Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Do or do not, there is no try.
Yoda
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.
William Faulkner
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
Lao Tzu
Nothing is forever. Everything goes to 0 eventually.
Naval Ravikant
The wind howls, but the mountain remains still.
Japanese proverb
We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.
Bruce Lee
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”.
Anonymous
Take time like the river that never grows stale. Keep going and steady. No hurry, no rush.
Rumi
To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
Criss Jami
Sometimes you have to shut your eyes, so you can see the real beauty.
Kilian Jornet
Never make fun of someone who mispronounces a word. It means they learned it by reading.
Anonymous
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others.
Albert Einstein
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time”, is like saying, “I don’t want to”.
Lao Tzu
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran
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
The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.
William Arthur Ward
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