Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
Tennessee WilliamsGrounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
Carl JungWe have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
Thich Nhat HanhThere was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.
Marilyn MonroePeople need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily DickinsonHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya AngelouWhy do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.
Jordan PetersonArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Mark TwainDoubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Hosea BallouThe experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
John C. MaxwellFame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
Marilyn MonroeBy the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinAt the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean-Jacques RousseauSome artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
Lady GagaEverything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
Paulo CoelhoIf we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Joseph AddisonI would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
Albert CamusNothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch SpinozaThe President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.
Harry S. TrumanEveryone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
Lou HoltzI have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Paulo CoelhoWhen life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor RooseveltAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard ShawEarly on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.
Joyce MeyerWhat I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.
Michelle ObamaYou just have to have a simple faith.
Jimmy CarterI think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
Maya AngelouThe longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Arthur SchopenhauerBad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTheology is unnecessary.
Stephen HawkingTruth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
Albert SchweitzerThus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise PascalSuccess is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
John C. MaxwellNine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. MenckenIf boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van GoghThe marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
Hermann HesseThe postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
John LennonThe ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
AristotleI can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.
Stephen CurryCriticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. MenckenFolks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
Joe BidenOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee WilliamsThe universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand RussellGod does not play dice.
Albert EinsteinViolent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma GandhiMy goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Stephen HawkingReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat HanhWhatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus AureliusThoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel KantHumans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. LewisAll our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da VinciAs flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William ShakespeareThe first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
VoltaireThe way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Thomas SowellI want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
Jiddu Krishnamurti