🏛️ Life

“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“There 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.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“You can not go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.”

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

“The past is never dead. It is not even past.”

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.”

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”

“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

“Live to the point of tears.”

“Each day provides its own gifts.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“There 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.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

“The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

“Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.”

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”

“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”

“One who has mastered himself is a far greater hero than one who has conquered a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield.”

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

“The 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.”

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

“All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruin.”

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“Leave no stone unturned.”

“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.”

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow.”