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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. Albert Camus

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. Mark Twain

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Voltaire

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. Victor Hugo

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. Rumi

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. Lao Tzu

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. Seneca

Don’t settle, and don’t struggle. Naval Ravikant

To thine own self be true. William Shakespeare

Conscience doth make cowards of us all. William Shakespeare

People do not lack strength; they lack will. Victor Hugo

What labels me, negates me. Søren Kierkegaard

Rest in reason; move in passion. Kahlil Gibran

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You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. Carl Jung

To do two things at once is to do neither. Publilius Syrus

The prettiest eyes have cried the most. Unknown

The kindest hearts have felt the most pains. Unknown

I is another. Arthur Rimbaud

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes. Dejan Stojanovic

Close both eyes to see with the other eye. Rumi

Of all lies, art is the least untrue. Gustave Flaubert

Leave no stone unturned. Euripides

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. Bertrand Russell

Life is a constant process of dying. Arthur Schopenhauer

The darker the night, the brighter the stars. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Beauty will save the world. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. Euripides

Sin is geographical. Bertrand Russell

The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner

To define is to limit. Oscar Wilde

Be – don’t try to become. Osho

Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility. Osho

Are you afraid of the good you might do? Victor Hugo

Success is an iceberg. Unknown

Just do your best and to hell the rest. Unknown

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Kahlil Gibran

Time is a created thing. To say I don’t have time, is like saying, I don’t want to. Lao Tzu

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. Voltaire

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. Rumi

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell

He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others. Albert Einstein

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Søren Kierkegaard

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth. Émile Zola

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

Once someone’s hurt you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you from wanting them.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

Your memory feels like home to me.

So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.

There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn’t climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.

And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.

I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand.

And when the light has long since gone …. I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go.

Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.

I miss that feeling of connection.

Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.

I just dont know how…to think less. If you know how, then teach me…

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I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.

Don’t get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn’t even exist in the first place.

Being able to depend on someone doesn’t mean you’re dependent on them.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

It’s times like this…. when it’s over a year later and I’m still crying over you that I want to turn to you and say: See…. This is why I asked you never to kiss me.

How is your book doing?” or “How many copies have you sold?” are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you better ask “What did you write today?”.

There’s nothing scarier than loving someone

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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. Edgar Allan Poe

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran

I rebel; therefore I exist. Albert Camus

If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself. Rumi

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. Mary Oliver

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert

If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde

Never make fun of someone who mispronounces a word. It means they learned it by reading. Unknown

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. Arthur Rimbaud

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning. Criss Jami

What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing. Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Sometimes you have to shut your eyes, so you can see the real beauty. Kilian Jornet

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others. Criss Jami

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire

Take time like the river that never grows stale. Keep going and steady. No hurry, no rush. Rumi

There’s always some truth behind just kidding, knowledge behind every I don’t know, emotions behind I don’t care and pain behind it’s okay. Unknown

We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves. Bruce Lee

I don’t care that they stole my idea. I care that they don’t have any of their own. Nikola Tesla

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. Victor Hugo

The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Japanese proverb

What makes night within us may leave stars. Victor Hugo

Nothing is forever. Everything goes to 0 eventually. Naval Ravikant

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. Lao Tzu

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions. Gustave Flaubert

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely. William Faulkner

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. Robert Louis Stevenson

Do or do not, there is no try. Yoda

Cleverness is not wisdom. Euripides

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. Alexandre Dumas

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. Gustave Flaubert

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Søren Kierkegaard

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. Euripides

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. William Faulkner

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde

I can resist anything except temptation. Oscar Wilde

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect). Mark Twain

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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. Victor Hugo

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour. Victor Hugo

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. Alexandre Dumas

Passion is born deaf and dumb. Honoré de Balzac

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla

Full well do I know that in order to attain any definite goal, it is imperative that one person should do the thinking and commanding. Albert Einstein

Learn to judge your moves by their long-term effects on people. Robert Greene

Look for the thing you notice but no one else notices. Rick Rubin

I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad. Elon Musk

The fears we don’t face become our limits. Jim Kwik

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. Bertrand Russell

You can tell a pioneer by the arrows in his back. Beverly Rubik

First, see clearly. Next, act correctly. Finally, endure and accept the world as it is. Ryan Holiday

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. Criss Jami

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal. Criss Jami

You are judges in this world by how well you bring things to an end. A messy or incomplete conclusion can reverberate for years to come. Robert Greene

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. Victor Hugo

It was scary at first, but every great thing starts out a little scary, doesn’t it? Unknown

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. Henrik Ibsen

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. Euripides

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Søren Kierkegaard

He who despairs is wrong. Victor Hugo

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more. Charlie Munger

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything good. William Faulkner

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. Muhammad Ali

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. Gustave Flaubert

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. Honoré de Balzac

If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart. Rumi

Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. Rumi

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart! Rumi

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Edgar Allan Poe

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. Nikola Tesla

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. Nikola Tesla

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth. Albert Camus

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud

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Your very silence shows you agree. Euripides

All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw

Some people are more certain of everything than I am of nothing. Robert Rubin

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Albert Einstein

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it. Edgar Allan Poe

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. Edgar Allan Poe

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. Edgar Allan Poe

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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest! Nikola Tesla

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. Bertrand Russell

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station… William Faulkner

Did you ever stop to think, and then forget to start again? Winnie The Pooh

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. Winnie The Pooh

They’re funny things, accidents. You never have them till you’re having them. Winnie The Pooh

We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all. Andrew, The Breakfast Club

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde

When reason fails, the devil helps! Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. Mark Twain

Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most. Mark Twain

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. Neils Bohr

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. Carl Jung

God knows, I prefer people with anxieties, whose tomorrow is threatened by uncertainty. Albert Einstein

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep. Friedrich Nietzsche

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace. Leo Tolstoy

One day we will be dead. But today I’ll give it my best not to blame, complain, drain. Today I’ll give my best not to regret or forget. James Altucher

The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer. Terence McKenna

If it is not necessary to decide, it is necessary not to decide. Lord Acton

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe

There is no truth. There is only perception. Gustave Flaubert

All the problems of older times were scarcity… now they’re all abundance based. Naval Ravikant

Battle not with monsters, lest you become one and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Friederich Nietsche

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. Clarke

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. Kahlil Gibran

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. Arthur Schopenhauer

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat. Victor Hugo

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am not deep, but I am very wide. Honoré de Balzac

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? Søren Kierkegaard

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing. Søren Kierkegaard

Understand that half the game is keeping quiet, and carefully watching those around you. Robert Greene

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. Albert Camus

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. Bertrand Russell

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. Edward Abbey

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. Victor Hugo

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It’s not how well you play the game, it’s deciding what game you want to play. Kwame Appiah

Where there is no sense of ownership, there is respect. Where there is no hope, there is Truth. Where there is no attachment, there is love. Kapil Gupta

Believe in the you who believes in yourself. Unknown

You don’t deserve what you don’t respect. Unknown

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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once. Robert A. Heinlein

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Margaret Atwood

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. Søren Kierkegaard

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Nilola Tesla

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Nikola Tesla

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. Gustave Flaubert

The public wants work which flatters its illusions. Gustave Flaubert

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. Gustave Flaubert

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers. Victor Hugo

Do not grow to fond of your ideas or too certain of their truth. Robert Greene

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just. Victor Hugo

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. Victor Hugo

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion. Edgar Allan Poe

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke

The only reason we get lost in thought, is because it is unfamiliar territory. Ashton Leinen

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart. Rumi

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. John Steinbeck

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

A ‘no’ does not hide anything, but a ‘yes’ very easily becomes a deception. Søren Kierkegaard

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. Bertrand Russell

There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart. Charles Dickens

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. Ernest Hemingway

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. William Shakespeare

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. Oscar Wilde

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. Oscar Wilde

When you’re in love, truly in love, you never have to question it. Michael Faudet

When love itself comes to kiss you, don’t hold back. Rumi

Love doesn’t die; the men and women do. William Faulkner

The more one judges, the less one loves. Honoré de Balzac

Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute. Edgar Allan Poe

The sun loved the moon so much, he died every night just to let her breath. Unknown

That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. Jim Morrison

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. Victor Hugo

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. Kahlil Gibran

When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow. Ethiopian proverb

If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy. Cameroon proverb

Love is the poetry of the senses. Honoré de Balzac

Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river. Liberian proverb

If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars? Tunisian proverb

You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you. Nigerian proverb

Where there is love, there is no darkness. Burundi proverb

If you marry a monkey for its wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains. Egyptian proverb

Don’t be so in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining. Madagascar proverb

He who loves, love you with your dirt. Ugandan proverb

A letter from the heart can be read on the face. Kenyan proverb

Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands. Nigerian proverb

Love, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls. South African proverb

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. Martin Luther King Jr

Hate is easy. Love takes courage. Unknown

It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. Bertrand Russell

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. William Shakespeare

How do you spell ‘love’? You don’t spell it, you feel it. Winnie The Pooh

When love prevails, fear departs. Rumi

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Lao Tzu Quote on loving and being loved

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Three art students looking at the Mona Lisa at the Louvre.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.