fewquotes

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

"Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing."

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."

"Every job looks easy when you're not the one doing it."

"Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk."

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."

"People visit the rich with gifts, but they visit the poor with advice."

"Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced."

"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."

"The sign of a great marriage is that it becomes a contest of generosity."

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

"There are always days when man finds strangers in those he loves."

"The tongue has no bone, but is strong enough to break a heart."

"It is true there is an ebb and flow, but the sea remains the sea."

"The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain."

"You can teach a physicist finance, but you cannot teach a finance person physics."

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

"Marry, and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it; marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world's foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world's foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don't hang yourself, you'll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy."

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."

"What labels me, negates me."

"What you seek is seeking you."

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious."

"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."

"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."

"If you wish to be a writer, write."

"Lust, greed, anger, attachment — these are all paths to hell."

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."

"People have beautiful things to say about you, but you must die first."

"Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you."

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

"What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world belongs to you."

"He writes to find her, she reads in search of him."

"For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops."

"Great companies are rare, and great people are rarer still."