True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas CarlylePeople just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.
Dolly PartonWe continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
Albert CamusThere is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNo one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen KellerThe moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiContent makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinHappiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George WashingtonEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George OrwellI’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
Brian EnoYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann HesseThink big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.I always wanted a family.
Kevin GatesI didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Babe RuthKnowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl JungA son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo MachiavelliI’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
Karl LagerfeldThe paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James BaldwinI think the word rich is all relative.
Joel OsteenFeelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
Brian EnoThere is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Henry David ThoreauNo matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen KellerIt didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
David ByrneI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James BaldwinFamily quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
F. Scott FitzgeraldA poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert FrostOf course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.
Dolly PartonI live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
Lady GagaIt is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James BaldwinHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch SpinozaIf it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Steven WrightAnyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.
Friedrich NietzscheIn terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.
Mark ZuckerbergIn a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
Maya AngelouThere’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya AngelouNot only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
John RuskinWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis BaconNone are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch SpinozaI’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.
Taylor SwiftAs human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
David HareI went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.
Nipsey HussleHe who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao TzuWhen your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
Wayne DyerTo wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret ThatcherYou’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
Paulo CoelhoThe walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim RohnI say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.
Dolly PartonI believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John RuskinSometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert EinsteinBecome aware of your own insufficiency.
Jordan PetersonAnd obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
Richard BransonI don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.
Conor McGregorI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
Alice WalkerMy only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.
Muhammad AliI joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Ludwig van BeethovenThe unexamined life is not worth living.
SocratesKnowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Khalil GibranThe sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya AngelouEgos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.
Sunil ChhetriI 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 Coelho