What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
Thich Nhat HanhListen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Stephen CoveyWe identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Alan WattsI am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry KissingerHe that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.
Benjamin FranklinWho sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da VinciThat’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘
Maya AngelouAny writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James BaldwinI change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.
David BowieWhen you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.
RihannaOur 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 HopkinsI’m selfish.
Kendrick LamarKnowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl JungModesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
Maya AngelouWe learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard ShawThere is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Ernest HemingwayNo one but a fool is always right.
David HareIf you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.
Edmund HillaryTo know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Eckhart TolleOnce I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen KellerOne advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Franz KafkaDarn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Jack LondonI kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.
Steven WrightAt any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert CamusI have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Eleanor RooseveltWe ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
PlatoNever interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon BonaparteYou’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt DisneyEntire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
PlatoAll of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.
Maya AngelouThat is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
Lady GagaI’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
Lady GagaI have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.
Joe BidenWithout freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Benjamin FranklinTo be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin DisraeliMy father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘
LeBron JamesThe aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Gilbert K. ChestertonYou are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.
Wayne DyerBy the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
Terry PratchettRemembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve JobsWhere there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
SocratesTo understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
Niccolo MachiavelliI like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
Clint EastwoodI already am a product.
Lady GagaFor time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. KennedyYou’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Bob DylanWe run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise PascalAll the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
VoltaireThere’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous HuxleyDeep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.
David ByrneThe man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander PopeMany sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
Joyce MeyerThe empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
PlatoHatred is self-punishment.
Hosea BallouSelf-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTrue self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.
Thich Nhat HanhLet us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich NietzscheWe shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Henry David Thoreau