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