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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I think, therefore I am.”
— René Descartes
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
— William Shakespeare
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
— Albert Einstein
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Aristotle
“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.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
— Buddha
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
— Carl Jung
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Nelson Mandela
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
— John F. Kennedy
“I think therefore I am.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“To be is to be perceived.”
— George Berkeley
“Man is condemned to be free.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
— Bertrand Russell
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
— Confucius
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
“Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”
— John Stuart Mill
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.”
— John Milton
“The only journey is the one within.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
“This above all; to thine own self be true.”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
— Lao Tzu
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
— Albus Dumbledore
“The obstacle is the way.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
— John Lennon
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”
— Lewis Carroll
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“The only way out is through.”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
— Peter Drucker
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
— Muhammad Ali
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
— Grandma Moses
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”
“Hell is other people.”
“Happiness is the highest good.”
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.”
— John Locke
“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.”
— William of Ockham
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
— Plato
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”
— Jeremy Bentham
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors”
— Martin Heidegger
“We live in the best of all possible worlds.”
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.”
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.”
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
“The only way to rectify our reasonings is to make them as tangible as those of the Mathematicians, so that we can find our error at a glance, and when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate.”
— Leibniz
“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.”
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
“Even while they teach, men learn.”
— Seneca the Younger
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”
— Sun Tzu
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
— Jimmy Dean
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.”
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
— Ronald Reagan
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
— Maya Angelou
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
“I am therefore I think.”
— Ayn Rand
“Give me liberty, or give me death.”
— Patrick Henry
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
“To do is to be.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“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
“It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.”
— Emile Zola
“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”
— Rene Descartes
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”
— Emiliano Zapata
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
— Anne Frank
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“One cannot step twice in the same river.”
— Heraclitus
“I am; therefore, I think.”
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“Man is the measure of all things.”
— Protagoras
“The only thing permanent in life is change.”
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
— Paulo Coelho
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“To be is to do.”
— Immanuel Kant
“God is dead.”
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
— William Saroyan
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
“Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.”
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
— Theophrastus
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.”
— Robert Byrne
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
“The only constant in life is change.”
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
— Charles Darwin
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
“The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.”
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
— Mother Teresa
“Where there is love there is life.”
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).”
“I am that I am.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.”
“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.”
— Spinoza
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
— William James
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
— Epictetus
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors.”
“One cannot step twice into the same river.”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
— Coco Chanel
“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“The future depends on what you do today.”
“God does not play dice with the universe.”
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
“Existence precedes essence.”
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
— George Washington
“Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
— Wayne Gretzky
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.”
— Michel De Montaigne
“It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“Love is the absence of judgment.”
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
— John Muir
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
— Dan Millman
“The only true failure is not to try.”
— George Clooney
“The best revenge is massive success.”
— Frank Sinatra
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“What we think, we become.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
“Know thyself.”
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.”
“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
— Sigmund Freud
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“Happiness is a state of mind.”
“The obstacle is the path.”
— Zen Proverb
“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.”
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
— Napoleon Hill
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
— Viktor E. Frankl
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
“What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.”
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
“Man is by nature a social animal.”
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
— Voltaire
“The only thing constant in life is change.”
“Who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
— Goethe
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“The root of suffering is attachment.”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”
— Charles Kingsleigh
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
— Ernest Hemingway
