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”
— Emiliano Zapata
“We are all fools in love.”
— Jane Austen
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
“I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
— Woody Allen
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
“I am therefore I think.”
— Ayn Rand
“Philosophy is the highest music.”
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
— Seneca
“What we think, we become.”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
— André Gide
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
“Mankind is made great or little by its own will.”
— Friedrich Schiller
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.”
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
“Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Even while they teach, men learn.”
— Seneca the Younger
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.”
— John Locke
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”
“To be is to be perceived.”
— George Berkeley
“We live in the best of all possible worlds.”
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
“We are what our thoughts have made us.”
“The only thing constant in life is change.”
“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”
— Sydney J. Harris
“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
— Publilius Syrus
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
— Carl Jung
“I think, therefore I am”
“Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards”
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”
— Archimedes
“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 at any moment”
“He who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose”
— Anne Brontë
“Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident”
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays”
“Man is condemned to be free”
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong”
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster”
— David Hume
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less”
“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality”
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop”
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little”
