When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
George R.R. Martin
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
People are like books: some decieve you with their cover and others surprise you with their content.
Oscar Wilde
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Dave Chappelle
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
Arthur Schopenhauer
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar
Which That Hanh
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Khalil Gibran
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
Seneca
In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the glue that holds the whole thing called life together and keeps everyone in character.
Jed McKenna
The chains that confine us in Plato's cave are not locked, but very few are aware of their captive status.
Jed McKenna
The opposite of depression is expression. What comes out of you doesn't make you sick; what stays in there does.
Dr. Edith Eger
Religion is for those who are afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who have already been there.
Vine Delora Jr.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Carl Jung
Death in earnest, gives life force as nothing else does; it makes one alert as nothing else does.
Søren Kierkegaard
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Sir. Anthony Hopkins
If you have certainty you're dead. Certainty destroys people. Hilter distroyed millions of people because he was certain. Because he knew. No one knows.
Sir. Anthony Hopkins
He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is half way there. He who blames no one has arrived.
Chinese Proverb
You can't help but laugh when you realise the only thing that's been upsetting you is your own imagination.
Peter Crone
The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
Joseph Campbell
Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.
Earnest Barbaric
There are two sources of goals: goals created out of inspiration and goals created out of desperation.
Joseph Nguyen
I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Marcus Aurelius
Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
E. Lockhart
The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth they can accept about themself without running away.
Leland Val Van De Wall
The moment in front of you is not bothering you. You are bothering yourself about the moment in front of you.
Michael A. Singer
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
Viktor Frankl
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
Albert Einstein
Nowhere you can go is more peaceful – more free of interruptions – than your own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it
Upton Sinclair
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
Miles Kington
No one chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Shelley
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter
Blaise Pascal
Mankind is the only species in the universe that has found a way to measure something that doesn't exist (time!).
Dolores Cannon
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
I was largely motivated by anxiety, a ceaseless feeling that I had to find some way, any way, to make more money.
Daniel Higginbotham
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept - our own selves - that we love.
Fernando Pessoa
Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.
Naval Ravikant
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
Sigmund Freud
Much greatness in life comes out of suffering. You have to view the negative before you can aspire to and appreciate the positive.
Naval Ravikant
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Victor Frankl
When in bed, meditate. Either you will have a deep meditation or fall asleep. Victory either way.
Naval Ravikant
If you could just sit for 30 minutes and be happy you are successful, but very few of us get there.
Naval Ravikant
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything.
David Foster Wallace
Stupidity: You think you know everything, without questioning. Intelligence: You question everything you think you know.
Richard Feynman
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Serenity Prayer
When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
Viktor E. Frankl
Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
Naval Ravikant
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
The only devils in this world are those running around inside our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
Mahatma Gandhi
When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready the teacher will disappear.
Tao Te Ching
You have to live a life that, if everyone lived it, there would be peace. If you can't do that, you are part of the problem, not the solution.
Michael A. Singer
Making art is not selfish; it’s for the rest of us. If you don’t do your thing, you are cheating us.
Kevin Kelly
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner