I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
Virginia WoolfO, had I but followed the arts!
William ShakespeareI am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul SartreThe man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard ShawBut your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
Hermann HesseWe can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai LamaThe world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.
Bad BunnyWhen you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
Thich Nhat HanhI soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne FrankBreathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.
Thich Nhat HanhSend forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles DickensAll human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalDon’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
Jordan PetersonHe who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich NietzscheThe 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 GalileiHe had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac AsimovI owe my solitude to other people.
Alan WattsLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce LeeKnow that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.
Wayne DyerAt 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Albert CamusThe history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Nikola TeslaIt appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David ThoreauI am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
Maya AngelouI’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. Scott FitzgeraldNature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco ChanelMen take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.
Napoleon BonaparteIf I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.
AuroraOne of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar WildeVirtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius CiceroConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand RussellI didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.
Margaret AtwoodSee how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.
Colin PowellI’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.
The WeekndThe Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
Lao TzuVanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.
Lady GagaHorses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice WalkerBefore you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
ChanakyaIt is important to remember yourself.
Alice WalkerI used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.
Marilyn MonroeIn all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
John MuirA mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
Stephen CoveyWe thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
BonoYou can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.
Wayne DyerTime is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David ThoreauI change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
Bob DylanI’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘
Angelina JolieTruths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David ThoreauWhat is a farm but a mute gospel?
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
Wayne DyerAn early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David ThoreauI am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.
Marilyn MonroeGoing to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
John MuirWhen nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.
Angelina JolieUs sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice WalkerThere are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.
Beyonce KnowlesWhen you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich NietzscheI realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘
EminemWhen I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.
Kevin Hart