diff --git "a/balanced_main_df.csv" "b/balanced_main_df.csv" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/balanced_main_df.csv" @@ -0,0 +1,12787 @@ +,quote,tags +6872,"“Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.”",stoicism +7205,“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”,stoicism +7630,"“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”",stoicism +7040,“Most adult geniuses are more playful than most children.”,stoicism +6876,“All roads to Hades are of equal length”,stoicism +6841,“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”,stoicism +7470,"“I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!”",stoicism +6790,“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”,stoicism +7384,"“why should I demand from fortune that she should give me this and that rather than demand from myself that I should not ask for them? why should I ask for them, after all? am I to pile them up in total forgetfulness of the frailty of human existence?”",stoicism +6891,"“Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”",stoicism +7236,“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”,stoicism +6984,"“If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.”",stoicism +7100,"“When you start to lose your temper, remember: There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being- and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners.”",stoicism +7228,“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”,stoicism +6857,"“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”",stoicism +7142,“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”,stoicism +6869,"“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of or a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? Do not expect it, even if I tell you”",stoicism +7641,"“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”",stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +6900,"“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”",stoicism +7431,"“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”",stoicism +7078,"“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”",stoicism +7539,“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”,stoicism +7113,“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”,stoicism +7261,“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”,stoicism +7183,“We cannot be too young to die.”,stoicism +7575,“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”,stoicism +7155,"“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”",stoicism +6961,"“Add nothing of your own from within, and that's an end of it.”",stoicism +7046,"“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”",stoicism +6930,"“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”",stoicism +7229,“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”,stoicism +7083,"“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”",stoicism +6791,"“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.”",stoicism +7022,“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”,stoicism +7517,"“The modern expectation is that there will be equality in all things in the couple—which means, at heart, an equality of suffering. But calibrating grief to ensure an equal dosage is no easy task: misery is experienced subjectively, and there is always a temptation for each party to form a sincere yet competitive conviction that, in truth, his or her life really is more cursed--in ways that the partner seems uninclined to acknowledge or atone for. It takes a superhuman wisdom to avoid the consoling conclusion that one has the harder life.”",stoicism +7626,"“And here are two of the most immediately useful thoughts you will dip into. First that things cannot touch the mind: they are external and inert; anxieties can only come from your internal judgement. Second, hat all these things you see will change almost as you look at them, and then will be no more. Constantly bring to mind all that you yourself have already seen changed. The universe is change: life is judgement.”",stoicism +7330,"“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”",stoicism +7244,"“There is usually at least one person praying for a situation, or an outcome, that is the exact opposite of the one someone or some people are praying for.”",stoicism +6828,"“I fail to remember ever having made an effort — no trace of struggle is detectable in my life, I am the opposite of a heroic nature. To “want” something, to “strive” for something, to have an “end,” a “desire” in mind — I know none of this from my experience. Even at this moment I look out upon my future — a broad future! — as upon a smooth sea: no desire ripples upon it. Not in the least do I want anything to be different from what it is; I myself do not want to be any different ... But thus I have always lived.”",stoicism +7280,“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”,stoicism +7451,"“Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, “This is an accident of mortality.” But if anyone’s own child happens to die, it is immediately, “Alas! how wretched am I!” It should be always remembered how we are affected on hearing the same thing concerning others.”",stoicism +7245,“Living is the outside of dying.”,stoicism +7469,"“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”",stoicism +7552,“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”,stoicism +6959,"“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”",stoicism +7456,"“It's with a heavy heart that I assure you that regardless of how lasting your fortune feels, it can be taken from you before you can even think to try to hold on.”",stoicism +7332,"“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...] Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”",stoicism +7645,"“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.”",stoicism +7336,"“Life sometimes delays giving us the thing we are forever praying or working hard for, until it has managed to show us that that thing is not that important, or important at all.”",stoicism +7013,“Most of us would eventually lose count if we were to literally count our blessings.”,stoicism +7601,"“If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.”",stoicism +7274,“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”,stoicism +6900,"“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”",stoicism +7254,"“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”",stoicism +7588,"“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.”",stoicism +7416,"“To lose someone you love is something you'll regard as the hardest of all blows to bear, while all the time this will be as silly as crying because the leaves fall from the beautiful trees that add to the charm of your home. [...] At one moment chance will carry off one of them, at another moment another; but the falling of the leaves is not difficult to bear, since they grow again, and it is no more hard to bear the loss of those whom you love and regard as brightening your existence; for even if they do not grow again they are replaced. ""But their successors will never be quite the same."" No, and neither will you.”",stoicism +6790,“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”,stoicism +7610,"“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”",stoicism +6936,“Humans are not made for sitting at a desk all day. We have been evolving for millions of years to hunt animals through dense forest and vast plains. To walk huge distances in search of water. To spend hours searching for edible fruit to bring home to our families. The sedentary lifestyle many of us lead these days is no more than a by-product of the last few centuries.”,stoicism +7043,“The good and the bad occur at all times and will keep happening. We can become lost if we go with the hype of ‘good and bad’ every time.”,stoicism +7157,“A wise answer is even more pleasing when it is a response to a foolish question.”,stoicism +7370,"“Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Don’t stop it. Is it not yet come? Don’t stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a wife, to public posts, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy partner of the feasts of the gods. And if you don’t even take the things which are set before you, but are able even to reject them, then you will not only be a partner at the feasts of the gods, but also of their empire.”",stoicism +7085,"“The goodness inside you is like a small flame, and you are its keeper. It’s your job, today and every day, to make sure that it has enough fuel, that it doesn’t get obstructed or snuffed out. Every person has their own version of the flame and is responsible for it, just as you are. If they all fail, the world will be much darker—that is something you don’t control. But so long as your flame flickers, there will be some light in the world.”",stoicism +6783,"“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus ? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster ? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze , more universal than Confucius ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno ? Did he express grander truths than Cicero ? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza ’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler ’s or Newton ’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno ? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare , the greatest of the human race?”",stoicism +7011,"“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”",stoicism +7546,“Even the busiest bee does not move from one flower to another as often as an untamed mind moves from one thought to another.”,stoicism +7115,"“So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.”",stoicism +7334,"“All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.”",stoicism +7667,"“During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.”",stoicism +7109,"“We get addicted, not to the substance, but to the effect.”",stoicism +6861,"“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.”",stoicism +7136,“It is foolish to expect a fool to act wisely.”,stoicism +7224,"“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”",stoicism +7197,“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”,stoicism +7278,"“Really, doesn't everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It rather speaks in his favor. This used to be much better understood.”",stoicism +7545,“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”,stoicism +6804,"“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”",stoicism +6975,“The most beautiful things come from the hardest conditions.”,stoicism +6850,"“[I]n a man praise is due only to what is his very own. Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him – they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away, what is peculiarly a man's. You ask what that is? It is his spirit, and the perfection of his reason in that spirit.”",stoicism +7331,“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”,stoicism +7641,"“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”",stoicism +7157,“A wise answer is even more pleasing when it is a response to a foolish question.”,stoicism +6771,"“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”",stoicism +7159,"“Saving money, when buying an unnecessary thing, leads to wasting time, when using the thing.”",stoicism +7335,"“Seeing that our birth involves the blending of these two things—the body, on the one hand, that we share with animals, and, on the other hand, rationality and intelligence, that we share with the gods—most of us incline to this former relationship, wretched and dead though it is, while only a few to the one that is divine and blessed.”",stoicism +6875,"“These deep interactions with Greek and Roman culture, to include Stoic philosophy, certainly affected the zeitgeist of the era and most certainly impacted the educational theories in the early days of the Republic. With so much interest in reviving and adopting elements of Stoic philosophy within America, many intended references to Stoic ethics may be hidden within the works of the early generations of America, as they explicitly referenced “American” ideals that would have incorporated Stoic philosophy.”",stoicism +7541,"“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”",stoicism +7591,“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”,stoicism +7246,"“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”",stoicism +7472,“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”,stoicism +7171,“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”,stoicism +7499,“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”,stoicism +7325,“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”,stoicism +6931,"“The Iliad consists of nothing more than impressions and the use of impressions. An impression prompted Paris to carry off the wife of Menelaus, and an impression prompted Helen to go with him. If an impression, then, had prompted Menelaus to feel that it was a gain to be deprived of such a wife, what would have come about? Not only the Iliad would have been lost, but the Odyssey too!”",stoicism +6971,"“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +7039,"“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoic­ism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”",stoicism +7632,“Saiba que um teto de palha abriga o homem tão bem quanto o de ouro.”,stoicism +7585,"“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, ""I have to go to work - as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for - the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”",stoicism +7040,“Most adult geniuses are more playful than most children.”,stoicism +7225,“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”,stoicism +7231,“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”,stoicism +7496,"“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”",stoicism +7021,“A cup with a broken handle can still handle its task.”,stoicism +7471,“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”,stoicism +7065,"“Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.”",stoicism +7494,“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”,stoicism +7489,“Having problems is not nearly as tormenting as being had by problems.”,stoicism +7518,“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”,stoicism +7107,"“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”",stoicism +7648,"“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.”",stoicism +6822,"“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.”",stoicism +7561,“[M]aking noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already. (Letter XVI)”,stoicism +6986,"“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”",stoicism +7533,“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”,stoicism +6957,“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”,stoicism +7149,"“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”",stoicism +7262,“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”,stoicism +6810,"“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, ""What are your thinking about?"" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”",stoicism +6926,"“Speak the truth and above all claim the things you want, at least to yourself.”",stoicism +6784,“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”,stoicism +7582,"“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”",stoicism +6834,"“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.”",stoicism +7626,"“And here are two of the most immediately useful thoughts you will dip into. First that things cannot touch the mind: they are external and inert; anxieties can only come from your internal judgement. Second, hat all these things you see will change almost as you look at them, and then will be no more. Constantly bring to mind all that you yourself have already seen changed. The universe is change: life is judgement.”",stoicism +7608,"“They did this to me but I have remained who I am. I am tempered. I am able. Inside myself there's an untouched man. If they came back now, and did everything to me again, they would never reach the untouched man. I've passed the exam I've been shirking all my life. I'm a graduate of pain.”",stoicism +7290,“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”,stoicism +7113,“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”,stoicism +6898,"“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”",stoicism +7417,“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”,stoicism +7241,“We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.”,stoicism +6832,“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”,stoicism +6908,"“Strive to articulate your wants loudly so they become interwoven with reality, more than thoughts.”",stoicism +7268,"“Be someone who is cool under pressure. Value serenity instead of outrage. It seems that our culture is moving in the wrong direction here. If you are blessed enough to not be on social media, you might be surprised to learn that the angriest, most passionate public figures are rewarded with the most clicks and biggest audiences. Our culture has begun to confuse passion with substance, reward the loudest and angriest voices, and thus incentivize behavior wholly at odds with Stoic wisdom. The number of decibels your voice hits as you scream about how right you are is not necessarily an indicator of how much sense you are making. As a society founded on reason and Western Enlightenment ideals, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. We have to collectively stop allowing emotion and passion to pass for reason and factual debate.”",stoicism +7362,“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”,stoicism +7161,"“People seek retreats for themselves in the countryside by the seashore, in the hills, and you too have made it your habit to long for that above all else. But this is altogether unphilosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself whenever you please; for nowhere can one retreat into greater peace or freedom from care than within one’s own soul, especially when a person has such things within him that he merely has to look at them to recover from that moment perfect ease of mind (and by ease of mind I mean nothing other than having one’s mind in good order). So constantly grant yourself this retreat and so renew yourself; but keep within you concise and basic precepts that will be enough, at first encounter, to cleanse you from all distress and to send you back without discontent to the life to which you will return.”",stoicism +7444,"“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”",stoicism +7188,"“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”",stoicism +7058,"“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”",stoicism +7148,"“Marcus wept when he was told that his favorite tutor had passed away. We know that he cried one day in court, when he was overseeing a case and the attorney mentioned the countless souls who perished in the plague still ravaging Rome. We can imagine Marcus cried many other times. This was a man who was betrayed by one of his most trusted generals. This was a man who one day lost his wife of thirty-five years. This was a man who lost eight children, including all but one of his sons. Marcus didn’t weep because he was weak. He didn’t weep because he was un-Stoic. He cried because he was human. Because these very painful experiences made him sad. “Neither philosophy nor empire,” Antoninus said sympathetically as he let his son sob, “takes away natural feeling.” So Marcus Aurelius must have lost his temper on occasion, or he never would have had cause to write in his Meditations.”",stoicism +7542,“The size of your problem is in your mind.”,stoicism +7259,“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”,stoicism +7000,"“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”",stoicism +6810,"“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, ""What are your thinking about?"" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”",stoicism +6797,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”",stoicism +6904,"“True focus requires wisdom in choosing the worthy target, courage in maintaining a resolute mind, and prudence in knowing when to exert effort and when to seek rest. Master these elements, and you begin to understand the nature of focus.”",stoicism +6970,"“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +7609,"“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”",stoicism +7549,"“It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing”",stoicism +6802,"“Stop wandering about! You aren't likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you've collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can.”",stoicism +6817,"“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works. No one to my mind lets humanity down quite so much as those who study philosophy as if it were a sort of commercial skill and then proceed to live in a quite different manner from the way they tell other people to live.”",stoicism +7272,"“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”",stoicism +7176,“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”,stoicism +7343,"“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”",stoicism +7497,"“The man, though, whom you should admire and imitate is the one who finds it a joy to live and in spite of that is not reluctant to die.”",stoicism +7574,"“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”",stoicism +6868,"“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”",stoicism +7453,“We're never unhappy until we remember why we're supposed to be unhappy.”,stoicism +7641,"“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”",stoicism +7495,“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”,stoicism +7316,“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”,stoicism +7508,“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”,stoicism +7382,"“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”",stoicism +7231,“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”,stoicism +7412,"“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”",stoicism +7538,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”,stoicism +6774,“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”,stoicism +6987,"“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”",stoicism +7272,"“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”",stoicism +7536,“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”,stoicism +7167,"“Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.”",stoicism +7640,“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”,stoicism +7564,“Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”,stoicism +7162,“Hunger is by far the best spice.”,stoicism +6976,"“Take pride in your courage for it leads to difficult situations which, once overcome, leave you more than what you were before. Only in the most extreme of pressures does carbon become diamond”",stoicism +6784,“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”,stoicism +7627,"“The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.”",stoicism +7323,“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”,stoicism +7661,"“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.”",stoicism +7230,“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”,stoicism +7460,“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”,stoicism +7344,"“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”",stoicism +7633,“Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.”,stoicism +7512,"“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”",stoicism +7010,“Ill Fortune is of more use to men than Good Fortune.”,stoicism +7333,“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”,stoicism +6865,"“With respect to Stoicism, Hadot has described four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude. They are, first, the Stoic consciousness of ""the fact that no being is alone, but that we make up part of a Whole, constituted by the totality of human beings as well as by the totality of the cosmos""; second, the Stoic ""feels absolutely serene, free, and invulnerable to the extent that he has become aware that there is no other evil but moral evil and that the only thing that counts is the purity of moral consciousness""; third, the Stoic ""believes in the absolute value of the human person,"" a belief that is ""at the origin of the modern notion of the 'rights of man'""; finally, the Stoic exercises his concentration ""on the present instant, which consists, on the one hand, in living as if we were seeing the world for the first and for the last time, and, on the other hand, in being conscious that, in this lived presence of the instant, we have access to the totality of time and of the world."" 17 Thus, for Hadot, cosmic consciousness, the purity of moral consciousness, the recognition of the equality and absolute value of human beings, and the concentration on the present instant represent the universal Stoic attitude. The universal Epicurean attitude essentially consists, by way of ""a certain discipline and reduction of desires, in returning from pleasures mixed with pain and suffering to the simple and pure pleasure of existing.”",stoicism +7669,“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”,stoicism +7503,"“There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”",stoicism +7254,"“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”",stoicism +7176,“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”,stoicism +7000,"“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”",stoicism +7518,“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”,stoicism +7424,"“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”",stoicism +6940,"“Tomorrow will arrive, come what may. The sun will rise, as it has always done, and will set in the evening when nature commands it.”",stoicism +7310,“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”,stoicism +6805,"“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”",stoicism +7294,"“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”",stoicism +6929,"“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”",stoicism +7608,"“They did this to me but I have remained who I am. I am tempered. I am able. Inside myself there's an untouched man. If they came back now, and did everything to me again, they would never reach the untouched man. I've passed the exam I've been shirking all my life. I'm a graduate of pain.”",stoicism +7468,“Optimism is an effort.”,stoicism +7012,"“Well, when do we act like sheep: when we act for the sake of the belly, or of our sex-organs, or at random, or in a filthy fashion, or without due consideration, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of sheep.”",stoicism +6855,"“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”",stoicism +7565,“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”,stoicism +7347,“A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.”,stoicism +7451,"“Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, “This is an accident of mortality.” But if anyone’s own child happens to die, it is immediately, “Alas! how wretched am I!” It should be always remembered how we are affected on hearing the same thing concerning others.”",stoicism +7326,“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”,stoicism +7343,"“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”",stoicism +7415,"“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: ""What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”",stoicism +7565,“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”,stoicism +6797,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”",stoicism +7389,“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”,stoicism +7325,“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”,stoicism +7109,"“We get addicted, not to the substance, but to the effect.”",stoicism +7567,“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”,stoicism +7100,"“When you start to lose your temper, remember: There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being- and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners.”",stoicism +7409,"“So the spirit must be trained to a realization and an acceptance of its lot. It must come to see that there is nothing fortune will shrink from[.] There's no ground for resentment in all this. We've entered into a world in which these are the terms life is lived on – if you're satisfied with that, submit to them, if you're not, get out, whatever way you please.”",stoicism +7275,"“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”",stoicism +7117,"“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”",stoicism +7242,“Arrogance gives confidence … a bad name.”,stoicism +7000,"“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”",stoicism +6959,"“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”",stoicism +6994,"“Every hour of the day, countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”",stoicism +7154,“Hating our opponent benefits us. Underestimating them benefits them.”,stoicism +7146,“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”,stoicism +7052,"“We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down. Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.”",stoicism +7402,"“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”",stoicism +7397,“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”,stoicism +7514,“We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.”,stoicism +7028,“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”,stoicism +7128,"“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”",stoicism +7479,“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”,stoicism +7225,“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”,stoicism +7180,“Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.”,stoicism +7418,"“People prone to every fault they denounce are walking advertisements of the uselessness of their training. That kind of man can be of no more help to me as an instructor than a steersman who is seasick in a storm[...]. What good to me is a vomiting and stupefied helmsman? [...] What is needed is a steering hand, not talking.”",stoicism +7087,“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”,stoicism +7446,"“For a life spent viewing all the variety, the majesty, the sublimity in things around us can never succumb to ennui: the feeling that one is tired of being, of existing, is usually the result of an idle and inactive leisure.”",stoicism +6994,"“Every hour of the day, countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”",stoicism +7588,"“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.”",stoicism +7003,"“We need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.”",stoicism +7453,“We're never unhappy until we remember why we're supposed to be unhappy.”,stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +7596,"“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.”",stoicism +7143,"“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”",stoicism +7441,"“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”",stoicism +7377,“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”,stoicism +7241,“We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.”,stoicism +7002,"“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”",stoicism +7461,"“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”",stoicism +6882,"“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +7599,“Life is how you look at it.”,stoicism +7266,“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”,stoicism +7211,“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”,stoicism +7333,“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”,stoicism +7037,"“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”",stoicism +7279,“A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.”,stoicism +7576,“Not having expected an event makes it seem way better or worse than it really is.”,stoicism +7155,"“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”",stoicism +7156,"“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”",stoicism +6882,"“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +7382,"“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”",stoicism +7394,"“We sometimes learn, not from something, but from not having learned from it.”",stoicism +6850,"“[I]n a man praise is due only to what is his very own. Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him – they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away, what is peculiarly a man's. You ask what that is? It is his spirit, and the perfection of his reason in that spirit.”",stoicism +7468,“Optimism is an effort.”,stoicism +6882,"“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +6771,"“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”",stoicism +7411,“All vices are at odds with nature.”,stoicism +6989,"“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”",stoicism +7335,"“Seeing that our birth involves the blending of these two things—the body, on the one hand, that we share with animals, and, on the other hand, rationality and intelligence, that we share with the gods—most of us incline to this former relationship, wretched and dead though it is, while only a few to the one that is divine and blessed.”",stoicism +7624,"“There are two things that must be rooted out in human beings - arrogant opinion and mistrust. Arrogant opinion expects that there is nothing further needed, and mistrust assumes that under the torrent of circumstance there can be no happiness.”",stoicism +7505,“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”,stoicism +6994,"“Every hour of the day, countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”",stoicism +7154,“Hating our opponent benefits us. Underestimating them benefits them.”,stoicism +7172,“Some fools have children. Some have children who have children. And some have children who have children who have children.”,stoicism +7407,“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”,stoicism +6899,"“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”",stoicism +6822,"“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.”",stoicism +7453,“We're never unhappy until we remember why we're supposed to be unhappy.”,stoicism +7499,“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”,stoicism +7441,"“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”",stoicism +7479,“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”,stoicism +7185,“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”,stoicism +7016,"“In a little while you too will close your eyes, and soon there will be others mourning the man who buries you.”",stoicism +7605,"“Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods. But as only the maxims of our conduct, not the consequences or circumstances, are in our power, to be capable of always remaining consistent we must take as our object only the maxims, not the consequences and circumstances, and thus the doctrine of virtue is again introduced.” —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, p. 89”",stoicism +7208,“Alcohol is the worst thing to mix with anger.”,stoicism +6972,"“Let us too overcome all things, with our reward consisting not in any wreath or garland, not in trumpet-calls for silence for the ceremonial proclamation of our name, but in moral worth, in strength of spirit, in a peace that is won for ever once in any contest fortune has been utterly defeated.”",stoicism +6953,“Those who courageously choose to confront extreme hardships perceive their experience differently than others. They have the ability to envision something beyond the difficulties they encounter. Perhaps a glimmer of hope? Or perhaps another form of adversity? The truth is that the only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”,stoicism +6892,"“Stoicism, like a seasoned sculptor, fashions the raw marble of our attention into a well-honed pillar of focus. The true currency of our existence is not time, but attention. The past and the future are but shadows and specters that have no claim over the vivacious vitality of the present moment. Stoicism implores us to dispense our attention wisely, not on the ephemeral apparitions of past regrets or future anxieties, but on the solid ground of the present.”",stoicism +7170,“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”,stoicism +7536,“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”,stoicism +7063,"“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.”",stoicism +7049,“A charming enemy comes to me as a friend; faults creep in calling themselves virtues; temerity cloaks itself with the name of courage; cowardice gets called moderation; and timidity passes itself off as caution.”,stoicism +7606,"“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero."" —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”",stoicism +7653,"“Why be concerned about others, come to that, when you've outdone your own self? Set yourself a limit which you couldn't even exceed if you wanted to, and say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them. If there were anything substantial in them they would sooner or later bring a sense of fullness; as it is they simply aggravate the thirst of those who swallow them.”",stoicism +7379,“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”,stoicism +6967,"“[A] man ought to be prepared in a manner for this also, to be able to be sufficient for himself and to be his own companion. [...] [S]o ought we also to be able to talk with ourselves, not to feel the want of others also, not to be unprovided with the means of passing our time; to observe the divine administration and the relation of ourselves to everything else; to consider how we formerly were affected toward things that happen and how at present; what are still the things which give us pain; how these also can be cured and how removed; if any things require improvement, to improve them according to reason.”",stoicism +7676,"“Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.”",stoicism +7280,“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”,stoicism +7521,“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.”,stoicism +6913,"“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”",stoicism +7378,"“A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”",stoicism +6970,"“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +6893,"“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”",stoicism +6956,"“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals that I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find food and bad? In me, in my choices.”",stoicism +7095,"“It is sometimes foolish to assume that someone is wise, or vice versa.”",stoicism +7233,“To give something or someone your attention is to give it or them a portion of your life.”,stoicism +7118,“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”,stoicism +7540,“A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.”,stoicism +7429,“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”,stoicism +7533,“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”,stoicism +7172,“Some fools have children. Some have children who have children. And some have children who have children who have children.”,stoicism +7115,"“So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.”",stoicism +7280,“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”,stoicism +6916,"“I am not like the Gods! That was a painful thrust; I'm like the worm that burrows in the dust, Who, as he makes of dust his meager meal, Is crushed and buried by a wanderers heel Is it not dust that stares from every rack And narrows down this vaulting den? This moth's world full of bric-a-brac In which I live as in a pen? Here I should find for what I care? Should I read in a thousand books, maybe, That men have always suffered everywhere, Though now and then some man lived happily?- Why, hollow skull, do you grin like a faun? Save that your brain, like mine, once in dismay Searched for light day, but foundered in the heavy dawn”",stoicism +6917,"“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”",stoicism +7633,“Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.”,stoicism +7480,"“What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”",stoicism +7589,"“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”",stoicism +7258,"“I sacrificed much to be where I am today, yet I will sacrifice much more to get to where I need to be someday.”",stoicism +7409,"“So the spirit must be trained to a realization and an acceptance of its lot. It must come to see that there is nothing fortune will shrink from[.] There's no ground for resentment in all this. We've entered into a world in which these are the terms life is lived on – if you're satisfied with that, submit to them, if you're not, get out, whatever way you please.”",stoicism +7320,“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”,stoicism +7107,"“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”",stoicism +7641,"“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”",stoicism +7410,“[A] man is wealthy if he has attuned himself to his restricted means and has made himself rich on little.”,stoicism +7548,“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”,stoicism +7242,“Arrogance gives confidence … a bad name.”,stoicism +6920,“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”,stoicism +7184,"“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”",stoicism +7067,“The present moment is the entirety of reality.”,stoicism +7380,"“To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.”",stoicism +7032,"“True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.”",stoicism +7533,“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”,stoicism +6913,"“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”",stoicism +7115,"“So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.”",stoicism +7393,"“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”",stoicism +7341,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”,stoicism +7650,"“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +6771,"“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”",stoicism +7666,“I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.”,stoicism +7073,“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”,stoicism +7023,“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”,stoicism +7421,"“Один из главных принципов стоицизма состоит в умении различать вещи, которыми мы можем управлять и которыми — нет.”",stoicism +7222,“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”,stoicism +6806,"“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”",stoicism +6929,"“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”",stoicism +6778,"“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”",stoicism +7002,"“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”",stoicism +6868,"“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”",stoicism +7428,"“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”",stoicism +7585,"“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, ""I have to go to work - as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for - the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”",stoicism +6977,"“Do not underestimate the quiet and laid-back individuals because displaying stoicism, at certain times, is a superpower.”",stoicism +6900,"“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”",stoicism +7173,“Stoicism is a mild form of pessimism … sprinkled with optimism.”,stoicism +6921,“The closest we can get to “winning” at life is to never give up.”,stoicism +6823,"“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.”",stoicism +6889,"“...what will you do when you are dead? ""My name will remain."" Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? ""But I shall wear a crown of gold."" If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”",stoicism +7442,“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”,stoicism +7397,“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”,stoicism +7356,“The vast majority of people make complaining seem to be a basic human need.”,stoicism +7394,"“We sometimes learn, not from something, but from not having learned from it.”",stoicism +7189,“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”,stoicism +7191,“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”,stoicism +6873,"“For the military community, philosophy isn't something casually debated. But something that should be fully embodied in everyday thought and action, with the abandonment of all principles not shown practical in the most extreme of environments.”",stoicism +7621,"“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”",stoicism +7023,“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”,stoicism +6996,"“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: ""I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”",stoicism +6881,"“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”",stoicism +7279,“A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.”,stoicism +7242,“Arrogance gives confidence … a bad name.”,stoicism +6868,"“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”",stoicism +6922,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it,”",stoicism +7630,"“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”",stoicism +7665,"“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”",stoicism +7647,"“If you apply yourself to study you will avoid all boredom with life, you will not long for night because you are sick of daylight, you will be neither a burden to yourself nor useless to others, you will attract many to become your friends and the finest people will flock about you.”",stoicism +7107,"“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”",stoicism +7475,“We are forever getting closer to the dreaded moment that will finally confirm that we will not live forever.”,stoicism +7591,“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”,stoicism +6932,"“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits open here and there, and those very cracks, in one way a failure of the baker's profession, somehow catch the eye and give particular stimulus to our appetite.”",stoicism +7489,“Having problems is not nearly as tormenting as being had by problems.”,stoicism +7450,"“We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.”",stoicism +6930,"“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”",stoicism +7349,“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”,stoicism +7570,“It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.”,stoicism +7167,"“Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.”",stoicism +7046,"“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”",stoicism +7585,"“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, ""I have to go to work - as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for - the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”",stoicism +7273,"“Si len úbohá dušička nesúca mŕtvolu,” ako vravel Epiktetos.”",stoicism +7665,"“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”",stoicism +7161,"“People seek retreats for themselves in the countryside by the seashore, in the hills, and you too have made it your habit to long for that above all else. But this is altogether unphilosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself whenever you please; for nowhere can one retreat into greater peace or freedom from care than within one’s own soul, especially when a person has such things within him that he merely has to look at them to recover from that moment perfect ease of mind (and by ease of mind I mean nothing other than having one’s mind in good order). So constantly grant yourself this retreat and so renew yourself; but keep within you concise and basic precepts that will be enough, at first encounter, to cleanse you from all distress and to send you back without discontent to the life to which you will return.”",stoicism +6904,"“True focus requires wisdom in choosing the worthy target, courage in maintaining a resolute mind, and prudence in knowing when to exert effort and when to seek rest. Master these elements, and you begin to understand the nature of focus.”",stoicism +6964,"“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”",stoicism +7170,“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”,stoicism +7409,"“So the spirit must be trained to a realization and an acceptance of its lot. It must come to see that there is nothing fortune will shrink from[.] There's no ground for resentment in all this. We've entered into a world in which these are the terms life is lived on – if you're satisfied with that, submit to them, if you're not, get out, whatever way you please.”",stoicism +6802,"“Stop wandering about! You aren't likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you've collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can.”",stoicism +7457,“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”,stoicism +7229,“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”,stoicism +7652,"“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”",stoicism +7239,“Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”,stoicism +7144,"“He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.”",stoicism +6791,"“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.”",stoicism +7519,"“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”",stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +6807,"“I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any leaf, any insect, any bird, any breeze could bring me to my true home. I knew I did not belong among people. Whatever they hated about me was a human thing; the nonhuman world has always loved me. I can't remember when it was otherwise. But I have been emotionally crippled by this. There is nothing romantic about being young and angry, or even about turning that anger into art. I go through the motions of living in society, but never feel a part of it. When my family threw me away, every human on earth did likewise.”",stoicism +6999,“Amor Fati”,stoicism +7134,"“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”",stoicism +7332,"“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...] Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”",stoicism +7207,"“It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”",stoicism +7545,“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”,stoicism +7052,"“We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down. Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.”",stoicism +6796,"“You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is.”",stoicism +6995,"“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, ""I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”",stoicism +7046,"“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”",stoicism +7567,“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”,stoicism +7378,"“A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”",stoicism +7053,"“The first sign of a settled mind is that it can stay in one place and spend time with itself.” – Seneca, Letter 2.1”",stoicism +7648,"“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.”",stoicism +7250,"“Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.”",stoicism +7222,“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”,stoicism +7598,"“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”",stoicism +7585,"“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, ""I have to go to work - as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for - the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”",stoicism +7428,"“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”",stoicism +7285,“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”,stoicism +7316,“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”,stoicism +6961,"“Add nothing of your own from within, and that's an end of it.”",stoicism +6818,"“40. The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help him in this way. You will say, perhaps, ‘But all that is something they have put in my own power.’ Then surely it were better to use your power and be a free man, than to hanker like a slave and a beggar for something that is not in your power. Besides, who told you the gods never lend their aid even towards things that do lie in our own power? Begin praying in this way, and you will see. Where another man prays ‘Grant that I may possess this woman,’ let your own prayer be, ‘Grant that I may not lust to possess her.’ Where he prays, ‘Grant me to be rid of such-and-such a one,’ you pray, ‘Take from me my desire to be rid of him.’ Where he begs, ‘Spare me the loss of my precious child,’ beg rather to be delivered from the terror of losing him. In short, give your petitions a turn in this direction, and see what comes.”",stoicism +7281,"“Some people are lucky to no longer be, and some are unlucky to still be, alive.”",stoicism +6786,"“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”",stoicism +6941,"“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”",stoicism +6989,"“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”",stoicism +6927,“The crossing of a blue bridge which bystanders who cannot distinguish from the blue of the horizon deem invisible.”,stoicism +7246,"“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”",stoicism +6815,"“Remember that all we have is “on loan” from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long.”",stoicism +7142,“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”,stoicism +7287,"“Unless you learn your lesson, it will keep hurting. Not only it will never stop, it will also keep increasing the amount, so you won’t get used to it.”",stoicism +6868,"“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”",stoicism +7661,"“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.”",stoicism +7514,“We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.”,stoicism +6806,"“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”",stoicism +7049,“A charming enemy comes to me as a friend; faults creep in calling themselves virtues; temerity cloaks itself with the name of courage; cowardice gets called moderation; and timidity passes itself off as caution.”,stoicism +7118,“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”,stoicism +7266,“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”,stoicism +7071,“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”,stoicism +6950,"“...That's exactly it, my dear friend,'' the future rector had once told him regarding Existentialism, when he was already doing postgraduate work in psychology to achieve his doctorate, ''for this is nothing but a noögenic neuroses due to which such people end up feeling as if they were lost in space and time.'' ''That which the Greek Stoics used to call agnoia, isn't it, or the spiritual ignorance of Man,'' the future professor had answered while they were in the university canteen having a coffee together. ''Correct. In fact, noögenic neuroses do not emerge from conflicts between drives and instincts but rather from spiritual and existential problems...”",stoicism +7376,"“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”",stoicism +6868,"“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”",stoicism +7469,"“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”",stoicism +6885,"“You will feel pain. You need to accept this truth. ... When it comes, accept it; embrace it. Realize it's a sensation like any other...the same as being hot or cold. Put it to one side and do what must be done. Don't let it overwhelm or control you. Ever.”",stoicism +6960,"“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”",stoicism +7022,“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”,stoicism +6930,"“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”",stoicism +7025,"“Nature is content with few things, and with a very little of these.”",stoicism +7092,“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.”,stoicism +6897,"“Distractions are the relentless waves of the ocean, crashing against the shores of our consciousness. They erode our resolve, and little by little, wash away the sandcastles of our focus. They arrive in various guises: the allure of trivial pleasures, the lure of the inconsequential, the din of idle gossip, the chains of past regret and the ghostly shadows of future anxieties. Each wave seeks to pull us into the depths of irrelevance, away from the firm ground of meaningful pursuits.”",stoicism +6787,"“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”",stoicism +7562,“Suffering adds spice to life.”,stoicism +7504,“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”,stoicism +7335,"“Seeing that our birth involves the blending of these two things—the body, on the one hand, that we share with animals, and, on the other hand, rationality and intelligence, that we share with the gods—most of us incline to this former relationship, wretched and dead though it is, while only a few to the one that is divine and blessed.”",stoicism +7339,"“The fear of being poor or broke is a blessing, if you are a successful entrepreneur; but is a curse, if you want to be an entrepreneur.”",stoicism +7092,“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.”,stoicism +7641,"“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”",stoicism +7455,"“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”",stoicism +7561,“[M]aking noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already. (Letter XVI)”,stoicism +7395,“We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.”,stoicism +7057,“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”,stoicism +7623,“Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.”,stoicism +7432,“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”,stoicism +7408,“The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”,stoicism +6924,"“It matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is”",stoicism +7259,“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”,stoicism +7155,"“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”",stoicism +7554,"“Just as I prepared to stand and bow, a woman appeared with a miniature coffee cup in her hand. She offered it to me. As I took it, I noticed two things: Bugs crawling on the ground and the men approving of me by snapping their fingers. I bowed and took a sip of the coffee and almost fainted. I had a cockroach on my tongue. I looked at the peoples' faces and I could not spit it out. My grandmother would have pushed away the grave's dirt and traveled by willpower to show me her face of abject disappointment. I could not bear that. I opened my throat and drank the cup dry. I counted four cockroaches.”",stoicism +6873,"“For the military community, philosophy isn't something casually debated. But something that should be fully embodied in everyday thought and action, with the abandonment of all principles not shown practical in the most extreme of environments.”",stoicism +7162,“Hunger is by far the best spice.”,stoicism +7580,"“Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.”",stoicism +7015,"“It is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil. They achieve what they want laboriously; they possess what they have achieved anxiously; and meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.”",stoicism +6945,"“Rasa susah, khawtir, cemas karena peristiwa eksternal sebernarnya tidak datang dari peristiwa hidup itu sendiri, tetapi dari persepsi dan opini kita sendiri, dan sepenuhnya dibawah kendali kita.”",stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +7246,"“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”",stoicism +7451,"“Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, “This is an accident of mortality.” But if anyone’s own child happens to die, it is immediately, “Alas! how wretched am I!” It should be always remembered how we are affected on hearing the same thing concerning others.”",stoicism +7528,“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”,stoicism +7307,"“We get a taste of death, not when we’re asleep, but when we awake.”",stoicism +7636,"“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”",stoicism +7587,“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”,stoicism +7177,"“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”",stoicism +7294,"“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”",stoicism +7597,"“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”",stoicism +7275,"“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”",stoicism +7672,"“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”",stoicism +7594,"“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”",stoicism +6805,"“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”",stoicism +7454,"“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”",stoicism +6789,"“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”",stoicism +7090,“Every life is a different path to death.”,stoicism +7545,“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”,stoicism +7281,"“Some people are lucky to no longer be, and some are unlucky to still be, alive.”",stoicism +7169,“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”,stoicism +7423,"“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”",stoicism +7652,"“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”",stoicism +7240,“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”,stoicism +6912,"“A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.”",stoicism +6861,"“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.”",stoicism +7123,"“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”",stoicism +7603,"“The man who looks for the morrow without worrying over it knows a peaceful independence and a happiness beyond all others. Whoever has said, ""I have lived' receives a windfall every day he gets up in the morning.”",stoicism +7569,“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”,stoicism +7496,"“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”",stoicism +7623,“Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.”,stoicism +6820,"“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”",stoicism +7434,"“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”",stoicism +7467,“It takes patience to nurture patience.”,stoicism +7344,"“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”",stoicism +6959,"“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”",stoicism +6894,"“Luck plays such an overpowering role in some lives that the thoughtful person must ask: ‘Why have I been cursed with bad luck while another is blessed with so much good luck?’ Believe me, the fortunate person who receives the favorable breaks also wonders about his favored situation. In my case, I have no explanation. I was hardworking; I had a tough character; I was a good student; and I acknowledged the leadership of my superiors. But no amount of hard work or high standard of behavior could have brought the many good things that happened to me; pure chance dictated most of them. The only generalization I can offer is that in an irrational world if a prudent course has been followed, you make yourself eligible to capitalize on luck if it happens to strike. If you have not made yourself eligible, you may never be aware that luck is at hand. By all this I mean: learn typing, master math, learn to draft a convincing letter, broaden the mind, and do not evade challenges. Making oneself eligible to seize the breaks if and when they come is the only sensible strategy I know. Be prepared to make full use of any stroke of luck, and even if it never comes, the preparation in itself will be a worthy effort.” —Chapter VIII, “Writing”, page 289”",stoicism +6919,"“How much longer are you going to wait to demand the best for yourself?"" he asked her, as she sat quietly in the back.”",stoicism +7083,"“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”",stoicism +7339,"“The fear of being poor or broke is a blessing, if you are a successful entrepreneur; but is a curse, if you want to be an entrepreneur.”",stoicism +7111,“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”,stoicism +7074,“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”,stoicism +7461,"“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”",stoicism +7451,"“Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, “This is an accident of mortality.” But if anyone’s own child happens to die, it is immediately, “Alas! how wretched am I!” It should be always remembered how we are affected on hearing the same thing concerning others.”",stoicism +7607,"“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promises of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”",stoicism +7552,“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”,stoicism +6823,"“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.”",stoicism +7213,“Failing can ultimately be way more rewarding than succeeding.”,stoicism +7382,"“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”",stoicism +7033,“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”,stoicism +6822,"“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.”",stoicism +7341,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”,stoicism +7389,“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”,stoicism +6774,“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”,stoicism +6872,"“Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.”",stoicism +6965,"“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”",stoicism +7543,“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”,stoicism +7646,"“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”",stoicism +7653,"“Why be concerned about others, come to that, when you've outdone your own self? Set yourself a limit which you couldn't even exceed if you wanted to, and say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them. If there were anything substantial in them they would sooner or later bring a sense of fullness; as it is they simply aggravate the thirst of those who swallow them.”",stoicism +7119,“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”,stoicism +6816,"“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”",stoicism +7636,"“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”",stoicism +7592,“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”,stoicism +7589,"“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”",stoicism +7425,"“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”",stoicism +7038,“Remember you will die but do brave deeds and endure”,stoicism +7139,“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”,stoicism +7405,"“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we’ll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most out of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it’s time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for . . . all those are gone. So we need to hurry. Not just because we move daily closer to death but also because our understanding—our grasp of the world—may be gone before we get there.”",stoicism +6875,"“These deep interactions with Greek and Roman culture, to include Stoic philosophy, certainly affected the zeitgeist of the era and most certainly impacted the educational theories in the early days of the Republic. With so much interest in reviving and adopting elements of Stoic philosophy within America, many intended references to Stoic ethics may be hidden within the works of the early generations of America, as they explicitly referenced “American” ideals that would have incorporated Stoic philosophy.”",stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +7428,"“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”",stoicism +7426,"“If you admit to having derived great pleasures, your duty is not to complain about what has been taken away but to be thankful for what you have been given.”",stoicism +6889,"“...what will you do when you are dead? ""My name will remain."" Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? ""But I shall wear a crown of gold."" If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”",stoicism +7600,"“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”",stoicism +7556,"“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”",stoicism +7373,"“The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”",stoicism +6827,"“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”",stoicism +7115,"“So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.”",stoicism +7510,“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”,stoicism +7243,"“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”",stoicism +6886,"“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”",stoicism +7599,“Life is how you look at it.”,stoicism +7560,“Sometimes we have no luxury of choice. We must do certain things for survival. That should not stop us from doing the things we love.”,stoicism +6896,"“Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.”",stoicism +7162,“Hunger is by far the best spice.”,stoicism +7677,“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.”,stoicism +7410,“[A] man is wealthy if he has attuned himself to his restricted means and has made himself rich on little.”,stoicism +6827,"“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”",stoicism +7403,“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”,stoicism +7282,“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”,stoicism +7520,“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”,stoicism +7571,"“At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.”",stoicism +6865,"“With respect to Stoicism, Hadot has described four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude. They are, first, the Stoic consciousness of ""the fact that no being is alone, but that we make up part of a Whole, constituted by the totality of human beings as well as by the totality of the cosmos""; second, the Stoic ""feels absolutely serene, free, and invulnerable to the extent that he has become aware that there is no other evil but moral evil and that the only thing that counts is the purity of moral consciousness""; third, the Stoic ""believes in the absolute value of the human person,"" a belief that is ""at the origin of the modern notion of the 'rights of man'""; finally, the Stoic exercises his concentration ""on the present instant, which consists, on the one hand, in living as if we were seeing the world for the first and for the last time, and, on the other hand, in being conscious that, in this lived presence of the instant, we have access to the totality of time and of the world."" 17 Thus, for Hadot, cosmic consciousness, the purity of moral consciousness, the recognition of the equality and absolute value of human beings, and the concentration on the present instant represent the universal Stoic attitude. The universal Epicurean attitude essentially consists, by way of ""a certain discipline and reduction of desires, in returning from pleasures mixed with pain and suffering to the simple and pure pleasure of existing.”",stoicism +7407,“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”,stoicism +6887,"“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”",stoicism +7329,“Nothing can affect a person’s mind if he chooses not to be affected by it.”,stoicism +7370,"“Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Don’t stop it. Is it not yet come? Don’t stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a wife, to public posts, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy partner of the feasts of the gods. And if you don’t even take the things which are set before you, but are able even to reject them, then you will not only be a partner at the feasts of the gods, but also of their empire.”",stoicism +7257,"“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”",stoicism +7006,"“Life is a series of problems we must navigate with grace - one problem solved, another arises, again and again until we die.”",stoicism +7654,"“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.”",stoicism +7666,“I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.”,stoicism +7041,"“Fools act wise, not wisely.”",stoicism +6958,"“For when you have subjected to externals what is your own, then be a slave and do not resist, and do not sometimes choose to be a slave, and sometimes not choose, but with all your mind be one or the other.”",stoicism +7473,“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”,stoicism +7216,"“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”",stoicism +7350,"“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”",stoicism +7559,“Death is the release of an organism from the prison of life.”,stoicism +7630,"“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”",stoicism +7016,"“In a little while you too will close your eyes, and soon there will be others mourning the man who buries you.”",stoicism +6845,“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”,stoicism +6923,"“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”",stoicism +7425,"“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”",stoicism +7204,"“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”",stoicism +6855,"“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”",stoicism +7466,“The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.”,stoicism +7054,"“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”",stoicism +6989,"“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”",stoicism +6838,“It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.”,stoicism +6816,"“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”",stoicism +6863,"“Your mind is your most powerful ally; master it, and no obstacle will ever stand in your way.”",stoicism +7519,"“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”",stoicism +7222,“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”,stoicism +6973,"“The most terrifying ghosts that haunt us are the ones of our dead dreams, especially if we were the murderers.”",stoicism +6987,"“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”",stoicism +7243,"“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”",stoicism +7201,"“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”",stoicism +7110,"“What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad- as terrible a blindness as the kind that can't tell white from black.”",stoicism +7320,“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”,stoicism +7381,"“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”",stoicism +7058,"“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”",stoicism +7023,“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”,stoicism +7503,"“There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”",stoicism +7126,“Most people would rather believe something that is not true about something than accept the fact that they do not understand a thing about that thing.”,stoicism +6792,"“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”",stoicism +7531,“Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.”,stoicism +7291,"“However one may interpret this culturally, the upshot is the same: people carry within them a great number of wishes to which they react passively and which they hide. Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them. To a patient who, let us say, is interminably rationalizing and justifying this and that, balancing one thing against another as though life were a tremendous market place where all the business is done on paper and tickertape and there are never any goods , I sometimes have the inclination in psychotherapy to shout out, “Don't you ever want anything?” But I don't cry out, for it is not difficult to see that on some level the patient does want a good deal; the trouble is he has formulated and reformulated it, until it is the “rattling of dry bones,” as Eliot puts it. Tendencies have become endemic in our culture for our denial of wishes to be rationalized and accepted with the belief that this denial of the wish will result in its being fulfilled. And whether the reader would disagree with me on this or that detail, our psychological problem is the same: it is necessary for us to help the patient achieve some emotional viability and honesty by bringing out his wishes and his capacity to wish. This is not the end of therapy but it is an essential starting point.”",stoicism +7527,“Meditation betters not only the mind but also the brain.”,stoicism +7606,"“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero."" —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”",stoicism +6869,"“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of or a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? Do not expect it, even if I tell you”",stoicism +7571,"“At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.”",stoicism +6949,“We are existing in a thin sliver of light between two potentially infinite portions of darkness.”,stoicism +6992,“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”,stoicism +7675,"“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward."" Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”",stoicism +7531,“Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.”,stoicism +7428,"“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”",stoicism +7211,“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”,stoicism +7377,“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”,stoicism +7538,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”,stoicism +7094,“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”,stoicism +7285,“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”,stoicism +6785,"“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”",stoicism +7561,“[M]aking noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already. (Letter XVI)”,stoicism +7105,"“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”",stoicism +7528,“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”,stoicism +7027,"“Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquillity that they had stood mesmerized.”",stoicism +7266,“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”,stoicism +7665,"“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”",stoicism +6929,"“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”",stoicism +7244,"“There is usually at least one person praying for a situation, or an outcome, that is the exact opposite of the one someone or some people are praying for.”",stoicism +7621,"“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”",stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +7677,“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.”,stoicism +7459,“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”,stoicism +7444,"“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”",stoicism +7149,"“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”",stoicism +7314,“Nobody is stopping you from using things such as your ability to read or hear as your definition of ‘success’ or ‘wealth’.”,stoicism +7460,“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”,stoicism +7196,"“Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?”",stoicism +7382,"“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”",stoicism +7037,"“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”",stoicism +7604,"“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.”",stoicism +7346,"“Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.”",stoicism +7186,“One of the main goals and effects of stoicism is to stop an adult from being a crybaby.”,stoicism +6937,“Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.”,stoicism +7611,"“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”",stoicism +6812,"“In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.”",stoicism +7325,“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”,stoicism +7054,"“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”",stoicism +7166,"“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”",stoicism +6781,“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”,stoicism +7376,"“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”",stoicism +7071,“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”,stoicism +7667,"“During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.”",stoicism +7022,“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”,stoicism +7268,"“Be someone who is cool under pressure. Value serenity instead of outrage. It seems that our culture is moving in the wrong direction here. If you are blessed enough to not be on social media, you might be surprised to learn that the angriest, most passionate public figures are rewarded with the most clicks and biggest audiences. Our culture has begun to confuse passion with substance, reward the loudest and angriest voices, and thus incentivize behavior wholly at odds with Stoic wisdom. The number of decibels your voice hits as you scream about how right you are is not necessarily an indicator of how much sense you are making. As a society founded on reason and Western Enlightenment ideals, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. We have to collectively stop allowing emotion and passion to pass for reason and factual debate.”",stoicism +7523,“All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.”,stoicism +6804,"“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”",stoicism +7496,"“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”",stoicism +7618,"“Oh, dear me!"" he lamented. ""The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now."" ""Well, never mind. We're not on it,"" said Snufkin gaily. ""What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!”",stoicism +6859,"“Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.”",stoicism +7545,“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”,stoicism +7374,"“And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.”",stoicism +7371,“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”,stoicism +7187,“We all too often invite a lie by asking someone how he or she is doing.”,stoicism +6884,"“In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.”",stoicism +7386,"“Истории о великих деяниях не только вдохновляют нас, не только будят в нас все лучшее и усиливают нашу веру в человека, но и напоминают о том, насколько проще и безопаснее стала сегодня жизнь для большинства из нас. Разве требуется так уж много мужества, чтобы противостоять боссу, который плохо обошелся с вашим коллегой? Худшее, что с вами может случиться, — это увольнение. Но ведь вас не будут пытать и не посадят в одиночную камеру, как Стокдейла, так неужели трудно вести себя достойно и честно в повседневной жизни? Если на то пошло, сохранить свою честь можно и не прибегая к жестокому самоубийству, как Катон. Только представьте, насколько лучше стал бы наш мир, если бы все мы каждый день проявляли чуть больше мужества, мудрости, умеренности и боролись против несправедливости.”",stoicism +7672,"“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”",stoicism +6965,"“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”",stoicism +7595,"“What would Heracles have been if he had said, ""How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men?"" What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.”",stoicism +7270,"“See? You're using the stoic glacier method."" ""Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?"" ""It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”",stoicism +7395,“We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.”,stoicism +7262,“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”,stoicism +6844,"“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”",stoicism +7182,"“Happiness is sweet; its pursuit, bitter.”",stoicism +7145,“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”,stoicism +7189,“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”,stoicism +7498,"“We have control over when, how, and where to plant a seed, not over what it will become.”",stoicism +7046,"“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”",stoicism +7530,“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”,stoicism +7445,“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”,stoicism +7163,“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”,stoicism +7638,"“At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.”",stoicism +7226,“Death is freedom from life.”,stoicism +6961,"“Add nothing of your own from within, and that's an end of it.”",stoicism +7508,“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”,stoicism +7458,"“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”",stoicism +6868,"“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”",stoicism +7317,"“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”",stoicism +6865,"“With respect to Stoicism, Hadot has described four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude. They are, first, the Stoic consciousness of ""the fact that no being is alone, but that we make up part of a Whole, constituted by the totality of human beings as well as by the totality of the cosmos""; second, the Stoic ""feels absolutely serene, free, and invulnerable to the extent that he has become aware that there is no other evil but moral evil and that the only thing that counts is the purity of moral consciousness""; third, the Stoic ""believes in the absolute value of the human person,"" a belief that is ""at the origin of the modern notion of the 'rights of man'""; finally, the Stoic exercises his concentration ""on the present instant, which consists, on the one hand, in living as if we were seeing the world for the first and for the last time, and, on the other hand, in being conscious that, in this lived presence of the instant, we have access to the totality of time and of the world."" 17 Thus, for Hadot, cosmic consciousness, the purity of moral consciousness, the recognition of the equality and absolute value of human beings, and the concentration on the present instant represent the universal Stoic attitude. The universal Epicurean attitude essentially consists, by way of ""a certain discipline and reduction of desires, in returning from pleasures mixed with pain and suffering to the simple and pure pleasure of existing.”",stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +7432,“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”,stoicism +6959,"“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”",stoicism +7505,“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”,stoicism +6806,"“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”",stoicism +7549,"“It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing”",stoicism +7138,“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”,stoicism +7464,"“When pain comes, it must not derail you from your set virtues. If it does, you have failed to practice your virtues by going with the hype of pain.”",stoicism +7294,"“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”",stoicism +7048,"“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”",stoicism +6986,"“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”",stoicism +7636,"“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”",stoicism +7642,"“And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +7567,“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”,stoicism +7042,“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”,stoicism +7650,"“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +6831,"“I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.”",stoicism +7365,"“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now"".”",stoicism +7649,"“Hour by hour resolve firmly to do what comes to hand with dignity, and with humanity, independence, and justice. Allow your mind freedom from all other considerations. This you can do, if you will approach each action as though it were your last, dismissing the desire to create an impression, the admiration of self, the discontent with your lot. See how little man needs to master, for his days to flow on in quietness and piety: he has but to observe these few counsels, and the gods will ask nothing more.”",stoicism +7498,"“We have control over when, how, and where to plant a seed, not over what it will become.”",stoicism +7111,“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”,stoicism +7166,"“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”",stoicism +7468,“Optimism is an effort.”,stoicism +6788,“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”,stoicism +6946,"“As the still dawn breaks and first light graces the horizon, we humans are presented with tremendous opportunity. We are gifted with a fresh start, a blank canvas upon which we can paint however we choose.”",stoicism +7381,"“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”",stoicism +7165,“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”,stoicism +7214,"“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”",stoicism +7002,"“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”",stoicism +6845,“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”,stoicism +7034,“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”,stoicism +7224,"“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”",stoicism +7565,“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”,stoicism +7487,"“Once you make a decision and then act on it, you have actually fulfilled the object of the game. This will probably surprise you, but what happens next in the hand after you act is not important. It does not matter what your opponents do next and it's immaterial whether or not you win the hand. The most important thing is that you understand why you're making the play and what goal you're trying to accomplish.”",stoicism +7504,“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”,stoicism +7153,"“No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair” does not even come close. It’s grotesque. How easily this could shatter a person, how easily and understandably it might cause them to toss away everything they ever believed, to hate a world that could be so cruel. Yet somehow we have Marcus Aurelius”",stoicism +7333,“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”,stoicism +7620,"“Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.”",stoicism +7275,"“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”",stoicism +7136,“It is foolish to expect a fool to act wisely.”,stoicism +6913,"“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”",stoicism +7654,"“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.”",stoicism +6838,“It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.”,stoicism +6868,"“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”",stoicism +7165,“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”,stoicism +6794,“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”,stoicism +7660,“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”,stoicism +7238,“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”,stoicism +7253,"“It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”",stoicism +7334,"“All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.”",stoicism +6920,“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”,stoicism +6913,"“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”",stoicism +7338,"“Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.”",stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +6878,"“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”",stoicism +7462,"“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”",stoicism +6811,"“If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.”",stoicism +6955,"“You never know what will be the consequence of misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune”",stoicism +7167,"“Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.”",stoicism +6992,“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”,stoicism +7403,“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”,stoicism +6902,“True focus is the ability to summon our mental strength when it is required and to let it rest when it is not.”,stoicism +6932,"“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits open here and there, and those very cracks, in one way a failure of the baker's profession, somehow catch the eye and give particular stimulus to our appetite.”",stoicism +6984,"“If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.”",stoicism +7502,"“I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. [...] Truth lies open to everyone.”",stoicism +7004,“The ability to do without a kingdom is a kingdom.”,stoicism +7612,"“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”",stoicism +7427,"“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”",stoicism +7520,“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”,stoicism +7357,"“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”",stoicism +6778,"“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”",stoicism +6843,"“For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.”",stoicism +7261,“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”,stoicism +7022,“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”,stoicism +6999,“Amor Fati”,stoicism +7288,"“You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.”",stoicism +6943,"“Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another one follows and is gone.”",stoicism +7422,"“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”",stoicism +6937,“Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.”,stoicism +6939,“We human beings are not hive animals. We aren’t like bees or ants who just work constantly for the good of the community.”,stoicism +7162,“Hunger is by far the best spice.”,stoicism +7564,“Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”,stoicism +7403,“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”,stoicism +6963,“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”,stoicism +7286,“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”,stoicism +6798,“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”,stoicism +6934,"“The afternoon presents an intersection where the momentum that we have gained in the morning may be either sustained or lost – where we can choose to either build on the morning’s foundations and embrace our challenges, or allow the stress and frustration of the day to ruin all our hard work.”",stoicism +7191,“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”,stoicism +7108,"“When that which we are enjoying is a true good, we feel joy; when it is not, we feel, at best, pleasure.”",stoicism +7417,“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”,stoicism +7265,“man was given two ears and one mouth for a reason”,stoicism +7134,"“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”",stoicism +7602,"“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”",stoicism +7111,“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”,stoicism +7269,"“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”",stoicism +7426,"“If you admit to having derived great pleasures, your duty is not to complain about what has been taken away but to be thankful for what you have been given.”",stoicism +7280,“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”,stoicism +7096,"“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”",stoicism +6986,"“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”",stoicism +7070,"“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”",stoicism +6901,"“Beware the folly of lending your focus to vain pursuits. Just as a river, when it is split into countless rivulets, loses its force and becomes but a whimper, a mind divided by trivial pursuits dissipates its strength. Focus, therefore, is not merely concentration, it is selection; not merely observation, it is dedication.”",stoicism +7573,“Judgments are the only possible cause of unhappiness and happiness.”,stoicism +6839,"“Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.”",stoicism +7021,“A cup with a broken handle can still handle its task.”,stoicism +7184,"“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”",stoicism +7556,"“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”",stoicism +7214,"“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”",stoicism +7645,"“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.”",stoicism +6951,“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”,stoicism +6936,“Humans are not made for sitting at a desk all day. We have been evolving for millions of years to hunt animals through dense forest and vast plains. To walk huge distances in search of water. To spend hours searching for edible fruit to bring home to our families. The sedentary lifestyle many of us lead these days is no more than a by-product of the last few centuries.”,stoicism +6860,“The ignorant blame others for their own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise see all blame as foolishness.”,stoicism +7483,“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”,stoicism +7627,"“The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.”",stoicism +7300,"“Rubaiyat Revină-n glasul meu persanul vers Spre a ne aminti că timpul-i un divers Mod de-a urzi avide visuri vane, În taine risipite-n univers. Din nou să spună că țărână-i focul, Țărână-i trupul, și că asta-i jocul: Viața mea și-a ta sunt râu ce curge Necontenit și repede-n tot locul. Și că impunătorul monument Zidit cu trudă, din trufie, lent, Un vânt fugar e numai, că-n lumina Lui Dumnezeu un veac e un moment. ... Te rog, persană lună, să revii, Și voi, incerte-apusuri aurii. Azi e ieri. Nu ește decât ceilalți. Tărână-i chipul lor. Cu morții-învii.”",stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +6895,"“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.”",stoicism +7220,“To plan is to hope … without feeling passive.”,stoicism +6942,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it.”",stoicism +7422,"“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”",stoicism +7523,“All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.”,stoicism +6989,"“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”",stoicism +7407,“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”,stoicism +6827,"“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”",stoicism +7429,“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”,stoicism +7245,“Living is the outside of dying.”,stoicism +7225,“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”,stoicism +7598,"“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”",stoicism +7664,"“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...”",stoicism +7130,“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”,stoicism +6770,“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”,stoicism +7156,"“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”",stoicism +7117,"“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”",stoicism +6959,"“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”",stoicism +7274,“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”,stoicism +6960,"“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”",stoicism +7277,"“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”",stoicism +7138,“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”,stoicism +7178,"“Sometimes we want not freedom of choice, but freedom from choice.”",stoicism +7593,"“[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from being disobedient to the spirit. Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather.”",stoicism +6886,"“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”",stoicism +6903,"“Imagine, if you will, a bird in flight. When it must overcome the gusts that hinder its path, it beats its wings with unyielding force. Yet, when it soars high in the sky, it spreads its wings and rides the wind, at peace in its journey. This is the model of focus we must aspire to: resolute in the face of opposition, tranquil in the embrace of flow.”",stoicism +6827,"“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”",stoicism +7325,“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”,stoicism +7454,"“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”",stoicism +7441,"“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”",stoicism +6942,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it.”",stoicism +7598,"“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”",stoicism +7584,“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”,stoicism +6918,“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”,stoicism +6849,"“If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defence against what was said, but answer, He surely knew not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!”",stoicism +7655,“The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.”,stoicism +6982,"“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”",stoicism +6972,"“Let us too overcome all things, with our reward consisting not in any wreath or garland, not in trumpet-calls for silence for the ceremonial proclamation of our name, but in moral worth, in strength of spirit, in a peace that is won for ever once in any contest fortune has been utterly defeated.”",stoicism +7533,“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”,stoicism +6998,"“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”",stoicism +7445,“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”,stoicism +6996,"“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: ""I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”",stoicism +7428,"“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”",stoicism +7301,“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”,stoicism +7210,“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”,stoicism +7171,“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”,stoicism +6816,"“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”",stoicism +7002,"“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”",stoicism +7074,“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”,stoicism +7295,"“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”",stoicism +6912,"“A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.”",stoicism +7184,"“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”",stoicism +7282,“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”,stoicism +7142,“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”,stoicism +7335,"“Seeing that our birth involves the blending of these two things—the body, on the one hand, that we share with animals, and, on the other hand, rationality and intelligence, that we share with the gods—most of us incline to this former relationship, wretched and dead though it is, while only a few to the one that is divine and blessed.”",stoicism +7655,“The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.”,stoicism +7028,“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”,stoicism +7425,"“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”",stoicism +7240,“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”,stoicism +6781,“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”,stoicism +7099,"“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”",stoicism +7505,“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”,stoicism +7553,"“After failure, it is possible to keep going– and to fail better.”",stoicism +7127,“That we can change the shadow of an object without changing the object (by changing the position of the source of light) reminds us that we can change how we feel about a situation or person by changing only how we look at it or them.”,stoicism +7177,"“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”",stoicism +7437,“Even in the longest life real living is the least portion thereof.”,stoicism +7142,“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”,stoicism +6777,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”",stoicism +6891,"“Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”",stoicism +7117,"“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”",stoicism +7445,“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”,stoicism +6859,"“Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.”",stoicism +7417,“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”,stoicism +7467,“It takes patience to nurture patience.”,stoicism +7085,"“The goodness inside you is like a small flame, and you are its keeper. It’s your job, today and every day, to make sure that it has enough fuel, that it doesn’t get obstructed or snuffed out. Every person has their own version of the flame and is responsible for it, just as you are. If they all fail, the world will be much darker—that is something you don’t control. But so long as your flame flickers, there will be some light in the world.”",stoicism +6947,"“When we first wake up our minds are clear, which makes this the opportune time to direct our focus inwards, to organize our thoughts and to set our daily intentions through a few moments of meditation. Our duties and obligations have not yet begun to crowd our schedule, and the clarity of the dawn creates an open, undistracted mental space.”",stoicism +7309,“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”,stoicism +7501,"“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.”",stoicism +7638,"“At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.”",stoicism +6810,"“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, ""What are your thinking about?"" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”",stoicism +7509,“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”,stoicism +7473,“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”,stoicism +7271,"“There was no meaning in why he was here, but he was, and that was enough.”",stoicism +6914,“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”,stoicism +6970,"“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +7493,"“Whereas a belief in an absurd world arises out of the fundamental disharmony of a person searching for meaning in an apparently meaninglessness universe, an existential nihilist displays impassive intellectual stoicism towards their eventual mortality while embracing a passionate artistic commitment to munity against the underlying syndrome of insignificance and confusion encasing life.”",stoicism +7230,“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”,stoicism +7501,"“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.”",stoicism +7521,“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.”,stoicism +7678,"“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: ""I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire to warm oneself on the coldest day, no water to drink but what was tainted, no earth to set the foot on, and scarcely any air to breathe. Yet, with all these miserable circumstances, we spent many a happy hour by candlelight in that wretched cabin whilst I sewed and he read the Bible to me.”",stoicism +7327,"“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”",stoicism +7316,“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”,stoicism +7022,“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”,stoicism +7159,"“Saving money, when buying an unnecessary thing, leads to wasting time, when using the thing.”",stoicism +7363,“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”,stoicism +7652,"“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”",stoicism +7025,"“Nature is content with few things, and with a very little of these.”",stoicism +7478,“Every second is a step away from our mothers’ wombs towards our own tombs.”,stoicism +7584,“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”,stoicism +7219,“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”,stoicism +6779,"“Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.”",stoicism +7593,"“[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from being disobedient to the spirit. Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather.”",stoicism +7567,“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”,stoicism +7011,"“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”",stoicism +7020,“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”,stoicism +7646,"“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”",stoicism +6774,“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”,stoicism +6888,"“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.”",stoicism +7570,“It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.”,stoicism +7143,"“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”",stoicism +6834,"“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.”",stoicism +6915,“Life is short but life is long”,stoicism +6993,"“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”",stoicism +7008,"“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. - Book: ""The Obstacle is the Way”",stoicism +6946,"“As the still dawn breaks and first light graces the horizon, we humans are presented with tremendous opportunity. We are gifted with a fresh start, a blank canvas upon which we can paint however we choose.”",stoicism +7548,“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”,stoicism +7622,"“Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.”",stoicism +7051,"“Most people frequently waste their life, mostly in front of a screen.”",stoicism +6832,“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”,stoicism +6986,"“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”",stoicism +7623,“Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.”,stoicism +7596,"“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.”",stoicism +7564,“Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”,stoicism +7458,"“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”",stoicism +7230,“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”,stoicism +7379,“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”,stoicism +6874,"“Before concluding the discussion on Partridge’s connection to the Stoic tradition, I present what is probably the greatest proof Partridge was a Stoic: he suffered the public doom of one. Ironically, Partridge may have missed a powerful warning about his own fate within one of the key texts he used in his academies. A footnote within William Duncan’s translation of Cicero’s orations recalls the ill fortune of Quintus Aelius Tubero in the eyes of the people of Rome caused by his Stoic behavior at the funeral of Scipio Africanus: ""[It was the same from the study of Tubero] Cicero here ridicules the doctrine of the Stoics, shows the absurdities into which it may betray a man and paints the ill consequences that often arise from it. [Quintus Aelius] Tubero, of whom he speaks here had professed himself a Stoic and resolved to regulate his conduct by the tenets of that sect. Accordingly, in an entertainment he gave the Roman people on occasion of the death of the great Scipio Africanus he made use of plain wooden beds, goat skin covers, and earthen dishes. But this ill-timed parsimony was so displeasing to the Roman people that when he afterwards stood for the prætorship they refused him their suffrages though a man of illustrious birth and the most distinguished virtue."" Is there a passage more fitting for the legacy of Partridge and his Stoic behavior? Even when Partridge had built an ideal model for educating a complete virtue-driven citizen worthy of the Republic, few would find the lifestyle required appealing. Being a virtuous man with a sufficient plan for American education was not enough to guarantee his acceptance among the masses.”",stoicism +6868,"“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”",stoicism +7280,“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”,stoicism +7154,“Hating our opponent benefits us. Underestimating them benefits them.”,stoicism +7174,"“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”",stoicism +7592,“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”,stoicism +7287,"“Unless you learn your lesson, it will keep hurting. Not only it will never stop, it will also keep increasing the amount, so you won’t get used to it.”",stoicism +7245,“Living is the outside of dying.”,stoicism +7478,“Every second is a step away from our mothers’ wombs towards our own tombs.”,stoicism +7632,“Saiba que um teto de palha abriga o homem tão bem quanto o de ouro.”,stoicism +7414,“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”,stoicism +7639,"“Stoical' is the best word to describe her reaction to these compliments, Emma putting up with them as of they were one of my unfortunate foibles.”",stoicism +7540,“A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.”,stoicism +7206,“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”,stoicism +6792,"“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”",stoicism +7334,"“All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.”",stoicism +7446,"“For a life spent viewing all the variety, the majesty, the sublimity in things around us can never succumb to ennui: the feeling that one is tired of being, of existing, is usually the result of an idle and inactive leisure.”",stoicism +7483,“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”,stoicism +7227,“Not complaining is sometimes a show off of tolerance or patience.”,stoicism +6852,"“Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.”",stoicism +6914,“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”,stoicism +6854,"“There is the mind of a monarch within each of us, wanting to be granted complete freedom of action but not wanting it to be turned against us.”",stoicism +6847,"“Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.”",stoicism +7226,“Death is freedom from life.”,stoicism +7647,"“If you apply yourself to study you will avoid all boredom with life, you will not long for night because you are sick of daylight, you will be neither a burden to yourself nor useless to others, you will attract many to become your friends and the finest people will flock about you.”",stoicism +6770,“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”,stoicism +6820,"“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”",stoicism +7454,"“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”",stoicism +7486,“Tomorrow’s worries contaminate the present.”,stoicism +7541,"“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”",stoicism +7215,"“There is a switch in the air tonight. It’s not suffocating, like breakups all those years ago, but clean and clear. He does not want me anymore so I tilt my head, take a breath and say, “Okay. I understand.” It’s calm now. My heart didn’t break, it kept on beating like a stoic marching forward without looking back, and I will be a writer now. I love so many people, still. I think I will write about them forever.”",stoicism +7218,"“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”",stoicism +7650,"“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +7257,"“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”",stoicism +7569,“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”,stoicism +6803,"“Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.”",stoicism +7117,"“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”",stoicism +6864,"“We can’t choose what the world throws at us, but we can control how we react to it, and that makes all the difference.”",stoicism +6841,“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”,stoicism +7320,“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”,stoicism +6923,"“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”",stoicism +7019,“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”,stoicism +7443,“It is childish to be surprised by something that you knew exists or is possible.”,stoicism +7207,"“It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”",stoicism +6887,"“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”",stoicism +7540,“A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.”,stoicism +7660,“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”,stoicism +7075,"“We are often blind to the fact that our situation is not as bad as we think, until it gets worse.”",stoicism +7037,"“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”",stoicism +6823,"“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.”",stoicism +7005,“Consider above all else whether you've advanced in philosophy or just in actual years.”,stoicism +7158,“Not everything that could have been done should have been done.”,stoicism +7503,"“There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”",stoicism +7532,“One man’s bad day is another man’s good night.”,stoicism +7594,"“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”",stoicism +7170,“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”,stoicism +7393,"“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”",stoicism +7536,“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”,stoicism +7072,"“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”",stoicism +6976,"“Take pride in your courage for it leads to difficult situations which, once overcome, leave you more than what you were before. Only in the most extreme of pressures does carbon become diamond”",stoicism +6998,"“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”",stoicism +7622,"“Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.”",stoicism +7347,“A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.”,stoicism +6844,"“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”",stoicism +7204,"“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”",stoicism +6872,"“Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.”",stoicism +7191,“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”,stoicism +7473,“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”,stoicism +7533,“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”,stoicism +7507,“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”,stoicism +7575,“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”,stoicism +7075,"“We are often blind to the fact that our situation is not as bad as we think, until it gets worse.”",stoicism +6867,“But there can be no such good except as the soul discovers it for itself within itself.”,stoicism +7619,"“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”",stoicism +7567,“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”,stoicism +7104,“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”,stoicism +7628,"“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”",stoicism +7204,"“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”",stoicism +7216,"“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”",stoicism +7077,“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”,stoicism +7018,"“A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path - he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it to him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.”",stoicism +6935,“The only good and evil in your life lies within you – in your choices.”,stoicism +7250,"“Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.”",stoicism +7104,“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”,stoicism +7311,"“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”",stoicism +7528,“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”,stoicism +6875,"“These deep interactions with Greek and Roman culture, to include Stoic philosophy, certainly affected the zeitgeist of the era and most certainly impacted the educational theories in the early days of the Republic. With so much interest in reviving and adopting elements of Stoic philosophy within America, many intended references to Stoic ethics may be hidden within the works of the early generations of America, as they explicitly referenced “American” ideals that would have incorporated Stoic philosophy.”",stoicism +7332,"“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...] Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”",stoicism +6850,"“[I]n a man praise is due only to what is his very own. Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him – they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away, what is peculiarly a man's. You ask what that is? It is his spirit, and the perfection of his reason in that spirit.”",stoicism +6902,“True focus is the ability to summon our mental strength when it is required and to let it rest when it is not.”,stoicism +7566,“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”,stoicism +7669,“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”,stoicism +6907,"“One will never be able to control all things that concern an endeavor, but the magic is in riding the wave.”",stoicism +6953,“Those who courageously choose to confront extreme hardships perceive their experience differently than others. They have the ability to envision something beyond the difficulties they encounter. Perhaps a glimmer of hope? Or perhaps another form of adversity? The truth is that the only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”,stoicism +7170,“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”,stoicism +7099,"“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”",stoicism +7554,"“Just as I prepared to stand and bow, a woman appeared with a miniature coffee cup in her hand. She offered it to me. As I took it, I noticed two things: Bugs crawling on the ground and the men approving of me by snapping their fingers. I bowed and took a sip of the coffee and almost fainted. I had a cockroach on my tongue. I looked at the peoples' faces and I could not spit it out. My grandmother would have pushed away the grave's dirt and traveled by willpower to show me her face of abject disappointment. I could not bear that. I opened my throat and drank the cup dry. I counted four cockroaches.”",stoicism +7277,"“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”",stoicism +7621,"“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”",stoicism +6838,“It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.”,stoicism +7315,“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”,stoicism +7543,“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”,stoicism +6822,"“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.”",stoicism +7219,“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”,stoicism +6974,“How does one go about persuading the rain to stop?”,stoicism +6895,"“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.”",stoicism +7516,“What”,stoicism +6812,"“In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.”",stoicism +7521,“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.”,stoicism +7652,"“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”",stoicism +6880,"“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”",stoicism +7530,“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”,stoicism +7432,“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”,stoicism +6952,"“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”",stoicism +7617,“...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...”,stoicism +6864,"“We can’t choose what the world throws at us, but we can control how we react to it, and that makes all the difference.”",stoicism +7143,"“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”",stoicism +7289,"“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”",stoicism +7669,“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”,stoicism +7129,"“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”",stoicism +7669,“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”,stoicism +7465,"“The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.”",stoicism +7050,"“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.”",stoicism +6964,"“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”",stoicism +7633,“Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.”,stoicism +6964,"“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”",stoicism +7436,"“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”",stoicism +6862,"“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.”",stoicism +7441,"“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”",stoicism +6830,"“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”",stoicism +7403,“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”,stoicism +6820,"“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”",stoicism +7172,“Some fools have children. Some have children who have children. And some have children who have children who have children.”,stoicism +7558,“It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think.”,stoicism +6774,“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”,stoicism +7235,“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”,stoicism +7373,"“The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”",stoicism +7451,"“Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, “This is an accident of mortality.” But if anyone’s own child happens to die, it is immediately, “Alas! how wretched am I!” It should be always remembered how we are affected on hearing the same thing concerning others.”",stoicism +7598,"“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”",stoicism +7303,“A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”,stoicism +7174,"“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”",stoicism +7607,"“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promises of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”",stoicism +7282,“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”,stoicism +7414,“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”,stoicism +7002,"“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”",stoicism +7293,“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”,stoicism +7115,"“So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.”",stoicism +6815,"“Remember that all we have is “on loan” from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long.”",stoicism +7315,“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”,stoicism +6847,"“Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.”",stoicism +7499,“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”,stoicism +7582,"“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”",stoicism +6842,“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”,stoicism +7563,“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”,stoicism +7018,"“A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path - he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it to him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.”",stoicism +6816,"“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”",stoicism +6890,"“At its core, Stoicism, like the sturdy oak tree, stands firm amidst the torrential downpour of life’s distractions. It teaches us that while we may not command the winds to change, we possess the power to adjust our sails, to guide our minds through the tumultuous sea of life’s happenings.”",stoicism +6983,“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”,stoicism +7008,"“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. - Book: ""The Obstacle is the Way”",stoicism +6825,“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”,stoicism +7119,“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”,stoicism +6876,“All roads to Hades are of equal length”,stoicism +7600,"“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”",stoicism +6817,"“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works. No one to my mind lets humanity down quite so much as those who study philosophy as if it were a sort of commercial skill and then proceed to live in a quite different manner from the way they tell other people to live.”",stoicism +7342,“Silence is often the wisest reply.”,stoicism +7106,“Άριστος τρόπος τοῦ ἀμύνεσθαι τὸ μὴ ἐξομοιοῦσθαι”,stoicism +6795,"“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”",stoicism +7573,“Judgments are the only possible cause of unhappiness and happiness.”,stoicism +7026,"“At any moment we may be toppled from our perch and made to do with less—less money, less recognition, less access, less resources. Even the “less-es” that come with age: less mobility, less energy, less freedom. But we can prepare for that, in some way, by familiarizing ourselves with what that might feel like.”",stoicism +6777,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”",stoicism +7394,"“We sometimes learn, not from something, but from not having learned from it.”",stoicism +7636,"“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”",stoicism +7022,“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”,stoicism +7461,"“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”",stoicism +7488,“I value my time so much that undressing is the only thing I am willing to do for sex.”,stoicism +7072,"“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”",stoicism +7408,“The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”,stoicism +6825,“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”,stoicism +7495,“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”,stoicism +7295,"“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”",stoicism +7243,"“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”",stoicism +6797,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”",stoicism +6847,"“Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.”",stoicism +6985,“Every life without exception is a short one.”,stoicism +7155,"“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”",stoicism +7134,"“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”",stoicism +7435,“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”,stoicism +7295,"“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”",stoicism +7468,“Optimism is an effort.”,stoicism +7081,"“It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.”",stoicism +7652,"“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”",stoicism +6776,“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”,stoicism +6772,"“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”",stoicism +7392,"“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”",stoicism +7519,"“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”",stoicism +7132,“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”,stoicism +7520,“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”,stoicism +7277,"“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”",stoicism +7043,“The good and the bad occur at all times and will keep happening. We can become lost if we go with the hype of ‘good and bad’ every time.”,stoicism +7275,"“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”",stoicism +7575,“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”,stoicism +7508,“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”,stoicism +7652,"“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”",stoicism +6784,“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”,stoicism +6961,"“Add nothing of your own from within, and that's an end of it.”",stoicism +7400,"“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”",stoicism +7254,"“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”",stoicism +6797,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”",stoicism +7483,“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”,stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +7042,“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”,stoicism +7000,"“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”",stoicism +6855,"“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”",stoicism +7243,"“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”",stoicism +6895,"“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.”",stoicism +7581,"“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.”",stoicism +7306,“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”,stoicism +6914,“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”,stoicism +7294,"“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”",stoicism +6981,“[...] Say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them.”,stoicism +6794,“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”,stoicism +7349,“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”,stoicism +7163,“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”,stoicism +6836,"“Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.”",stoicism +7002,"“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”",stoicism +6878,"“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”",stoicism +6915,“Life is short but life is long”,stoicism +6880,"“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”",stoicism +6997,"“If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.”",stoicism +6880,"“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”",stoicism +7239,“Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”,stoicism +6803,"“Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.”",stoicism +7392,"“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”",stoicism +7545,“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”,stoicism +7138,“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”,stoicism +7517,"“The modern expectation is that there will be equality in all things in the couple—which means, at heart, an equality of suffering. But calibrating grief to ensure an equal dosage is no easy task: misery is experienced subjectively, and there is always a temptation for each party to form a sincere yet competitive conviction that, in truth, his or her life really is more cursed--in ways that the partner seems uninclined to acknowledge or atone for. It takes a superhuman wisdom to avoid the consoling conclusion that one has the harder life.”",stoicism +7364,"“The same situation can either be perceived as a lead ball chained to your feet, or as wings growing out of your shoulder blades. How you interpret the challenge is crucial to your success of overcoming it. Ultimately, it's never the challenges that matter, but how you perceive them.”",stoicism +7323,“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”,stoicism +7194,"“Take it to mind, not to heart.”",stoicism +7382,"“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”",stoicism +7287,"“Unless you learn your lesson, it will keep hurting. Not only it will never stop, it will also keep increasing the amount, so you won’t get used to it.”",stoicism +7461,"“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”",stoicism +7051,"“Most people frequently waste their life, mostly in front of a screen.”",stoicism +7089,“Conformity eats away individuality.”,stoicism +7507,“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”,stoicism +7212,“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”,stoicism +7084,"“Whatever you're going through, there is wisdom from the stoics that can help. In fact, in many cases, they have addressed it explicitly in terms that feel shockingly modern.”",stoicism +7646,"“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”",stoicism +7510,“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”,stoicism +7146,“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”,stoicism +7058,"“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”",stoicism +7206,“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”,stoicism +7431,"“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”",stoicism +7046,"“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”",stoicism +7479,“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”,stoicism +7351,"“Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.”",stoicism +7272,"“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”",stoicism +7393,"“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”",stoicism +7285,“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”,stoicism +7119,“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”,stoicism +7612,"“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”",stoicism +7215,"“There is a switch in the air tonight. It’s not suffocating, like breakups all those years ago, but clean and clear. He does not want me anymore so I tilt my head, take a breath and say, “Okay. I understand.” It’s calm now. My heart didn’t break, it kept on beating like a stoic marching forward without looking back, and I will be a writer now. I love so many people, still. I think I will write about them forever.”",stoicism +7599,“Life is how you look at it.”,stoicism +7119,“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”,stoicism +7376,"“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”",stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +7592,“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”,stoicism +6906,“Pursuing similar results for dissimilar people will make fools of kings and kings of fools.”,stoicism +7528,“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”,stoicism +7668,“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”,stoicism +7012,"“Well, when do we act like sheep: when we act for the sake of the belly, or of our sex-organs, or at random, or in a filthy fashion, or without due consideration, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of sheep.”",stoicism +7312,"“For I am not everlasting, but a human being, a part of the whole as an hour is a part of the day. Like an hour I must come, and like an hour pass away.”",stoicism +6809,"“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”",stoicism +6998,"“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”",stoicism +7317,"“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”",stoicism +6992,“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”,stoicism +6775,"“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”",stoicism +7091,"“For making a good voyage a pilot and wind are necessary: and for happiness, reason and art.”",stoicism +7237,"“A truth is not any less truthful, when it is said by someone who did not discover, or does not understand, it.”",stoicism +7501,"“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.”",stoicism +6844,"“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”",stoicism +6773,“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”,stoicism +7616,"“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”",stoicism +7415,"“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: ""What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”",stoicism +6887,"“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”",stoicism +7650,"“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +7375,"“Philosophy is not an occupation of a popular nature, nor is it pursued for the sake of self-advertisement. Its concern is not with words, but with facts. It is not carried on with the object of passing the day in an entertaining sort of way and taking the boredom out of leisure. It moulds and builds the personality, orders one’s life, regulates one’s conduct, shows one what one should do and what one should leave undone, sits at the helm and keeps one on the correct course as one is tossed about in perilous seas. Without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry. Every hour of the day countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”",stoicism +7273,"“Si len úbohá dušička nesúca mŕtvolu,” ako vravel Epiktetos.”",stoicism +7343,"“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”",stoicism +7210,“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”,stoicism +6963,“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”,stoicism +7616,"“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”",stoicism +7484,"“If you lose today every-day, you are lost every-day.”",stoicism +7161,"“People seek retreats for themselves in the countryside by the seashore, in the hills, and you too have made it your habit to long for that above all else. But this is altogether unphilosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself whenever you please; for nowhere can one retreat into greater peace or freedom from care than within one’s own soul, especially when a person has such things within him that he merely has to look at them to recover from that moment perfect ease of mind (and by ease of mind I mean nothing other than having one’s mind in good order). So constantly grant yourself this retreat and so renew yourself; but keep within you concise and basic precepts that will be enough, at first encounter, to cleanse you from all distress and to send you back without discontent to the life to which you will return.”",stoicism +6795,"“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”",stoicism +7204,"“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”",stoicism +6942,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it.”",stoicism +7069,"“Life is not more kind, or less cruel, towards those who take it seriously.”",stoicism +7414,“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”,stoicism +7095,"“It is sometimes foolish to assume that someone is wise, or vice versa.”",stoicism +7179,“A millionaire who is a minimalist feels and is a trillion times richer than billionaires who are not minimalists.”,stoicism +6887,"“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”",stoicism +7605,"“Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods. But as only the maxims of our conduct, not the consequences or circumstances, are in our power, to be capable of always remaining consistent we must take as our object only the maxims, not the consequences and circumstances, and thus the doctrine of virtue is again introduced.” —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, p. 89”",stoicism +7556,"“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”",stoicism +7493,"“Whereas a belief in an absurd world arises out of the fundamental disharmony of a person searching for meaning in an apparently meaninglessness universe, an existential nihilist displays impassive intellectual stoicism towards their eventual mortality while embracing a passionate artistic commitment to munity against the underlying syndrome of insignificance and confusion encasing life.”",stoicism +6994,"“Every hour of the day, countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”",stoicism +7301,“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”,stoicism +6882,"“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +6909,"“Verily, life is a series of championships and the joy is to be found in playing the game.”",stoicism +7328,"“At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it”",stoicism +6770,“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”,stoicism +6859,"“Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.”",stoicism +7423,"“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”",stoicism +7089,“Conformity eats away individuality.”,stoicism +7319,"“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”",stoicism +7574,"“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”",stoicism +7663,"“No malgastes lo que te queda de vida en conjeturar sobre los demás, a no ser que busques el bien común; pues si te dedicas a imaginar qué hace la gente, por qué, qué dice, que piensa, qué trama, y cosas parecidas, dejarás de observar tu propia conciencia interior.”",stoicism +6908,"“Strive to articulate your wants loudly so they become interwoven with reality, more than thoughts.”",stoicism +7280,“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”,stoicism +7637,"“In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.”",stoicism +7614,"“It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.”",stoicism +7028,“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”,stoicism +7442,“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”,stoicism +7671,"“Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.”",stoicism +7459,“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”,stoicism +6779,"“Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.”",stoicism +7030,"“... we find a complete contradiction in our wishing to live without suffering, a contradiction that is therefore implied by the frequently used phrase “blessed life.” This will certainly be clear to the person who has fully grasped my discussion that follows. This contradiction is revealed in this ethic of pure reason itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”",stoicism +7419,“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice”,stoicism +6941,"“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”",stoicism +7667,"“During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.”",stoicism +6782,“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”,stoicism +6937,“Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.”,stoicism +7411,“All vices are at odds with nature.”,stoicism +7365,"“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now"".”",stoicism +7090,“Every life is a different path to death.”,stoicism +7088,“Some children’s lives begin before the end of their parents’ childhood.”,stoicism +7382,"“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”",stoicism +7098,���We are food even before we are dead.”,stoicism +7554,"“Just as I prepared to stand and bow, a woman appeared with a miniature coffee cup in her hand. She offered it to me. As I took it, I noticed two things: Bugs crawling on the ground and the men approving of me by snapping their fingers. I bowed and took a sip of the coffee and almost fainted. I had a cockroach on my tongue. I looked at the peoples' faces and I could not spit it out. My grandmother would have pushed away the grave's dirt and traveled by willpower to show me her face of abject disappointment. I could not bear that. I opened my throat and drank the cup dry. I counted four cockroaches.”",stoicism +7546,“Even the busiest bee does not move from one flower to another as often as an untamed mind moves from one thought to another.”,stoicism +7319,"“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”",stoicism +7188,"“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”",stoicism +7375,"“Philosophy is not an occupation of a popular nature, nor is it pursued for the sake of self-advertisement. Its concern is not with words, but with facts. It is not carried on with the object of passing the day in an entertaining sort of way and taking the boredom out of leisure. It moulds and builds the personality, orders one’s life, regulates one’s conduct, shows one what one should do and what one should leave undone, sits at the helm and keeps one on the correct course as one is tossed about in perilous seas. Without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry. Every hour of the day countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”",stoicism +6864,"“We can’t choose what the world throws at us, but we can control how we react to it, and that makes all the difference.”",stoicism +7586,“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.”,stoicism +7350,"“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”",stoicism +7087,“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”,stoicism +7005,“Consider above all else whether you've advanced in philosophy or just in actual years.”,stoicism +7103,"“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”",stoicism +7654,"“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.”",stoicism +7145,“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”,stoicism +7228,“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”,stoicism +6906,“Pursuing similar results for dissimilar people will make fools of kings and kings of fools.”,stoicism +7357,"“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”",stoicism +7316,“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”,stoicism +7282,“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”,stoicism +7065,"“Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.”",stoicism +7089,“Conformity eats away individuality.”,stoicism +7341,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”,stoicism +7601,"“If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.”",stoicism +7118,“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”,stoicism +7609,"“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”",stoicism +7548,“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”,stoicism +7642,"“And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +6998,"“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”",stoicism +7039,"“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoic­ism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”",stoicism +7597,"“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”",stoicism +7567,“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”,stoicism +7060,“We are all talented at coming up with plausible excuses.”,stoicism +7494,“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”,stoicism +6934,"“The afternoon presents an intersection where the momentum that we have gained in the morning may be either sustained or lost – where we can choose to either build on the morning’s foundations and embrace our challenges, or allow the stress and frustration of the day to ruin all our hard work.”",stoicism +6774,“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”,stoicism +7620,"“Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.”",stoicism +7148,"“Marcus wept when he was told that his favorite tutor had passed away. We know that he cried one day in court, when he was overseeing a case and the attorney mentioned the countless souls who perished in the plague still ravaging Rome. We can imagine Marcus cried many other times. This was a man who was betrayed by one of his most trusted generals. This was a man who one day lost his wife of thirty-five years. This was a man who lost eight children, including all but one of his sons. Marcus didn’t weep because he was weak. He didn’t weep because he was un-Stoic. He cried because he was human. Because these very painful experiences made him sad. “Neither philosophy nor empire,” Antoninus said sympathetically as he let his son sob, “takes away natural feeling.” So Marcus Aurelius must have lost his temper on occasion, or he never would have had cause to write in his Meditations.”",stoicism +6847,"“Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.”",stoicism +7179,“A millionaire who is a minimalist feels and is a trillion times richer than billionaires who are not minimalists.”,stoicism +7343,"“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”",stoicism +6901,"“Beware the folly of lending your focus to vain pursuits. Just as a river, when it is split into countless rivulets, loses its force and becomes but a whimper, a mind divided by trivial pursuits dissipates its strength. Focus, therefore, is not merely concentration, it is selection; not merely observation, it is dedication.”",stoicism +7370,"“Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Don’t stop it. Is it not yet come? Don’t stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a wife, to public posts, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy partner of the feasts of the gods. And if you don’t even take the things which are set before you, but are able even to reject them, then you will not only be a partner at the feasts of the gods, but also of their empire.”",stoicism +7518,“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”,stoicism +6811,"“If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.”",stoicism +6858,"“Lives such as yours—how true it is!—though they should exceed a thousand years, will contract into the smallest span: but those vices of yours will swallow up any amount of time. This length of time you have, that reason prolongs, however swift nature makes its sojourn, is bound to pass quickly through your fingers; for you do not grasp it, or seek to hold on to it, or try to delay the passing of the swiftest thing of all, but allow it to depart, as if it were something surplus to requirement and easily replaced.”",stoicism +7171,“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”,stoicism +7065,"“Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.”",stoicism +7609,"“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”",stoicism +7064,“Hatred is as powerful an intoxicant as love.”,stoicism +7385,"“The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.”",stoicism +7295,"“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”",stoicism +7569,“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”,stoicism +7460,“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”,stoicism +7406,"“We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise.”",stoicism +7191,“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”,stoicism +7634,"“How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it. I was a great bluffer. And when common, everyday survival in prison required getting over, I could do that too. This is what was approvingly described by my fellow prisoners as 'street-smarts,' as in 'You wouldn't think it to look at her, but Piper's got street-smarts.”",stoicism +6792,"“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”",stoicism +7344,"“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”",stoicism +6912,"“A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.”",stoicism +7434,"“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”",stoicism +6914,“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”,stoicism +6994,"“Every hour of the day, countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”",stoicism +7272,"“I have, I hold whatever of mine I have ever had. There is no reason for you to suppose me conquered and yourself my conqueror. It is your fortune which has overcome mine. As for those fleeting possessions which change their owners, I know not where they are; what belongs to myself is with me, and ever will be.”",stoicism +7590,"“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.”",stoicism +7385,"“The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.”",stoicism +6873,"“For the military community, philosophy isn't something casually debated. But something that should be fully embodied in everyday thought and action, with the abandonment of all principles not shown practical in the most extreme of environments.”",stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +6967,"“[A] man ought to be prepared in a manner for this also, to be able to be sufficient for himself and to be his own companion. [...] [S]o ought we also to be able to talk with ourselves, not to feel the want of others also, not to be unprovided with the means of passing our time; to observe the divine administration and the relation of ourselves to everything else; to consider how we formerly were affected toward things that happen and how at present; what are still the things which give us pain; how these also can be cured and how removed; if any things require improvement, to improve them according to reason.”",stoicism +7415,"“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: ""What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”",stoicism +7348,“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”,stoicism +7160,“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much… The life we receive is not short but we make it so”,stoicism +6948,"“By meditating on our thoughts, feelings, and desires, we are encouraging a sense of self-awareness and self-mastery. We observe the whimsical and impulsive movements of our mind without getting caught up in them, and in doing so we develop a greater understanding of ourselves.”",stoicism +7323,“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”,stoicism +7217,“You have two essential tasks in life: to be a good person and to pursue the occupation that you love. Everything else is a waste of energy and a squandering of your potential.”,stoicism +7269,"“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”",stoicism +6784,“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”,stoicism +7392,"“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”",stoicism +7438,"“Independence and unvarying reliability, and to pay attention to nothing, no matter how fleetingly, except the logos. And to be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility. His patience in teaching. And to have seen someone who clearly viewed his expertise and ability as a teacher as the humblest of virtues. And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. On Apolonius”",stoicism +7058,"“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”",stoicism +7247,“You can look unhappy but feel the opposite. Or vice versa.”,stoicism +7000,"“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”",stoicism +7189,“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”,stoicism +6926,"“Speak the truth and above all claim the things you want, at least to yourself.”",stoicism +7319,"“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”",stoicism +7210,“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”,stoicism +6866,"“Wir müssen uns weigern, die Karten, die uns ausgeteilt wurden, über unser Wohlbefinden entscheiden zu lassen.”",stoicism +7180,“Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.”,stoicism +7058,"“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”",stoicism +7023,“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”,stoicism +6965,"“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”",stoicism +7367,“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”,stoicism +7603,"“The man who looks for the morrow without worrying over it knows a peaceful independence and a happiness beyond all others. Whoever has said, ""I have lived' receives a windfall every day he gets up in the morning.”",stoicism +7291,"“However one may interpret this culturally, the upshot is the same: people carry within them a great number of wishes to which they react passively and which they hide. Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them. To a patient who, let us say, is interminably rationalizing and justifying this and that, balancing one thing against another as though life were a tremendous market place where all the business is done on paper and tickertape and there are never any goods , I sometimes have the inclination in psychotherapy to shout out, “Don't you ever want anything?” But I don't cry out, for it is not difficult to see that on some level the patient does want a good deal; the trouble is he has formulated and reformulated it, until it is the “rattling of dry bones,” as Eliot puts it. Tendencies have become endemic in our culture for our denial of wishes to be rationalized and accepted with the belief that this denial of the wish will result in its being fulfilled. And whether the reader would disagree with me on this or that detail, our psychological problem is the same: it is necessary for us to help the patient achieve some emotional viability and honesty by bringing out his wishes and his capacity to wish. This is not the end of therapy but it is an essential starting point.”",stoicism +7286,“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”,stoicism +7404,"“[E]verything which went beyond our actual needs was just so much unnecessary weight, a burden to the man who had to carry it.”",stoicism +7611,"“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”",stoicism +7634,"“How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it. I was a great bluffer. And when common, everyday survival in prison required getting over, I could do that too. This is what was approvingly described by my fellow prisoners as 'street-smarts,' as in 'You wouldn't think it to look at her, but Piper's got street-smarts.”",stoicism +6887,"“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”",stoicism +7575,“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”,stoicism +7678,"“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: ""I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire to warm oneself on the coldest day, no water to drink but what was tainted, no earth to set the foot on, and scarcely any air to breathe. Yet, with all these miserable circumstances, we spent many a happy hour by candlelight in that wretched cabin whilst I sewed and he read the Bible to me.”",stoicism +6928,"“me dulcis saturet quies; obscuro positus loco leni perfruar otio, nullis nota Quiritibus aetas per tacitum fluat. sic cum transierint mei nullo cum strepitu dies. plebeius moriar senex. illi mors gravis incubat qui, notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.”",stoicism +7584,“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”,stoicism +6997,"“If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.”",stoicism +7646,"“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”",stoicism +6985,“Every life without exception is a short one.”,stoicism +7465,"“The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.”",stoicism +6784,“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”,stoicism +6926,"“Speak the truth and above all claim the things you want, at least to yourself.”",stoicism +7417,“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”,stoicism +7030,"“... we find a complete contradiction in our wishing to live without suffering, a contradiction that is therefore implied by the frequently used phrase “blessed life.” This will certainly be clear to the person who has fully grasped my discussion that follows. This contradiction is revealed in this ethic of pure reason itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”",stoicism +6926,"“Speak the truth and above all claim the things you want, at least to yourself.”",stoicism +6816,"“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”",stoicism +7093,“Our rationality is a visitor.”,stoicism +7613,"“Sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy.”",stoicism +7454,"“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”",stoicism +6899,"“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”",stoicism +7180,“Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.”,stoicism +6864,"“We can’t choose what the world throws at us, but we can control how we react to it, and that makes all the difference.”",stoicism +7396,“Stoicism is Buddhism without the dogma.”,stoicism +7524,“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”,stoicism +7061,“Being in a hurry gives us the illusion of doubling the length of every second.”,stoicism +7563,“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”,stoicism +7580,"“Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.”",stoicism +7052,"“We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down. Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.”",stoicism +6838,“It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.”,stoicism +7429,“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”,stoicism +6780,"“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”",stoicism +7023,“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”,stoicism +7611,"“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”",stoicism +7641,"“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”",stoicism +7319,"“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”",stoicism +6903,"“Imagine, if you will, a bird in flight. When it must overcome the gusts that hinder its path, it beats its wings with unyielding force. Yet, when it soars high in the sky, it spreads its wings and rides the wind, at peace in its journey. This is the model of focus we must aspire to: resolute in the face of opposition, tranquil in the embrace of flow.”",stoicism +7481,"“...when I asked him if he forgave me, he answered that he was not in the habit of cherishing the remembrance of vexation; that he had nothing to forgive; not having been offended.”",stoicism +6792,"“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”",stoicism +7584,“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”,stoicism +7115,"“So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.”",stoicism +7071,“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”,stoicism +7132,“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”,stoicism +7165,“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”,stoicism +6987,"“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”",stoicism +6910,"“We should refrain from attempting to change things to fit our narrative of explaining the world, and start changing this narrative to better host the things we experience.”",stoicism +7385,"“The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.”",stoicism +6979,"“Milo's Way- A Haiku Strength sought in small steps, Like Milo's calf on shoulders, Grow with steady will.”",stoicism +7392,"“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”",stoicism +7385,"“The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.”",stoicism +7597,"“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”",stoicism +7452,"“We often do not, not because we cannot, but because we think so.”",stoicism +7229,“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”,stoicism +7125,"“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”",stoicism +7093,“Our rationality is a visitor.”,stoicism +6902,“True focus is the ability to summon our mental strength when it is required and to let it rest when it is not.”,stoicism +7657,"“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”",stoicism +7574,"“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”",stoicism +7609,"“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”",stoicism +6896,"“Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.”",stoicism +6875,"“These deep interactions with Greek and Roman culture, to include Stoic philosophy, certainly affected the zeitgeist of the era and most certainly impacted the educational theories in the early days of the Republic. With so much interest in reviving and adopting elements of Stoic philosophy within America, many intended references to Stoic ethics may be hidden within the works of the early generations of America, as they explicitly referenced “American” ideals that would have incorporated Stoic philosophy.”",stoicism +7373,"“The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”",stoicism +7568,“Enlightenment does not mean making the most of bad situations. It means knowing that every situation is neither good nor bad.”,stoicism +7147,"“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”",stoicism +7674,"“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws . [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.”",stoicism +6820,"“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”",stoicism +6798,“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”,stoicism +7231,“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”,stoicism +7065,"“Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.”",stoicism +7066,“Every goal or desire is a seed of an excuse to be unhappy.”,stoicism +7495,“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”,stoicism +7548,“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”,stoicism +7176,“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”,stoicism +7538,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”,stoicism +7583,"“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”",stoicism +7382,"“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”",stoicism +7174,"“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”",stoicism +7115,"“So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.”",stoicism +7391,"“For our happiness or unhappiness, we have only what we think about something or someone to thank or blame.”",stoicism +7189,“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”,stoicism +6951,“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”,stoicism +7594,"“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”",stoicism +6770,“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”,stoicism +7600,"“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”",stoicism +7336,"“Life sometimes delays giving us the thing we are forever praying or working hard for, until it has managed to show us that that thing is not that important, or important at all.”",stoicism +7140,“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”,stoicism +7430,"“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”",stoicism +7200,"“No, it is events that give rise to fear -- when another has the power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed? Not by iron or fire, but by judgments... here is where we must begin, and it is from this front that we must seize the fortress and throw out tyrants.”",stoicism +7078,"“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”",stoicism +6906,“Pursuing similar results for dissimilar people will make fools of kings and kings of fools.”,stoicism +6971,"“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +7205,“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”,stoicism +7082,"“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”",stoicism +6886,"“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”",stoicism +7435,“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”,stoicism +7572,“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”,stoicism +7344,"“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”",stoicism +7013,“Most of us would eventually lose count if we were to literally count our blessings.”,stoicism +7306,“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”,stoicism +7371,“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”,stoicism +6844,"“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”",stoicism +7575,“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”,stoicism +7155,"“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”",stoicism +7672,"“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”",stoicism +6979,"“Milo's Way- A Haiku Strength sought in small steps, Like Milo's calf on shoulders, Grow with steady will.”",stoicism +7244,"“There is usually at least one person praying for a situation, or an outcome, that is the exact opposite of the one someone or some people are praying for.”",stoicism +7187,“We all too often invite a lie by asking someone how he or she is doing.”,stoicism +7116,"“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions- not outside.”",stoicism +7298,“99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.”,stoicism +7409,"“So the spirit must be trained to a realization and an acceptance of its lot. It must come to see that there is nothing fortune will shrink from[.] There's no ground for resentment in all this. We've entered into a world in which these are the terms life is lived on – if you're satisfied with that, submit to them, if you're not, get out, whatever way you please.”",stoicism +7645,"“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.”",stoicism +7532,“One man’s bad day is another man’s good night.”,stoicism +6948,"“By meditating on our thoughts, feelings, and desires, we are encouraging a sense of self-awareness and self-mastery. We observe the whimsical and impulsive movements of our mind without getting caught up in them, and in doing so we develop a greater understanding of ourselves.”",stoicism +6951,“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”,stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +6794,“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”,stoicism +6949,“We are existing in a thin sliver of light between two potentially infinite portions of darkness.”,stoicism +7479,“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”,stoicism +7270,"“See? You're using the stoic glacier method."" ""Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?"" ""It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”",stoicism +7625,"“These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. ""You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.”",stoicism +6930,"“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”",stoicism +6946,"“As the still dawn breaks and first light graces the horizon, we humans are presented with tremendous opportunity. We are gifted with a fresh start, a blank canvas upon which we can paint however we choose.”",stoicism +7054,"“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”",stoicism +6832,“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”,stoicism +7431,"“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”",stoicism +7435,“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”,stoicism +6925,“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”,stoicism +7651,"“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God – saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don’t acknowledge it – this life lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness – he doesn’t resent them for it, and isn’t deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be.”",stoicism +7238,“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”,stoicism +6818,"“40. The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help him in this way. You will say, perhaps, ‘But all that is something they have put in my own power.’ Then surely it were better to use your power and be a free man, than to hanker like a slave and a beggar for something that is not in your power. Besides, who told you the gods never lend their aid even towards things that do lie in our own power? Begin praying in this way, and you will see. Where another man prays ‘Grant that I may possess this woman,’ let your own prayer be, ‘Grant that I may not lust to possess her.’ Where he prays, ‘Grant me to be rid of such-and-such a one,’ you pray, ‘Take from me my desire to be rid of him.’ Where he begs, ‘Spare me the loss of my precious child,’ beg rather to be delivered from the terror of losing him. In short, give your petitions a turn in this direction, and see what comes.”",stoicism +7618,"“Oh, dear me!"" he lamented. ""The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now."" ""Well, never mind. We're not on it,"" said Snufkin gaily. ""What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!”",stoicism +6853,“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”,stoicism +7130,“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”,stoicism +7458,"“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”",stoicism +6917,"“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”",stoicism +7399,“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”,stoicism +7111,“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”,stoicism +7245,“Living is the outside of dying.”,stoicism +6832,“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”,stoicism +7470,"“I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!”",stoicism +7129,"“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”",stoicism +7330,"“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”",stoicism +7096,"“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”",stoicism +7538,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”,stoicism +7505,“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”,stoicism +6910,"“We should refrain from attempting to change things to fit our narrative of explaining the world, and start changing this narrative to better host the things we experience.”",stoicism +6984,"“If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.”",stoicism +7204,"“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”",stoicism +7660,“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”,stoicism +7492,"“Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.”",stoicism +7087,“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”,stoicism +6801,"“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”",stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +7054,"“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”",stoicism +7074,“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”,stoicism +7198,"“What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.”",stoicism +7246,"“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”",stoicism +7055,"“Prosperity is a restless thing; it drives itself to distraction. It addles the brain, and not always in the same way, for it goads people in different directions—some toward power, others toward self-indulgence. Some are puffed up by it, others unmanned and made entirely feeble.”",stoicism +6913,"“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”",stoicism +7193,“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”,stoicism +6788,“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”,stoicism +6787,"“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”",stoicism +7538,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”,stoicism +7359,“Seeing your loved one asleep is a great opportunity to practice seeing them dead.”,stoicism +7140,“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”,stoicism +6944,“Externals are nothing to a stoic. The falsehoods and artificial limitations of human society are nothing to proponents of the theater principle”,stoicism +6963,“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”,stoicism +7271,"“There was no meaning in why he was here, but he was, and that was enough.”",stoicism +6882,"“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +6883,"“Stand up straight, not straightened. The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +6991,"“Do you consider yourself a nobody? What weight does that label even have? It’s a silly label. As silly as the label 'somebody'. Silly and non-adhesive. First off, to be thought of as a nobody someone has to be thinking of you in the first place. Second, being a so-called 'nobody' doesn’t make you irrelevant. We are all relevant to somebody else but unfortunately, we can lose sight of our most germane and important relationships when we chase the approval of people we don’t even know.”",stoicism +7447,"“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”",stoicism +7600,"“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”",stoicism +7413,"“Consider what intemperate lovers undergo for the sake of evil desires, and how much exertion others expend for the sake of making profit, and how much suffering those who are pursuing fame endure, and bear in mind that all of these people submit to all kinds of toil and hardship voluntarily. Is it then not monstrous that they for no honorable reward endure such things, while we for the sake of the ideal good - that is not only the avoidance of evil such as wrecks our lives, but also the acquisition of virtue, which we may call the provider of all goods -- are not ready to bear every hardship? And yet would not anyone admit how much better it is, in place of exerting oneself to win someone else's wife, to exert oneself the discipline of one's desires; in place of enduring hardships for the sake of money, the train oneself to want little; instead of giving oneself trouble about getting notoriety; instead of trying to find a way to injure an envied person, to enquire how not to envy anyone; and instead of slaving, as sycophants do, to win false friends, to undergo suffering in order to possess true friends? Since toil and hardship are a necessity for all, both for those who seek better and worse, it is preposterous that those pursuing the better are not much more eager in their efforts than those for whom there is small hope of reward for all their pains. ... It remains for me to say that who is unwilling to exert himself almost always convicts himself as unworthy of good, since all good is gained by toil.”",stoicism +7666,“I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.”,stoicism +7033,“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”,stoicism +6824,“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”,stoicism +7640,“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”,stoicism +7412,"“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”",stoicism +7569,“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”,stoicism +7547,“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”,stoicism +7227,“Not complaining is sometimes a show off of tolerance or patience.”,stoicism +7647,"“If you apply yourself to study you will avoid all boredom with life, you will not long for night because you are sick of daylight, you will be neither a burden to yourself nor useless to others, you will attract many to become your friends and the finest people will flock about you.”",stoicism +6931,"“The Iliad consists of nothing more than impressions and the use of impressions. An impression prompted Paris to carry off the wife of Menelaus, and an impression prompted Helen to go with him. If an impression, then, had prompted Menelaus to feel that it was a gain to be deprived of such a wife, what would have come about? Not only the Iliad would have been lost, but the Odyssey too!”",stoicism +7149,"“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”",stoicism +6856,"“I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.”",stoicism +6824,“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”,stoicism +7245,“Living is the outside of dying.”,stoicism +7569,“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”,stoicism +6947,"“When we first wake up our minds are clear, which makes this the opportune time to direct our focus inwards, to organize our thoughts and to set our daily intentions through a few moments of meditation. Our duties and obligations have not yet begun to crowd our schedule, and the clarity of the dawn creates an open, undistracted mental space.”",stoicism +7160,“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much… The life we receive is not short but we make it so”,stoicism +7118,“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”,stoicism +6777,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”",stoicism +7602,"“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”",stoicism +7082,"“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”",stoicism +7528,“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”,stoicism +7604,"“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.”",stoicism +7212,“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”,stoicism +7536,“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”,stoicism +7097,"“Just as roosters scream in the morning, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pains.”",stoicism +6823,"“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.”",stoicism +7530,“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”,stoicism +7008,"“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. - Book: ""The Obstacle is the Way”",stoicism +6998,"“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”",stoicism +7348,“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”,stoicism +6820,"“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”",stoicism +7378,"“A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”",stoicism +7373,"“The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”",stoicism +7033,“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”,stoicism +7187,“We all too often invite a lie by asking someone how he or she is doing.”,stoicism +7572,“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”,stoicism +6865,"“With respect to Stoicism, Hadot has described four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude. They are, first, the Stoic consciousness of ""the fact that no being is alone, but that we make up part of a Whole, constituted by the totality of human beings as well as by the totality of the cosmos""; second, the Stoic ""feels absolutely serene, free, and invulnerable to the extent that he has become aware that there is no other evil but moral evil and that the only thing that counts is the purity of moral consciousness""; third, the Stoic ""believes in the absolute value of the human person,"" a belief that is ""at the origin of the modern notion of the 'rights of man'""; finally, the Stoic exercises his concentration ""on the present instant, which consists, on the one hand, in living as if we were seeing the world for the first and for the last time, and, on the other hand, in being conscious that, in this lived presence of the instant, we have access to the totality of time and of the world."" 17 Thus, for Hadot, cosmic consciousness, the purity of moral consciousness, the recognition of the equality and absolute value of human beings, and the concentration on the present instant represent the universal Stoic attitude. The universal Epicurean attitude essentially consists, by way of ""a certain discipline and reduction of desires, in returning from pleasures mixed with pain and suffering to the simple and pure pleasure of existing.”",stoicism +6857,"“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”",stoicism +6847,"“Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.”",stoicism +7057,“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”,stoicism +6889,"“...what will you do when you are dead? ""My name will remain."" Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? ""But I shall wear a crown of gold."" If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”",stoicism +7583,"“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”",stoicism +7260,"“Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend…or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are. An emotional response is a human response, I get it. I too have succumbed to emotion, more often than I care to admit. But it is also a futile response. It isn’t an objectively beneficial response. This is central to Stoicism.”",stoicism +7221,“Being grateful for the shade of a tree is not nearly as honourable as planting a tree.”,stoicism +7269,"“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”",stoicism +6934,"“The afternoon presents an intersection where the momentum that we have gained in the morning may be either sustained or lost – where we can choose to either build on the morning’s foundations and embrace our challenges, or allow the stress and frustration of the day to ruin all our hard work.”",stoicism +6951,“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”,stoicism +7238,“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”,stoicism +7504,“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”,stoicism +7592,“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”,stoicism +6776,“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”,stoicism +7099,"“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”",stoicism +7544,“The present isn’t more capable of causing mental pain than the past or the future.”,stoicism +7442,“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”,stoicism +6920,“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”,stoicism +6854,"“There is the mind of a monarch within each of us, wanting to be granted complete freedom of action but not wanting it to be turned against us.”",stoicism +6916,"“I am not like the Gods! That was a painful thrust; I'm like the worm that burrows in the dust, Who, as he makes of dust his meager meal, Is crushed and buried by a wanderers heel Is it not dust that stares from every rack And narrows down this vaulting den? This moth's world full of bric-a-brac In which I live as in a pen? Here I should find for what I care? Should I read in a thousand books, maybe, That men have always suffered everywhere, Though now and then some man lived happily?- Why, hollow skull, do you grin like a faun? Save that your brain, like mine, once in dismay Searched for light day, but foundered in the heavy dawn”",stoicism +7393,"“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”",stoicism +7150,"“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”",stoicism +7317,"“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”",stoicism +7054,"“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”",stoicism +7469,"“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”",stoicism +6851,"“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”",stoicism +7283,"“For some reason, there is this façade that life should be full of happiness and without its suffering. Which, actually makes us suffer even more. Because when we get sad or something bad happens, we do not only feel bad about the thing itself but we also feel bad because our life is not the way it is supposed to be. Not realizing suffering and sadness is just a part of life and they are inevitable.”",stoicism +7666,“I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.”,stoicism +7584,“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”,stoicism +7478,“Every second is a step away from our mothers’ wombs towards our own tombs.”,stoicism +7292,"“Some of our problems came to us; some, we went to them.”",stoicism +7515,“Rejection of desire is liberating. Renunciation is a form of power.”,stoicism +7155,"“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”",stoicism +7476,"“The qualities of stoic self-denial, self-sacrifice for others, patient labour, expiation for past error, willing acceptance of the burdens of life, were for him nobler manifestations of humanity than ostentatious feats of bravery, death-defying deeds of heroism or a life ruled by passions. He was persuaded that moral strength could best be displayed by silent endurance rather than by vehement anger and passionate rebellion.”",stoicism +7240,“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”,stoicism +6888,"“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.”",stoicism +7165,“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”,stoicism +7301,“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”,stoicism +7030,"“... we find a complete contradiction in our wishing to live without suffering, a contradiction that is therefore implied by the frequently used phrase “blessed life.” This will certainly be clear to the person who has fully grasped my discussion that follows. This contradiction is revealed in this ethic of pure reason itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”",stoicism +7574,"“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”",stoicism +7025,"“Nature is content with few things, and with a very little of these.”",stoicism +7503,"“There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”",stoicism +7674,"“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws . [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.”",stoicism +6995,"“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, ""I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”",stoicism +6822,"“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.”",stoicism +7636,"“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”",stoicism +7269,"“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”",stoicism +7275,"“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”",stoicism +7623,“Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.”,stoicism +7133,“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”,stoicism +7049,“A charming enemy comes to me as a friend; faults creep in calling themselves virtues; temerity cloaks itself with the name of courage; cowardice gets called moderation; and timidity passes itself off as caution.”,stoicism +7362,“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”,stoicism +7483,“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”,stoicism +6927,“The crossing of a blue bridge which bystanders who cannot distinguish from the blue of the horizon deem invisible.”,stoicism +7401,“In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.”,stoicism +6828,"“I fail to remember ever having made an effort — no trace of struggle is detectable in my life, I am the opposite of a heroic nature. To “want” something, to “strive” for something, to have an “end,” a “desire” in mind — I know none of this from my experience. Even at this moment I look out upon my future — a broad future! — as upon a smooth sea: no desire ripples upon it. Not in the least do I want anything to be different from what it is; I myself do not want to be any different ... But thus I have always lived.”",stoicism +7496,"“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”",stoicism +6897,"“Distractions are the relentless waves of the ocean, crashing against the shores of our consciousness. They erode our resolve, and little by little, wash away the sandcastles of our focus. They arrive in various guises: the allure of trivial pleasures, the lure of the inconsequential, the din of idle gossip, the chains of past regret and the ghostly shadows of future anxieties. Each wave seeks to pull us into the depths of irrelevance, away from the firm ground of meaningful pursuits.”",stoicism +7505,“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”,stoicism +7490,“Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.”,stoicism +7651,"“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God – saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don’t acknowledge it – this life lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness – he doesn’t resent them for it, and isn’t deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be.”",stoicism +6884,"“In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.”",stoicism +6978,"“Me? I'm a Stoic. Every time my eyes are opened, I am eager to see the world anew.”",stoicism +7295,"“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”",stoicism +7290,“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”,stoicism +7321,"“A true believer in God prays only to thank, never to ask; and welcomes, with open arms, every single thing that is happening.”",stoicism +7006,"“Life is a series of problems we must navigate with grace - one problem solved, another arises, again and again until we die.”",stoicism +7050,"“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.”",stoicism +7128,"“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”",stoicism +6970,"“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +7527,“Meditation betters not only the mind but also the brain.”,stoicism +7047,"“Count yourself fortunate when you are able to live in a manner open to the public—when walls are there for shelter, not for concealment. For as a rule we think we have walls around us not to protect us but to afford greater privacy to our misdeeds.”",stoicism +7004,“The ability to do without a kingdom is a kingdom.”,stoicism +7263,"“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”",stoicism +6773,“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”,stoicism +7435,“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”,stoicism +7211,“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”,stoicism +6798,“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”,stoicism +6878,"“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”",stoicism +7379,“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”,stoicism +7496,"“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”",stoicism +7574,"“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”",stoicism +6844,"“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”",stoicism +7607,"“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promises of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”",stoicism +6915,“Life is short but life is long”,stoicism +6897,"“Distractions are the relentless waves of the ocean, crashing against the shores of our consciousness. They erode our resolve, and little by little, wash away the sandcastles of our focus. They arrive in various guises: the allure of trivial pleasures, the lure of the inconsequential, the din of idle gossip, the chains of past regret and the ghostly shadows of future anxieties. Each wave seeks to pull us into the depths of irrelevance, away from the firm ground of meaningful pursuits.”",stoicism +7622,"“Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.”",stoicism +6811,"“If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.”",stoicism +7125,"“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”",stoicism +6810,"“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, ""What are your thinking about?"" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”",stoicism +6803,"“Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.”",stoicism +6786,"“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”",stoicism +7446,"“For a life spent viewing all the variety, the majesty, the sublimity in things around us can never succumb to ennui: the feeling that one is tired of being, of existing, is usually the result of an idle and inactive leisure.”",stoicism +6922,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it,”",stoicism +7147,"“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”",stoicism +7357,"“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”",stoicism +7368,"“If an adult has just moved as fast as a child, from crying to laughing, then it is either the laughter is fake, or they are being tickled.”",stoicism +7398,“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”,stoicism +7643,"“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.”",stoicism +7111,“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”,stoicism +6796,"“You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is.”",stoicism +7594,"“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”",stoicism +7056,"“Even a poisonous snake is safe to handle in cold weather, when it is sluggish. Its venom is still there, but inactive. In the same way, there are many people whose cruelty, ambition, or self-indulgence fails to match the most outrageous cases only by the grace of fortune.”",stoicism +7415,"“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: ""What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”",stoicism +7500,"“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn‟t born for one particular corner: the whole world‟s my home country.”",stoicism +6937,“Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.”,stoicism +7379,“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”,stoicism +7037,"“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”",stoicism +7518,“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”,stoicism +7590,"“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.”",stoicism +7224,"“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”",stoicism +7675,"“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward."" Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”",stoicism +7454,"“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”",stoicism +7170,“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”,stoicism +7245,“Living is the outside of dying.”,stoicism +7471,“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”,stoicism +7403,“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”,stoicism +7327,"“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”",stoicism +7345,“An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”,stoicism +6899,"“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”",stoicism +7591,“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”,stoicism +7132,“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”,stoicism +7474,“Pretty much all wealthy people who were willing to lose and have lost their health while chasing wealth are now willing to lose their wealth while chasing health.”,stoicism +7588,"“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.”",stoicism +7462,"“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”",stoicism +7061,“Being in a hurry gives us the illusion of doubling the length of every second.”,stoicism +7140,“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”,stoicism +7563,“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”,stoicism +6798,“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”,stoicism +6918,“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”,stoicism +7548,“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”,stoicism +7065,"“Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.”",stoicism +6780,"“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”",stoicism +7281,"“Some people are lucky to no longer be, and some are unlucky to still be, alive.”",stoicism +7445,“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”,stoicism +6882,"“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +6956,"“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals that I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find food and bad? In me, in my choices.”",stoicism +7576,“Not having expected an event makes it seem way better or worse than it really is.”,stoicism +7513,“Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.”,stoicism +6996,"“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: ""I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”",stoicism +7079,“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”,stoicism +6867,“But there can be no such good except as the soul discovers it for itself within itself.”,stoicism +6824,“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”,stoicism +7392,"“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”",stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +7527,“Meditation betters not only the mind but also the brain.”,stoicism +7175,“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”,stoicism +6838,“It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.”,stoicism +7081,"“It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.”",stoicism +7058,"“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”",stoicism +7531,“Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.”,stoicism +7317,"“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”",stoicism +7520,“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”,stoicism +6917,"“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”",stoicism +7236,“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”,stoicism +7508,“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”,stoicism +7013,“Most of us would eventually lose count if we were to literally count our blessings.”,stoicism +7260,"“Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend…or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are. An emotional response is a human response, I get it. I too have succumbed to emotion, more often than I care to admit. But it is also a futile response. It isn’t an objectively beneficial response. This is central to Stoicism.”",stoicism +7618,"“Oh, dear me!"" he lamented. ""The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now."" ""Well, never mind. We're not on it,"" said Snufkin gaily. ""What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!”",stoicism +7276,"“Like a problem, time is nothing but a shadow of thought.”",stoicism +7134,"“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”",stoicism +7251,“Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter”,stoicism +6970,"“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +6923,"“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”",stoicism +7219,“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”,stoicism +7270,"“See? You're using the stoic glacier method."" ""Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?"" ""It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”",stoicism +6842,“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”,stoicism +7482,“We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.”,stoicism +7065,"“Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.”",stoicism +6786,"“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”",stoicism +7410,“[A] man is wealthy if he has attuned himself to his restricted means and has made himself rich on little.”,stoicism +6986,"“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”",stoicism +6830,"“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”",stoicism +7385,"“The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.”",stoicism +6811,"“If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.”",stoicism +6794,“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”,stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +7572,“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”,stoicism +6900,"“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”",stoicism +7267,“Stoicism is designed to be medicine for the soul.”,stoicism +6998,"“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”",stoicism +6877,“Nothing happens to any creature beyond it’s own natural endurance.”,stoicism +6941,"“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”",stoicism +7204,"“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”",stoicism +7247,“You can look unhappy but feel the opposite. Or vice versa.”,stoicism +6871,"“Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, should we destroy him? If you speak thus you will see how inhuman this is which you say, and that it is just as if you would say, Ought we not destroy this blind and deaf man?”",stoicism +7635,"“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”",stoicism +7293,“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”,stoicism +7044,"“Press on and make all your actions and words cohere and fit with one another, all struck from the same mold.”",stoicism +7382,"“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”",stoicism +6813,“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”,stoicism +7586,“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.”,stoicism +6786,"“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”",stoicism +7099,"“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”",stoicism +7338,"“Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.”",stoicism +7592,“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”,stoicism +7266,“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”,stoicism +7584,“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”,stoicism +6781,“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”,stoicism +7087,“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”,stoicism +7361,"“Love, unless it is for life as a whole, is contaminated by things such as our preferences and memories.”",stoicism +6985,“Every life without exception is a short one.”,stoicism +7108,"“When that which we are enjoying is a true good, we feel joy; when it is not, we feel, at best, pleasure.”",stoicism +7545,“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”,stoicism +7430,"“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”",stoicism +6850,"“[I]n a man praise is due only to what is his very own. Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him – they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away, what is peculiarly a man's. You ask what that is? It is his spirit, and the perfection of his reason in that spirit.”",stoicism +7496,"“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”",stoicism +7254,"“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”",stoicism +7143,"“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”",stoicism +7479,“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”,stoicism +6969,"“You will only get one shot at today. You have only twenty-four hours with which to take it. And then it is gone and lost forever. Will you fully inhbit all of today? Will you call out, ""I've got this,"" and do your very best to be your very best? What will you manage to make of today before it slips from you fingers and becomes the past? When someone asks you what you did yesterday, do you really want the answer to be ""nothing""?”",stoicism +7306,“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”,stoicism +7235,“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”,stoicism +6858,"“Lives such as yours—how true it is!—though they should exceed a thousand years, will contract into the smallest span: but those vices of yours will swallow up any amount of time. This length of time you have, that reason prolongs, however swift nature makes its sojourn, is bound to pass quickly through your fingers; for you do not grasp it, or seek to hold on to it, or try to delay the passing of the swiftest thing of all, but allow it to depart, as if it were something surplus to requirement and easily replaced.”",stoicism +7037,"“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”",stoicism +7424,"“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”",stoicism +7340,“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”,stoicism +7258,"“I sacrificed much to be where I am today, yet I will sacrifice much more to get to where I need to be someday.”",stoicism +7646,"“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”",stoicism +7307,"“We get a taste of death, not when we’re asleep, but when we awake.”",stoicism +6816,"“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”",stoicism +7057,“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”,stoicism +7547,“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”,stoicism +6785,"“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”",stoicism +7480,"“What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”",stoicism +7170,“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”,stoicism +7563,“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”,stoicism +6855,"“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”",stoicism +7019,“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”,stoicism +7160,“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much… The life we receive is not short but we make it so”,stoicism +7551,"“When you pursue wisdom, you will soon realize how much you don’t know. Your knowledge will be incomplete, but continually developing through your curiosity. Arrogance blocks new information from coming in. When you’re conceited, you’ll resist change, and struggle to preserve your fixed image. Don’t fall into smug idleness, used to comfort. Challenge what you think you know, not caring if other people see you as a fool. Progress daily in your own uncertainty.”",stoicism +7104,“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”,stoicism +7398,“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”,stoicism +7288,"“You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.”",stoicism +6906,“Pursuing similar results for dissimilar people will make fools of kings and kings of fools.”,stoicism +7652,"“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”",stoicism +7457,“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”,stoicism +7609,"“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”",stoicism +7267,“Stoicism is designed to be medicine for the soul.”,stoicism +7596,"“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.”",stoicism +7496,"“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”",stoicism +7246,"“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”",stoicism +7363,“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”,stoicism +6992,“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”,stoicism +7141,“It is joyful to see someone who is hopeful in a situation that is hopeless.”,stoicism +7171,“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”,stoicism +7212,“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”,stoicism +7259,“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”,stoicism +7384,"“why should I demand from fortune that she should give me this and that rather than demand from myself that I should not ask for them? why should I ask for them, after all? am I to pile them up in total forgetfulness of the frailty of human existence?”",stoicism +7042,“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”,stoicism +7295,"“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”",stoicism +6928,"“me dulcis saturet quies; obscuro positus loco leni perfruar otio, nullis nota Quiritibus aetas per tacitum fluat. sic cum transierint mei nullo cum strepitu dies. plebeius moriar senex. illi mors gravis incubat qui, notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.”",stoicism +6921,“The closest we can get to “winning” at life is to never give up.”,stoicism +7389,“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”,stoicism +6957,“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”,stoicism +7582,"“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”",stoicism +6867,“But there can be no such good except as the soul discovers it for itself within itself.”,stoicism +6900,"“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”",stoicism +7574,"“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”",stoicism +6940,"“Tomorrow will arrive, come what may. The sun will rise, as it has always done, and will set in the evening when nature commands it.”",stoicism +6952,"“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”",stoicism +7133,“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”,stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +7296,“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”,stoicism +7657,"“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”",stoicism +7266,“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”,stoicism +7285,“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”,stoicism +7118,“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”,stoicism +7166,"“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”",stoicism +7491,"“Unlike existing, living requires effort.”",stoicism +6930,"“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”",stoicism +6785,"“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”",stoicism +7262,“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”,stoicism +7195,“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”,stoicism +6877,“Nothing happens to any creature beyond it’s own natural endurance.”,stoicism +7663,"“No malgastes lo que te queda de vida en conjeturar sobre los demás, a no ser que busques el bien común; pues si te dedicas a imaginar qué hace la gente, por qué, qué dice, que piensa, qué trama, y cosas parecidas, dejarás de observar tu propia conciencia interior.”",stoicism +7219,“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”,stoicism +7080,"“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”",stoicism +7508,“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”,stoicism +6939,“We human beings are not hive animals. We aren’t like bees or ants who just work constantly for the good of the community.”,stoicism +7315,“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”,stoicism +7183,“We cannot be too young to die.”,stoicism +7020,“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”,stoicism +7528,“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”,stoicism +7550,"“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”",stoicism +6910,"“We should refrain from attempting to change things to fit our narrative of explaining the world, and start changing this narrative to better host the things we experience.”",stoicism +7043,“The good and the bad occur at all times and will keep happening. We can become lost if we go with the hype of ‘good and bad’ every time.”,stoicism +7185,“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”,stoicism +7377,“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”,stoicism +7508,“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”,stoicism +7660,“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”,stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +7583,"“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”",stoicism +6798,“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”,stoicism +7246,"“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”",stoicism +7087,“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”,stoicism +7014,“Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.”,stoicism +7517,"“The modern expectation is that there will be equality in all things in the couple—which means, at heart, an equality of suffering. But calibrating grief to ensure an equal dosage is no easy task: misery is experienced subjectively, and there is always a temptation for each party to form a sincere yet competitive conviction that, in truth, his or her life really is more cursed--in ways that the partner seems uninclined to acknowledge or atone for. It takes a superhuman wisdom to avoid the consoling conclusion that one has the harder life.”",stoicism +7466,“The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.”,stoicism +7041,"“Fools act wise, not wisely.”",stoicism +7209,"“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”",stoicism +7517,"“The modern expectation is that there will be equality in all things in the couple—which means, at heart, an equality of suffering. But calibrating grief to ensure an equal dosage is no easy task: misery is experienced subjectively, and there is always a temptation for each party to form a sincere yet competitive conviction that, in truth, his or her life really is more cursed--in ways that the partner seems uninclined to acknowledge or atone for. It takes a superhuman wisdom to avoid the consoling conclusion that one has the harder life.”",stoicism +7008,"“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. - Book: ""The Obstacle is the Way”",stoicism +7146,“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”,stoicism +7035,“Mindfulness is the only doorway to the unhurried life.”,stoicism +7128,"“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”",stoicism +7109,"“We get addicted, not to the substance, but to the effect.”",stoicism +7158,“Not everything that could have been done should have been done.”,stoicism +7346,"“Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.”",stoicism +7458,"“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”",stoicism +6772,"“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”",stoicism +7198,"“What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.”",stoicism +6911,“The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.”,stoicism +7145,“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”,stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +7093,“Our rationality is a visitor.”,stoicism +6915,“Life is short but life is long”,stoicism +7062,“Praying deceives us into thinking that we are doing something about what we are praying for.”,stoicism +7434,"“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”",stoicism +7201,"“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”",stoicism +7474,“Pretty much all wealthy people who were willing to lose and have lost their health while chasing wealth are now willing to lose their wealth while chasing health.”,stoicism +7354,"“Human beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill.”",stoicism +7168,"“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”",stoicism +7586,“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.”,stoicism +7658,"“A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time on this earth since the beginning of history. He will avoid the self-indulgent error of seeing himself in a predicament so unprecedented, so unique, as to justify his making an exception to law, custom or morality in favor of himself. The making of such exceptions has been the theme of public life throughout much of our lifetimes. For twenty years, we've been surrounded by gamesmen unable to cope with the wisdom of the ages. They make exceptions to law and custom in favor of themselves because they choose to view ordinary dilemmas as unprecedented crises.”",stoicism +7113,“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”,stoicism +6909,"“Verily, life is a series of championships and the joy is to be found in playing the game.”",stoicism +6956,"“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals that I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find food and bad? In me, in my choices.”",stoicism +7574,"“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”",stoicism +6830,"“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”",stoicism +7149,"“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”",stoicism +7479,“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”,stoicism +7576,“Not having expected an event makes it seem way better or worse than it really is.”,stoicism +7209,"“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”",stoicism +7088,“Some children’s lives begin before the end of their parents’ childhood.”,stoicism +7071,“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”,stoicism +7113,“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”,stoicism +6780,"“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”",stoicism +6831,"“I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.”",stoicism +7614,"“It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.”",stoicism +6995,"“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, ""I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”",stoicism +6922,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it,”",stoicism +7480,"“What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”",stoicism +7333,“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”,stoicism +7541,"“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”",stoicism +7340,“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”,stoicism +7353,"“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”",stoicism +7429,“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”,stoicism +7630,"“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”",stoicism +7344,"“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”",stoicism +7079,“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”,stoicism +7654,"“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.”",stoicism +7012,"“Well, when do we act like sheep: when we act for the sake of the belly, or of our sex-organs, or at random, or in a filthy fashion, or without due consideration, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of sheep.”",stoicism +7262,“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”,stoicism +7135,“We do things for others for ourselves.”,stoicism +7099,"“Some sentences take seconds to read, but take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years to understand.”",stoicism +6876,“All roads to Hades are of equal length”,stoicism +6995,"“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, ""I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”",stoicism +7594,"“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”",stoicism +6987,"“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”",stoicism +7522,"“Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else, you will know what happens. So also if you lie in bed for ten days, get up and try to take a rather long walk, and you will see how wobbly your legs are. In general, therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it; if you want not to do something, refrain from doing it, and accustom yourself to something else instead.”",stoicism +7275,"“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”",stoicism +7028,“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”,stoicism +7657,"“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”",stoicism +7543,“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”,stoicism +7286,“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”,stoicism +7542,“The size of your problem is in your mind.”,stoicism +6823,"“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.”",stoicism +6816,"“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”",stoicism +7496,"“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”",stoicism +7458,"“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”",stoicism +7290,“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”,stoicism +6868,"“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”",stoicism +6789,"“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”",stoicism +7659,"“To want to know more than is sufficient is a form of intemperance. Apart from which this kind of obsession with the liberal arts turns people into pedantic, irritating, tactless, self-satisfied bores, not learning what they need simply because they spend their time learning things they will never need. The scholar Didymus wrote four thousand works: I should feel sorry him if he had merely read so many useless works.”",stoicism +7522,"“Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else, you will know what happens. So also if you lie in bed for ten days, get up and try to take a rather long walk, and you will see how wobbly your legs are. In general, therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it; if you want not to do something, refrain from doing it, and accustom yourself to something else instead.”",stoicism +7342,“Silence is often the wisest reply.”,stoicism +7660,“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”,stoicism +7259,“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”,stoicism +7188,"“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”",stoicism +7459,“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”,stoicism +7619,"“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”",stoicism +6831,"“I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.”",stoicism +6914,“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”,stoicism +6985,“Every life without exception is a short one.”,stoicism +6772,"“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”",stoicism +6929,"“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”",stoicism +7508,“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”,stoicism +7550,"“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”",stoicism +6889,"“...what will you do when you are dead? ""My name will remain."" Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? ""But I shall wear a crown of gold."" If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”",stoicism +7662,“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits”,stoicism +6858,"“Lives such as yours—how true it is!—though they should exceed a thousand years, will contract into the smallest span: but those vices of yours will swallow up any amount of time. This length of time you have, that reason prolongs, however swift nature makes its sojourn, is bound to pass quickly through your fingers; for you do not grasp it, or seek to hold on to it, or try to delay the passing of the swiftest thing of all, but allow it to depart, as if it were something surplus to requirement and easily replaced.”",stoicism +7098,“We are food even before we are dead.”,stoicism +7349,“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”,stoicism +7126,“Most people would rather believe something that is not true about something than accept the fact that they do not understand a thing about that thing.”,stoicism +7379,“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”,stoicism +7036,"“A better attitude towards life is better than a better life, and leads to a better life.”",stoicism +7386,"“Истории о великих деяниях не только вдохновляют нас, не только будят в нас все лучшее и усиливают нашу веру в человека, но и напоминают о том, насколько проще и безопаснее стала сегодня жизнь для большинства из нас. Разве требуется так уж много мужества, чтобы противостоять боссу, который плохо обошелся с вашим коллегой? Худшее, что с вами может случиться, — это увольнение. Но ведь вас не будут пытать и не посадят в одиночную камеру, как Стокдейла, так неужели трудно вести себя достойно и честно в повседневной жизни? Если на то пошло, сохранить свою честь можно и не прибегая к жестокому самоубийству, как Катон. Только представьте, насколько лучше стал бы наш мир, если бы все мы каждый день проявляли чуть больше мужества, мудрости, умеренности и боролись против несправедливости.”",stoicism +7092,“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.”,stoicism +7404,"“[E]verything which went beyond our actual needs was just so much unnecessary weight, a burden to the man who had to carry it.”",stoicism +7310,“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”,stoicism +7418,"“People prone to every fault they denounce are walking advertisements of the uselessness of their training. That kind of man can be of no more help to me as an instructor than a steersman who is seasick in a storm[...]. What good to me is a vomiting and stupefied helmsman? [...] What is needed is a steering hand, not talking.”",stoicism +6964,"“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”",stoicism +7507,“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”,stoicism +7101,"“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight”",stoicism +6939,“We human beings are not hive animals. We aren’t like bees or ants who just work constantly for the good of the community.”,stoicism +7290,“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”,stoicism +7232,"“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”",stoicism +6809,"“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”",stoicism +7306,“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”,stoicism +7030,"“... we find a complete contradiction in our wishing to live without suffering, a contradiction that is therefore implied by the frequently used phrase “blessed life.” This will certainly be clear to the person who has fully grasped my discussion that follows. This contradiction is revealed in this ethic of pure reason itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”",stoicism +7164,"“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”",stoicism +6995,"“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, ""I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”",stoicism +6893,"“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”",stoicism +6807,"“I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any leaf, any insect, any bird, any breeze could bring me to my true home. I knew I did not belong among people. Whatever they hated about me was a human thing; the nonhuman world has always loved me. I can't remember when it was otherwise. But I have been emotionally crippled by this. There is nothing romantic about being young and angry, or even about turning that anger into art. I go through the motions of living in society, but never feel a part of it. When my family threw me away, every human on earth did likewise.”",stoicism +7097,"“Just as roosters scream in the morning, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pains.”",stoicism +7020,“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”,stoicism +7670,"“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.”",stoicism +6945,"“Rasa susah, khawtir, cemas karena peristiwa eksternal sebernarnya tidak datang dari peristiwa hidup itu sendiri, tetapi dari persepsi dan opini kita sendiri, dan sepenuhnya dibawah kendali kita.”",stoicism +7371,“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”,stoicism +7223,“To live is to owe life to die.”,stoicism +6806,"“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”",stoicism +7085,"“The goodness inside you is like a small flame, and you are its keeper. It’s your job, today and every day, to make sure that it has enough fuel, that it doesn’t get obstructed or snuffed out. Every person has their own version of the flame and is responsible for it, just as you are. If they all fail, the world will be much darker—that is something you don’t control. But so long as your flame flickers, there will be some light in the world.”",stoicism +7457,“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”,stoicism +7565,“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”,stoicism +7362,“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”,stoicism +6883,"“Stand up straight, not straightened. The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +6809,"“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”",stoicism +7070,"“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”",stoicism +6993,"“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”",stoicism +7087,“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”,stoicism +7118,“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”,stoicism +6884,"“In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.”",stoicism +7467,“It takes patience to nurture patience.”,stoicism +7092,“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.”,stoicism +7337,“Escaping death is a temporary victory.”,stoicism +6809,"“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”",stoicism +7635,"“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”",stoicism +6809,"“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”",stoicism +7628,"“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”",stoicism +7518,“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”,stoicism +7058,"“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”",stoicism +7031,"“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: ""I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”",stoicism +6985,“Every life without exception is a short one.”,stoicism +6916,"“I am not like the Gods! That was a painful thrust; I'm like the worm that burrows in the dust, Who, as he makes of dust his meager meal, Is crushed and buried by a wanderers heel Is it not dust that stares from every rack And narrows down this vaulting den? This moth's world full of bric-a-brac In which I live as in a pen? Here I should find for what I care? Should I read in a thousand books, maybe, That men have always suffered everywhere, Though now and then some man lived happily?- Why, hollow skull, do you grin like a faun? Save that your brain, like mine, once in dismay Searched for light day, but foundered in the heavy dawn”",stoicism +7105,"“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”",stoicism +6937,“Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.”,stoicism +6861,"“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.”",stoicism +7122,"“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”",stoicism +7340,“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”,stoicism +7340,“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”,stoicism +7585,"“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, ""I have to go to work - as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for - the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”",stoicism +7450,"“We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.”",stoicism +7550,"“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”",stoicism +7132,“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”,stoicism +7326,“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”,stoicism +7114,"“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”",stoicism +7462,"“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”",stoicism +6939,“We human beings are not hive animals. We aren’t like bees or ants who just work constantly for the good of the community.”,stoicism +7125,"“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”",stoicism +6960,"“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”",stoicism +7436,"“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”",stoicism +7191,“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”,stoicism +7469,"“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”",stoicism +6776,“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”,stoicism +6902,“True focus is the ability to summon our mental strength when it is required and to let it rest when it is not.”,stoicism +7516,“What”,stoicism +7326,“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”,stoicism +7595,"“What would Heracles have been if he had said, ""How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men?"" What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.”",stoicism +7530,“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”,stoicism +6800,"“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”",stoicism +7304,“How does a person deal with all the heartache and tragedy that fills their life without becoming insane or committing suicide?”,stoicism +7195,“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”,stoicism +7163,“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”,stoicism +7441,"“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”",stoicism +7132,“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”,stoicism +7206,“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”,stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +7320,“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”,stoicism +6851,"“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”",stoicism +7125,"“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”",stoicism +7027,"“Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquillity that they had stood mesmerized.”",stoicism +7487,"“Once you make a decision and then act on it, you have actually fulfilled the object of the game. This will probably surprise you, but what happens next in the hand after you act is not important. It does not matter what your opponents do next and it's immaterial whether or not you win the hand. The most important thing is that you understand why you're making the play and what goal you're trying to accomplish.”",stoicism +7358,"“And, just as it is harder to have good qualities when one is rich than when one is poor, it is harder to be a Stoic when one is wealthy, powerful, and respected than when one is destitute, miserable, and lonely.”",stoicism +7293,“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”,stoicism +7064,“Hatred is as powerful an intoxicant as love.”,stoicism +6993,"“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”",stoicism +7294,"“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”",stoicism +6815,"“Remember that all we have is “on loan” from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long.”",stoicism +7436,"“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”",stoicism +6882,"“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +7002,"“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”",stoicism +6786,"“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”",stoicism +7129,"“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”",stoicism +6992,“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”,stoicism +7635,"“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”",stoicism +7469,"“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”",stoicism +7217,“You have two essential tasks in life: to be a good person and to pursue the occupation that you love. Everything else is a waste of energy and a squandering of your potential.”,stoicism +7625,"“These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. ""You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.”",stoicism +7134,"“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”",stoicism +7444,"“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”",stoicism +7095,"“It is sometimes foolish to assume that someone is wise, or vice versa.”",stoicism +7236,“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”,stoicism +7183,“We cannot be too young to die.”,stoicism +7224,"“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”",stoicism +7355,“Life is happening neither to nor for but through us.”,stoicism +7002,"“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”",stoicism +6993,"“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”",stoicism +7600,"“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”",stoicism +7181,"“Being spiritually asleep has deceived the vast majority of people into thinking that poverty is a poor person’s main problem in life. To those who are spiritually awake, poverty is not even a problem.”",stoicism +7341,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”,stoicism +7104,“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”,stoicism +6991,"“Do you consider yourself a nobody? What weight does that label even have? It’s a silly label. As silly as the label 'somebody'. Silly and non-adhesive. First off, to be thought of as a nobody someone has to be thinking of you in the first place. Second, being a so-called 'nobody' doesn’t make you irrelevant. We are all relevant to somebody else but unfortunately, we can lose sight of our most germane and important relationships when we chase the approval of people we don’t even know.”",stoicism +6806,"“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”",stoicism +7047,"“Count yourself fortunate when you are able to live in a manner open to the public—when walls are there for shelter, not for concealment. For as a rule we think we have walls around us not to protect us but to afford greater privacy to our misdeeds.”",stoicism +6965,"“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”",stoicism +7633,“Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.”,stoicism +7253,"“It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”",stoicism +7011,"“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”",stoicism +7093,“Our rationality is a visitor.”,stoicism +7500,"“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn‟t born for one particular corner: the whole world‟s my home country.”",stoicism +6961,"“Add nothing of your own from within, and that's an end of it.”",stoicism +6786,"“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”",stoicism +7293,“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”,stoicism +7170,“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”,stoicism +7675,"“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward."" Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”",stoicism +7655,“The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.”,stoicism +7474,“Pretty much all wealthy people who were willing to lose and have lost their health while chasing wealth are now willing to lose their wealth while chasing health.”,stoicism +6791,"“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.”",stoicism +7243,"“Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.”",stoicism +6889,"“...what will you do when you are dead? ""My name will remain."" Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? ""But I shall wear a crown of gold."" If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”",stoicism +6979,"“Milo's Way- A Haiku Strength sought in small steps, Like Milo's calf on shoulders, Grow with steady will.”",stoicism +7075,"“We are often blind to the fact that our situation is not as bad as we think, until it gets worse.”",stoicism +7039,"“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoic­ism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”",stoicism +7473,“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”,stoicism +7456,"“It's with a heavy heart that I assure you that regardless of how lasting your fortune feels, it can be taken from you before you can even think to try to hold on.”",stoicism +7054,"“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”",stoicism +7485,"“Tomorrow will take care of itself, so take care of today, otherwise tomorrow will take ill-care of you today – thus losing today.”",stoicism +7445,“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”,stoicism +7532,“One man’s bad day is another man’s good night.”,stoicism +6996,"“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: ""I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”",stoicism +7150,"“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”",stoicism +7229,“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”,stoicism +6776,“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”,stoicism +6798,“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”,stoicism +7676,"“Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.”",stoicism +6802,"“Stop wandering about! You aren't likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you've collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can.”",stoicism +7415,"“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: ""What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”",stoicism +7648,"“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.”",stoicism +6848,"“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”",stoicism +7228,“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”,stoicism +7339,"“The fear of being poor or broke is a blessing, if you are a successful entrepreneur; but is a curse, if you want to be an entrepreneur.”",stoicism +7307,"“We get a taste of death, not when we’re asleep, but when we awake.”",stoicism +7251,“Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter”,stoicism +7199,“It is foolish to waste time in order to save money.”,stoicism +7507,“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”,stoicism +7054,"“Well begun is half done. This is something that depends on the mind; so when one is willing to become good, goodness is in large part achieved.”",stoicism +7285,“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”,stoicism +6868,"“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”",stoicism +7166,"“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”",stoicism +7258,"“I sacrificed much to be where I am today, yet I will sacrifice much more to get to where I need to be someday.”",stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +7040,“Most adult geniuses are more playful than most children.”,stoicism +7656,"“So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.”",stoicism +7566,“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”,stoicism +6926,"“Speak the truth and above all claim the things you want, at least to yourself.”",stoicism +6844,"“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”",stoicism +7653,"“Why be concerned about others, come to that, when you've outdone your own self? Set yourself a limit which you couldn't even exceed if you wanted to, and say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them. If there were anything substantial in them they would sooner or later bring a sense of fullness; as it is they simply aggravate the thirst of those who swallow them.”",stoicism +7569,“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”,stoicism +6899,"“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”",stoicism +7456,"“It's with a heavy heart that I assure you that regardless of how lasting your fortune feels, it can be taken from you before you can even think to try to hold on.”",stoicism +6853,“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”,stoicism +6791,"“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.”",stoicism +7228,“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”,stoicism +7308,"“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”",stoicism +7476,"“The qualities of stoic self-denial, self-sacrifice for others, patient labour, expiation for past error, willing acceptance of the burdens of life, were for him nobler manifestations of humanity than ostentatious feats of bravery, death-defying deeds of heroism or a life ruled by passions. He was persuaded that moral strength could best be displayed by silent endurance rather than by vehement anger and passionate rebellion.”",stoicism +7618,"“Oh, dear me!"" he lamented. ""The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now."" ""Well, never mind. We're not on it,"" said Snufkin gaily. ""What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!”",stoicism +7151,“Some real kings are drama queens.”,stoicism +7517,"“The modern expectation is that there will be equality in all things in the couple—which means, at heart, an equality of suffering. But calibrating grief to ensure an equal dosage is no easy task: misery is experienced subjectively, and there is always a temptation for each party to form a sincere yet competitive conviction that, in truth, his or her life really is more cursed--in ways that the partner seems uninclined to acknowledge or atone for. It takes a superhuman wisdom to avoid the consoling conclusion that one has the harder life.”",stoicism +7209,"“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”",stoicism +7373,"“The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”",stoicism +6790,“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”,stoicism +7072,"“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”",stoicism +7638,"“At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.”",stoicism +6853,“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”,stoicism +7543,“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”,stoicism +7428,"“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”",stoicism +7222,“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”,stoicism +7156,"“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”",stoicism +7276,"“Like a problem, time is nothing but a shadow of thought.”",stoicism +7026,"“At any moment we may be toppled from our perch and made to do with less—less money, less recognition, less access, less resources. Even the “less-es” that come with age: less mobility, less energy, less freedom. But we can prepare for that, in some way, by familiarizing ourselves with what that might feel like.”",stoicism +7339,"“The fear of being poor or broke is a blessing, if you are a successful entrepreneur; but is a curse, if you want to be an entrepreneur.”",stoicism +7661,"“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.”",stoicism +7296,“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”,stoicism +6931,"“The Iliad consists of nothing more than impressions and the use of impressions. An impression prompted Paris to carry off the wife of Menelaus, and an impression prompted Helen to go with him. If an impression, then, had prompted Menelaus to feel that it was a gain to be deprived of such a wife, what would have come about? Not only the Iliad would have been lost, but the Odyssey too!”",stoicism +6932,"“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits open here and there, and those very cracks, in one way a failure of the baker's profession, somehow catch the eye and give particular stimulus to our appetite.”",stoicism +7601,"“If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.”",stoicism +7562,“Suffering adds spice to life.”,stoicism +7561,“[M]aking noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already. (Letter XVI)”,stoicism +7293,“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”,stoicism +7555,"“In the first place, sensation (aisthesis) is a corporeal process which we have in common with animals, and in which the impression of an exterior object is transmitted to the soul. By means of this process, an image (phantasia) of the object is produced in the soul, or more precisely in the guiding part (hegemonikon) of the soul”",stoicism +7040,“Most adult geniuses are more playful than most children.”,stoicism +7261,“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”,stoicism +6977,"“Do not underestimate the quiet and laid-back individuals because displaying stoicism, at certain times, is a superpower.”",stoicism +7308,"“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”",stoicism +7353,"“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”",stoicism +6829,“It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.”,stoicism +7199,“It is foolish to waste time in order to save money.”,stoicism +7426,"“If you admit to having derived great pleasures, your duty is not to complain about what has been taken away but to be thankful for what you have been given.”",stoicism +7374,"“And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.”",stoicism +7078,"“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”",stoicism +7289,"“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”",stoicism +7360,“We are all capable of laughing at what is meant or expected to make us unhappy or angry.”,stoicism +6796,"“You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is.”",stoicism +7455,"“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”",stoicism +7331,“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”,stoicism +6968,“It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.”,stoicism +7156,"“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”",stoicism +7118,“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”,stoicism +7462,"“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”",stoicism +7305,"“Admitting that their child is, or can be, more educated than them is the closest most parents are willing to get to admitting that their child is, or can be, smarter or wiser than them.”",stoicism +7597,"“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”",stoicism +7147,"“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”",stoicism +7668,“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”,stoicism +7327,"“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”",stoicism +7296,“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”,stoicism +6922,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it,”",stoicism +7503,"“There is no need to raise our hands to heaven; there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chances of our being heard. God is near you, is with you, is inside you.”",stoicism +6975,“The most beautiful things come from the hardest conditions.”,stoicism +7224,"“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”",stoicism +7042,“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”,stoicism +7663,"“No malgastes lo que te queda de vida en conjeturar sobre los demás, a no ser que busques el bien común; pues si te dedicas a imaginar qué hace la gente, por qué, qué dice, que piensa, qué trama, y cosas parecidas, dejarás de observar tu propia conciencia interior.”",stoicism +7005,“Consider above all else whether you've advanced in philosophy or just in actual years.”,stoicism +7621,"“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”",stoicism +7509,“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”,stoicism +7290,“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”,stoicism +7447,"“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”",stoicism +7600,"“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”",stoicism +7495,“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”,stoicism +7270,"“See? You're using the stoic glacier method."" ""Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?"" ""It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”",stoicism +6886,"“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”",stoicism +7155,"“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”",stoicism +7113,“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”,stoicism +7353,"“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”",stoicism +7164,"“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”",stoicism +6833,“And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.”,stoicism +7486,“Tomorrow’s worries contaminate the present.”,stoicism +7490,“Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.”,stoicism +6841,“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”,stoicism +7558,“It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think.”,stoicism +7043,“The good and the bad occur at all times and will keep happening. We can become lost if we go with the hype of ‘good and bad’ every time.”,stoicism +7089,“Conformity eats away individuality.”,stoicism +7107,"“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”",stoicism +7135,“We do things for others for ourselves.”,stoicism +7264,"“Najlepší spôsob obrany je nepodobať sa tým, čo nám ubližujú.”",stoicism +7376,"“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”",stoicism +6935,“The only good and evil in your life lies within you – in your choices.”,stoicism +7313,“A fool’s plans are entertainment for the wise.”,stoicism +6780,"“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”",stoicism +7070,"“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”",stoicism +7498,"“We have control over when, how, and where to plant a seed, not over what it will become.”",stoicism +7570,“It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.”,stoicism +6871,"“Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, should we destroy him? If you speak thus you will see how inhuman this is which you say, and that it is just as if you would say, Ought we not destroy this blind and deaf man?”",stoicism +7194,"“Take it to mind, not to heart.”",stoicism +7161,"“People seek retreats for themselves in the countryside by the seashore, in the hills, and you too have made it your habit to long for that above all else. But this is altogether unphilosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself whenever you please; for nowhere can one retreat into greater peace or freedom from care than within one’s own soul, especially when a person has such things within him that he merely has to look at them to recover from that moment perfect ease of mind (and by ease of mind I mean nothing other than having one’s mind in good order). So constantly grant yourself this retreat and so renew yourself; but keep within you concise and basic precepts that will be enough, at first encounter, to cleanse you from all distress and to send you back without discontent to the life to which you will return.”",stoicism +7548,“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”,stoicism +6983,“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”,stoicism +7460,“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”,stoicism +6857,"“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”",stoicism +7322,"“[...] so läßt der, welcher der Lust nachjagt, alles andere liegen, und die Freiheit ist das erste, was er preisgibt [...]”",stoicism +7170,“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”,stoicism +7357,"“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”",stoicism +7658,"“A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time on this earth since the beginning of history. He will avoid the self-indulgent error of seeing himself in a predicament so unprecedented, so unique, as to justify his making an exception to law, custom or morality in favor of himself. The making of such exceptions has been the theme of public life throughout much of our lifetimes. For twenty years, we've been surrounded by gamesmen unable to cope with the wisdom of the ages. They make exceptions to law and custom in favor of themselves because they choose to view ordinary dilemmas as unprecedented crises.”",stoicism +6815,"“Remember that all we have is “on loan” from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long.”",stoicism +7441,"“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”",stoicism +7232,"“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”",stoicism +7361,"“Love, unless it is for life as a whole, is contaminated by things such as our preferences and memories.”",stoicism +7079,“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”,stoicism +6855,"“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”",stoicism +6861,"“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.”",stoicism +7429,“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”,stoicism +7442,“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”,stoicism +7483,“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”,stoicism +7011,"“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”",stoicism +7634,"“How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it. I was a great bluffer. And when common, everyday survival in prison required getting over, I could do that too. This is what was approvingly described by my fellow prisoners as 'street-smarts,' as in 'You wouldn't think it to look at her, but Piper's got street-smarts.”",stoicism +6771,"“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”",stoicism +6994,"“Every hour of the day, countless situations arise that call for advice, and for that advice we have to look to philosophy.”",stoicism +7570,“It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.”,stoicism +7514,“We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.”,stoicism +7358,"“And, just as it is harder to have good qualities when one is rich than when one is poor, it is harder to be a Stoic when one is wealthy, powerful, and respected than when one is destitute, miserable, and lonely.”",stoicism +6885,"“You will feel pain. You need to accept this truth. ... When it comes, accept it; embrace it. Realize it's a sensation like any other...the same as being hot or cold. Put it to one side and do what must be done. Don't let it overwhelm or control you. Ever.”",stoicism +7435,“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”,stoicism +6872,"“Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.”",stoicism +6963,“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”,stoicism +6935,“The only good and evil in your life lies within you – in your choices.”,stoicism +7640,“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”,stoicism +6859,"“Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.”",stoicism +7455,"“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”",stoicism +6891,"“Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”",stoicism +6912,"“A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.”",stoicism +6875,"“These deep interactions with Greek and Roman culture, to include Stoic philosophy, certainly affected the zeitgeist of the era and most certainly impacted the educational theories in the early days of the Republic. With so much interest in reviving and adopting elements of Stoic philosophy within America, many intended references to Stoic ethics may be hidden within the works of the early generations of America, as they explicitly referenced “American” ideals that would have incorporated Stoic philosophy.”",stoicism +7656,"“So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.”",stoicism +7197,“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”,stoicism +7074,“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”,stoicism +7641,"“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”",stoicism +7086,“Capitalism is disgusted by those whose happiness is not a result of buying … or selling.”,stoicism +7404,"“[E]verything which went beyond our actual needs was just so much unnecessary weight, a burden to the man who had to carry it.”",stoicism +7671,"“Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.”",stoicism +6778,"“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”",stoicism +7543,“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”,stoicism +6842,“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”,stoicism +7128,"“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”",stoicism +6992,“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”,stoicism +7185,“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”,stoicism +7322,"“[...] so läßt der, welcher der Lust nachjagt, alles andere liegen, und die Freiheit ist das erste, was er preisgibt [...]”",stoicism +7139,“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”,stoicism +7485,"“Tomorrow will take care of itself, so take care of today, otherwise tomorrow will take ill-care of you today – thus losing today.”",stoicism +7033,“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”,stoicism +7609,"“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”",stoicism +7459,“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”,stoicism +7629,"“But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. ""Well, well!"" she said, ""it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time."" ""I hope so,"" replied Moominpappa. ""Pass me a banana, please dear.”",stoicism +7087,“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”,stoicism +6853,“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”,stoicism +7087,“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”,stoicism +6880,"“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”",stoicism +7020,“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”,stoicism +7152,“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live... it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”,stoicism +6776,“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”,stoicism +7228,“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”,stoicism +6853,“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”,stoicism +6977,"“Do not underestimate the quiet and laid-back individuals because displaying stoicism, at certain times, is a superpower.”",stoicism +7669,“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”,stoicism +7159,"“Saving money, when buying an unnecessary thing, leads to wasting time, when using the thing.”",stoicism +7083,"“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”",stoicism +6791,"“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.”",stoicism +7179,“A millionaire who is a minimalist feels and is a trillion times richer than billionaires who are not minimalists.”,stoicism +7664,"“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...”",stoicism +7284,"“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”",stoicism +6896,"“Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.”",stoicism +7578,"“Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra konseptene fordi om noen mennesker har fått lyst til å skifte ham. Det får bli deres egen sak. Det står enhver fritt for.”",stoicism +7469,"“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”",stoicism +7643,"“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.”",stoicism +6783,"“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus ? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster ? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze , more universal than Confucius ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno ? Did he express grander truths than Cicero ? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza ’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler ’s or Newton ’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno ? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare , the greatest of the human race?”",stoicism +6781,“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”,stoicism +6856,"“I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.”",stoicism +7293,“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”,stoicism +7678,"“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: ""I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire to warm oneself on the coldest day, no water to drink but what was tainted, no earth to set the foot on, and scarcely any air to breathe. Yet, with all these miserable circumstances, we spent many a happy hour by candlelight in that wretched cabin whilst I sewed and he read the Bible to me.”",stoicism +7306,“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”,stoicism +7070,"“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”",stoicism +7012,"“Well, when do we act like sheep: when we act for the sake of the belly, or of our sex-organs, or at random, or in a filthy fashion, or without due consideration, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of sheep.”",stoicism +6891,"“Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”",stoicism +6916,"“I am not like the Gods! That was a painful thrust; I'm like the worm that burrows in the dust, Who, as he makes of dust his meager meal, Is crushed and buried by a wanderers heel Is it not dust that stares from every rack And narrows down this vaulting den? This moth's world full of bric-a-brac In which I live as in a pen? Here I should find for what I care? Should I read in a thousand books, maybe, That men have always suffered everywhere, Though now and then some man lived happily?- Why, hollow skull, do you grin like a faun? Save that your brain, like mine, once in dismay Searched for light day, but foundered in the heavy dawn”",stoicism +7336,"“Life sometimes delays giving us the thing we are forever praying or working hard for, until it has managed to show us that that thing is not that important, or important at all.”",stoicism +7519,"“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”",stoicism +7125,"“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”",stoicism +7454,"“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”",stoicism +7673,"“I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.”",stoicism +7502,"“I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. [...] Truth lies open to everyone.”",stoicism +7400,"“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”",stoicism +7078,"“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”",stoicism +7464,"“When pain comes, it must not derail you from your set virtues. If it does, you have failed to practice your virtues by going with the hype of pain.”",stoicism +7057,“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”,stoicism +7076,"“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”",stoicism +7581,"“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.”",stoicism +7363,“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”,stoicism +7492,"“Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.”",stoicism +7431,"“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”",stoicism +7318,“Some people get killed by water. Some die from dehydration.”,stoicism +7121,"“If being better is the surest way of feeling better, it must be better than feeling better.”",stoicism +7081,"“It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.”",stoicism +7642,"“And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +6828,"“I fail to remember ever having made an effort — no trace of struggle is detectable in my life, I am the opposite of a heroic nature. To “want” something, to “strive” for something, to have an “end,” a “desire” in mind — I know none of this from my experience. Even at this moment I look out upon my future — a broad future! — as upon a smooth sea: no desire ripples upon it. Not in the least do I want anything to be different from what it is; I myself do not want to be any different ... But thus I have always lived.”",stoicism +7412,"“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”",stoicism +7483,“That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.”,stoicism +7524,“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”,stoicism +6804,"“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”",stoicism +7214,"“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”",stoicism +6862,"“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.”",stoicism +6976,"“Take pride in your courage for it leads to difficult situations which, once overcome, leave you more than what you were before. Only in the most extreme of pressures does carbon become diamond”",stoicism +7122,"“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”",stoicism +7672,"“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”",stoicism +7101,"“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight”",stoicism +7586,“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.”,stoicism +7631,"“Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.”",stoicism +7494,“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”,stoicism +6928,"“me dulcis saturet quies; obscuro positus loco leni perfruar otio, nullis nota Quiritibus aetas per tacitum fluat. sic cum transierint mei nullo cum strepitu dies. plebeius moriar senex. illi mors gravis incubat qui, notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.”",stoicism +6793,"“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”",stoicism +7173,“Stoicism is a mild form of pessimism … sprinkled with optimism.”,stoicism +7574,"“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”",stoicism +7285,“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”,stoicism +7501,"“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.”",stoicism +7133,“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”,stoicism +7151,“Some real kings are drama queens.”,stoicism +7301,“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”,stoicism +6921,“The closest we can get to “winning” at life is to never give up.”,stoicism +7331,“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”,stoicism +7458,"“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”",stoicism +7377,“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”,stoicism +7386,"“Истории о великих деяниях не только вдохновляют нас, не только будят в нас все лучшее и усиливают нашу веру в человека, но и напоминают о том, насколько проще и безопаснее стала сегодня жизнь для большинства из нас. Разве требуется так уж много мужества, чтобы противостоять боссу, который плохо обошелся с вашим коллегой? Худшее, что с вами может случиться, — это увольнение. Но ведь вас не будут пытать и не посадят в одиночную камеру, как Стокдейла, так неужели трудно вести себя достойно и честно в повседневной жизни? Если на то пошло, сохранить свою честь можно и не прибегая к жестокому самоубийству, как Катон. Только представьте, насколько лучше стал бы наш мир, если бы все мы каждый день проявляли чуть больше мужества, мудрости, умеренности и боролись против несправедливости.”",stoicism +7189,“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”,stoicism +7019,“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”,stoicism +6886,"“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”",stoicism +7635,"“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”",stoicism +7281,"“Some people are lucky to no longer be, and some are unlucky to still be, alive.”",stoicism +7509,“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”,stoicism +7347,“A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.”,stoicism +7104,“It is a humbling practice to make a mental note whenever your assumption turns out to be wrong.”,stoicism +7187,“We all too often invite a lie by asking someone how he or she is doing.”,stoicism +7543,“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”,stoicism +7064,“Hatred is as powerful an intoxicant as love.”,stoicism +7524,“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”,stoicism +7140,“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”,stoicism +6955,"“You never know what will be the consequence of misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune”",stoicism +7015,"“It is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil. They achieve what they want laboriously; they possess what they have achieved anxiously; and meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.”",stoicism +7406,"“We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise.”",stoicism +7037,"“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”",stoicism +7412,"“Ambition: The willingness to continually question and assess one’s acceptance and contentment with their place in life; conjunct with the willingness to take action should a resolvable discrepancy between one’s values and one’s current standing, present itself. By extension, an ambitious person is someone who has to the best of their abilities thoughtfully defined their values and continues on to do whatever is reasonably possible to fully embrace who they are in life.”",stoicism +7006,"“Life is a series of problems we must navigate with grace - one problem solved, another arises, again and again until we die.”",stoicism +7299,"“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.”",stoicism +7321,"“A true believer in God prays only to thank, never to ask; and welcomes, with open arms, every single thing that is happening.”",stoicism +6790,“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”,stoicism +7506,"“The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.”",stoicism +7636,"“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”",stoicism +7563,“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”,stoicism +7289,"“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”",stoicism +6869,"“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of or a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? Do not expect it, even if I tell you”",stoicism +7521,“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.”,stoicism +7247,“You can look unhappy but feel the opposite. Or vice versa.”,stoicism +7368,"“If an adult has just moved as fast as a child, from crying to laughing, then it is either the laughter is fake, or they are being tickled.”",stoicism +7067,“The present moment is the entirety of reality.”,stoicism +7295,"“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”",stoicism +7103,"“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”",stoicism +6771,"“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”",stoicism +7144,"“He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.”",stoicism +7062,“Praying deceives us into thinking that we are doing something about what we are praying for.”,stoicism +7606,"“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero."" —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”",stoicism +7322,"“[...] so läßt der, welcher der Lust nachjagt, alles andere liegen, und die Freiheit ist das erste, was er preisgibt [...]”",stoicism +7087,“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”,stoicism +7271,"“There was no meaning in why he was here, but he was, and that was enough.”",stoicism +7597,"“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”",stoicism +7150,"“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”",stoicism +7392,"“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”",stoicism +6783,"“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus ? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster ? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze , more universal than Confucius ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno ? Did he express grander truths than Cicero ? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza ’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler ’s or Newton ’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno ? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare , the greatest of the human race?”",stoicism +7273,"“Si len úbohá dušička nesúca mŕtvolu,” ako vravel Epiktetos.”",stoicism +7000,"“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”",stoicism +6853,“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”,stoicism +6899,"“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”",stoicism +7512,"“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”",stoicism +7607,"“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promises of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”",stoicism +6914,“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”,stoicism +7660,“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”,stoicism +7626,"“And here are two of the most immediately useful thoughts you will dip into. First that things cannot touch the mind: they are external and inert; anxieties can only come from your internal judgement. Second, hat all these things you see will change almost as you look at them, and then will be no more. Constantly bring to mind all that you yourself have already seen changed. The universe is change: life is judgement.”",stoicism +6797,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”",stoicism +6835,"“The stoics divided philosophy into three branches: logic, physics, and ethics. Logic covered not only the rules of correct argumentation, but also grammar, linguistics, rhetorical theory, epistemology, and all the tools that might be needed to discover the truth of any matter. Physics was concerned with the nature of the world and the laws that govern it, and so included ontology and theology as well as what we would recognize as physics, astronomy, and cosmology. Ethics was concerned with how to achieve happiness, or how to live a fulfilled and flourishing life as a human being. A stoic sage was supposed to be fully expert in all three aspects.”",stoicism +6932,"“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits open here and there, and those very cracks, in one way a failure of the baker's profession, somehow catch the eye and give particular stimulus to our appetite.”",stoicism +6998,"“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”",stoicism +7030,"“... we find a complete contradiction in our wishing to live without suffering, a contradiction that is therefore implied by the frequently used phrase “blessed life.” This will certainly be clear to the person who has fully grasped my discussion that follows. This contradiction is revealed in this ethic of pure reason itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”",stoicism +7218,"“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”",stoicism +7193,“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”,stoicism +7229,“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”,stoicism +7445,“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”,stoicism +7070,"“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”",stoicism +7072,"“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”",stoicism +7056,"“Even a poisonous snake is safe to handle in cold weather, when it is sluggish. Its venom is still there, but inactive. In the same way, there are many people whose cruelty, ambition, or self-indulgence fails to match the most outrageous cases only by the grace of fortune.”",stoicism +7164,"“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”",stoicism +6779,"“Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.”",stoicism +7476,"“The qualities of stoic self-denial, self-sacrifice for others, patient labour, expiation for past error, willing acceptance of the burdens of life, were for him nobler manifestations of humanity than ostentatious feats of bravery, death-defying deeds of heroism or a life ruled by passions. He was persuaded that moral strength could best be displayed by silent endurance rather than by vehement anger and passionate rebellion.”",stoicism +7399,“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”,stoicism +7039,"“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoic­ism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”",stoicism +7361,"“Love, unless it is for life as a whole, is contaminated by things such as our preferences and memories.”",stoicism +7374,"“And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.”",stoicism +7547,“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”,stoicism +7613,"“Sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy.”",stoicism +7631,"“Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.”",stoicism +7130,“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”,stoicism +7026,"“At any moment we may be toppled from our perch and made to do with less—less money, less recognition, less access, less resources. Even the “less-es” that come with age: less mobility, less energy, less freedom. But we can prepare for that, in some way, by familiarizing ourselves with what that might feel like.”",stoicism +6902,“True focus is the ability to summon our mental strength when it is required and to let it rest when it is not.”,stoicism +7045,"“If ever you want to find out whether anything has been achieved, observe whether your intentions are the same today as they were yesterday. A change of intention shows that the mind is at sea, drifting here and there as carried by the wind.”",stoicism +7545,“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”,stoicism +7452,"“We often do not, not because we cannot, but because we think so.”",stoicism +7282,“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”,stoicism +7082,"“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”",stoicism +7345,“An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”,stoicism +7655,“The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.”,stoicism +7053,"“The first sign of a settled mind is that it can stay in one place and spend time with itself.” – Seneca, Letter 2.1”",stoicism +6890,"“At its core, Stoicism, like the sturdy oak tree, stands firm amidst the torrential downpour of life’s distractions. It teaches us that while we may not command the winds to change, we possess the power to adjust our sails, to guide our minds through the tumultuous sea of life’s happenings.”",stoicism +6876,“All roads to Hades are of equal length”,stoicism +7456,"“It's with a heavy heart that I assure you that regardless of how lasting your fortune feels, it can be taken from you before you can even think to try to hold on.”",stoicism +6973,"“The most terrifying ghosts that haunt us are the ones of our dead dreams, especially if we were the murderers.”",stoicism +6934,"“The afternoon presents an intersection where the momentum that we have gained in the morning may be either sustained or lost – where we can choose to either build on the morning’s foundations and embrace our challenges, or allow the stress and frustration of the day to ruin all our hard work.”",stoicism +7074,“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”,stoicism +7266,“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”,stoicism +7401,“In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.”,stoicism +7325,“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”,stoicism +7593,"“[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from being disobedient to the spirit. Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather.”",stoicism +6925,“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”,stoicism +7136,“It is foolish to expect a fool to act wisely.”,stoicism +7488,“I value my time so much that undressing is the only thing I am willing to do for sex.”,stoicism +7671,"“Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.”",stoicism +7389,“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”,stoicism +7020,“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”,stoicism +7651,"“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God – saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don’t acknowledge it – this life lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness – he doesn’t resent them for it, and isn’t deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be.”",stoicism +7103,"“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”",stoicism +7411,“All vices are at odds with nature.”,stoicism +7280,“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”,stoicism +7062,“Praying deceives us into thinking that we are doing something about what we are praying for.”,stoicism +6789,"“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”",stoicism +7051,"“Most people frequently waste their life, mostly in front of a screen.”",stoicism +7566,“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”,stoicism +6770,“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”,stoicism +6888,"“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.”",stoicism +6804,"“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”",stoicism +6967,"“[A] man ought to be prepared in a manner for this also, to be able to be sufficient for himself and to be his own companion. [...] [S]o ought we also to be able to talk with ourselves, not to feel the want of others also, not to be unprovided with the means of passing our time; to observe the divine administration and the relation of ourselves to everything else; to consider how we formerly were affected toward things that happen and how at present; what are still the things which give us pain; how these also can be cured and how removed; if any things require improvement, to improve them according to reason.”",stoicism +7254,"“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”",stoicism +7526,"“The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.”",stoicism +6828,"“I fail to remember ever having made an effort — no trace of struggle is detectable in my life, I am the opposite of a heroic nature. To “want” something, to “strive” for something, to have an “end,” a “desire” in mind — I know none of this from my experience. Even at this moment I look out upon my future — a broad future! — as upon a smooth sea: no desire ripples upon it. Not in the least do I want anything to be different from what it is; I myself do not want to be any different ... But thus I have always lived.”",stoicism +7606,"“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero."" —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”",stoicism +6930,"“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”",stoicism +7460,“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”,stoicism +6975,“The most beautiful things come from the hardest conditions.”,stoicism +6781,“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”,stoicism +7259,“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”,stoicism +7045,"“If ever you want to find out whether anything has been achieved, observe whether your intentions are the same today as they were yesterday. A change of intention shows that the mind is at sea, drifting here and there as carried by the wind.”",stoicism +7462,"“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”",stoicism +7011,"“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”",stoicism +6985,“Every life without exception is a short one.”,stoicism +7020,“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”,stoicism +7580,"“Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.”",stoicism +6895,"“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.”",stoicism +6986,"“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”",stoicism +7075,"“We are often blind to the fact that our situation is not as bad as we think, until it gets worse.”",stoicism +7566,“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”,stoicism +6954,“We cannot believe in the fundamental goodness of the world until and unless we ourself become that goodness.”,stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +6992,“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”,stoicism +6953,“Those who courageously choose to confront extreme hardships perceive their experience differently than others. They have the ability to envision something beyond the difficulties they encounter. Perhaps a glimmer of hope? Or perhaps another form of adversity? The truth is that the only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”,stoicism +7264,"“Najlepší spôsob obrany je nepodobať sa tým, čo nám ubližujú.”",stoicism +7196,"“Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?”",stoicism +6947,"“When we first wake up our minds are clear, which makes this the opportune time to direct our focus inwards, to organize our thoughts and to set our daily intentions through a few moments of meditation. Our duties and obligations have not yet begun to crowd our schedule, and the clarity of the dawn creates an open, undistracted mental space.”",stoicism +7197,“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”,stoicism +7063,"“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.”",stoicism +7621,"“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”",stoicism +6920,“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”,stoicism +7153,"“No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair” does not even come close. It’s grotesque. How easily this could shatter a person, how easily and understandably it might cause them to toss away everything they ever believed, to hate a world that could be so cruel. Yet somehow we have Marcus Aurelius”",stoicism +7407,“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”,stoicism +7582,"“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”",stoicism +7077,“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”,stoicism +7105,"“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”",stoicism +7515,“Rejection of desire is liberating. Renunciation is a form of power.”,stoicism +7661,"“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.”",stoicism +7144,"“He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.”",stoicism +6777,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”",stoicism +7110,"“What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad- as terrible a blindness as the kind that can't tell white from black.”",stoicism +6898,"“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”",stoicism +7545,“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”,stoicism +7438,"“Independence and unvarying reliability, and to pay attention to nothing, no matter how fleetingly, except the logos. And to be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility. His patience in teaching. And to have seen someone who clearly viewed his expertise and ability as a teacher as the humblest of virtues. And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. On Apolonius”",stoicism +7121,"“If being better is the surest way of feeling better, it must be better than feeling better.”",stoicism +7127,“That we can change the shadow of an object without changing the object (by changing the position of the source of light) reminds us that we can change how we feel about a situation or person by changing only how we look at it or them.”,stoicism +7286,“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”,stoicism +7264,"“Najlepší spôsob obrany je nepodobať sa tým, čo nám ubližujú.”",stoicism +6855,"“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”",stoicism +6944,“Externals are nothing to a stoic. The falsehoods and artificial limitations of human society are nothing to proponents of the theater principle”,stoicism +7571,"“At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.”",stoicism +6962,"“People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his mind. So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.”",stoicism +7080,"“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”",stoicism +6888,"“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.”",stoicism +6987,"“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”",stoicism +7196,"“Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?”",stoicism +7183,“We cannot be too young to die.”,stoicism +6883,"“Stand up straight, not straightened. The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +6914,“Birds weren’t given wings just to walk everywhere . . . and you weren’t born with resilience and a beautiful mind just to have an easy life.”,stoicism +7307,"“We get a taste of death, not when we’re asleep, but when we awake.”",stoicism +7417,“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”,stoicism +7072,"“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”",stoicism +7513,“Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.”,stoicism +7650,"“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +7357,"“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”",stoicism +7609,"“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”",stoicism +7114,"“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”",stoicism +7583,"“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”",stoicism +7570,“It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.”,stoicism +6770,“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”,stoicism +6916,"“I am not like the Gods! That was a painful thrust; I'm like the worm that burrows in the dust, Who, as he makes of dust his meager meal, Is crushed and buried by a wanderers heel Is it not dust that stares from every rack And narrows down this vaulting den? This moth's world full of bric-a-brac In which I live as in a pen? Here I should find for what I care? Should I read in a thousand books, maybe, That men have always suffered everywhere, Though now and then some man lived happily?- Why, hollow skull, do you grin like a faun? Save that your brain, like mine, once in dismay Searched for light day, but foundered in the heavy dawn”",stoicism +7056,"“Even a poisonous snake is safe to handle in cold weather, when it is sluggish. Its venom is still there, but inactive. In the same way, there are many people whose cruelty, ambition, or self-indulgence fails to match the most outrageous cases only by the grace of fortune.”",stoicism +7423,"“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”",stoicism +6822,"“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.”",stoicism +7073,“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”,stoicism +6838,“It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.”,stoicism +7130,“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”,stoicism +7371,“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”,stoicism +6989,"“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”",stoicism +7473,“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”,stoicism +7344,"“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”",stoicism +7354,"“Human beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill.”",stoicism +6930,"“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”",stoicism +7450,"“We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.”",stoicism +6858,"“Lives such as yours—how true it is!—though they should exceed a thousand years, will contract into the smallest span: but those vices of yours will swallow up any amount of time. This length of time you have, that reason prolongs, however swift nature makes its sojourn, is bound to pass quickly through your fingers; for you do not grasp it, or seek to hold on to it, or try to delay the passing of the swiftest thing of all, but allow it to depart, as if it were something surplus to requirement and easily replaced.”",stoicism +7457,“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”,stoicism +7550,"“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”",stoicism +7354,"“Human beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill.”",stoicism +7526,"“The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.”",stoicism +7358,"“And, just as it is harder to have good qualities when one is rich than when one is poor, it is harder to be a Stoic when one is wealthy, powerful, and respected than when one is destitute, miserable, and lonely.”",stoicism +6928,"“me dulcis saturet quies; obscuro positus loco leni perfruar otio, nullis nota Quiritibus aetas per tacitum fluat. sic cum transierint mei nullo cum strepitu dies. plebeius moriar senex. illi mors gravis incubat qui, notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.”",stoicism +7258,"“I sacrificed much to be where I am today, yet I will sacrifice much more to get to where I need to be someday.”",stoicism +7093,“Our rationality is a visitor.”,stoicism +7379,“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”,stoicism +7150,"“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”",stoicism +6871,"“Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, should we destroy him? If you speak thus you will see how inhuman this is which you say, and that it is just as if you would say, Ought we not destroy this blind and deaf man?”",stoicism +7263,"“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”",stoicism +7413,"“Consider what intemperate lovers undergo for the sake of evil desires, and how much exertion others expend for the sake of making profit, and how much suffering those who are pursuing fame endure, and bear in mind that all of these people submit to all kinds of toil and hardship voluntarily. Is it then not monstrous that they for no honorable reward endure such things, while we for the sake of the ideal good - that is not only the avoidance of evil such as wrecks our lives, but also the acquisition of virtue, which we may call the provider of all goods -- are not ready to bear every hardship? And yet would not anyone admit how much better it is, in place of exerting oneself to win someone else's wife, to exert oneself the discipline of one's desires; in place of enduring hardships for the sake of money, the train oneself to want little; instead of giving oneself trouble about getting notoriety; instead of trying to find a way to injure an envied person, to enquire how not to envy anyone; and instead of slaving, as sycophants do, to win false friends, to undergo suffering in order to possess true friends? Since toil and hardship are a necessity for all, both for those who seek better and worse, it is preposterous that those pursuing the better are not much more eager in their efforts than those for whom there is small hope of reward for all their pains. ... It remains for me to say that who is unwilling to exert himself almost always convicts himself as unworthy of good, since all good is gained by toil.”",stoicism +7383,"“Но Эпиктет призывал мужественно смотреть в лицо реальности, а реальность такова, что все люди смертны и никто из них не принадлежит нам и не останется с нами навечно. [...] Признав эту реальность, мы понимаем, что должны наслаждаться любовью наших близких и общением с ними, когда это возможно, а не принимать их как должное: ведь неминуемо настанет день, когда «установленное время года» пройдет.”",stoicism +6788,“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”,stoicism +7223,“To live is to owe life to die.”,stoicism +7251,“Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter”,stoicism +7363,“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”,stoicism +7166,"“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”",stoicism +7048,"“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”",stoicism +7620,"“Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.”",stoicism +7134,"“Gluttony is nothing other than lack of self-control with respect to food, and human beings prefer food that is pleasant to food that is nutritious.”",stoicism +7100,"“When you start to lose your temper, remember: There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being- and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners.”",stoicism +7410,“[A] man is wealthy if he has attuned himself to his restricted means and has made himself rich on little.”,stoicism +7113,“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”,stoicism +7591,“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”,stoicism +7224,"“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”",stoicism +7370,"“Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Don’t stop it. Is it not yet come? Don’t stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a wife, to public posts, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy partner of the feasts of the gods. And if you don’t even take the things which are set before you, but are able even to reject them, then you will not only be a partner at the feasts of the gods, but also of their empire.”",stoicism +7494,“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”,stoicism +7424,"“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”",stoicism +6834,"“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.”",stoicism +6845,“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”,stoicism +7480,"“What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”",stoicism +6912,"“A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.”",stoicism +7597,"“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”",stoicism +7374,"“And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.”",stoicism +7242,“Arrogance gives confidence … a bad name.”,stoicism +7186,“One of the main goals and effects of stoicism is to stop an adult from being a crybaby.”,stoicism +7074,“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”,stoicism +7505,“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”,stoicism +7266,“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”,stoicism +7060,“We are all talented at coming up with plausible excuses.”,stoicism +6871,"“Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, should we destroy him? If you speak thus you will see how inhuman this is which you say, and that it is just as if you would say, Ought we not destroy this blind and deaf man?”",stoicism +7036,"“A better attitude towards life is better than a better life, and leads to a better life.”",stoicism +7636,"“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”",stoicism +7391,"“For our happiness or unhappiness, we have only what we think about something or someone to thank or blame.”",stoicism +7611,"“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”",stoicism +7546,“Even the busiest bee does not move from one flower to another as often as an untamed mind moves from one thought to another.”,stoicism +6772,"“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”",stoicism +6854,"“There is the mind of a monarch within each of us, wanting to be granted complete freedom of action but not wanting it to be turned against us.”",stoicism +7563,“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”,stoicism +7097,"“Just as roosters scream in the morning, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pains.”",stoicism +7585,"“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, ""I have to go to work - as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for - the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”",stoicism +7219,“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”,stoicism +7223,“To live is to owe life to die.”,stoicism +7398,“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”,stoicism +6990,“Success is not a stamp of approval given by others.”,stoicism +6923,"“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”",stoicism +7434,"“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”",stoicism +6781,“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”,stoicism +6902,“True focus is the ability to summon our mental strength when it is required and to let it rest when it is not.”,stoicism +7073,“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”,stoicism +7062,“Praying deceives us into thinking that we are doing something about what we are praying for.”,stoicism +7069,"“Life is not more kind, or less cruel, towards those who take it seriously.”",stoicism +7509,“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”,stoicism +7552,“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”,stoicism +6812,"“In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.”",stoicism +7112,"“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.”",stoicism +7095,"“It is sometimes foolish to assume that someone is wise, or vice versa.”",stoicism +7583,"“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”",stoicism +7267,“Stoicism is designed to be medicine for the soul.”,stoicism +7133,“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”,stoicism +7660,“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”,stoicism +7196,"“Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?”",stoicism +6790,“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”,stoicism +7176,“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”,stoicism +7388,"“When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to either be amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle"".”",stoicism +7105,"“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”",stoicism +7584,“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”,stoicism +6886,"“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”",stoicism +6893,"“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”",stoicism +7168,"“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”",stoicism +7562,“Suffering adds spice to life.”,stoicism +7573,“Judgments are the only possible cause of unhappiness and happiness.”,stoicism +7484,"“If you lose today every-day, you are lost every-day.”",stoicism +6820,"“When a dog is tied to a cart, if it wants to follow, it is pulled and follows, making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity. But if the dog does not follow, it will be compelled in any case. So it is with men too: even if they don't want to, they will be compelled to follow what is destined.”",stoicism +7552,“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”,stoicism +7093,“Our rationality is a visitor.”,stoicism +7558,“It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think.”,stoicism +6910,"“We should refrain from attempting to change things to fit our narrative of explaining the world, and start changing this narrative to better host the things we experience.”",stoicism +7239,“Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”,stoicism +7556,"“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”",stoicism +7571,"“At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.”",stoicism +7103,"“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”",stoicism +7662,“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits”,stoicism +7142,“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”,stoicism +7333,“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”,stoicism +7263,"“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”",stoicism +7308,"“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”",stoicism +7438,"“Independence and unvarying reliability, and to pay attention to nothing, no matter how fleetingly, except the logos. And to be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility. His patience in teaching. And to have seen someone who clearly viewed his expertise and ability as a teacher as the humblest of virtues. And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. On Apolonius”",stoicism +7520,“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”,stoicism +6925,“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”,stoicism +7060,“We are all talented at coming up with plausible excuses.”,stoicism +7417,“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”,stoicism +6913,"“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”",stoicism +6875,"“These deep interactions with Greek and Roman culture, to include Stoic philosophy, certainly affected the zeitgeist of the era and most certainly impacted the educational theories in the early days of the Republic. With so much interest in reviving and adopting elements of Stoic philosophy within America, many intended references to Stoic ethics may be hidden within the works of the early generations of America, as they explicitly referenced “American” ideals that would have incorporated Stoic philosophy.”",stoicism +7189,“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”,stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +7427,"“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”",stoicism +6771,"“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”",stoicism +7358,"“And, just as it is harder to have good qualities when one is rich than when one is poor, it is harder to be a Stoic when one is wealthy, powerful, and respected than when one is destitute, miserable, and lonely.”",stoicism +7413,"“Consider what intemperate lovers undergo for the sake of evil desires, and how much exertion others expend for the sake of making profit, and how much suffering those who are pursuing fame endure, and bear in mind that all of these people submit to all kinds of toil and hardship voluntarily. Is it then not monstrous that they for no honorable reward endure such things, while we for the sake of the ideal good - that is not only the avoidance of evil such as wrecks our lives, but also the acquisition of virtue, which we may call the provider of all goods -- are not ready to bear every hardship? And yet would not anyone admit how much better it is, in place of exerting oneself to win someone else's wife, to exert oneself the discipline of one's desires; in place of enduring hardships for the sake of money, the train oneself to want little; instead of giving oneself trouble about getting notoriety; instead of trying to find a way to injure an envied person, to enquire how not to envy anyone; and instead of slaving, as sycophants do, to win false friends, to undergo suffering in order to possess true friends? Since toil and hardship are a necessity for all, both for those who seek better and worse, it is preposterous that those pursuing the better are not much more eager in their efforts than those for whom there is small hope of reward for all their pains. ... It remains for me to say that who is unwilling to exert himself almost always convicts himself as unworthy of good, since all good is gained by toil.”",stoicism +6859,"“Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.”",stoicism +7114,"“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”",stoicism +7119,“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”,stoicism +7228,“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”,stoicism +7032,"“True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.”",stoicism +7120,“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.”,stoicism +6877,“Nothing happens to any creature beyond it’s own natural endurance.”,stoicism +7355,“Life is happening neither to nor for but through us.”,stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +7678,"“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: ""I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire to warm oneself on the coldest day, no water to drink but what was tainted, no earth to set the foot on, and scarcely any air to breathe. Yet, with all these miserable circumstances, we spent many a happy hour by candlelight in that wretched cabin whilst I sewed and he read the Bible to me.”",stoicism +6928,"“me dulcis saturet quies; obscuro positus loco leni perfruar otio, nullis nota Quiritibus aetas per tacitum fluat. sic cum transierint mei nullo cum strepitu dies. plebeius moriar senex. illi mors gravis incubat qui, notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.”",stoicism +7352,“The wise willingly accept the unwillingness of the foolish to accept what is as part of what is.”,stoicism +7081,"“It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.”",stoicism +7010,“Ill Fortune is of more use to men than Good Fortune.”,stoicism +7214,"“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”",stoicism +7067,“The present moment is the entirety of reality.”,stoicism +6805,"“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”",stoicism +6853,“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”,stoicism +7221,“Being grateful for the shade of a tree is not nearly as honourable as planting a tree.”,stoicism +7655,“The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.”,stoicism +7544,“The present isn’t more capable of causing mental pain than the past or the future.”,stoicism +7591,“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”,stoicism +7154,“Hating our opponent benefits us. Underestimating them benefits them.”,stoicism +6941,"“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”",stoicism +7145,“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”,stoicism +7454,"“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”",stoicism +7131,"“Our education system would be betraying its master, capitalism, if it taught us to be content with what we have. Or if it told us about the fruits of practicing minimalism.”",stoicism +7328,"“At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it”",stoicism +7660,“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”,stoicism +6910,"“We should refrain from attempting to change things to fit our narrative of explaining the world, and start changing this narrative to better host the things we experience.”",stoicism +7656,"“So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.”",stoicism +6887,"“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”",stoicism +7046,"“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”",stoicism +7495,“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”,stoicism +6989,"“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”",stoicism +7674,"“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws . [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.”",stoicism +6795,"“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”",stoicism +7290,“Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death: and you will never think of anything mean nor will you desire anything extravagantly.”,stoicism +7552,“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”,stoicism +6779,"“Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.”",stoicism +7147,"“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”",stoicism +7402,"“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”",stoicism +7406,"“We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise.”",stoicism +7451,"“Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, “This is an accident of mortality.” But if anyone’s own child happens to die, it is immediately, “Alas! how wretched am I!” It should be always remembered how we are affected on hearing the same thing concerning others.”",stoicism +7353,"“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”",stoicism +6921,“The closest we can get to “winning” at life is to never give up.”,stoicism +7489,“Having problems is not nearly as tormenting as being had by problems.”,stoicism +6818,"“40. The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help him in this way. You will say, perhaps, ‘But all that is something they have put in my own power.’ Then surely it were better to use your power and be a free man, than to hanker like a slave and a beggar for something that is not in your power. Besides, who told you the gods never lend their aid even towards things that do lie in our own power? Begin praying in this way, and you will see. Where another man prays ‘Grant that I may possess this woman,’ let your own prayer be, ‘Grant that I may not lust to possess her.’ Where he prays, ‘Grant me to be rid of such-and-such a one,’ you pray, ‘Take from me my desire to be rid of him.’ Where he begs, ‘Spare me the loss of my precious child,’ beg rather to be delivered from the terror of losing him. In short, give your petitions a turn in this direction, and see what comes.”",stoicism +6923,"“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”",stoicism +7628,"“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”",stoicism +7062,“Praying deceives us into thinking that we are doing something about what we are praying for.”,stoicism +7349,“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”,stoicism +6819,"“For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.”",stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +7300,"“Rubaiyat Revină-n glasul meu persanul vers Spre a ne aminti că timpul-i un divers Mod de-a urzi avide visuri vane, În taine risipite-n univers. Din nou să spună că țărână-i focul, Țărână-i trupul, și că asta-i jocul: Viața mea și-a ta sunt râu ce curge Necontenit și repede-n tot locul. Și că impunătorul monument Zidit cu trudă, din trufie, lent, Un vânt fugar e numai, că-n lumina Lui Dumnezeu un veac e un moment. ... Te rog, persană lună, să revii, Și voi, incerte-apusuri aurii. Azi e ieri. Nu ește decât ceilalți. Tărână-i chipul lor. Cu morții-învii.”",stoicism +7381,"“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”",stoicism +6829,“It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.”,stoicism +6936,“Humans are not made for sitting at a desk all day. We have been evolving for millions of years to hunt animals through dense forest and vast plains. To walk huge distances in search of water. To spend hours searching for edible fruit to bring home to our families. The sedentary lifestyle many of us lead these days is no more than a by-product of the last few centuries.”,stoicism +6971,"“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +7626,"“And here are two of the most immediately useful thoughts you will dip into. First that things cannot touch the mind: they are external and inert; anxieties can only come from your internal judgement. Second, hat all these things you see will change almost as you look at them, and then will be no more. Constantly bring to mind all that you yourself have already seen changed. The universe is change: life is judgement.”",stoicism +6915,“Life is short but life is long”,stoicism +7445,“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”,stoicism +7208,“Alcohol is the worst thing to mix with anger.”,stoicism +7011,"“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”",stoicism +7350,"“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”",stoicism +7456,"“It's with a heavy heart that I assure you that regardless of how lasting your fortune feels, it can be taken from you before you can even think to try to hold on.”",stoicism +7330,"“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”",stoicism +7252,“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”,stoicism +6877,“Nothing happens to any creature beyond it’s own natural endurance.”,stoicism +6995,"“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, ""I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”",stoicism +7442,“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”,stoicism +7400,"“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”",stoicism +7430,"“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”",stoicism +7431,"“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”",stoicism +7201,"“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”",stoicism +7574,"“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”",stoicism +7424,"“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”",stoicism +7188,"“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”",stoicism +7224,"“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”",stoicism +6929,"“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”",stoicism +7292,"“Some of our problems came to us; some, we went to them.”",stoicism +7419,“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice”,stoicism +7359,“Seeing your loved one asleep is a great opportunity to practice seeing them dead.”,stoicism +6846,"“The sun appears to pour itself down, and indeed its light pours in all direction, but the stream does not run out. This pouring is linear extension: that is why its beams are called rays, because they radiate in extended lines. You can see what a ray is if you observe the sun's light entering a dark room through a narrow opening. It extends in a straight line and impacts, so to speak, on any solid body in its path which blocks passage through the air on the other side: it settles there and does not slip off or fall.”",stoicism +7278,"“Really, doesn't everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It rather speaks in his favor. This used to be much better understood.”",stoicism +7210,“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”,stoicism +7023,“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”,stoicism +7539,“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”,stoicism +7089,“Conformity eats away individuality.”,stoicism +7572,“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”,stoicism +7032,"“True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.”",stoicism +7366,“Stoicism is a logical philosophy.”,stoicism +7427,"“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”",stoicism +7604,"“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.”",stoicism +7323,“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”,stoicism +7143,"“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”",stoicism +7406,"“We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise.”",stoicism +6936,“Humans are not made for sitting at a desk all day. We have been evolving for millions of years to hunt animals through dense forest and vast plains. To walk huge distances in search of water. To spend hours searching for edible fruit to bring home to our families. The sedentary lifestyle many of us lead these days is no more than a by-product of the last few centuries.”,stoicism +7522,"“Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else, you will know what happens. So also if you lie in bed for ten days, get up and try to take a rather long walk, and you will see how wobbly your legs are. In general, therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it; if you want not to do something, refrain from doing it, and accustom yourself to something else instead.”",stoicism +7228,“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”,stoicism +7049,“A charming enemy comes to me as a friend; faults creep in calling themselves virtues; temerity cloaks itself with the name of courage; cowardice gets called moderation; and timidity passes itself off as caution.”,stoicism +7469,"“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”",stoicism +7071,“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”,stoicism +7300,"“Rubaiyat Revină-n glasul meu persanul vers Spre a ne aminti că timpul-i un divers Mod de-a urzi avide visuri vane, În taine risipite-n univers. Din nou să spună că țărână-i focul, Țărână-i trupul, și că asta-i jocul: Viața mea și-a ta sunt râu ce curge Necontenit și repede-n tot locul. Și că impunătorul monument Zidit cu trudă, din trufie, lent, Un vânt fugar e numai, că-n lumina Lui Dumnezeu un veac e un moment. ... Te rog, persană lună, să revii, Și voi, incerte-apusuri aurii. Azi e ieri. Nu ește decât ceilalți. Tărână-i chipul lor. Cu morții-învii.”",stoicism +7349,“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”,stoicism +6987,"“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”",stoicism +6871,"“Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, should we destroy him? If you speak thus you will see how inhuman this is which you say, and that it is just as if you would say, Ought we not destroy this blind and deaf man?”",stoicism +7323,“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”,stoicism +7057,“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”,stoicism +6936,“Humans are not made for sitting at a desk all day. We have been evolving for millions of years to hunt animals through dense forest and vast plains. To walk huge distances in search of water. To spend hours searching for edible fruit to bring home to our families. The sedentary lifestyle many of us lead these days is no more than a by-product of the last few centuries.”,stoicism +7390,“Sometimes we are lucky to lose something or someone.”,stoicism +6805,"“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”",stoicism +7513,“Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.”,stoicism +7510,“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”,stoicism +7122,"“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”",stoicism +7445,“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”,stoicism +7668,“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”,stoicism +6842,“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”,stoicism +7417,“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”,stoicism +7122,"“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”",stoicism +7660,“Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.”,stoicism +6839,"“Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.”",stoicism +7194,"“Take it to mind, not to heart.”",stoicism +7477,“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”,stoicism +7550,"“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”",stoicism +7330,"“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”",stoicism +7597,"“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”",stoicism +7411,“All vices are at odds with nature.”,stoicism +7286,“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”,stoicism +7197,“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”,stoicism +7308,"“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”",stoicism +6929,"“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”",stoicism +6918,“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”,stoicism +7545,“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”,stoicism +6999,“Amor Fati”,stoicism +7481,"“...when I asked him if he forgave me, he answered that he was not in the habit of cherishing the remembrance of vexation; that he had nothing to forgive; not having been offended.”",stoicism +7331,“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”,stoicism +6836,"“Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.”",stoicism +7581,"“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.”",stoicism +7150,"“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”",stoicism +6827,"“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”",stoicism +7028,“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”,stoicism +7111,“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”,stoicism +7607,"“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promises of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”",stoicism +6899,"“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”",stoicism +7496,"“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”",stoicism +6941,"“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”",stoicism +7539,“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”,stoicism +7383,"“Но Эпиктет призывал мужественно смотреть в лицо реальности, а реальность такова, что все люди смертны и никто из них не принадлежит нам и не останется с нами навечно. [...] Признав эту реальность, мы понимаем, что должны наслаждаться любовью наших близких и общением с ними, когда это возможно, а не принимать их как должное: ведь неминуемо настанет день, когда «установленное время года» пройдет.”",stoicism +6978,"“Me? I'm a Stoic. Every time my eyes are opened, I am eager to see the world anew.”",stoicism +7572,“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”,stoicism +7123,"“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”",stoicism +7240,“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”,stoicism +7567,“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”,stoicism +6885,"“You will feel pain. You need to accept this truth. ... When it comes, accept it; embrace it. Realize it's a sensation like any other...the same as being hot or cold. Put it to one side and do what must be done. Don't let it overwhelm or control you. Ever.”",stoicism +7033,“We always put ourselves first: the fulfilment of our desire sometimes comes last.”,stoicism +7431,"“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”",stoicism +7581,"“You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.”",stoicism +7211,“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”,stoicism +7317,"“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”",stoicism +7222,“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”,stoicism +7614,"“It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.”",stoicism +7246,"“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”",stoicism +7056,"“Even a poisonous snake is safe to handle in cold weather, when it is sluggish. Its venom is still there, but inactive. In the same way, there are many people whose cruelty, ambition, or self-indulgence fails to match the most outrageous cases only by the grace of fortune.”",stoicism +7072,"“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”",stoicism +7080,"“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”",stoicism +6977,"“Do not underestimate the quiet and laid-back individuals because displaying stoicism, at certain times, is a superpower.”",stoicism +7387,“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”,stoicism +7215,"“There is a switch in the air tonight. It’s not suffocating, like breakups all those years ago, but clean and clear. He does not want me anymore so I tilt my head, take a breath and say, “Okay. I understand.” It’s calm now. My heart didn’t break, it kept on beating like a stoic marching forward without looking back, and I will be a writer now. I love so many people, still. I think I will write about them forever.”",stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +7402,"“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”",stoicism +6824,“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”,stoicism +6781,“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”,stoicism +7426,"“If you admit to having derived great pleasures, your duty is not to complain about what has been taken away but to be thankful for what you have been given.”",stoicism +7169,“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”,stoicism +7677,“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.”,stoicism +7417,“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”,stoicism +7284,"“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”",stoicism +7425,"“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”",stoicism +7311,"“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”",stoicism +7006,"“Life is a series of problems we must navigate with grace - one problem solved, another arises, again and again until we die.”",stoicism +7048,"“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”",stoicism +7117,"“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”",stoicism +7396,“Stoicism is Buddhism without the dogma.”,stoicism +6873,"“For the military community, philosophy isn't something casually debated. But something that should be fully embodied in everyday thought and action, with the abandonment of all principles not shown practical in the most extreme of environments.”",stoicism +7399,“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”,stoicism +7286,“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”,stoicism +7641,"“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”",stoicism +7017,"“Though you should be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future, for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?”",stoicism +7133,“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”,stoicism +7090,“Every life is a different path to death.”,stoicism +7402,"“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”",stoicism +7055,"“Prosperity is a restless thing; it drives itself to distraction. It addles the brain, and not always in the same way, for it goads people in different directions—some toward power, others toward self-indulgence. Some are puffed up by it, others unmanned and made entirely feeble.”",stoicism +6918,“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”,stoicism +6853,“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”,stoicism +7175,“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”,stoicism +7225,“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”,stoicism +7512,"“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”",stoicism +7569,“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”,stoicism +6930,"“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”",stoicism +7553,"“After failure, it is possible to keep going– and to fail better.”",stoicism +7229,“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”,stoicism +7319,"“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”",stoicism +7269,"“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”",stoicism +7507,“Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.”,stoicism +7278,"“Really, doesn't everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It rather speaks in his favor. This used to be much better understood.”",stoicism +7423,"“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”",stoicism +7573,“Judgments are the only possible cause of unhappiness and happiness.”,stoicism +7250,"“Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.”",stoicism +7432,“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”,stoicism +6883,"“Stand up straight, not straightened. The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +7518,“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”,stoicism +7347,“A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.”,stoicism +7130,“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”,stoicism +7110,"“What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad- as terrible a blindness as the kind that can't tell white from black.”",stoicism +7539,“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”,stoicism +7530,“You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”,stoicism +7218,"“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”",stoicism +7612,"“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”",stoicism +7604,"“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.”",stoicism +6949,“We are existing in a thin sliver of light between two potentially infinite portions of darkness.”,stoicism +7471,“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”,stoicism +7176,“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”,stoicism +7435,“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”,stoicism +6965,"“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”",stoicism +7235,“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”,stoicism +7080,"“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”",stoicism +7031,"“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: ""I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”",stoicism +7188,"“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”",stoicism +7175,“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”,stoicism +6912,"“A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.”",stoicism +7111,“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”,stoicism +7085,"“The goodness inside you is like a small flame, and you are its keeper. It’s your job, today and every day, to make sure that it has enough fuel, that it doesn’t get obstructed or snuffed out. Every person has their own version of the flame and is responsible for it, just as you are. If they all fail, the world will be much darker—that is something you don’t control. But so long as your flame flickers, there will be some light in the world.”",stoicism +6870,"“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? Do not expect it, even if I tell you.”",stoicism +7013,“Most of us would eventually lose count if we were to literally count our blessings.”,stoicism +7259,“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”,stoicism +6781,“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”,stoicism +7008,"“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. - Book: ""The Obstacle is the Way”",stoicism +7330,"“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”",stoicism +6811,"“If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.”",stoicism +7447,"“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”",stoicism +7363,“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”,stoicism +7198,"“What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.”",stoicism +7572,“Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.”,stoicism +6927,“The crossing of a blue bridge which bystanders who cannot distinguish from the blue of the horizon deem invisible.”,stoicism +6985,“Every life without exception is a short one.”,stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +7231,“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”,stoicism +6903,"“Imagine, if you will, a bird in flight. When it must overcome the gusts that hinder its path, it beats its wings with unyielding force. Yet, when it soars high in the sky, it spreads its wings and rides the wind, at peace in its journey. This is the model of focus we must aspire to: resolute in the face of opposition, tranquil in the embrace of flow.”",stoicism +6836,"“Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.”",stoicism +7617,“...