Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.
Paulo CoelhoI am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
Bob DylanWhen you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Bob DylanWhen the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson MandelaThe rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark TwainIt’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.
Terry PratchettWhenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.
Haruki MurakamiNature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco ChanelIt disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul SartreWhen angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas JeffersonI have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
VoltaireThere are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.
Charles SpurgeonTrials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Charles SpurgeonThe foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
BuddhaThe sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo GalileiWhen I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.
Lana Del ReyThere is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.
Eckhart TolleYou have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
Karl LagerfeldI have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert SchweitzerWhat springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus AureliusIf there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich NietzscheAs soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
Margaret AtwoodAll art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWisdom begins in wonder.
SocratesBeing at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
Eckhart TolleWords are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich NietzscheReligion is the opium of the masses.
Karl MarxWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George EliotMeaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann HesseSuch as we are made of, such we be.
William ShakespeareTo be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David ThoreauRemember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin FranklinI argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily DickinsonKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil GibranFear is exciting for me.
Ayrton SennaWalk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John RuskinIn order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
Thich Nhat HanhIllusion is the first of all pleasures.
VoltaireThe gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John MuirBe content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao TzuBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalFor a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
Maya AngelouUse your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard ShawFrom such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel KantEveryone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
Kurt VonnegutNo obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSurely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham LincolnI have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
Albert CamusWhen we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.
Thich Nhat HanhChange alone is unchanging.
HeraclitusTo do nothing is also a good remedy.
HippocratesReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LewisI’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.
J. ColeFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous HuxleyThere is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Carl JungNever lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMan takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
Lao TzuTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily DickinsonAutumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert CamusTo me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
Jerry Seinfeld