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