🏛️ Life

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“When 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.”

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”

“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.”

“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity; the knowledge of the world will keep you from despair.”

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it is having the courage to show up and be seen.”

“Beauty will save the world.”

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”

“One day you will wake up and there will not be any more time to do the things you have always wanted. Do it now.”

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”

“Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.”

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

“The world is a traveller's inn, not an abode.”

“I 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.”

“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

“Even 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.”

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“The present life of man upon earth, O king, seems to me like the swift flight of a sparrow through a banqueting hall in winter.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”

“One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

“The world is a traveller's inn, not his dwelling place.”

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

“We 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.”

“Silence is a source of great strength.”