None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie ChaplinWho is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David ThoreauDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleA man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus AureliusAt any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert CamusLet each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
Nelson MandelaWe are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.
C. S. LewisA person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Napoleon HillI can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
Alice WalkerMankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas JeffersonMusic is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
PlatoMan consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Woody AllenYou carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
Thich Nhat HanhLove, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert HubbardTo do nothing is also a good remedy.
HippocratesOne’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor RooseveltAs you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?
David BowieYou learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.
Anthony BourdainHe who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.
Galileo GalileiIf your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
Marilyn MonroeWe moralize among ruins.
Benjamin DisraeliI’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.
Maya AngelouMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFor one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
AristotleIt is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor DostoevskyThe first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert SchweitzerAdmiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinWhen a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Benjamin DisraeliIt may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.
J. R. R. TolkienIf one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
Oscar WildeBut let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil GibranHell is other people.
Jean-Paul SartreEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul SartreUncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous HuxleyMan is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas CarlyleI suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma GandhiThought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas CarlyleNever ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.
George H. W. BushFew men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.
Charles SpurgeonMy philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
Dwayne JohnsonThings are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan WattsMy goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Stephen HawkingDay by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Albert SchweitzerI am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.
Greta ThunbergAn artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
Wayne DyerWhat can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich NietzscheMisfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
EpicurusSometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.
Paulo CoelhoLife’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘
Martin Luther King, Jr.When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
Taylor SwiftIn Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich NietzscheOur existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
Anthony HopkinsNon-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Mahatma GandhiYou are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
Thich Nhat HanhConvictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich NietzscheAdvertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.
Mark ZuckerbergFacebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.
Mark Zuckerberg