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...”,stoicism +6776,“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”,stoicism +7295,"“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”",stoicism +6842,“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”,stoicism +7168,"“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”",stoicism +7174,"“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”",stoicism +7444,"“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”",stoicism +7347,“A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.”,stoicism +7628,"“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”",stoicism +6899,"“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”",stoicism +7235,“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”,stoicism +6975,“The most beautiful things come from the hardest conditions.”,stoicism +7557,“It is way more pleasurable to master yourself than it is to masturbate.”,stoicism +7537,“We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.”,stoicism +7035,“Mindfulness is the only doorway to the unhurried life.”,stoicism +7306,“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”,stoicism +7562,“Suffering adds spice to life.”,stoicism +7022,“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”,stoicism +7591,“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”,stoicism +7058,"“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”",stoicism +6933,"“In an era characterized by incessant noise and constant distraction, we often find our minds pulled from one thought to another like a leaf in an October breeze. We are so preoccupied by modern living that we become totally disconnected from our ancient human roots in the natural world.”",stoicism +6864,"“We can’t choose what the world throws at us, but we can control how we react to it, and that makes all the difference.”",stoicism +7551,"“When you pursue wisdom, you will soon realize how much you don’t know. Your knowledge will be incomplete, but continually developing through your curiosity. Arrogance blocks new information from coming in. When you’re conceited, you’ll resist change, and struggle to preserve your fixed image. Don’t fall into smug idleness, used to comfort. Challenge what you think you know, not caring if other people see you as a fool. Progress daily in your own uncertainty.”",stoicism +7602,"“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”",stoicism +6879,"“Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth.”",stoicism +7105,"“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”",stoicism +7591,“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”,stoicism +7007,"“Draconus staggered up. 'Pearl, my friend, I have come to say goodbye. And to tell you I am sorry.' 'What saddens you?' the demon asked. 'I am sorry, Pearl, for all of this. For Dragnipur. For the horror forged by my own hands. It was fitting, was it not, that the weapon claimed its maker? I think, yes, it was. It was.' He paused, and then brought both hands up to his face. For a moment it seemed he would begin clawing his beard from the skin beneath it. Instead, the shackled hands fell away, down, dragged by the weight of the chains. 'I too am sorry,' said Pearl. 'To see the end of this.' 'What?' 'So many enemies, all here and not one by choice. Enemies, and yet working together for so long. It was a wonderous thing, was it not, Draconus? When necessity forced each hand to clasp, to work as one. A wonderous thing.' The warrior stared at the demon. He seemed unable to speak.”",stoicism +7150,"“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”",stoicism +7205,“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”,stoicism +7668,“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”,stoicism +7252,“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”,stoicism +7671,"“Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.”",stoicism +6794,“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”,stoicism +7422,"“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”",stoicism +6886,"“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”",stoicism +7251,“Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter”,stoicism +7161,"“People seek retreats for themselves in the countryside by the seashore, in the hills, and you too have made it your habit to long for that above all else. But this is altogether unphilosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself whenever you please; for nowhere can one retreat into greater peace or freedom from care than within one’s own soul, especially when a person has such things within him that he merely has to look at them to recover from that moment perfect ease of mind (and by ease of mind I mean nothing other than having one’s mind in good order). So constantly grant yourself this retreat and so renew yourself; but keep within you concise and basic precepts that will be enough, at first encounter, to cleanse you from all distress and to send you back without discontent to the life to which you will return.”",stoicism +7306,“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”,stoicism +6848,"“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”",stoicism +7349,“The curse of mortality is the other side of the coin of the blessing of life.”,stoicism +6942,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it.”",stoicism +6781,“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”,stoicism +7569,“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”,stoicism +6897,"“Distractions are the relentless waves of the ocean, crashing against the shores of our consciousness. They erode our resolve, and little by little, wash away the sandcastles of our focus. They arrive in various guises: the allure of trivial pleasures, the lure of the inconsequential, the din of idle gossip, the chains of past regret and the ghostly shadows of future anxieties. Each wave seeks to pull us into the depths of irrelevance, away from the firm ground of meaningful pursuits.”",stoicism +7377,“Hatred and love are equally enslaving.”,stoicism +6861,"“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.”",stoicism +7422,"“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”",stoicism +7312,"“For I am not everlasting, but a human being, a part of the whole as an hour is a part of the day. Like an hour I must come, and like an hour pass away.”",stoicism +7615,“True affluence is not needing anything.”,stoicism +7301,“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”,stoicism +7427,"“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Эт�� понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”",stoicism +7597,"“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”",stoicism +7216,"“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”",stoicism +7159,"“Saving money, when buying an unnecessary thing, leads to wasting time, when using the thing.”",stoicism +7441,"“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”",stoicism +7630,"“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”",stoicism +6812,"“In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.”",stoicism +7023,“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”,stoicism +6899,"“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”",stoicism +6829,“It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.”,stoicism +7432,“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”,stoicism +7236,“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”,stoicism +7056,"“Even a poisonous snake is safe to handle in cold weather, when it is sluggish. Its venom is still there, but inactive. In the same way, there are many people whose cruelty, ambition, or self-indulgence fails to match the most outrageous cases only by the grace of fortune.”",stoicism +7286,“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”,stoicism +7236,“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”,stoicism +7547,“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”,stoicism +7114,"“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”",stoicism +7411,“All vices are at odds with nature.”,stoicism +7151,“Some real kings are drama queens.”,stoicism +7548,“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”,stoicism +7459,“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”,stoicism +7022,“Most people would rather have their remarks be misunderstood than be disagreed with.”,stoicism +6825,“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”,stoicism +7232,"“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”",stoicism +7226,“Death is freedom from life.”,stoicism +6852,"“Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.”",stoicism +7674,"“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws . [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.”",stoicism +6868,"“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.”",stoicism +6918,“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”,stoicism +7098,“We are food even before we are dead.”,stoicism +6925,“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”,stoicism +6959,"“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”",stoicism +7263,"“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”",stoicism +7652,"“Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.”",stoicism +7032,"“True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.”",stoicism +6849,"“If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defence against what was said, but answer, He surely knew not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!”",stoicism +7169,“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”,stoicism +7533,“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”,stoicism +7378,"“A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”",stoicism +7029,"“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”",stoicism +7541,"“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”",stoicism +7384,"“why should I demand from fortune that she should give me this and that rather than demand from myself that I should not ask for them? why should I ask for them, after all? am I to pile them up in total forgetfulness of the frailty of human existence?”",stoicism +7321,"“A true believer in God prays only to thank, never to ask; and welcomes, with open arms, every single thing that is happening.”",stoicism +7554,"“Just as I prepared to stand and bow, a woman appeared with a miniature coffee cup in her hand. She offered it to me. As I took it, I noticed two things: Bugs crawling on the ground and the men approving of me by snapping their fingers. I bowed and took a sip of the coffee and almost fainted. I had a cockroach on my tongue. I looked at the peoples' faces and I could not spit it out. My grandmother would have pushed away the grave's dirt and traveled by willpower to show me her face of abject disappointment. I could not bear that. I opened my throat and drank the cup dry. I counted four cockroaches.”",stoicism +6870,"“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? Do not expect it, even if I tell you.”",stoicism +7128,"“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”",stoicism +7149,"“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”",stoicism +7589,"“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”",stoicism +6990,“Success is not a stamp of approval given by others.”,stoicism +7589,"“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”",stoicism +7189,“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”,stoicism +6893,"“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”",stoicism +7191,“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”,stoicism +7000,"“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”",stoicism +7459,“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”,stoicism +6832,“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”,stoicism +7254,"“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”",stoicism +7397,“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”,stoicism +7472,“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”,stoicism +7343,"“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”",stoicism +7537,“We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.”,stoicism +7252,“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”,stoicism +7288,"“You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.”",stoicism +6924,"“It matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is”",stoicism +6861,"“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, you who think yourself to be somebody.”",stoicism +7295,"“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”",stoicism +7224,"“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”",stoicism +7510,“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”,stoicism +7367,“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”,stoicism +7414,“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”,stoicism +7279,“A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.”,stoicism +6952,"“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”",stoicism +7155,"“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”",stoicism +7343,"“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”",stoicism +7500,"“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn‟t born for one particular corner: the whole world‟s my home country.”",stoicism +7174,"“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”",stoicism +7015,"“It is inevitable that life will be not just very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil. They achieve what they want laboriously; they possess what they have achieved anxiously; and meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.”",stoicism +7511,“The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common symptoms of intellectual immaturity.”,stoicism +7360,“We are all capable of laughing at what is meant or expected to make us unhappy or angry.”,stoicism +7430,"“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”",stoicism +7419,“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice”,stoicism +7240,“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”,stoicism +7595,"“What would Heracles have been if he had said, ""How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men?"" What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.”",stoicism +7657,"“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”",stoicism +7192,“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for wanting what you have not.”,stoicism +7670,"“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.”",stoicism +6834,"“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.”",stoicism +6782,“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”,stoicism +6982,"“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”",stoicism +7011,"“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”",stoicism +7262,“Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.”,stoicism +6982,"“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”",stoicism +7462,"“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”",stoicism +7107,"“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”",stoicism +6942,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it.”",stoicism +7441,"“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”",stoicism +6933,"“In an era characterized by incessant noise and constant distraction, we often find our minds pulled from one thought to another like a leaf in an October breeze. We are so preoccupied by modern living that we become totally disconnected from our ancient human roots in the natural world.”",stoicism +7234,"“Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.”",stoicism +7266,“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”,stoicism +7469,"“What are virtues, if not practiced evenly in both times of joy and in hardships?”",stoicism +7164,"“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”",stoicism +7472,“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”,stoicism +7077,“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”,stoicism +7537,“We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.”,stoicism +6952,"“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”",stoicism +7398,“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”,stoicism +7563,“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”,stoicism +7279,“A surprising number of people believe that other people can hurt their feelings.”,stoicism +7477,“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”,stoicism +7315,“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”,stoicism +7333,“An emotion is a mild mental illness.”,stoicism +7393,"“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”",stoicism +7533,“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”,stoicism +7363,“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”,stoicism +7513,“Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.”,stoicism +6996,"“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: ""I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”",stoicism +7514,“We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.”,stoicism +7502,"“I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. [...] Truth lies open to everyone.”",stoicism +7205,“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”,stoicism +7191,“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”,stoicism +7323,“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”,stoicism +6790,“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”,stoicism +7323,“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”,stoicism +7166,"“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”",stoicism +7394,"“We sometimes learn, not from something, but from not having learned from it.”",stoicism +6874,"“Before concluding the discussion on Partridge’s connection to the Stoic tradition, I present what is probably the greatest proof Partridge was a Stoic: he suffered the public doom of one. Ironically, Partridge may have missed a powerful warning about his own fate within one of the key texts he used in his academies. A footnote within William Duncan’s translation of Cicero’s orations recalls the ill fortune of Quintus Aelius Tubero in the eyes of the people of Rome caused by his Stoic behavior at the funeral of Scipio Africanus: ""[It was the same from the study of Tubero] Cicero here ridicules the doctrine of the Stoics, shows the absurdities into which it may betray a man and paints the ill consequences that often arise from it. [Quintus Aelius] Tubero, of whom he speaks here had professed himself a Stoic and resolved to regulate his conduct by the tenets of that sect. Accordingly, in an entertainment he gave the Roman people on occasion of the death of the great Scipio Africanus he made use of plain wooden beds, goat skin covers, and earthen dishes. But this ill-timed parsimony was so displeasing to the Roman people that when he afterwards stood for the prætorship they refused him their suffrages though a man of illustrious birth and the most distinguished virtue."" Is there a passage more fitting for the legacy of Partridge and his Stoic behavior? Even when Partridge had built an ideal model for educating a complete virtue-driven citizen worthy of the Republic, few would find the lifestyle required appealing. Being a virtuous man with a sufficient plan for American education was not enough to guarantee his acceptance among the masses.”",stoicism +6961,"“Add nothing of your own from within, and that's an end of it.”",stoicism +6786,"“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”",stoicism +6889,"“...what will you do when you are dead? ""My name will remain."" Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? ""But I shall wear a crown of gold."" If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”",stoicism +7162,“Hunger is by far the best spice.”,stoicism +7194,"“Take it to mind, not to heart.”",stoicism +6898,"“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”",stoicism +6899,"“The act of focusing is not simply the mental equivalent of gazing intently at an object. It is a confluence, a harmonious marriage of mind, heart, and will, an alignment akin to a troupe of actors on a stage, each playing their part, but all moving in harmony towards the climax of the play. This is the essence of true focus.”",stoicism +7341,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”,stoicism +7329,“Nothing can affect a person’s mind if he chooses not to be affected by it.”,stoicism +6798,“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”,stoicism +6866,"“Wir müssen uns weigern, die Karten, die uns ausgeteilt wurden, über unser Wohlbefinden entscheiden zu lassen.”",stoicism +6779,"“Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.”",stoicism +7011,"“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”",stoicism +7595,"“What would Heracles have been if he had said, ""How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men?"" What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.”",stoicism +7001,“There was an iron simplicty in the seer. He was like a monolith of logic standing against waves of angry nonsense.”,stoicism +7558,“It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think.”,stoicism +7053,"“The first sign of a settled mind is that it can stay in one place and spend time with itself.” – Seneca, Letter 2.1”",stoicism +7484,"“If you lose today every-day, you are lost every-day.”",stoicism +7528,“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”,stoicism +7571,"“At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.”",stoicism +7545,“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”,stoicism +7495,“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”,stoicism +6969,"“You will only get one shot at today. You have only twenty-four hours with which to take it. And then it is gone and lost forever. Will you fully inhbit all of today? Will you call out, ""I've got this,"" and do your very best to be your very best? What will you manage to make of today before it slips from you fingers and becomes the past? When someone asks you what you did yesterday, do you really want the answer to be ""nothing""?”",stoicism +6848,"“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”",stoicism +7624,"“There are two things that must be rooted out in human beings - arrogant opinion and mistrust. Arrogant opinion expects that there is nothing further needed, and mistrust assumes that under the torrent of circumstance there can be no happiness.”",stoicism +7625,"“These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. ""You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.”",stoicism +6942,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it.”",stoicism +7236,“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”,stoicism +7350,"“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”",stoicism +7185,“Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.”,stoicism +7218,"“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”",stoicism +6856,"“I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.”",stoicism +6870,"“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? Do not expect it, even if I tell you.”",stoicism +6777,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”",stoicism +7614,"“It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.”",stoicism +6969,"“You will only get one shot at today. You have only twenty-four hours with which to take it. And then it is gone and lost forever. Will you fully inhbit all of today? Will you call out, ""I've got this,"" and do your very best to be your very best? What will you manage to make of today before it slips from you fingers and becomes the past? When someone asks you what you did yesterday, do you really want the answer to be ""nothing""?”",stoicism +7274,“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”,stoicism +6856,"“I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.”",stoicism +6812,"“In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.”",stoicism +7154,“Hating our opponent benefits us. Underestimating them benefits them.”,stoicism +7390,“Sometimes we are lucky to lose something or someone.”,stoicism +7204,"“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”",stoicism +7177,"“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”",stoicism +7252,“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”,stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +6786,"“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”",stoicism +7414,“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”,stoicism +6917,"“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”",stoicism +7046,"“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”",stoicism +7001,“There was an iron simplicty in the seer. He was like a monolith of logic standing against waves of angry nonsense.”,stoicism +7595,"“What would Heracles have been if he had said, ""How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men?"" What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.”",stoicism +7135,“We do things for others for ourselves.”,stoicism +6997,"“If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.”",stoicism +7420,“[T]he man who lives extravagantly wants his manner of living to be on everybody's lips as long as he is alive. He thinks he is wasting his time if he is not being talked about.”,stoicism +7205,“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”,stoicism +7168,"“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”",stoicism +6980,"“You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”",stoicism +7160,“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much… The life we receive is not short but we make it so”,stoicism +7268,"“Be someone who is cool under pressure. Value serenity instead of outrage. It seems that our culture is moving in the wrong direction here. If you are blessed enough to not be on social media, you might be surprised to learn that the angriest, most passionate public figures are rewarded with the most clicks and biggest audiences. Our culture has begun to confuse passion with substance, reward the loudest and angriest voices, and thus incentivize behavior wholly at odds with Stoic wisdom. The number of decibels your voice hits as you scream about how right you are is not necessarily an indicator of how much sense you are making. As a society founded on reason and Western Enlightenment ideals, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. We have to collectively stop allowing emotion and passion to pass for reason and factual debate.”",stoicism +7309,“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”,stoicism +7332,"“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...] Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”",stoicism +7260,"“Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend…or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are. An emotional response is a human response, I get it. I too have succumbed to emotion, more often than I care to admit. But it is also a futile response. It isn’t an objectively beneficial response. This is central to Stoicism.”",stoicism +7211,“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”,stoicism +7030,"“... we find a complete contradiction in our wishing to live without suffering, a contradiction that is therefore implied by the frequently used phrase “blessed life.” This will certainly be clear to the person who has fully grasped my discussion that follows. This contradiction is revealed in this ethic of pure reason itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”",stoicism +7542,“The size of your problem is in your mind.”,stoicism +7119,“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”,stoicism +7121,"“If being better is the surest way of feeling better, it must be better than feeling better.”",stoicism +7289,"“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”",stoicism +7089,“Conformity eats away individuality.”,stoicism +6907,"“One will never be able to control all things that concern an endeavor, but the magic is in riding the wave.”",stoicism +7319,"“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”",stoicism +7392,"“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”",stoicism +7137,“What is happening is life’s way of telling us what should be happening.”,stoicism +6989,"“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”",stoicism +7106,“Άριστος τρόπος τοῦ ἀμύνεσθαι τὸ μὴ ἐξομοιοῦσθαι”,stoicism +6992,“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”,stoicism +7417,“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”,stoicism +7537,“We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.”,stoicism +7129,"“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”",stoicism +7098,“We are food even before we are dead.”,stoicism +7232,"“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”",stoicism +7330,"“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”",stoicism +7573,“Judgments are the only possible cause of unhappiness and happiness.”,stoicism +7151,“Some real kings are drama queens.”,stoicism +7605,"“Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods. But as only the maxims of our conduct, not the consequences or circumstances, are in our power, to be capable of always remaining consistent we must take as our object only the maxims, not the consequences and circumstances, and thus the doctrine of virtue is again introduced.” —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, p. 89”",stoicism +7359,“Seeing your loved one asleep is a great opportunity to practice seeing them dead.”,stoicism +7386,"“Истории о великих деяниях не только вдохновляют нас, не только будят в нас все лучшее и усиливают нашу веру в человека, но и напоминают о том, насколько проще и безопаснее стала сегодня жизнь для большинства из нас. Разве требуется так уж много мужества, чтобы противостоять боссу, который плохо обошелся с вашим коллегой? Худшее, что с вами может случиться, — это увольнение. Но ведь вас не будут пытать и не посадят в одиночную камеру, как Стокдейла, так неужели трудно вести себя достойно и честно в повседневной жизни? Если на то пошло, сохранить свою честь можно и не прибегая к жестокому самоубийству, как Катон. Только представьте, насколько лучше стал бы наш мир, если бы все мы каждый день проявляли чуть больше мужества, мудрости, умеренности и боролись против несправедливости.”",stoicism +6938,"“To the Stoics, a good life meant living in accordance with nature, both universal nature – accepting the world for what it is, not resisting it because we think it should be different – and our own nature as human beings.”",stoicism +6986,"“The best way to have people laugh with you and not at you, is to get ahead of them and laugh at yourself first.”",stoicism +7147,"“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”",stoicism +6888,"“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.”",stoicism +6959,"“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”",stoicism +7536,“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”,stoicism +7139,“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”,stoicism +7547,“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”,stoicism +6918,“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”,stoicism +7445,“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”,stoicism +7421,"“Один из главных принципов стоицизма состоит в умении различа��ь вещи, которыми мы можем управлять и которыми — нет.”",stoicism +7628,"“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”",stoicism +7257,"“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”",stoicism +7539,“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”,stoicism +7143,"“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”",stoicism +7550,"“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”",stoicism +7462,"“You can be hurt, not by what others think of you, but by what you think of what they think or you think they think of you.”",stoicism +6929,"“No action in the human context will succeed without reference to the divine, nor vice versa.”",stoicism +7120,“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.”,stoicism +7057,“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”,stoicism +7057,“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”,stoicism +7661,"“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.”",stoicism +6995,"“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, ""I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”",stoicism +7292,"“Some of our problems came to us; some, we went to them.”",stoicism +7291,"“However one may interpret this culturally, the upshot is the same: people carry within them a great number of wishes to which they react passively and which they hide. Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them. To a patient who, let us say, is interminably rationalizing and justifying this and that, balancing one thing against another as though life were a tremendous market place where all the business is done on paper and tickertape and there are never any goods , I sometimes have the inclination in psychotherapy to shout out, “Don't you ever want anything?” But I don't cry out, for it is not difficult to see that on some level the patient does want a good deal; the trouble is he has formulated and reformulated it, until it is the “rattling of dry bones,” as Eliot puts it. Tendencies have become endemic in our culture for our denial of wishes to be rationalized and accepted with the belief that this denial of the wish will result in its being fulfilled. And whether the reader would disagree with me on this or that detail, our psychological problem is the same: it is necessary for us to help the patient achieve some emotional viability and honesty by bringing out his wishes and his capacity to wish. This is not the end of therapy but it is an essential starting point.”",stoicism +7552,“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”,stoicism +7042,“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”,stoicism +7171,“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”,stoicism +6952,"“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”",stoicism +7434,"“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”",stoicism +7257,"“Tell us your secrets.’ [23] ‘I refuse, as this is up to me.’ ‘I will put you in chains.’ ‘What’s that you say, friend? It’s only my leg you will chain, not even God can conquer my will.’ [24] ‘I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.’ ‘I will behead you.’ ‘Well, when did I ever claim that mine was the only neck that couldn’t be severed?”",stoicism +7596,"“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.”",stoicism +7615,“True affluence is not needing anything.”,stoicism +6893,"“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”",stoicism +7395,“We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.”,stoicism +7559,“Death is the release of an organism from the prison of life.”,stoicism +7183,“We cannot be too young to die.”,stoicism +7494,“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”,stoicism +6941,"“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”",stoicism +7057,“Philosophy neither rejects anyone nor chooses anyone; it shines for all.”,stoicism +7204,"“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”",stoicism +7455,"“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”",stoicism +6882,"“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +7657,"“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”",stoicism +6891,"“Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”",stoicism +7313,“A fool’s plans are entertainment for the wise.”,stoicism +6991,"“Do you consider yourself a nobody? What weight does that label even have? It’s a silly label. As silly as the label 'somebody'. Silly and non-adhesive. First off, to be thought of as a nobody someone has to be thinking of you in the first place. Second, being a so-called 'nobody' doesn’t make you irrelevant. We are all relevant to somebody else but unfortunately, we can lose sight of our most germane and important relationships when we chase the approval of people we don’t even know.”",stoicism +7400,"“What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”",stoicism +6808,"“Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.”",stoicism +7266,“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”,stoicism +7549,"“It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing”",stoicism +7002,"“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”",stoicism +7299,"“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.”",stoicism +6918,“You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain.”,stoicism +7166,"“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”",stoicism +7430,"“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”",stoicism +7407,“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”,stoicism +7673,"“I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.”",stoicism +7071,“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”,stoicism +7129,"“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”",stoicism +7007,"“Draconus staggered up. 'Pearl, my friend, I have come to say goodbye. And to tell you I am sorry.' 'What saddens you?' the demon asked. 'I am sorry, Pearl, for all of this. For Dragnipur. For the horror forged by my own hands. It was fitting, was it not, that the weapon claimed its maker? I think, yes, it was. It was.' He paused, and then brought both hands up to his face. For a moment it seemed he would begin clawing his beard from the skin beneath it. Instead, the shackled hands fell away, down, dragged by the weight of the chains. 'I too am sorry,' said Pearl. 'To see the end of this.' 'What?' 'So many enemies, all here and not one by choice. Enemies, and yet working together for so long. It was a wonderous thing, was it not, Draconus? When necessity forced each hand to clasp, to work as one. A wonderous thing.' The warrior stared at the demon. He seemed unable to speak.”",stoicism +7416,"“To lose someone you love is something you'll regard as the hardest of all blows to bear, while all the time this will be as silly as crying because the leaves fall from the beautiful trees that add to the charm of your home. [...] At one moment chance will carry off one of them, at another moment another; but the falling of the leaves is not difficult to bear, since they grow again, and it is no more hard to bear the loss of those whom you love and regard as brightening your existence; for even if they do not grow again they are replaced. ""But their successors will never be quite the same."" No, and neither will you.”",stoicism +7432,“Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”,stoicism +7005,“Consider above all else whether you've advanced in philosophy or just in actual years.”,stoicism +7505,“[T]reat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.”,stoicism +6972,"“Let us too overcome all things, with our reward consisting not in any wreath or garland, not in trumpet-calls for silence for the ceremonial proclamation of our name, but in moral worth, in strength of spirit, in a peace that is won for ever once in any contest fortune has been utterly defeated.”",stoicism +7025,"“Nature is content with few things, and with a very little of these.”",stoicism +7367,“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”,stoicism +7431,"“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”",stoicism +7004,“The ability to do without a kingdom is a kingdom.”,stoicism +7114,"“Does anything genuinely beautiful need supplementing? No more than justice does- or truth, or kindness, or humility. Are any of those improved by being praised? Or damaged by contempt? Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?”",stoicism +7303,“A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”,stoicism +7629,"“But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. ""Well, well!"" she said, ""it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time."" ""I hope so,"" replied Moominpappa. ""Pass me a banana, please dear.”",stoicism +7566,“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”,stoicism +7550,"“The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.”",stoicism +7235,“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”,stoicism +7539,“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”,stoicism +7310,“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”,stoicism +6982,"“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”",stoicism +7232,"“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”",stoicism +7205,“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”,stoicism +7052,"“We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down. Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.”",stoicism +7331,“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”,stoicism +7376,"“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”",stoicism +7232,"“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”",stoicism +7176,“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”,stoicism +6857,"“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”",stoicism +6813,“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”,stoicism +7230,“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”,stoicism +7047,"“Count yourself fortunate when you are able to live in a manner open to the public—when walls are there for shelter, not for concealment. For as a rule we think we have walls around us not to protect us but to afford greater privacy to our misdeeds.”",stoicism +7452,"“We often do not, not because we cannot, but because we think so.”",stoicism +7190,"“Whenever an animal is overworking, a human is to blame.”",stoicism +7470,"“I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!”",stoicism +7122,"“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”",stoicism +7465,"“The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.”",stoicism +7284,"“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”",stoicism +7472,“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”,stoicism +7399,“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”,stoicism +6788,“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”,stoicism +6792,"“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”",stoicism +7182,"“Happiness is sweet; its pursuit, bitter.”",stoicism +6799,“I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.”,stoicism +7576,“Not having expected an event makes it seem way better or worse than it really is.”,stoicism +6877,“Nothing happens to any creature beyond it’s own natural endurance.”,stoicism +7136,“It is foolish to expect a fool to act wisely.”,stoicism +7050,"“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.”",stoicism +6897,"“Distractions are the relentless waves of the ocean, crashing against the shores of our consciousness. They erode our resolve, and little by little, wash away the sandcastles of our focus. They arrive in various guises: the allure of trivial pleasures, the lure of the inconsequential, the din of idle gossip, the chains of past regret and the ghostly shadows of future anxieties. Each wave seeks to pull us into the depths of irrelevance, away from the firm ground of meaningful pursuits.”",stoicism +6998,"“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.”",stoicism +6880,"“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it's time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for... all those are gone.”",stoicism +6905,“Nie należy się gniewać na bieg wypadków. Nic ich to bowiem nie obchodzi.”,stoicism +7131,"“Our education system would be betraying its master, capitalism, if it taught us to be content with what we have. Or if it told us about the fruits of practicing minimalism.”",stoicism +6955,"“You never know what will be the consequence of misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune”",stoicism +7425,"“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”",stoicism +7353,"“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”",stoicism +6898,"“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”",stoicism +7645,"“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.”",stoicism +7030,"“... we find a complete contradiction in our wishing to live without suffering, a contradiction that is therefore implied by the frequently used phrase “blessed life.” This will certainly be clear to the person who has fully grasped my discussion that follows. This contradiction is revealed in this ethic of pure reason itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”",stoicism +7284,"“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”",stoicism +7218,"“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”",stoicism +7669,“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”,stoicism +6873,"“For the military community, philosophy isn't something casually debated. But something that should be fully embodied in everyday thought and action, with the abandonment of all principles not shown practical in the most extreme of environments.”",stoicism +7252,“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”,stoicism +6993,"“As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we're screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation-as well as the destruction-of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”",stoicism +7601,"“If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.”",stoicism +7643,"“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.”",stoicism +7635,"“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”",stoicism +7260,"“Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend…or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are. An emotional response is a human response, I get it. I too have succumbed to emotion, more often than I care to admit. But it is also a futile response. It isn’t an objectively beneficial response. This is central to Stoicism.”",stoicism +7242,“Arrogance gives confidence … a bad name.”,stoicism +6779,"“Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.”",stoicism +7174,"“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”",stoicism +7665,"“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”",stoicism +7071,“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”,stoicism +7000,"“Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?”",stoicism +7500,"“We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn‟t born for one particular corner: the whole world‟s my home country.”",stoicism +6835,"“The stoics divided philosophy into three branches: logic, physics, and ethics. Logic covered not only the rules of correct argumentation, but also grammar, linguistics, rhetorical theory, epistemology, and all the tools that might be needed to discover the truth of any matter. Physics was concerned with the nature of the world and the laws that govern it, and so included ontology and theology as well as what we would recognize as physics, astronomy, and cosmology. Ethics was concerned with how to achieve happiness, or how to live a fulfilled and flourishing life as a human being. A stoic sage was supposed to be fully expert in all three aspects.”",stoicism +6881,"“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”",stoicism +6782,“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”,stoicism +7162,“Hunger is by far the best spice.”,stoicism +7269,"“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”",stoicism +7367,“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”,stoicism +7003,"“We need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.”",stoicism +7371,“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”,stoicism +7083,"“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”",stoicism +7335,"“Seeing that our birth involves the blending of these two things—the body, on the one hand, that we share with animals, and, on the other hand, rationality and intelligence, that we share with the gods—most of us incline to this former relationship, wretched and dead though it is, while only a few to the one that is divine and blessed.”",stoicism +6781,“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”,stoicism +6978,"“Me? I'm a Stoic. Every time my eyes are opened, I am eager to see the world anew.”",stoicism +6783,"“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus ? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster ? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze , more universal than Confucius ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno ? Did he express grander truths than Cicero ? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza ’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler ’s or Newton ’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno ? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare , the greatest of the human race?”",stoicism +7402,"“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”",stoicism +7187,“We all too often invite a lie by asking someone how he or she is doing.”,stoicism +7206,“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”,stoicism +7146,“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”,stoicism +6789,"“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”",stoicism +7356,“The vast majority of people make complaining seem to be a basic human need.”,stoicism +7524,“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”,stoicism +7504,“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”,stoicism +6839,"“Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.”",stoicism +7593,"“[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from being disobedient to the spirit. Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather.”",stoicism +6980,"“You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”",stoicism +6870,"“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfected suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? Do not expect it, even if I tell you.”",stoicism +7467,“It takes patience to nurture patience.”,stoicism +6901,"“Beware the folly of lending your focus to vain pursuits. Just as a river, when it is split into countless rivulets, loses its force and becomes but a whimper, a mind divided by trivial pursuits dissipates its strength. Focus, therefore, is not merely concentration, it is selection; not merely observation, it is dedication.”",stoicism +7392,"“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”",stoicism +7150,"“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”",stoicism +6901,"“Beware the folly of lending your focus to vain pursuits. Just as a river, when it is split into countless rivulets, loses its force and becomes but a whimper, a mind divided by trivial pursuits dissipates its strength. Focus, therefore, is not merely concentration, it is selection; not merely observation, it is dedication.”",stoicism +6789,"“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”",stoicism +7675,"“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward."" Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”",stoicism +7305,"“Admitting that their child is, or can be, more educated than them is the closest most parents are willing to get to admitting that their child is, or can be, smarter or wiser than them.”",stoicism +6996,"“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: ""I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”",stoicism +6923,"“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”",stoicism +7574,"“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”",stoicism +7511,“The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common symptoms of intellectual immaturity.”,stoicism +7238,“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”,stoicism +7591,“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”,stoicism +7640,“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”,stoicism +7174,"“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”",stoicism +6971,"“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +6807,"“I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any leaf, any insect, any bird, any breeze could bring me to my true home. I knew I did not belong among people. Whatever they hated about me was a human thing; the nonhuman world has always loved me. I can't remember when it was otherwise. But I have been emotionally crippled by this. There is nothing romantic about being young and angry, or even about turning that anger into art. I go through the motions of living in society, but never feel a part of it. When my family threw me away, every human on earth did likewise.”",stoicism +7541,"“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”",stoicism +6957,“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”,stoicism +6826,"“Whatever happens, happens such as you are either formed by nature able to bear it, or not able to bear it. If such as you are by nature form’d able to bear, bear it and fret not: But if such as you are not naturally able to bear, don’t fret; for when it has consum’d you, itself will perish. Remember, however, you are by nature form’d able to bear whatever it is in the power of your own opinion to make supportable or tolerable, according as you conceive it advantageous, or your duty, to do so.”",stoicism +6789,"“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”",stoicism +7042,“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”,stoicism +6888,"“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.”",stoicism +7352,“The wise willingly accept the unwillingness of the foolish to accept what is as part of what is.”,stoicism +7285,“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”,stoicism +6990,“Success is not a stamp of approval given by others.”,stoicism +7295,"“When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn’t call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.”",stoicism +7284,"“You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.”",stoicism +7497,"“The man, though, whom you should admire and imitate is the one who finds it a joy to live and in spite of that is not reluctant to die.”",stoicism +7510,“Each man has a character of his own choosing; it is chance or fate that decides his choice of job.”,stoicism +7105,"“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”",stoicism +7467,“It takes patience to nurture patience.”,stoicism +6824,“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”,stoicism +7269,"“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”",stoicism +7669,“Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”,stoicism +7657,"“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”",stoicism +7535,"“[W]hat cause can there be for complaint, after all, in anything that was always bound to come to an end fading gradually away? What is troubling about that? [...] Moving to one's end through nature's own gentle process of dissolution - is there a better way of leaving life than that? Not because there is anything wrong with a sudden, violent departure, but because this gradual withdrawal is an easy route.”",stoicism +7305,"“Admitting that their child is, or can be, more educated than them is the closest most parents are willing to get to admitting that their child is, or can be, smarter or wiser than them.”",stoicism +6931,"“The Iliad consists of nothing more than impressions and the use of impressions. An impression prompted Paris to carry off the wife of Menelaus, and an impression prompted Helen to go with him. If an impression, then, had prompted Menelaus to feel that it was a gain to be deprived of such a wife, what would have come about? Not only the Iliad would have been lost, but the Odyssey too!”",stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +7363,“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”,stoicism +6928,"“me dulcis saturet quies; obscuro positus loco leni perfruar otio, nullis nota Quiritibus aetas per tacitum fluat. sic cum transierint mei nullo cum strepitu dies. plebeius moriar senex. illi mors gravis incubat qui, notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.”",stoicism +6957,“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”,stoicism +6829,“It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.”,stoicism +7586,“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.”,stoicism +7088,“Some children’s lives begin before the end of their parents’ childhood.”,stoicism +7647,"“If you apply yourself to study you will avoid all boredom with life, you will not long for night because you are sick of daylight, you will be neither a burden to yourself nor useless to others, you will attract many to become your friends and the finest people will flock about you.”",stoicism +6980,"“You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”",stoicism +7175,“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”,stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +6878,"“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”",stoicism +6845,“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”,stoicism +7311,"“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”",stoicism +7083,"“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”",stoicism +6886,"“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”",stoicism +7637,"“In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.”",stoicism +7473,“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”,stoicism +6788,“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”,stoicism +7201,"“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”",stoicism +7454,"“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”",stoicism +7509,“You cannot attain everlasting peace of mind unless you stop seeing your mind as yourself and start seeing yourself as your mind’s guardian.”,stoicism +7119,“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”,stoicism +6952,"“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”",stoicism +6882,"“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +6952,"“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”",stoicism +7250,"“Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.”",stoicism +6915,“Life is short but life is long”,stoicism +7600,"“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”",stoicism +7397,“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”,stoicism +6882,"“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +7532,“One man’s bad day is another man’s good night.”,stoicism +7245,“Living is the outside of dying.”,stoicism +7532,“One man’s bad day is another man’s good night.”,stoicism +7072,"“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”",stoicism +7594,"“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”",stoicism +6887,"“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”",stoicism +7582,"“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”",stoicism +6930,"“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”",stoicism +7170,“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”,stoicism +6967,"“[A] man ought to be prepared in a manner for this also, to be able to be sufficient for himself and to be his own companion. [...] [S]o ought we also to be able to talk with ourselves, not to feel the want of others also, not to be unprovided with the means of passing our time; to observe the divine administration and the relation of ourselves to everything else; to consider how we formerly were affected toward things that happen and how at present; what are still the things which give us pain; how these also can be cured and how removed; if any things require improvement, to improve them according to reason.”",stoicism +7029,"“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”",stoicism +7429,“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”,stoicism +7521,“We need not reply or even listen to people who are talking about—not to—us.”,stoicism +6816,"“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”",stoicism +7168,"“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”",stoicism +7479,“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”,stoicism +7328,"“At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it”",stoicism +6847,"“Forever seeking, forever moving forward. To strive, to struggle.”",stoicism +6893,"“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”",stoicism +6844,"“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”",stoicism +7640,“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”,stoicism +6906,“Pursuing similar results for dissimilar people will make fools of kings and kings of fools.”,stoicism +7371,“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”,stoicism +7169,“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”,stoicism +7606,"“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero."" —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”",stoicism +7274,“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”,stoicism +7269,"“The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still. A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self, is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines. You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult. You are cool and measured, and skeptical. You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be and what facts or context they might be leaving out. You seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view, and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story were convincingly debunked. And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.”",stoicism +7342,“Silence is often the wisest reply.”,stoicism +6907,"“One will never be able to control all things that concern an endeavor, but the magic is in riding the wave.”",stoicism +6819,"“For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.”",stoicism +7540,“A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.”,stoicism +7388,"“When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to either be amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle"".”",stoicism +7394,"“We sometimes learn, not from something, but from not having learned from it.”",stoicism +7631,"“Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.”",stoicism +7023,“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”,stoicism +7399,“That you are about to bury or have just buried your loved one does not make you and your loved ones immortal for a while.”,stoicism +7479,“Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.”,stoicism +7618,"“Oh, dear me!"" he lamented. ""The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now."" ""Well, never mind. We're not on it,"" said Snufkin gaily. ""What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!”",stoicism +7646,"“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”",stoicism +7332,"“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...] Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”",stoicism +7526,"“The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.”",stoicism +7195,“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”,stoicism +7316,“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”,stoicism +7071,“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”,stoicism +7350,"“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”",stoicism +7118,“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”,stoicism +7601,"“If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.”",stoicism +6818,"“40. The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help him in this way. You will say, perhaps, ‘But all that is something they have put in my own power.’ Then surely it were better to use your power and be a free man, than to hanker like a slave and a beggar for something that is not in your power. Besides, who told you the gods never lend their aid even towards things that do lie in our own power? Begin praying in this way, and you will see. Where another man prays ‘Grant that I may possess this woman,’ let your own prayer be, ‘Grant that I may not lust to possess her.’ Where he prays, ‘Grant me to be rid of such-and-such a one,’ you pray, ‘Take from me my desire to be rid of him.’ Where he begs, ‘Spare me the loss of my precious child,’ beg rather to be delivered from the terror of losing him. In short, give your petitions a turn in this direction, and see what comes.”",stoicism +6843,"“For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.”",stoicism +7473,“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”,stoicism +7030,"“... we find a complete contradiction in our wishing to live without suffering, a contradiction that is therefore implied by the frequently used phrase “blessed life.” This will certainly be clear to the person who has fully grasped my discussion that follows. This contradiction is revealed in this ethic of pure reason itself by the fact that the Stoic is compelled to insert a recommendation of suicide in his guide to the blissful life (for this is what his ethics always remains). This is like the costly phial of poison to be found among the magnificent ornaments and apparel of oriental despots, and is for the case where the sufferings of the body, incapable of being philosophized away by any principles and syllogisms, are paramount and incurable. Thus its sole purpose, namely blessedness, is frustrated, and nothing remains as a means of escape from pain except death. But then death must be taken with unconcern, just as is any other medicine. Here a marked contrast is evident between the Stoic ethics and all those other ethical systems mentioned above. These ethical systems make virtue directly and in itself the aim and object, even with the most grievous sufferings, and will not allow a man to end his life in order to escape from suffering. But not one of them knew how to express the true reason for rejecting suicide, but they laboriously collected fictitious arguments of every kind. This true reason will appear in the fourth book in connexion with our discussion. But the above-mentioned contrast reveals and confirms just that essential difference to be found in the fundamental principle between the Stoa, really only a special form of eudaemonism, and the doctrines just mentioned, although both often agree in their results, and are apparently related. But the above-mentioned inner contradiction, with which the Stoic ethics is affected even in its fundamental idea, further shows itself in the fact that its ideal, the Stoic sage as represented by this ethical system, could never obtain life or inner poetical truth, but remains a wooden, stiff lay-figure with whom one can do nothing. He himself does not know where to go with his wisdom, and his perfect peace, contentment, and blessedness directly contradict the nature of mankind, and do not enable us to arrive at any perceptive representation thereof. Compared with him, how entirely different appear the overcomers of the world and voluntary penitents, who are revealed to us, and are actually produced, by the wisdom of India; how different even the Saviour of Christianity, that excellent form full of the depth of life, of the greatest poetical truth and highest significance, who stands before us with perfect virtue, holiness, and sublimity, yet in a state of supreme suffering.”",stoicism +7125,"“He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.”",stoicism +7351,"“Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.”",stoicism +7371,“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”,stoicism +7029,"“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”",stoicism +7407,“[W]e can have the things we need for our ordinary purposes if we will only be content with what the earth has made available on its surface.”,stoicism +7512,"“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”",stoicism +7064,“Hatred is as powerful an intoxicant as love.”,stoicism +7410,“[A] man is wealthy if he has attuned himself to his restricted means and has made himself rich on little.”,stoicism +7561,“[M]aking noble resolutions is not as important as keeping the resolutions you have made already. (Letter XVI)”,stoicism +7082,"“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”",stoicism +7381,"“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”",stoicism +7607,"“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promises of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”",stoicism +7578,"“Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra konseptene fordi om noen mennesker har fått lyst til å skifte ham. Det får bli deres egen sak. Det står enhver fritt for.”",stoicism +6951,“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”,stoicism +7455,"“The older you are, and the faster you walk, the crazier you look.”",stoicism +7597,"“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”",stoicism +7133,“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”,stoicism +6957,“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”,stoicism +7338,"“Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.”",stoicism +7312,"“For I am not everlasting, but a human being, a part of the whole as an hour is a part of the day. Like an hour I must come, and like an hour pass away.”",stoicism +7365,"“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now"".”",stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +7317,"“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”",stoicism +7494,“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”,stoicism +7177,"“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”",stoicism +7645,"“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.”",stoicism +7387,“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”,stoicism +7183,“We cannot be too young to die.”,stoicism +7111,“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.”,stoicism +6989,"“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”",stoicism +7672,"“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”",stoicism +6932,"“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits open here and there, and those very cracks, in one way a failure of the baker's profession, somehow catch the eye and give particular stimulus to our appetite.”",stoicism +6989,"“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”",stoicism +7039,"“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoic­ism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”",stoicism +7401,“In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.”,stoicism +7675,"“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward."" Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”",stoicism +7617,“...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...”,stoicism +7169,“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”,stoicism +6951,“The only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”,stoicism +7387,“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”,stoicism +7498,"“We have control over when, how, and where to plant a seed, not over what it will become.”",stoicism +6974,“How does one go about persuading the rain to stop?”,stoicism +7351,"“Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.”",stoicism +7325,“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”,stoicism +7610,"“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”",stoicism +7582,"“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”",stoicism +6997,"“If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.”",stoicism +7465,"“The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.”",stoicism +7388,"“When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to either be amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle"".”",stoicism +7365,"“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now"".”",stoicism +7619,"“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”",stoicism +7019,“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”,stoicism +7644,"“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members.”",stoicism +7210,“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”,stoicism +7302,“Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”,stoicism +6965,"“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”",stoicism +7459,“Christianity is not a therapy for those who wish never to be upset (177).”,stoicism +7288,"“You are indeed a man of sorrows and have suffered much...pray be seated now, here on this chair, and let us leave our sorrows, bitter though they are, locked up in our own hearts, for weeping is cold comfort and does little good.”",stoicism +6839,"“Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.”",stoicism +7408,“The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”,stoicism +7168,"“We gain the highest degree of freedom when we lose the desire to live, and gain the second highest degree when we lose the desire to live as long as we possibly can.”",stoicism +7441,"“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”",stoicism +7529,“The person you are mad at for being late could be dead.”,stoicism +6972,"“Let us too overcome all things, with our reward consisting not in any wreath or garland, not in trumpet-calls for silence for the ceremonial proclamation of our name, but in moral worth, in strength of spirit, in a peace that is won for ever once in any contest fortune has been utterly defeated.”",stoicism +6917,"“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”",stoicism +7241,“We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.”,stoicism +7424,"“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”",stoicism +6968,“It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.”,stoicism +7195,“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”,stoicism +7435,“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”,stoicism +7261,“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”,stoicism +7657,"“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”",stoicism +7665,"“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”",stoicism +6911,“The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.”,stoicism +7082,"“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”",stoicism +6934,"“The afternoon presents an intersection where the momentum that we have gained in the morning may be either sustained or lost – where we can choose to either build on the morning’s foundations and embrace our challenges, or allow the stress and frustration of the day to ruin all our hard work.”",stoicism +7083,"“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”",stoicism +6790,“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”,stoicism +6851,"“Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”",stoicism +7350,"“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”",stoicism +6900,"“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”",stoicism +7368,"“If an adult has just moved as fast as a child, from crying to laughing, then it is either the laughter is fake, or they are being tickled.”",stoicism +7499,“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”,stoicism +7074,“Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”,stoicism +7140,“Freedom of speech does not come with opinions worth listening to.”,stoicism +7626,"“And here are two of the most immediately useful thoughts you will dip into. First that things cannot touch the mind: they are external and inert; anxieties can only come from your internal judgement. Second, hat all these things you see will change almost as you look at them, and then will be no more. Constantly bring to mind all that you yourself have already seen changed. The universe is change: life is judgement.”",stoicism +7622,"“Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.”",stoicism +7153,"“No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair” does not even come close. It’s grotesque. How easily this could shatter a person, how easily and understandably it might cause them to toss away everything they ever believed, to hate a world that could be so cruel. Yet somehow we have Marcus Aurelius”",stoicism +7677,“He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.”,stoicism +7214,"“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”",stoicism +7194,"“Take it to mind, not to heart.”",stoicism +6930,"“He is a slave.'' But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”",stoicism +6947,"“When we first wake up our minds are clear, which makes this the opportune time to direct our focus inwards, to organize our thoughts and to set our daily intentions through a few moments of meditation. Our duties and obligations have not yet begun to crowd our schedule, and the clarity of the dawn creates an open, undistracted mental space.”",stoicism +7398,“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”,stoicism +7477,“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”,stoicism +7664,"“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...”",stoicism +7259,“Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”,stoicism +7096,"“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”",stoicism +7367,“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”,stoicism +7058,"“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”",stoicism +7362,“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”,stoicism +7433,"“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”",stoicism +7342,“Silence is often the wisest reply.”,stoicism +7342,“Silence is often the wisest reply.”,stoicism +7123,"“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”",stoicism +6797,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”",stoicism +6812,"“In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.”",stoicism +7450,"“We always have a choice as to, not what we hear, but what we listen to.”",stoicism +7192,“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for wanting what you have not.”,stoicism +7367,“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”,stoicism +6946,"“As the still dawn breaks and first light graces the horizon, we humans are presented with tremendous opportunity. We are gifted with a fresh start, a blank canvas upon which we can paint however we choose.”",stoicism +7298,“99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.”,stoicism +7379,“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”,stoicism +7263,"“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”",stoicism +6967,"“[A] man ought to be prepared in a manner for this also, to be able to be sufficient for himself and to be his own companion. [...] [S]o ought we also to be able to talk with ourselves, not to feel the want of others also, not to be unprovided with the means of passing our time; to observe the divine administration and the relation of ourselves to everything else; to consider how we formerly were affected toward things that happen and how at present; what are still the things which give us pain; how these also can be cured and how removed; if any things require improvement, to improve them according to reason.”",stoicism +7379,“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”,stoicism +7346,"“Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.”",stoicism +7611,"“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”",stoicism +7622,"“Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.”",stoicism +7286,“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”,stoicism +7283,"“For some reason, there is this façade that life should be full of happiness and without its suffering. Which, actually makes us suffer even more. Because when we get sad or something bad happens, we do not only feel bad about the thing itself but we also feel bad because our life is not the way it is supposed to be. Not realizing suffering and sadness is just a part of life and they are inevitable.”",stoicism +6791,"“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present.”",stoicism +6881,"“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”",stoicism +6826,"“Whatever happens, happens such as you are either formed by nature able to bear it, or not able to bear it. If such as you are by nature form’d able to bear, bear it and fret not: But if such as you are not naturally able to bear, don’t fret; for when it has consum’d you, itself will perish. Remember, however, you are by nature form’d able to bear whatever it is in the power of your own opinion to make supportable or tolerable, according as you conceive it advantageous, or your duty, to do so.”",stoicism +6835,"“The stoics divided philosophy into three branches: logic, physics, and ethics. Logic covered not only the rules of correct argumentation, but also grammar, linguistics, rhetorical theory, epistemology, and all the tools that might be needed to discover the truth of any matter. Physics was concerned with the nature of the world and the laws that govern it, and so included ontology and theology as well as what we would recognize as physics, astronomy, and cosmology. Ethics was concerned with how to achieve happiness, or how to live a fulfilled and flourishing life as a human being. A stoic sage was supposed to be fully expert in all three aspects.”",stoicism +7611,"“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”",stoicism +6867,“But there can be no such good except as the soul discovers it for itself within itself.”,stoicism +6913,"“The world is asking us the questions, and it couldn’t care less what we expect from it. But here’s the good news: real meaning doesn’t come from what the world gives you, but how you respond to it.”",stoicism +7649,"“Hour by hour resolve firmly to do what comes to hand with dignity, and with humanity, independence, and justice. Allow your mind freedom from all other considerations. This you can do, if you will approach each action as though it were your last, dismissing the desire to create an impression, the admiration of self, the discontent with your lot. See how little man needs to master, for his days to flow on in quietness and piety: he has but to observe these few counsels, and the gods will ask nothing more.”",stoicism +7204,"“The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.”",stoicism +7406,"“We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise.”",stoicism +7448,"“I began to care a lot less about embarrassment after running into somebody who for months, I feared I would, and realizing afterward that my life was no different after the encounter than before.”",stoicism +6855,"“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”",stoicism +7357,"“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”",stoicism +7113,“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”,stoicism +7063,"“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.”",stoicism +7340,“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”,stoicism +7419,“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice”,stoicism +7380,"“To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.”",stoicism +7473,“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”,stoicism +7012,"“Well, when do we act like sheep: when we act for the sake of the belly, or of our sex-organs, or at random, or in a filthy fashion, or without due consideration, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of sheep.”",stoicism +7600,"“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”",stoicism +7330,"“We have, not problems, but negative attitudes towards some situations (towards which some people have or would have positive attitudes).”",stoicism +6801,"“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”",stoicism +7160,“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much… The life we receive is not short but we make it so”,stoicism +7046,"“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”",stoicism +7301,“Some of the people who we think care that we hate them do not even care that there are people who love them.”,stoicism +6923,"“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”",stoicism +7152,“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live... it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”,stoicism +6837,"“All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of mind. From this viewpoint, philosophy appears as a remedy for human worries, anguish, and misery brought about, for the Cynics, by social constraints and conventions; for the Epicureans, by the quest for false pleasures; for the Stoics, by the pursuit of pleasure and egoistic self-interest; and for the Skeptics, by false opinions. Whether or not they laid claim to the Socratic heritage, all Hellenistic philosophers agreed with Socrates that human beings are plunged in misery, anguish, and evil because they exist in ignorance. Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgments with people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgments, and in this sense all these philosophies wanted to be therapeutic.”",stoicism +7647,"“If you apply yourself to study you will avoid all boredom with life, you will not long for night because you are sick of daylight, you will be neither a burden to yourself nor useless to others, you will attract many to become your friends and the finest people will flock about you.”",stoicism +7653,"“Why be concerned about others, come to that, when you've outdone your own self? Set yourself a limit which you couldn't even exceed if you wanted to, and say good-bye at last to those deceptive prizes more precious to those who hope for them than to those who have won them. If there were anything substantial in them they would sooner or later bring a sense of fullness; as it is they simply aggravate the thirst of those who swallow them.”",stoicism +6983,“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”,stoicism +7424,"“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”",stoicism +7145,“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”,stoicism +7513,“Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.”,stoicism +6982,"“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”",stoicism +6848,"“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”",stoicism +7495,“Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”,stoicism +7397,“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”,stoicism +7373,"“The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”",stoicism +7551,"“When you pursue wisdom, you will soon realize how much you don’t know. Your knowledge will be incomplete, but continually developing through your curiosity. Arrogance blocks new information from coming in. When you’re conceited, you’ll resist change, and struggle to preserve your fixed image. Don’t fall into smug idleness, used to comfort. Challenge what you think you know, not caring if other people see you as a fool. Progress daily in your own uncertainty.”",stoicism +7150,"“Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”",stoicism +7449,"“If a discrepancy exists between supply and demand, then for the Stoics the prescription for a happy life was to decrease demand, not to increase supply (or production), which the Hedonists saw as the prescription for a happy life.”",stoicism +6827,"“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. The moon and stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. It was beautiful and pleasant to go through the world like that, so childlike, so awakened, so concerned with the immediate, without any distrust.”",stoicism +7565,“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”,stoicism +6795,"“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”",stoicism +7650,"“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +7216,"“Some people would be ashamed of driving the cars, or living in the houses, some people are showing off.”",stoicism +6835,"“The stoics divided philosophy into three branches: logic, physics, and ethics. Logic covered not only the rules of correct argumentation, but also grammar, linguistics, rhetorical theory, epistemology, and all the tools that might be needed to discover the truth of any matter. Physics was concerned with the nature of the world and the laws that govern it, and so included ontology and theology as well as what we would recognize as physics, astronomy, and cosmology. Ethics was concerned with how to achieve happiness, or how to live a fulfilled and flourishing life as a human being. A stoic sage was supposed to be fully expert in all three aspects.”",stoicism +7529,“The person you are mad at for being late could be dead.”,stoicism +7023,“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”,stoicism +7668,“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”,stoicism +6813,“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”,stoicism +6866,"“Wir müssen uns weigern, die Karten, die uns ausgeteilt wurden, über unser Wohlbefinden entscheiden zu lassen.”",stoicism +7323,“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”,stoicism +6996,"“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: ""I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”",stoicism +7543,“Some of the things we fear exist nowhere but where fear happens.”,stoicism +7448,"“I began to care a lot less about embarrassment after running into somebody who for months, I feared I would, and realizing afterward that my life was no different after the encounter than before.”",stoicism +7205,“There is no correlation between the degree to which you are confident that you are right and the chances of you not being wrong.”,stoicism +7560,“Sometimes we have no luxury of choice. We must do certain things for survival. That should not stop us from doing the things we love.”,stoicism +7370,"“Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Don’t stop it. Is it not yet come? Don’t stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a wife, to public posts, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy partner of the feasts of the gods. And if you don’t even take the things which are set before you, but are able even to reject them, then you will not only be a partner at the feasts of the gods, but also of their empire.”",stoicism +7148,"“Marcus wept when he was told that his favorite tutor had passed away. We know that he cried one day in court, when he was overseeing a case and the attorney mentioned the countless souls who perished in the plague still ravaging Rome. We can imagine Marcus cried many other times. This was a man who was betrayed by one of his most trusted generals. This was a man who one day lost his wife of thirty-five years. This was a man who lost eight children, including all but one of his sons. Marcus didn’t weep because he was weak. He didn’t weep because he was un-Stoic. He cried because he was human. Because these very painful experiences made him sad. “Neither philosophy nor empire,” Antoninus said sympathetically as he let his son sob, “takes away natural feeling.” So Marcus Aurelius must have lost his temper on occasion, or he never would have had cause to write in his Meditations.”",stoicism +6947,"“When we first wake up our minds are clear, which makes this the opportune time to direct our focus inwards, to organize our thoughts and to set our daily intentions through a few moments of meditation. Our duties and obligations have not yet begun to crowd our schedule, and the clarity of the dawn creates an open, undistracted mental space.”",stoicism +7196,"“Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?”",stoicism +7478,“Every second is a step away from our mothers’ wombs towards our own tombs.”,stoicism +7076,"“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”",stoicism +7548,“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”,stoicism +7273,"“Si len úbohá dušička nesúca mŕtvolu,” ako vravel Epiktetos.”",stoicism +7037,"“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”",stoicism +7355,“Life is happening neither to nor for but through us.”,stoicism +6777,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”",stoicism +7277,"“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”",stoicism +7245,“Living is the outside of dying.”,stoicism +7066,“Every goal or desire is a seed of an excuse to be unhappy.”,stoicism +6933,"“In an era characterized by incessant noise and constant distraction, we often find our minds pulled from one thought to another like a leaf in an October breeze. We are so preoccupied by modern living that we become totally disconnected from our ancient human roots in the natural world.”",stoicism +7254,"“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”",stoicism +7366,“Stoicism is a logical philosophy.”,stoicism +6841,“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”,stoicism +7336,"“Life sometimes delays giving us the thing we are forever praying or working hard for, until it has managed to show us that that thing is not that important, or important at all.”",stoicism +7674,"“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws . [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.”",stoicism +7328,"“At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it”",stoicism +7007,"“Draconus staggered up. 'Pearl, my friend, I have come to say goodbye. And to tell you I am sorry.' 'What saddens you?' the demon asked. 'I am sorry, Pearl, for all of this. For Dragnipur. For the horror forged by my own hands. It was fitting, was it not, that the weapon claimed its maker? I think, yes, it was. It was.' He paused, and then brought both hands up to his face. For a moment it seemed he would begin clawing his beard from the skin beneath it. Instead, the shackled hands fell away, down, dragged by the weight of the chains. 'I too am sorry,' said Pearl. 'To see the end of this.' 'What?' 'So many enemies, all here and not one by choice. Enemies, and yet working together for so long. It was a wonderous thing, was it not, Draconus? When necessity forced each hand to clasp, to work as one. A wonderous thing.' The warrior stared at the demon. He seemed unable to speak.”",stoicism +6873,"“For the military community, philosophy isn't something casually debated. But something that should be fully embodied in everyday thought and action, with the abandonment of all principles not shown practical in the most extreme of environments.”",stoicism +6979,"“Milo's Way- A Haiku Strength sought in small steps, Like Milo's calf on shoulders, Grow with steady will.”",stoicism +7323,“Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.”,stoicism +7597,"“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”",stoicism +7237,"“A truth is not any less truthful, when it is said by someone who did not discover, or does not understand, it.”",stoicism +7223,“To live is to owe life to die.”,stoicism +7037,"“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”",stoicism +7155,"“We each unwittingly contribute, each and every day, to the preventions and to the causes of millions of accidents.”",stoicism +7544,“The present isn’t more capable of causing mental pain than the past or the future.”,stoicism +7617,“...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...”,stoicism +7156,"“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”",stoicism +7646,"“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”",stoicism +7028,“Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”,stoicism +7052,"“We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down. Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.”",stoicism +7395,“We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.”,stoicism +7644,"“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members.”",stoicism +6809,"“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”",stoicism +7255,"“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them For your own nourishment, You have wasted your experience And missed the chance To expand the capacity For being stronger the next time That these seasons arrive at your door.”",stoicism +6989,"“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart. What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”",stoicism +6898,"“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”",stoicism +7289,"“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”",stoicism +7382,"“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”",stoicism +7661,"“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.”",stoicism +7457,“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”,stoicism +7388,"“When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to either be amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle"".”",stoicism +7382,"“Но в этом-то и состоит сила стоицизма: признание фундаментальной истины, что мы можем контролировать только свое поведение, но не его результаты (не говоря уже о результатах поведения других людей), дает нам способность невозмутимо принимать происходящее. Это происходит, потому что мы знаем: сделано все возможное и все зависящее от нас в данных обстоятельствах.”",stoicism +7029,"“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”",stoicism +7135,“We do things for others for ourselves.”,stoicism +7527,“Meditation betters not only the mind but also the brain.”,stoicism +7556,"“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”",stoicism +7313,“A fool’s plans are entertainment for the wise.”,stoicism +7418,"“People prone to every fault they denounce are walking advertisements of the uselessness of their training. That kind of man can be of no more help to me as an instructor than a steersman who is seasick in a storm[...]. What good to me is a vomiting and stupefied helmsman? [...] What is needed is a steering hand, not talking.”",stoicism +7293,“It is foolish to give up on yourself. And doubly so to do that before everyone has given up on you.”,stoicism +7676,"“Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.”",stoicism +7583,"“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.”",stoicism +7656,"“So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.”",stoicism +6785,"“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”",stoicism +6898,"“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”",stoicism +7344,"“Let Nature make whatever use she pleases of matter, which is her own: lets us be cheerful and brave in the face of all, and consider that nothing of our own perishes. What is the duty of a good man? To offer himself to fate.”",stoicism +6878,"“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”",stoicism +7656,"“So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.”",stoicism +7302,“Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”,stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +7038,“Remember you will die but do brave deeds and endure”,stoicism +6931,"“The Iliad consists of nothing more than impressions and the use of impressions. An impression prompted Paris to carry off the wife of Menelaus, and an impression prompted Helen to go with him. If an impression, then, had prompted Menelaus to feel that it was a gain to be deprived of such a wife, what would have come about? Not only the Iliad would have been lost, but the Odyssey too!”",stoicism +7029,"“Man, if you are anything, both walk alone and talk to yourself, and do not hide yourself in the chorus. Examine a little at last, look around, stir yourself up, that you may know who you are.”",stoicism +6871,"“Ought not then this robber and this adulterer to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, and blinded, not in the faculty of vision which distinguishes white and black, but in the faculty which distinguishes good and bad, should we destroy him? If you speak thus you will see how inhuman this is which you say, and that it is just as if you would say, Ought we not destroy this blind and deaf man?”",stoicism +7275,"“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”",stoicism +7504,“Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”,stoicism +7340,“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”,stoicism +7016,"“In a little while you too will close your eyes, and soon there will be others mourning the man who buries you.”",stoicism +7409,"“So the spirit must be trained to a realization and an acceptance of its lot. It must come to see that there is nothing fortune will shrink from[.] There's no ground for resentment in all this. We've entered into a world in which these are the terms life is lived on – if you're satisfied with that, submit to them, if you're not, get out, whatever way you please.”",stoicism +7564,“Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”,stoicism +7606,"“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero."" —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”",stoicism +7306,“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”,stoicism +6900,"“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”",stoicism +7122,"“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”",stoicism +6965,"“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”",stoicism +7562,“Suffering adds spice to life.”,stoicism +7435,“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”,stoicism +7151,“Some real kings are drama queens.”,stoicism +7414,“[W]hatever happens is never as serious as rumour makes it out to be.”,stoicism +6996,"“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: ""I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”",stoicism +7470,"“I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!”",stoicism +7245,“Living is the outside of dying.”,stoicism +7246,"“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”",stoicism +7034,“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”,stoicism +7141,“It is joyful to see someone who is hopeful in a situation that is hopeless.”,stoicism +7255,"“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them For your own nourishment, You have wasted your experience And missed the chance To expand the capacity For being stronger the next time That these seasons arrive at your door.”",stoicism +7203,“We are born old enough to die.”,stoicism +7415,"“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: ""What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”",stoicism +6980,"“You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”",stoicism +7341,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”,stoicism +7146,“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”,stoicism +7164,"“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”",stoicism +7219,“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”,stoicism +7133,“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”,stoicism +7645,"“There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.”",stoicism +7226,“Death is freedom from life.”,stoicism +7494,“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”,stoicism +7497,"“The man, though, whom you should admire and imitate is the one who finds it a joy to live and in spite of that is not reluctant to die.”",stoicism +6995,"“It's only when you're breathing your last that the way you've spent your time will become apparent, ""I accept the terms, and feel no dread of the coming judgment.”",stoicism +6900,"“Yet the object of our focus is not to be chosen lightly. In the marketplace of ambitions, dreams are sold in all sizes and shapes. But true fulfillment and achievement do not lie in the mere attainment of goals, but rather in the pursuit of those that are truly worthy. A target, after all, gives direction to our arrow, but the archer’s glory lies not in merely hitting the target, but in striking one that demands skill and character.”",stoicism +7357,"“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”",stoicism +7245,“Living is the outside of dying.”,stoicism +7567,“Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.”,stoicism +7046,"“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”",stoicism +6925,“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”,stoicism +7529,“The person you are mad at for being late could be dead.”,stoicism +6987,"“So - to the best of your ability - demonstrate your own guilt, conduct inquiries of your own into all the evidence against yourself. Play the part first of prosecutor, then of judge, and finally of pleader in mitigation. Be harsh with yourself at times.”",stoicism +6959,"“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”",stoicism +7186,“One of the main goals and effects of stoicism is to stop an adult from being a crybaby.”,stoicism +7444,"“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”",stoicism +7461,"“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”",stoicism +7315,“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”,stoicism +6810,"“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, ""What are your thinking about?"" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”",stoicism +7076,"“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”",stoicism +7107,"“We cannot but obey the powers above us. Could I rage and roar as doth the sea She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”",stoicism +7083,"“Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.”",stoicism +6844,"“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”",stoicism +7048,"“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”",stoicism +6945,"“Rasa susah, khawtir, cemas karena peristiwa eksternal sebernarnya tidak datang dari peristiwa hidup itu sendiri, tetapi dari persepsi dan opini kita sendiri, dan sepenuhnya dibawah kendali kita.”",stoicism +7665,"“Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.”",stoicism +7431,"“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”",stoicism +7042,“Most people usually talk faster than they think.”,stoicism +7606,"“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero."" —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”",stoicism +7389,“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”,stoicism +7420,“[T]he man who lives extravagantly wants his manner of living to be on everybody's lips as long as he is alive. He thinks he is wasting his time if he is not being talked about.”,stoicism +7631,"“Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.”",stoicism +7552,“Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”,stoicism +7628,"“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”",stoicism +7058,"“Even if you had a lot of life left to live, you would need to parcel out your time sparingly so as to have enough for necessities. As it is, with time in such short supply, what madness it is to learn things that are superfluous.”",stoicism +7493,"“Whereas a belief in an absurd world arises out of the fundamental disharmony of a person searching for meaning in an apparently meaninglessness universe, an existential nihilist displays impassive intellectual stoicism towards their eventual mortality while embracing a passionate artistic commitment to munity against the underlying syndrome of insignificance and confusion encasing life.”",stoicism +7662,“Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits”,stoicism +7041,"“Fools act wise, not wisely.”",stoicism +6835,"“The stoics divided philosophy into three branches: logic, physics, and ethics. Logic covered not only the rules of correct argumentation, but also grammar, linguistics, rhetorical theory, epistemology, and all the tools that might be needed to discover the truth of any matter. Physics was concerned with the nature of the world and the laws that govern it, and so included ontology and theology as well as what we would recognize as physics, astronomy, and cosmology. Ethics was concerned with how to achieve happiness, or how to live a fulfilled and flourishing life as a human being. A stoic sage was supposed to be fully expert in all three aspects.”",stoicism +7252,“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”,stoicism +7017,"“Though you should be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future, for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him?”",stoicism +6925,“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”,stoicism +6816,"“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”",stoicism +7223,“To live is to owe life to die.”,stoicism +6970,"“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +7429,“Zeno is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”,stoicism +6893,"“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”",stoicism +6770,“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”,stoicism +7528,“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”,stoicism +7624,"“There are two things that must be rooted out in human beings - arrogant opinion and mistrust. Arrogant opinion expects that there is nothing further needed, and mistrust assumes that under the torrent of circumstance there can be no happiness.”",stoicism +7409,"“So the spirit must be trained to a realization and an acceptance of its lot. It must come to see that there is nothing fortune will shrink from[.] There's no ground for resentment in all this. We've entered into a world in which these are the terms life is lived on – if you're satisfied with that, submit to them, if you're not, get out, whatever way you please.”",stoicism +6960,"“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”",stoicism +7348,“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”,stoicism +7285,“A truth whispered is not less truthful. And an untruth shouted is not less untruthful.”,stoicism +7211,“Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.”,stoicism +7584,“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”,stoicism +7575,“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”,stoicism +6912,"“A good story has no end, it continues being a part of reality well after its last point by forming a union with us.”",stoicism +6960,"“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”",stoicism +7302,“Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”,stoicism +6996,"“Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: ""I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”",stoicism +7082,"“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”",stoicism +7398,“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”,stoicism +7071,“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”,stoicism +7423,"“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”",stoicism +7229,“Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.”,stoicism +7170,“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”,stoicism +7320,“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”,stoicism +7162,“Hunger is by far the best spice.”,stoicism +7636,"“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”",stoicism +7533,“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”,stoicism +7614,"“It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.”",stoicism +6976,"“Take pride in your courage for it leads to difficult situations which, once overcome, leave you more than what you were before. Only in the most extreme of pressures does carbon become diamond”",stoicism +6979,"“Milo's Way- A Haiku Strength sought in small steps, Like Milo's calf on shoulders, Grow with steady will.”",stoicism +6884,"“In your conversation, don’t dwell at excessive length on your own deeds or adventures. Just because you enjoy recounting your exploits doesn’t mean that others derive the same pleasure from hearing about them.”",stoicism +7506,"“The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.”",stoicism +7415,"“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: ""What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”",stoicism +7020,“To act wise isn’t to act wisely.”,stoicism +6988,"“It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word - on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.”",stoicism +7176,“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”,stoicism +7212,“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”,stoicism +7372,"“Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don’t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation. And when persons came to him and desired to be recommended by him to philosophers, he took and recommended them, so well did he bear being overlooked. So that if ever any talk should happen among the unlearned concerning philosophic theorems, be you, for the most part, silent. For there is great danger in immediately throwing out what you have not digested. And, if anyone tells you that you know nothing, and you are not nettled at it, then you may be sure that you have begun your business. For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested.”",stoicism +7123,"“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”",stoicism +7657,"“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”",stoicism +7327,"“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”",stoicism +7319,"“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”",stoicism +6911,“The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.”,stoicism +7381,"“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”",stoicism +7270,"“See? You're using the stoic glacier method."" ""Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?"" ""It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.”",stoicism +7609,"“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because what is most important lies within him, and not with external events, which are constantly changing.”",stoicism +7471,“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”,stoicism +7316,“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”,stoicism +7428,"“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”",stoicism +7311,"“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”",stoicism +7615,“True affluence is not needing anything.”,stoicism +7276,"“Like a problem, time is nothing but a shadow of thought.”",stoicism +7365,"“If you are pained by any external tiling, it is not this things that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now"".”",stoicism +7650,"“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +7050,"“Many millions of people secretly feel caged by employment, marriage, and/or parenthood.”",stoicism +7193,“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”,stoicism +7625,"“These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. ""You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.”",stoicism +7039,"“At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoic­ism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.”",stoicism +6923,"“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it - not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it. Why treat the one as a misfortune rather than the other as fortunate? Can you really call something a misfortune that doesn't violate human nature? Or do you think something that's not against nature's will can violate it? But you know what its will is. Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”",stoicism +7383,"“Но Эпиктет призывал мужественно смотреть в лицо реальности, а реальность такова, что все люди смертны и никто из них не принадлежит нам и не останется с нами навечно. [...] Признав эту реальность, мы понимаем, что должны наслаждаться любовью наших близких и общением с ними, когда это возможно, а не принимать их как должное: ведь неминуемо настанет день, когда «установленное время года» пройдет.”",stoicism +7496,"“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”",stoicism +7431,"“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”",stoicism +6852,"“Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.”",stoicism +7391,"“For our happiness or unhappiness, we have only what we think about something or someone to thank or blame.”",stoicism +7668,“The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.”,stoicism +7195,“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”,stoicism +7044,"“Press on and make all your actions and words cohere and fit with one another, all struck from the same mold.”",stoicism +7482,“We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.”,stoicism +7053,"“The first sign of a settled mind is that it can stay in one place and spend time with itself.” – Seneca, Letter 2.1”",stoicism +6942,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it.”",stoicism +7096,"“Just as chickens wake up and scream, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pain.”",stoicism +7487,"“Once you make a decision and then act on it, you have actually fulfilled the object of the game. This will probably surprise you, but what happens next in the hand after you act is not important. It does not matter what your opponents do next and it's immaterial whether or not you win the hand. The most important thing is that you understand why you're making the play and what goal you're trying to accomplish.”",stoicism +6832,“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”,stoicism +6842,“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”,stoicism +7532,“One man’s bad day is another man’s good night.”,stoicism +7405,"“Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world—to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, we’ll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most out of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether it’s time to call it quits—all the things you need a healthy mind for . . . all those are gone. So we need to hurry. Not just because we move daily closer to death but also because our understanding—our grasp of the world—may be gone before we get there.”",stoicism +7144,"“He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.”",stoicism +7402,"“For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”",stoicism +7277,"“A still person has the ability to stop, look at a news story or another person’s arguments, and ask objective questions without emotional overreaction or assumptions of ill intent. One is centered, rational, and respected; the other is frantic, unhappy, and intellectually stagnant. Don’t be the latter.”",stoicism +7556,"“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”",stoicism +7167,"“Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.”",stoicism +6889,"“...what will you do when you are dead? ""My name will remain."" Write it on a stone, and it will remain. But come, what remembrance of you will there be beyond Nicopolis? ""But I shall wear a crown of gold."" If you desire a crown at all, take a crown of roses and put it on, for it will be more elegant in appearance.”",stoicism +7206,“We often mistake assuming or hoping for knowing.”,stoicism +7598,"“When others inspire us, they tend to do so through the clear expression of these sketchy, adumbrated thoughts we ourselves have known but never had the perspicacity for formulate with certainty.”",stoicism +7445,“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”,stoicism +7234,"“Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.”",stoicism +7055,"“Prosperity is a restless thing; it drives itself to distraction. It addles the brain, and not always in the same way, for it goads people in different directions—some toward power, others toward self-indulgence. Some are puffed up by it, others unmanned and made entirely feeble.”",stoicism +7034,“Small talk is one of the most common symptoms of small-mindedness.”,stoicism +7089,“Conformity eats away individuality.”,stoicism +7442,“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”,stoicism +7145,“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”,stoicism +7589,"“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”",stoicism +6858,"“Lives such as yours—how true it is!—though they should exceed a thousand years, will contract into the smallest span: but those vices of yours will swallow up any amount of time. This length of time you have, that reason prolongs, however swift nature makes its sojourn, is bound to pass quickly through your fingers; for you do not grasp it, or seek to hold on to it, or try to delay the passing of the swiftest thing of all, but allow it to depart, as if it were something surplus to requirement and easily replaced.”",stoicism +7423,"“Life is divided into three periods, past, present and future. Of these, the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain. For this last is the one over which Fortune has lost her power, which cannot be brought back to anyone’s control. But this is what preoccupied people lose: for they have no time to look back at their past, and even if they did, it is not pleasant to recall activities they are ashamed of.”",stoicism +6972,"“Let us too overcome all things, with our reward consisting not in any wreath or garland, not in trumpet-calls for silence for the ceremonial proclamation of our name, but in moral worth, in strength of spirit, in a peace that is won for ever once in any contest fortune has been utterly defeated.”",stoicism +7590,"“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.”",stoicism +7508,“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”,stoicism +7103,"“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”",stoicism +6991,"“Do you consider yourself a nobody? What weight does that label even have? It’s a silly label. As silly as the label 'somebody'. Silly and non-adhesive. First off, to be thought of as a nobody someone has to be thinking of you in the first place. Second, being a so-called 'nobody' doesn’t make you irrelevant. We are all relevant to somebody else but unfortunately, we can lose sight of our most germane and important relationships when we chase the approval of people we don’t even know.”",stoicism +6810,"“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, ""What are your thinking about?"" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”",stoicism +7477,“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”,stoicism +6837,"“All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of mind. From this viewpoint, philosophy appears as a remedy for human worries, anguish, and misery brought about, for the Cynics, by social constraints and conventions; for the Epicureans, by the quest for false pleasures; for the Stoics, by the pursuit of pleasure and egoistic self-interest; and for the Skeptics, by false opinions. Whether or not they laid claim to the Socratic heritage, all Hellenistic philosophers agreed with Socrates that human beings are plunged in misery, anguish, and evil because they exist in ignorance. Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgments with people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgments, and in this sense all these philosophies wanted to be therapeutic.”",stoicism +7545,“It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.”,stoicism +7283,"“For some reason, there is this façade that life should be full of happiness and without its suffering. Which, actually makes us suffer even more. Because when we get sad or something bad happens, we do not only feel bad about the thing itself but we also feel bad because our life is not the way it is supposed to be. Not realizing suffering and sadness is just a part of life and they are inevitable.”",stoicism +7642,"“And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +7406,"“We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise.”",stoicism +7391,"“For our happiness or unhappiness, we have only what we think about something or someone to thank or blame.”",stoicism +7367,“Meditation can make an hour feel slightly longer … than a sneeze.”,stoicism +7401,“In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.”,stoicism +6896,"“Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.”",stoicism +7024,“What right hast thou to talk of ill of Fortune whilst keeping all Fortune's better gifts?”,stoicism +7464,"“When pain comes, it must not derail you from your set virtues. If it does, you have failed to practice your virtues by going with the hype of pain.”",stoicism +6785,"“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”",stoicism +7246,"“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”",stoicism +6831,"“I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.”",stoicism +7650,"“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +7201,"“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”",stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +7037,"“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”",stoicism +6804,"“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”",stoicism +7548,“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”,stoicism +7345,“An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”,stoicism +7263,"“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”",stoicism +7331,“The fact that we are all going to die prevents the vast majority of people from being driven insane by the fact that they are going to die.”,stoicism +7238,“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”,stoicism +7536,“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”,stoicism +7430,"“The bigger the family, the bigger the number of corpses it owes life.”",stoicism +7094,“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”,stoicism +7073,“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”,stoicism +7045,"“If ever you want to find out whether anything has been achieved, observe whether your intentions are the same today as they were yesterday. A change of intention shows that the mind is at sea, drifting here and there as carried by the wind.”",stoicism +7638,"“At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.”",stoicism +7453,“We're never unhappy until we remember why we're supposed to be unhappy.”,stoicism +6970,"“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +7214,"“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”",stoicism +7674,"“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws . [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.”",stoicism +7093,“Our rationality is a visitor.”,stoicism +6804,"“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”",stoicism +7251,“Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter”,stoicism +7497,"“The man, though, whom you should admire and imitate is the one who finds it a joy to live and in spite of that is not reluctant to die.”",stoicism +7249,“Some of the things we are trying to pray away were caused by some of our answered prayers.”,stoicism +6834,"“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.”",stoicism +6777,"“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”",stoicism +7070,"“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”",stoicism +7112,"“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.”",stoicism +7200,"“No, it is events that give rise to fear -- when another has the power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed? Not by iron or fire, but by judgments... here is where we must begin, and it is from this front that we must seize the fortress and throw out tyrants.”",stoicism +7193,“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”,stoicism +7101,"“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight”",stoicism +7207,"“It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”",stoicism +7357,"“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”",stoicism +6943,"“Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another one follows and is gone.”",stoicism +7328,"“At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it”",stoicism +7296,“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”,stoicism +7642,"“And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +7428,"“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”",stoicism +6795,"“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”",stoicism +7589,"“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”",stoicism +7374,"“And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.”",stoicism +7175,“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”,stoicism +7001,“There was an iron simplicty in the seer. He was like a monolith of logic standing against waves of angry nonsense.”,stoicism +7302,“Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”,stoicism +7588,"“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.”",stoicism +7319,"“The universe is change, and life mere opinion.”",stoicism +7557,“It is way more pleasurable to master yourself than it is to masturbate.”,stoicism +7274,“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”,stoicism +7438,"“Independence and unvarying reliability, and to pay attention to nothing, no matter how fleetingly, except the logos. And to be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility. His patience in teaching. And to have seen someone who clearly viewed his expertise and ability as a teacher as the humblest of virtues. And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. On Apolonius”",stoicism +6948,"“By meditating on our thoughts, feelings, and desires, we are encouraging a sense of self-awareness and self-mastery. We observe the whimsical and impulsive movements of our mind without getting caught up in them, and in doing so we develop a greater understanding of ourselves.”",stoicism +6901,"“Beware the folly of lending your focus to vain pursuits. Just as a river, when it is split into countless rivulets, loses its force and becomes but a whimper, a mind divided by trivial pursuits dissipates its strength. Focus, therefore, is not merely concentration, it is selection; not merely observation, it is dedication.”",stoicism +7592,“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.”,stoicism +7224,"“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”",stoicism +7117,"“When faced with people's bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognize that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?)”",stoicism +7309,“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”,stoicism +7541,"“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”",stoicism +7175,“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”,stoicism +6845,“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”,stoicism +7348,“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”,stoicism +7623,“Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.”,stoicism +7261,“A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.”,stoicism +6963,“Kindness has become so rare that it provokes perplexity about what's sincere and what's deceitful.”,stoicism +6931,"“The Iliad consists of nothing more than impressions and the use of impressions. An impression prompted Paris to carry off the wife of Menelaus, and an impression prompted Helen to go with him. If an impression, then, had prompted Menelaus to feel that it was a gain to be deprived of such a wife, what would have come about? Not only the Iliad would have been lost, but the Odyssey too!”",stoicism +7116,"“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions- not outside.”",stoicism +7130,“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”,stoicism +7538,“There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and the number of problems we have.”,stoicism +7353,"“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”",stoicism +6856,"“I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.”",stoicism +7031,"“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: ""I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”",stoicism +6983,“Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths.”,stoicism +7434,"“Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”",stoicism +7491,"“Unlike existing, living requires effort.”",stoicism +7342,“Silence is often the wisest reply.”,stoicism +7549,"“It would be foolish to be stoical all the time, you'd wear yourself out for nothing”",stoicism +7031,"“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: ""I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”",stoicism +7499,“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”,stoicism +7052,"“We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst. For thee, oppressèd king, I am cast down. Myself could else outfrown false Fortune’s frown.”",stoicism +7417,“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”,stoicism +7236,“Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.”,stoicism +7149,"“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”",stoicism +7131,"“Our education system would be betraying its master, capitalism, if it taught us to be content with what we have. Or if it told us about the fruits of practicing minimalism.”",stoicism +7218,"“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”",stoicism +7210,“Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.”,stoicism +6862,"“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.”",stoicism +7390,“Sometimes we are lucky to lose something or someone.”,stoicism +7522,"“Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else, you will know what happens. So also if you lie in bed for ten days, get up and try to take a rather long walk, and you will see how wobbly your legs are. In general, therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it; if you want not to do something, refrain from doing it, and accustom yourself to something else instead.”",stoicism +7636,"“All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.”",stoicism +7193,“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”,stoicism +6911,“The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.”,stoicism +7060,“We are all talented at coming up with plausible excuses.”,stoicism +7201,"“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”",stoicism +7518,“We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.”,stoicism +7621,"“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”",stoicism +7593,"“[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from being disobedient to the spirit. Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather.”",stoicism +7458,"“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”",stoicism +7422,"“Здоровье, образование и богатство считаются «предпочтительными безразличными вещами», стоики не пропагандировали аскетизм, многие из них не чурались жизненных благ и умели наслаждаться ими. Однако эти вещи не определяют нас как уникальных индивидуумов и не имеют ничего общего с нашей личностной ценностью, а она зависит исключительно от нашего характера и наших добродетелей.”",stoicism +7470,"“I’ve let people’s opinions, my own self judgements and many negative things take this life away from me. No more!”",stoicism +6818,"“40. The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help him in this way. You will say, perhaps, ‘But all that is something they have put in my own power.’ Then surely it were better to use your power and be a free man, than to hanker like a slave and a beggar for something that is not in your power. Besides, who told you the gods never lend their aid even towards things that do lie in our own power? Begin praying in this way, and you will see. Where another man prays ‘Grant that I may possess this woman,’ let your own prayer be, ‘Grant that I may not lust to possess her.’ Where he prays, ‘Grant me to be rid of such-and-such a one,’ you pray, ‘Take from me my desire to be rid of him.’ Where he begs, ‘Spare me the loss of my precious child,’ beg rather to be delivered from the terror of losing him. In short, give your petitions a turn in this direction, and see what comes.”",stoicism +7071,“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”,stoicism +7650,"“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +6959,"“[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.”",stoicism +6905,“Nie należy się gniewać na bieg wypadków. Nic ich to bowiem nie obchodzi.”,stoicism +7324,"“Some things do not make sense, not in themselves, but to some people.”",stoicism +7173,“Stoicism is a mild form of pessimism … sprinkled with optimism.”,stoicism +7661,"“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies—with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.”",stoicism +7634,"“How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it. I was a great bluffer. And when common, everyday survival in prison required getting over, I could do that too. This is what was approvingly described by my fellow prisoners as 'street-smarts,' as in 'You wouldn't think it to look at her, but Piper's got street-smarts.”",stoicism +7371,“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”,stoicism +7576,“Not having expected an event makes it seem way better or worse than it really is.”,stoicism +7110,"“What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad- as terrible a blindness as the kind that can't tell white from black.”",stoicism +7526,"“The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.”",stoicism +7473,“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”,stoicism +7087,“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”,stoicism +7387,“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”,stoicism +7132,“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”,stoicism +7591,“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”,stoicism +7151,“Some real kings are drama queens.”,stoicism +7002,"“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”",stoicism +7546,“Even the busiest bee does not move from one flower to another as often as an untamed mind moves from one thought to another.”,stoicism +7113,“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”,stoicism +7318,“Some people get killed by water. Some die from dehydration.”,stoicism +7586,“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.”,stoicism +7322,"“[...] so läßt der, welcher der Lust nachjagt, alles andere liegen, und die Freiheit ist das erste, was er preisgibt [...]”",stoicism +7298,“99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.”,stoicism +7625,"“These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. ""You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.”",stoicism +7558,“It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think.”,stoicism +7588,"“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.”",stoicism +7340,“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”,stoicism +6952,"“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”",stoicism +6810,"“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, ""What are your thinking about?"" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”",stoicism +7320,“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”,stoicism +7166,"“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”",stoicism +7473,“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”,stoicism +7548,“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”,stoicism +7263,"“Často sa dopúšťa bezprávia aj ten, kto nič nerobí, nielen ten, kto niečo robí.”",stoicism +7428,"“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”",stoicism +7676,"“Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.”",stoicism +7102,"“There is a limit to the time assigned to you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.”",stoicism +6896,"“Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.”",stoicism +7327,"“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”",stoicism +7326,“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”,stoicism +6770,“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”,stoicism +6937,“Our minds are a sanctuary; a safe haven which is totally impregnable to the outside world. It is only when we allow external problems and anxieties to enter our mind that this sanctuary becomes vulnerable.”,stoicism +7389,“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”,stoicism +6788,“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”,stoicism +7101,"“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight”",stoicism +7353,"“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.”",stoicism +7225,“A suicide attempt is an act of fighting for one’s death.”,stoicism +6878,"“An open eye in the dark, will find light...”",stoicism +7037,"“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”",stoicism +7214,"“Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.”",stoicism +7009,"“Everything that we see is changing and will soon be gone, and we should bear in mind how many things have already changed over time, like the waters of streams flowing ceaselessly past—an idea that we can call the contemplation of impermanence.”",stoicism +7070,"“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”",stoicism +7371,“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”,stoicism +6872,"“Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.”",stoicism +7019,“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”,stoicism +7222,“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”,stoicism +7289,"“...but if you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another’s, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily (against your will), no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.”",stoicism +6922,"“There will come a day when i will be able to resist and control my emotions... And when that day comes, i will know that i truly made it,”",stoicism +7628,"“Sine philosophia nemo intrepide potest vivere, nemo secure.”",stoicism +6943,"“Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another one follows and is gone.”",stoicism +7112,"“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.”",stoicism +7439,“The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”,stoicism +7200,"“No, it is events that give rise to fear -- when another has the power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed? Not by iron or fire, but by judgments... here is where we must begin, and it is from this front that we must seize the fortress and throw out tyrants.”",stoicism +7496,"“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”",stoicism +7458,"“We must become friends of despair if we are to be drawn above it to genuine and heartfelt hope. Far from being an exercise in morbidity or arrogance, a deepening acquaintance with our death and with the vanity of human wishes is our worldly hearts a needed path to perfect health (61).”",stoicism +7456,"“It's with a heavy heart that I assure you that regardless of how lasting your fortune feels, it can be taken from you before you can even think to try to hold on.”",stoicism +7621,"“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”",stoicism +7619,"“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”",stoicism +7427,"“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”",stoicism +7093,“Our rationality is a visitor.”,stoicism +7442,“Running is a form of practiced stoicism. It means teaching your brain and body to be biochemically comfortable in a state of disrepair.”,stoicism +7408,“The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”,stoicism +7189,“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”,stoicism +7363,“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”,stoicism +7254,"“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”",stoicism +7428,"“Стоик стремится к добродетели, совершенству и живет по принципу: «Делать все настолько хорошо, насколько это возможно», он осознает моральный аспект всех своих действий.”",stoicism +7520,“Killing a person does not lead to nearly as much pain as creating a human being.”,stoicism +7181,"“Being spiritually asleep has deceived the vast majority of people into thinking that poverty is a poor person’s main problem in life. To those who are spiritually awake, poverty is not even a problem.”",stoicism +6853,“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”,stoicism +6882,"“Stand up straight, not straightened The Gods give us everything, but not all at once.”",stoicism +7506,"“The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.”",stoicism +7101,"“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight”",stoicism +7147,"“You can be too old to live, but not too young to die.”",stoicism +7524,“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”,stoicism +7424,"“Resent a thing by all means if it represents an injustice decreed against yourself personally; but if this same constraint is binding on the lowest and the highest alike, then make your peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties.”",stoicism +6810,"“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, ""What are your thinking about?"" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”",stoicism +7539,“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”,stoicism +7566,“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”,stoicism +6874,"“Before concluding the discussion on Partridge’s connection to the Stoic tradition, I present what is probably the greatest proof Partridge was a Stoic: he suffered the public doom of one. Ironically, Partridge may have missed a powerful warning about his own fate within one of the key texts he used in his academies. A footnote within William Duncan’s translation of Cicero’s orations recalls the ill fortune of Quintus Aelius Tubero in the eyes of the people of Rome caused by his Stoic behavior at the funeral of Scipio Africanus: ""[It was the same from the study of Tubero] Cicero here ridicules the doctrine of the Stoics, shows the absurdities into which it may betray a man and paints the ill consequences that often arise from it. [Quintus Aelius] Tubero, of whom he speaks here had professed himself a Stoic and resolved to regulate his conduct by the tenets of that sect. Accordingly, in an entertainment he gave the Roman people on occasion of the death of the great Scipio Africanus he made use of plain wooden beds, goat skin covers, and earthen dishes. But this ill-timed parsimony was so displeasing to the Roman people that when he afterwards stood for the prætorship they refused him their suffrages though a man of illustrious birth and the most distinguished virtue."" Is there a passage more fitting for the legacy of Partridge and his Stoic behavior? Even when Partridge had built an ideal model for educating a complete virtue-driven citizen worthy of the Republic, few would find the lifestyle required appealing. Being a virtuous man with a sufficient plan for American education was not enough to guarantee his acceptance among the masses.”",stoicism +6971,"“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +7219,“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”,stoicism +7588,"“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.”",stoicism +7612,"“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”",stoicism +7035,“Mindfulness is the only doorway to the unhurried life.”,stoicism +6979,"“Milo's Way- A Haiku Strength sought in small steps, Like Milo's calf on shoulders, Grow with steady will.”",stoicism +7332,"“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...] Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”",stoicism +6887,"“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”",stoicism +7482,“We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.”,stoicism +7146,“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”,stoicism +7320,“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”,stoicism +7309,“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”,stoicism +7540,“A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.”,stoicism +6853,“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”,stoicism +7223,“To live is to owe life to die.”,stoicism +7436,"“If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?”",stoicism +7398,“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”,stoicism +7283,"“For some reason, there is this façade that life should be full of happiness and without its suffering. Which, actually makes us suffer even more. Because when we get sad or something bad happens, we do not only feel bad about the thing itself but we also feel bad because our life is not the way it is supposed to be. Not realizing suffering and sadness is just a part of life and they are inevitable.”",stoicism +7374,"“And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.”",stoicism +7447,"“The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.”",stoicism +7156,"“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”",stoicism +7119,“Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.”,stoicism +7065,"“Fools are often unable to do what needs to be done, because they were doing, or are doing, what need not be done at that time … or at all.”",stoicism +7027,"“Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquillity that they had stood mesmerized.”",stoicism +6850,"“[I]n a man praise is due only to what is his very own. Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him – they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away, what is peculiarly a man's. You ask what that is? It is his spirit, and the perfection of his reason in that spirit.”",stoicism +7037,"“I encouraged them to bear up against all evils, and if we must perish, to die in our own cause, and not weakly distrust the providence of the Almighty, by giving ourselves up to despair. I reasoned with them, and told them that we would not die sooner by keeping up our hopes; that the dreadful sacrifices and privations we endured were to preserve us from death, and were not to be put in competition with the price which we set upon our lives, and their value to our families: it was, besides, unmanly to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognise in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone, ‘Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?”",stoicism +7188,"“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”",stoicism +7004,“The ability to do without a kingdom is a kingdom.”,stoicism +7602,"“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”",stoicism +7080,"“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart—”",stoicism +7582,"“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”",stoicism +7126,“Most people would rather believe something that is not true about something than accept the fact that they do not understand a thing about that thing.”,stoicism +6982,"“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waist a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficient generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we know it was passing”",stoicism +7343,"“Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.”",stoicism +6818,"“40. The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help him in this way. You will say, perhaps, ‘But all that is something they have put in my own power.’ Then surely it were better to use your power and be a free man, than to hanker like a slave and a beggar for something that is not in your power. Besides, who told you the gods never lend their aid even towards things that do lie in our own power? Begin praying in this way, and you will see. Where another man prays ‘Grant that I may possess this woman,’ let your own prayer be, ‘Grant that I may not lust to possess her.’ Where he prays, ��Grant me to be rid of such-and-such a one,’ you pray, ‘Take from me my desire to be rid of him.’ Where he begs, ‘Spare me the loss of my precious child,’ beg rather to be delivered from the terror of losing him. In short, give your petitions a turn in this direction, and see what comes.”",stoicism +6896,"“Distractions adorn themselves in the grandeur of the immediate, urgent, and superficial, dazzling our senses and demanding our attention. They leap into the spotlight, shouting loudly to drown the quiet callings of our deepest intentions.”",stoicism +6992,“I am acting on behalf of later generations. I am writing down a few things that may be of use to them.”,stoicism +7048,"“Flattery looks very much like friendship, indeed not only resembles it but actually wins out against it. A person drinks it in with eager ears and takes it deeply to heart, delighted by the very qualities that make it dangerous.”",stoicism +7177,"“To make life very pleasurable, expect nothing. To make it even more pleasurable than that, expect nothing … but the worst.”",stoicism +7274,“Growth is often the cause or the result of pain.”,stoicism +7063,"“Difficulty is the foundation of growth, which is the foundation of greatness.”",stoicism +7565,“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”,stoicism +7046,"“Things we wouldn't be willing to pay for if it meant giving up our house for them, or some pleasant or productive estate, we are quite ready to obtain at the cost of anxiety, of danger, of losing our freedom, our decency, our time.”",stoicism +7207,"“It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”",stoicism +6876,“All roads to Hades are of equal length”,stoicism +7427,"“Но в действительности стоицизм — это не подавление или сокрытие эмоций, а их осознание, размышление об их причинах и умение направлять их себе на благо. Это понимание того, что находится под нашим контролем, а что — нет: следует сосредоточить усилия на первом, вместо того чтобы напрасно тратить их на второе.”",stoicism +7189,“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”,stoicism +7380,"“To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.”",stoicism +7198,"“What does it mean to be getting an education? It means learning to apply natural preconceptions to particular cases as nature prescribes, and distinguishing what is in our power from what is not.”",stoicism +7144,"“He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.”",stoicism +6842,“Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.”,stoicism +7403,“Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist”,stoicism +6799,“I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.”,stoicism +6957,“Associate with those who will make a better of man. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”,stoicism +7133,“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”,stoicism +7635,"“When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.”",stoicism +7569,“Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.”,stoicism +7220,“To plan is to hope … without feeling passive.”,stoicism +6964,"“Having in mind not how bravely I was capable of dying but how far from bravely he was capable of bearing the loss, I commanded myself to live.”",stoicism +6925,“Perchance some day the memory of this sorrow Will even bring delight”,stoicism +6941,"“The events that may befall you tomorrow are not new or novel, and the emotions that you will experience have been felt by countless others throughout the crashing torrent of time. They survived. Why can’t you?”",stoicism +7616,"“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”",stoicism +6810,"“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, ""What are your thinking about?"" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”",stoicism +6832,“Maximum remedium est irae mora.”,stoicism +6792,"“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”",stoicism +7129,"“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”",stoicism +6844,"“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”",stoicism +7329,“Nothing can affect a person’s mind if he chooses not to be affected by it.”,stoicism +7441,"“[P]leasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”",stoicism +7594,"“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”",stoicism +6887,"“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity … you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral.”",stoicism +7381,"“It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.”",stoicism +7149,"“You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”",stoicism +7448,"“I began to care a lot less about embarrassment after running into somebody who for months, I feared I would, and realizing afterward that my life was no different after the encounter than before.”",stoicism +7059,“Paying someone to do something on our behalf is the closest we can get to buying time.”,stoicism +7209,"“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”",stoicism +7437,“Even in the longest life real living is the least portion thereof.”,stoicism +6776,“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”,stoicism +6965,"“Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still.”",stoicism +7190,"“Whenever an animal is overworking, a human is to blame.”",stoicism +7337,“Escaping death is a temporary victory.”,stoicism +7602,"“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”",stoicism +6962,"“People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his mind. So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.”",stoicism +7328,"“At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it”",stoicism +6917,"“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.”",stoicism +7556,"“You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.”",stoicism +7438,"“Independence and unvarying reliability, and to pay attention to nothing, no matter how fleetingly, except the logos. And to be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility. His patience in teaching. And to have seen someone who clearly viewed his expertise and ability as a teacher as the humblest of virtues. And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. On Apolonius”",stoicism +6971,"“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +7213,“Failing can ultimately be way more rewarding than succeeding.”,stoicism +7188,"“There is no correlation between how many people or things, how much money, or how many problems you have … and how grateful, happy, or peaceful you can be.”",stoicism +7196,"“Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?”",stoicism +7248,“It is humanly impossible to be unhappy while you are dancing or laughing willingly.”,stoicism +7244,"“There is usually at least one person praying for a situation, or an outcome, that is the exact opposite of the one someone or some people are praying for.”",stoicism +6895,"“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They are the specters of our existence, conjured by the ceaseless clatter of the world, whispering tales of urgency and importance that often bear no relevance to our true path.”",stoicism +7164,"“If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there’s still time.”",stoicism +7586,“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.”,stoicism +7650,"“And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.”",stoicism +7575,“The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.”,stoicism +7345,“An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”,stoicism +7094,“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”,stoicism +7161,"“People seek retreats for themselves in the countryside by the seashore, in the hills, and you too have made it your habit to long for that above all else. But this is altogether unphilosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself whenever you please; for nowhere can one retreat into greater peace or freedom from care than within one’s own soul, especially when a person has such things within him that he merely has to look at them to recover from that moment perfect ease of mind (and by ease of mind I mean nothing other than having one’s mind in good order). So constantly grant yourself this retreat and so renew yourself; but keep within you concise and basic precepts that will be enough, at first encounter, to cleanse you from all distress and to send you back without discontent to the life to which you will return.”",stoicism +7457,“A fool is a man who disregards legacy.”,stoicism +7397,“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”,stoicism +7209,"“Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.”",stoicism +6973,"“The most terrifying ghosts that haunt us are the ones of our dead dreams, especially if we were the murderers.”",stoicism +7255,"“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them For your own nourishment, You have wasted your experience And missed the chance To expand the capacity For being stronger the next time That these seasons arrive at your door.”",stoicism +7602,"“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by fortune.”",stoicism +6800,"“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”",stoicism +7157,“A wise answer is even more pleasing when it is a response to a foolish question.”,stoicism +7394,"“We sometimes learn, not from something, but from not having learned from it.”",stoicism +7646,"“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”",stoicism +7203,“We are born old enough to die.”,stoicism +7606,"“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero."" —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”",stoicism +7145,“The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.”,stoicism +7113,“It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.”,stoicism +7212,“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”,stoicism +7348,“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”,stoicism +6844,"“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”",stoicism +7326,“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”,stoicism +7541,"“As things are, there is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she didn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.”",stoicism +7435,“Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.”,stoicism +6924,"“It matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is”",stoicism +7199,“It is foolish to waste time in order to save money.”,stoicism +7132,“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”,stoicism +7217,“You have two essential tasks in life: to be a good person and to pursue the occupation that you love. Everything else is a waste of energy and a squandering of your potential.”,stoicism +7003,"“We need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.”",stoicism +7332,"“Zu den herrlichsten Schätzen, die durch die Bemühungen anderer aus der Finsternis ans Licht gezogen sind, werden wir geführt; kein Zeitalter ist uns verschlossen, zu allen haben wir Zutritt [...] Die Zusammenfassung aller Zeiten macht ihm [/ihr] das Leben lang.”",stoicism +7587,“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”,stoicism +7031,"“A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: ""I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.”",stoicism +7596,"“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.”",stoicism +6894,"“Luck plays such an overpowering role in some lives that the thoughtful person must ask: ‘Why have I been cursed with bad luck while another is blessed with so much good luck?’ Believe me, the fortunate person who receives the favorable breaks also wonders about his favored situation. In my case, I have no explanation. I was hardworking; I had a tough character; I was a good student; and I acknowledged the leadership of my superiors. But no amount of hard work or high standard of behavior could have brought the many good things that happened to me; pure chance dictated most of them. The only generalization I can offer is that in an irrational world if a prudent course has been followed, you make yourself eligible to capitalize on luck if it happens to strike. If you have not made yourself eligible, you may never be aware that luck is at hand. By all this I mean: learn typing, master math, learn to draft a convincing letter, broaden the mind, and do not evade challenges. Making oneself eligible to seize the breaks if and when they come is the only sensible strategy I know. Be prepared to make full use of any stroke of luck, and even if it never comes, the preparation in itself will be a worthy effort.” —Chapter VIII, “Writing”, page 289”",stoicism +7014,“Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.”,stoicism +7311,"“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”",stoicism +7254,"“Remind yourself that what you love is mortal … at the very moment you are taking joy in something, present yourself with the opposite impressions. What harm is it, just when you are kissing your little child, to say: Tomorrow you will die, or to your friend similarly: Tomorrow one of us will go away, and we shall not see one another any more?”",stoicism +6891,"“Life will question you in its vital moments. It's up to you in how you'll respond. You might have drifted from the principles that you once followed. You could've indulged in vices or fallen into unthinking habits. It's your choice to start your practice again. Remind yourself of what's valuable and then act. You still have a choice to be brave, temperate, and wise.”",stoicism +6894,"“Luck plays such an overpowering role in some lives that the thoughtful person must ask: ‘Why have I been cursed with bad luck while another is blessed with so much good luck?’ Believe me, the fortunate person who receives the favorable breaks also wonders about his favored situation. In my case, I have no explanation. I was hardworking; I had a tough character; I was a good student; and I acknowledged the leadership of my superiors. But no amount of hard work or high standard of behavior could have brought the many good things that happened to me; pure chance dictated most of them. The only generalization I can offer is that in an irrational world if a prudent course has been followed, you make yourself eligible to capitalize on luck if it happens to strike. If you have not made yourself eligible, you may never be aware that luck is at hand. By all this I mean: learn typing, master math, learn to draft a convincing letter, broaden the mind, and do not evade challenges. Making oneself eligible to seize the breaks if and when they come is the only sensible strategy I know. Be prepared to make full use of any stroke of luck, and even if it never comes, the preparation in itself will be a worthy effort.” —Chapter VIII, “Writing”, page 289”",stoicism +7318,“Some people get killed by water. Some die from dehydration.”,stoicism +6939,“We human beings are not hive animals. We aren’t like bees or ants who just work constantly for the good of the community.”,stoicism +6893,"“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by the torrents of distraction, but rather cultivating a steadfast presence in each fleeting moment. In this ever-passing instant, the Stoic exercises his virtue, sharpens his wisdom, and wields his actions.”",stoicism +7638,"“At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.”",stoicism +6804,"“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”",stoicism +6856,"“I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.”",stoicism +7415,"“[T]he man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: ""What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟”",stoicism +7477,“A man whose mind has completely left childhood behind would not be surprised if he were to walk in on his wife having sex with her father … or with his mother.”,stoicism +7555,"“In the first place, sensation (aisthesis) is a corporeal process which we have in common with animals, and in which the impression of an exterior object is transmitted to the soul. By means of this process, an image (phantasia) of the object is produced in the soul, or more precisely in the guiding part (hegemonikon) of the soul”",stoicism +6970,"“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.” ~ Epictetus”",stoicism +7138,“Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”,stoicism +7566,“Life is a game we are all bound to lose.”,stoicism +6846,"“The sun appears to pour itself down, and indeed its light pours in all direction, but the stream does not run out. This pouring is linear extension: that is why its beams are called rays, because they radiate in extended lines. You can see what a ray is if you observe the sun's light entering a dark room through a narrow opening. It extends in a straight line and impacts, so to speak, on any solid body in its path which blocks passage through the air on the other side: it settles there and does not slip off or fall.”",stoicism +6828,"“I fail to remember ever having made an effort — no trace of struggle is detectable in my life, I am the opposite of a heroic nature. To “want” something, to “strive” for something, to have an “end,” a “desire” in mind — I know none of this from my experience. Even at this moment I look out upon my future — a broad future! — as upon a smooth sea: no desire ripples upon it. Not in the least do I want anything to be different from what it is; I myself do not want to be any different ... But thus I have always lived.”",stoicism +7200,"“No, it is events that give rise to fear -- when another has the power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed? Not by iron or fire, but by judgments... here is where we must begin, and it is from this front that we must seize the fortress and throw out tyrants.”",stoicism +3368,"“If all your weekends are the same, that means you're not collecting experiences.”",motivational +6280,"“Ali, pre ili kasnije, i u najiscrpljenijim telima mora se skupiti nova snaga, kao što i najveći krčag mora biti do vrha ispunjen kišnicom, ukoliko pljusak dovoljno dugo potraje.”",motivational +5600,“Having a clear vision leads to greater self-awareness — use it as a guide to empower yourself and pave the way for success!”,motivational +2974,“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”,motivational +5952,"“Real courage lies in being able to believe in yourself enough to try again tomorrow, even after a tough day.”",motivational +5679,"“The opportunity window is always open, but it is up to us to decide whether to seize it or let it pass.”",motivational +5427,“The One who gave you the gift of life knows that you are good enough. Do not ever doubt what you carry on the inside. Live the rest of your life maximizing your potential.”,motivational +2638,"“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”",motivational +4193,"“There's only one earth, and one glorious skyOne fleeting time, quickly passing us byTo put our differences aside, and make everything alrightFor our one human raceNo matter what tongue, creed, color or faith”",motivational +3277,“Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.”,motivational +4899,"“Self-sabotage steals our potential, hiding in doubt and fear, blocking our path to greatness.”",motivational +4941,"“Music is a celestial gift of the supreme, a melody that transcends time and touches the soul.”",motivational +3692,"“The moment you learn not to quit, you’ve already achieved something.”",motivational +5893,"“When it comes to life, if you believe in yourself and take bold risks, the possibilities are practically infinite.”",motivational +6625,"“Rock bottom is somewhere none of us ever want to be, but sometimes it happens. It's a place that, if we allow it, can destroy us. On the other hand, it can teach us about the deepest, darkest parts of ourselves for our ultimate growth.”",motivational +5412,“Anyone can become great in life as long as they stop focusing on what they do not have and build on what they do have until their greatness is manifest.”,motivational +2982,“Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life”,motivational +3590,"“Language has the power to weave inspiration into the fabric of our souls, painting vibrant pictures in our minds.”",motivational +5066,"“You can’t conjure up moments of clarity at will, but you can make a habit of quieting yourself and giving them the opportunity to occur.”",motivational +4555,“Start even if you don't know how.”,motivational +5255,“What distinguishes the wise from the unwise is their ability to embrace life’s distinctive lessons.”,motivational +3483,“Continue on doing pedicures detox and treatment as you see it on my blogs out there don’t forget to do manicures on your short hands nails as well that will be extremely gorgeous”,motivational +4314,“You can change your Future by changing your mindset”,motivational +2697,“You have the ability to choose your reactions.”,motivational +5242,"“Sometimes life will require that you walk a million miles. Do it, no matter how hard it becomes. One day, you will look back and be proud that you were able to do that.”",motivational +5513,"“Never indulge your victimization by labeling yourself a victim, regardless of how much you deserve the title.”",motivational +4407,“Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.”,motivational +3775,“You are the source of happiness.”,motivational +4036,"“No wonder why we build our own cages and stay in them, even though there's no lock on the door.”",motivational +5710,"“She whispered her secrets to the wind, hoping they would be carried away by the wind and never heard by anyone else.”",motivational +6064,"“When you sow a seed it will grow. Somehow, someway, it will grow.”",motivational +6398,“Make your soul happy by doing simple things.”,motivational +3154,"“How far can your imagination take you? I don't know. That's up to you, but I think you should find out.”",motivational +5396,"“Sometimes in life, you need opposers. Like the air pressure that fills up a flat tyre and enables it to perform at its best, such people can help accelerate your growth process if you do not allow them to hinder your success.”",motivational +4943,"“Mongooses lack the larynx and jaws for speech, to say nothing of the motivation.”",motivational +3108,“Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.”,motivational +4871,"“Every entrepreneur leads, but not every leader acts as an entrepreneur, because even leaders are not constantly interested in creating something new.”",motivational +4569,“Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.”,motivational +2749,"“Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”",motivational +4549,"“Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat--things gent freaky. The cool rationality of Isaac Newton gives way to the bizarre unpredictability of Lewis Carroll.”",motivational +5332,“Sometimes life will put you through tough times. Choose not to give up until you overcome.”,motivational +5120,"“Remember to prioritize self-care and rest, as they are essential components of success. By taking time to refuel, you'll be able to perform better and reach your goals faster.”",motivational +3871,“Only a dancer can sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.”,motivational +3986,"“Even though we don’t speak the same language, at this moment, we understand each other.”",motivational +5064,"“To be called is to be drawn by something outside yourself, something bigger than yourself.”",motivational +3283,“Live! Don't just Exist!!! Don't drag through Life...Live each day as a Celebration.-RVM”,motivational +6522,“HOME is where we want to be”,motivational +2542,“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”,motivational +5660,"“You have the power to make your own journey - be kind to yourself, and embrace the risks you take.”",motivational +4463,"“If you practice hard, you can win every battle.”",motivational +4093,"“Remember you can fly but you'll sleep on the ground, never look other people down cause tomorrow you'll land on them.”",motivational +6451,“Deliver what others never expected and watch how you climb the ladder of success faster...”,motivational +5581,"“Busy bees make honey, but productive bees make a hive. Don't just buzz around; create something that lasts.”",motivational +3529,"“Why doubt yourself due to the mere opinions of fellow humans who, also, by nature, doubt themselves?”",motivational +5969,"“By becoming my best friend and being comfortable in the quiet, I can retreat any time into my personal sanctuary.”",motivational +5121,"“Embrace your desires and strive for greatness, but do so with grace and ease. Be kind to yourself, and understand that setbacks are a natural part of any journey.”",motivational +6351,"“Don’t stop yourself to follow your dreams, continue following your dreams, and be someone whom you never expected to be...”",motivational +4008,"“My focus is on progression, not perfection. My progression is already perfect -- unfolding as it should, when it should, according to divine alignment”",motivational +2669,“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”,motivational +4489,"“If you want to be happy, you need to set your mind on happiness.”",motivational +3503,“Inherent in this new type of distribution of wealth is trust that providing more freedom to humans ultimately drives positive innovation and growth.”,motivational +5850,"“Amidst the world’s deafening noise, the silence within us speaks the loudest.”",motivational +6306,“Sometimes you gotta lose a few people to succeed.”,motivational +3783,“Master the mind with meditations.”,motivational +3524,"“The support of others can get you to the top, but you still you have to develop your strength, by growing your own roots so that you can keep yourself there, even when they stop watering you.”",motivational +2845,"“It is better to find your courage to make changes when you can choose to rather than being forced to. If you do not make change, change will make you.”",motivational +3386,“Live by your own conventions.”,motivational +3584,“Don't wait for the perfect moment; create it through persistent action and unwavering determination.”,motivational +6501,"“In this life cycle, one must willingly carry out one's responsibilities by serving living beings while appreciating the beauty of life.”",motivational +2887,“Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.”,motivational +3000,“Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there.”,motivational +4570,“We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us”,motivational +6392,"“All of our thoughts, words, and deeds flow from a chain of 'cause and effect'.”",motivational +2572,“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”,motivational +5076,"“It is no great accomplishment to take care of yourself—I’ve known children of ten or twelve who can do that. To become a true adult, you must become more than independent; you must become dependable.”",motivational +4535,“Serendipity is not the product of patience; it’s the product of action.”,motivational +5203,"“Work hard now so that in the evening of your life, you can still enjoy the sunrise.”",motivational +4003,“Opportunity is where preparation meets toil”,motivational +2899,"“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”",motivational +6069,“There are a thousand different ways to get home. Just dance and celebrate until you dissolve into one.”,motivational +4786,"“In the lexicon of life, ‘Mother’ is not just a word; it’s the embodiment of the purest emotions and the sweetest lullabies.”",motivational +5607,"“Inspiration is direction - find clarity, take action, and move forward fearlessly.”",motivational +2708,"“Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing...changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.”",motivational +5612,“Every journey begins with a single step – stop waiting and start taking action TODAY.”,motivational +4962,“The formula to end burnout is straightforward: maximize your passion and minimize your void.”,motivational +6153,“They say eyes reflect reality...I believe it!”,motivational +3312,“These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.”,motivational +5239,"“Some things will feel too good to be true, but never feel bad about them because you also deserve good things in life.”",motivational +5281,"“If you want a valuable life, ensure that whosoever is part of your inner circle protects your peace of mind and adds value in their own right.”",motivational +4078,“No matter how glossy your lips is what I say is it can kill or make someone live either you or someone else better watch it that what bible says.”,motivational +5198,"“When you are surrounded by those who make life easy, you will enjoy it. But in the company of those who complicate things, life will not be easy.”",motivational +6348,“Mentally prepare for what you have been striving for and work on it step by step to make your dream a reality...”,motivational +3536,"“The best time to save our environment and secure our future is today, for tomorrow may be too late.”",motivational +3010,"“I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.”",motivational +3378,"“Keep fixed on the important things like love, loving and being loved.”",motivational +2714,“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”,motivational +3992,"“We are not judged by what we do, but by what we are capable of doing.”",motivational +3371,“I am not happy because I have it ALL. I am happy because I have ALL that some don't have.”,motivational +5298,"“Life is amazing, but its amazing wonders are hard to realize when others become atrocious. Wherever you are, choose to be good, do good, and make a difference.”",motivational +3071,“An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.”,motivational +6699,"“Get Inspired, Be inspiring”",motivational +4265,“Allow yourself to be open-minded. Take a step away from the couch and move.”,motivational +4186,“Deep courage come from knowing Christ.”,motivational +5750,"“মানুষের মনের ভিতর যদি ভালো কিছু করার জিদ একবার চেপে বসে আর সে যদি লক্ষ্যকে ঠিক রেখে পরিশ্রম করে যায়, তাহলে- কিছুদিন আগে বা পরে- তার জীবনে সফলতা আসবেই এবং আসতে বাধ্য।”",motivational +3567,“Problems are not so big which we think.”,motivational +4230,"“Truth is a thought provoking mechanism designed to bring about a virtuous change , but tailored minimally to suit one’s liking.”",motivational +5822,"“If you want to make a change in your life and create something meaningful, you need to shift your mindset from ""shoulds"" to ""musts"".”",motivational +5665,“You are exactly where you need to be.Do something if you want something. Otherwise It will be your whole life.”,motivational +5133,“The greatest failure in life is not trying at all. Dare to chase your dreams.”,motivational +5237,“Shortcuts can cut your life short. Avoid them at all costs.”,motivational +4105,“Guess what? dramatic love look will be your life after transforming Curve fat to a healthy hot sexy muscles body.”,motivational +5568,"“When you're ready to start taking ownership of your future, amazing things can happen.”",motivational +5201,"“When you rewrite the story of your life, make sure the new chapters are better than the old ones.”",motivational +6135,"“My eyes speak another language, you just need super powers to read it”",motivational +3871,“Only a dancer can sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.”,motivational +4489,"“If you want to be happy, you need to set your mind on happiness.”",motivational +4171,"“Without well being, there is no wealth.”",motivational +4037,“The treasure of life should motivate you to do your very best.”,motivational +4546,“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.”,motivational +5810,"“Time is the most frequent obstacle to change that my clients name. Luckily, it comes in small increments. It can be broken down and taken back in pocket-sized, clever little nuggets: one minute, five minutes, fifteen minutes at a time.”",motivational +4745,"“As the night unfolds its cosmic spectacle, the moon stands in wonder, witnessing the graceful dance of stars upon the expansive canvas of the infinite blue ocean.”",motivational +3814,“We do have the option to make use of our time more intelligently.”,motivational +6537,"“Once you start being productive, dopamine is released in the striatum and parts of the prefrontal cortex. Suddenly you’ll have more energy and motivation to do the thing you really need to do.”",motivational +5183,“Don't let fear of failure hold you back. Embrace it as a stepping stone towards success.”,motivational +3790,“Aim higher. You're thinking too small.”,motivational +3217,"“It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.”",motivational +6256,“The mission of a man is his message.”,motivational +3171,“It so happens that at times your desires tend to disagree with the reality and this is due to the fact that you have not let the two elements complement each other.”,motivational +4506,"“When you SEE into the invisible, you will DARE to do the impossible!”",motivational +5953,“Identifying your core values and goals is an incredibly important step on the road to achieving success.”,motivational +6251,“The highest call in life is when you give yourself to others and expect nothing from them”,motivational +4003,“Opportunity is where preparation meets toil”,motivational +5812,"“We don’t know what we will see and where we’ll reach once we begin to think, once we begin to dream.”",motivational +6271,"“The Magic all begins with YOU.""""You are the company you keep.""Positivity gets Positivity back.”",motivational +4361,“Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”,motivational +3799,“You can pray wherever you are; God hears every prayer.”,motivational +6089,“The most contented man is one who has control over his desires.”,motivational +5965,“Nature is beautiful because it is simple.”,motivational +4144,"“To act is to commit, and to commit is to take risks.”",motivational +6204,“Your Children will See What You're All About by What you Live rather than What you Say.”,motivational +5507,"“It’s not fair!” is the mantra not of the poor and oppressed but of the rich and spoiled. The poor and oppressed of the world don’t pout, “It’s not fair!”—they know the world too well to dare.”",motivational +5660,"“You have the power to make your own journey - be kind to yourself, and embrace the risks you take.”",motivational +3206,"“If you dare take the challenge, you will possess the courage to conquer.”",motivational +4668,"“Apunta a la luna y si fallas, al menos estaras entre las estrellas.”",motivational +6605,"“The effort involved in splitting the wood will be amply repaid by the warmth that it brings to the house. However, at the point that the axe becomes heavy and my arms get sore, the idea of the warmth goes cold.”",motivational +3362,“Nothing enriches our life more than the moments we share with our family. They inspire us to work harder and dream bigger every day.”,motivational +5982,“Don’t pass judgement on how humans communicate with the supreme because everyone has their way of doing things.”,motivational +4215,"“Every OPPORTUNITY as in a coin toss, brings victory or defeat in a 1:1 ratio.”",motivational +5285,“Value your life. You have been given a rare chance to live; remember that no one else can have that life but you.”,motivational +4241,“We are storms that never die.”,motivational +6018,"“Don’t be depressed about a ‘misfortune,’ because it could be a ‘fortune.”",motivational +2710,“Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.”,motivational +5763,"“When you give up, you close the door on opportunities you may not have realised existed.”",motivational +6726,"“There's only one person better than you, and you see them in the mirror every single day. Never stop being you.”",motivational +3274,“Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals.”,motivational +4835,"“Anxiety finds its roots in our relentless desire to hold the reins of the future, not in the uncertainty it holds.”",motivational +5439,"“No matter where you are, appreciate the gift of life. Find reasons to smile because there comes a time when it becomes impossible to see the sunrise.”",motivational +2705,“And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.”,motivational +4438,"“While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.”",motivational +6090,"“No matter what you're going through, there is always another brick sitting right there in front of you, waiting to be laid. The only question is, are you going to get up and lay it?”",motivational +3116,"“Jedi are always assessing situations, actions and possibilities. Jedi don’t just think outside of the box with the help from the Force, they also adapt to situations outside of the box!”",motivational +5780,"“I achieved nothing great without passion and enthusiasm. It is the fuel that ignites the fire within us, propelling us forward in pursuit of our dreams and goals.”",motivational +3655,"“যে বিজ্ঞান স্রষ্টার তৈরি প্রকৃতির সব রহস্য ভেদ করতে অক্ষম, তাকে বাটখারা বানিয়ে সেই প্রকৃতির স্রষ্টাকে জাস্টিফাই করাটা কি নিছক ছেলে মানুষি নয়?”",motivational +5905,"“We often think of failure as a negative experience, but it can teach us so much if we are open to learning from it.”",motivational +5019,"“Please remember: when you are so afraid to run that even your fluffy ears and tail are shaking, that is exactly the moment you must do it. Otherwise, you will be left on the starting line all the time.”",motivational +4302,"“..your ambition is your beauty,”",motivational +3167,“Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.”,motivational +5319,"“No matter how hard life is for you right now, never attempt to take your own life. Give life another chance. Have better plans for the remaining years you have and you will be amazed by how far you get.”",motivational +3877,"“Stay close, don't go far, hold hands as dance heals all the scars.”",motivational +4494,“Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.”,motivational +2654,"“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”",motivational +5727,“Today is full of potential; all it takes to make the most of it is a little effort. Don't worry about tomorrow until today's work is done!”,motivational +5419,"“Life, unfortunately, does not offer VIP seats to people with a victim mentality. So, you either claim your victory or you continue to be the victim of circumstances.”",motivational +4242,"“If you need help, God can help you, call on him.”",motivational +4351,"“I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone...”",motivational +2996,“People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.”,motivational +5484,“A goal is not the same thing as a wish. A goal is something you work toward; a wish is something you hope will happen to you.”,motivational +4467,“Introspection is a form of self-management. You reflect. You decide. You change. You allow yourself to grow.”,motivational +4893,“Surround yourself with positivity and tap into the power of affirmations! They can help shift your mindset and unlock your inner potential.”,motivational +5427,“The One who gave you the gift of life knows that you are good enough. Do not ever doubt what you carry on the inside. Live the rest of your life maximizing your potential.”,motivational +4310,"“Having both normal eyes doesn't necessarily mean ability to see. There are so many individuals with both normal eyes, such powerful potential to see... But they can't see anything.”",motivational +6569,"“When you get too free, they kill you because you are getting too close to the truth. (Remember and never forget, The Gun Line BOSS) in my Eddie Murphy voice”",motivational +5877,"“From an acorn grows a mighty oak - don't be embarrassed, be proud of where you're starting from, because it's all part of the journey!”",motivational +2770,"“For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I’ve met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways.”",motivational +3131,"“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.”",motivational +3524,"“The support of others can get you to the top, but you still you have to develop your strength, by growing your own roots so that you can keep yourself there, even when they stop watering you.”",motivational +6151,“Friends are Family and Family is Bae”,motivational +4557,“Don't be in a hurry. Everything arise in the due time.”,motivational +6231,“Even a zero can make 1 worth more”,motivational +5616,"“Dreams require discipline, dedication, and effort to become reality – embrace the challenge of execution and unlock potential like never before!”",motivational +6598,“I’ve learnt only one thing in my life-Never to let the quest culminate At the railing of the skies-There’s a world beyond!”,motivational +4564,"“Orang yang selalu menunda-nunda niatnya tidak akan mencapai apa-apa.Bertindak memang ada bahayanya, tetapi bila kita duduk saja menunggu rezeki nomplok, yang akan datang adalah kegagalan.Kesampingkan saja keragu-raguan anda dan maju terus.!”",motivational +5678,“The mud-lusciousness of spring is a reminder to embrace life’s messiness and to find beauty in unexpected places.”,motivational +4190,“Live your dreams. Breathe your dreams. Never give up on your dreams.”,motivational +4763,"“Time, the silent sculptor of fate, moulds our trials into triumphs, showing us that ‘everything happens for good’ in the grand narrative of existence.”",motivational +3662,“Great things happen to those who have tremendous belief in their little dreams.”,motivational +5699,"“Fear is just an emotion. It is not true. The only thing that is true is the action you take, regardless.”",motivational +4204,“Loss is a result.Fear is an input.You don't control your results.You always control your inputs.”,motivational +6499,“Maya or illusion always overpowers the soul. Does it mean that Maya is mightier?”,motivational +4156,“Whoever wishes for the heavenly blessings must first learn to prevail persistently in prayer.”,motivational +3953,"“Just be clear about your question, and I will give you the answer you are looking for.”",motivational +6707,"“Until a child that has issues with learning is diagnosed by ""an expert"" as having a learning disability, nothing is wrong with that child except that his motivation and feelings about the said ""learning"" is inadequate.”",motivational +6431,“Comfort is the goal of the man with no vision.”,motivational +2761,“It is difficult to make the right choice if you fear choosing wrongly.”,motivational +5691,"“The withering wind whispers secrets of change, reminding us that nothing stays the same forever.”",motivational +5065,"“You may not have the power to do anything or everything you would like, but you do have the power to do something.”",motivational +2606,“Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen.”,motivational +4708,“Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.”,motivational +5469,“Life will offer you a chance to present your gifts to the world. It is up to you to grab that chance or live with regret.”,motivational +6285,“We find out what is obviousWe discover what is curiousAt last the puzzle has been solved Into dreams that evolved”,motivational +5377,“It is not too late to turn a new page and write a good story of your life. There is more you can do if you do not keep your purpose out of sight.”,motivational +5742,"“A reservoir of strength exists deep within me, waiting to be tapped when life's challenges arise.”",motivational +6299,"“Live every day your way, and wear your blessings well. In Jesus name, amen.”",motivational +3464,"“In the light of your success, they see you. In the shadows of your struggle, you see them.”",motivational +6575,"“If wisdom is related to age, human wisdom is insignificant in the cosmic setup. Our universe is 13.8 billion years old.”",motivational +2668,"“If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish.”",motivational +3808,“No leader can take the company forward if the company remains stuck in its past glories.”,motivational +6495,"“#shreeshambavPlant the seeds of love, kindness, empathy, and compassion, and they will return to you in abundance, according to nature's law. -Shree Shambav”",motivational +4035,"“Paradigm shift is for the mindful; but those who refuse to adopt to new ways of looking at things will always catch yesterday's train, flight or bus.”",motivational +3726,"“Seeing my book mentioned in different interviews and posts is an indescribable feeling. I’ll never take this love for granted.Whatever you’re creating right now, keep going. It is never too late.”",motivational +5612,“Every journey begins with a single step – stop waiting and start taking action TODAY.”,motivational +5243,"“Sometimes people will come into your life asking for your help, only for them to put you in a mess. Help yourself by all means; do not allow anyone’s mess to leave you in distress.”",motivational +3462,“Every enemy can be beaten. All you need is the right team at your back.”,motivational +5954,"“People who try to bring you down are only trying to suppress your potential from showing itself. Because they know if it does, then you'll be able to achieve great things and leave them in the dust!”",motivational +3553,"“Embrace the unfolding path of adventure, for it is in those moments that life unveils its true magic.”",motivational +4201,“You don't control your results. You always control your inputs.”,motivational +5944,"“Life is full of unexpected turns and challenges, but don't let that stop you from becoming who you are truly meant to be. Push through any doubts or fears and unlock your hidden potential.”",motivational +3070,“Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.”,motivational +4993,“Say goodbye to chaos and embrace purposeful organization. Make sure your plans align with your values and goals to conquer the path to success. Take charge and make every step count!”,motivational +5862,"“It’s better than nothing,” his father replied. “And remember,the most important thing is to stay calm and focus on youropponent. Antichrist may be powerful, but he’s not unbeatable.”",motivational +2733,“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.”,motivational +3467,"“some people live for themselves, good people live for others, successful people live for the present and others to come.”",motivational +5575,“Success is not dependent on luck - it starts with personal leadership and the power of intention.”,motivational +3323,"“(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) ""have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours.”",motivational +5628,"“I write so the word, ""Victim"" will not be your mantra.”",motivational +2524,“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”,motivational +3751,“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”,motivational +4713,"“Without the desire to be patient patience doesn't happen, Just like without the desire to grow, LIFE doesn't happen!”",motivational +5032,"“Have the courage to take risks, because if you don't, you'll never know what lies beyond your comfort zone.”",motivational +3577,“We must endure what we ought to experience.”,motivational +5952,"“Real courage lies in being able to believe in yourself enough to try again tomorrow, even after a tough day.”",motivational +5073,“It always works when you know what you're doing”,motivational +3568,"“When hope disappears, depression sets in.”",motivational +4835,"“Anxiety finds its roots in our relentless desire to hold the reins of the future, not in the uncertainty it holds.”",motivational +5928,"“Don't let anyone's opinion of you define who you can be. Life is too short to worry about what other people think. It's your life, so own it!”",motivational +2809,“Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.”,motivational +3114,"“If we can acquire an attitude of self-belief, then we will surely determine our future actions and our future life opportunities.”",motivational +5678,“The mud-lusciousness of spring is a reminder to embrace life’s messiness and to find beauty in unexpected places.”,motivational +3207,“The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It’s the tender understanding that we’re living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there’s quite a bit of wonder in that.”,motivational +3647,"“Shit´s already broken, so you might as well just try to fix it, and if you can´t, at least now you know how to take it apart”",motivational +2698,“Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.”,motivational +4808,“Low minds look at issues from an offensive standpoint – superior minds have more to achieve whilst hardly getting offended. They attend to offense from a positive standpoint.”,motivational +3488,"“Milo's Way- A HaikuStrength sought in small steps,Like Milo's calf on shoulders,Grow with steady will.”",motivational +5483,"“Figuring out your motivators, values that move and guide you and what inspires you leads you to what you want to be.”",motivational +3692,"“The moment you learn not to quit, you’ve already achieved something.”",motivational +5835,"“Advice is just that, advice!”",motivational +5902,"“We are born alone, live alone, and die alone. We create the illusion of relationship, love, and friendship during the intermittent. A Maya who makes us feel like we're not alone.”",motivational +2635,"“The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”",motivational +4573,"“Intent not followed by action is an insult to your design. Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there!”",motivational +4324,“Any new life skill is worthy learning as you do not have an idea when it will make a big difference.”,motivational +3077,"“When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway”",motivational +4403,"“How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses”",motivational +5241,"“Sometimes life will make you smile, and other times it will make you frown. Life has its ups and downs. Yours is to make every day count.”",motivational +6371,"“People are born from the womb of the world with different sensitivities, and the world needs every single one of you to experience it fully, so that it might be fully experienced.”",motivational +6522,“HOME is where we want to be”,motivational +5409,“The hardships of life can never be avoided completely. We must be ready to deal with whatsoever happens on this journey.”,motivational +4194,"“Life is as incomplete and imperfect without difficulties, as a rose without a staircase of thorns.”",motivational +5517,"“Perhaps you are no rock climber, but faced with a big enough rock, you will have to become one.”",motivational +2662,"“Change course, but don’t give up.”",motivational +5045,"“Align your ambitions with purpose. Chase goals that ignite your motivation, drive, and satisfaction. Let your journey be nothing short of amazing!”",motivational +3917,"“Motivation is like bacteria. Positivity is good motivation, rarely found, the good bacteria. Negativity, the bad one, found everywhere. Culture good one.”",motivational +6565,“Identify reasons to be great instead of excuses to be mediocre.”,motivational +3292,“Are you seeking to be offended?”,motivational +5683,"“Being surrounded by trees serves as a constant reminder that, while growth is a slow process, the outcomes can be breathtaking.”",motivational +5314,"“How far you will go in life depends on how far you are willing to learn, plan and implement the good lessons you have learned.”",motivational +3045,"“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”",motivational +4349,"“Many times in life, we are held back from achieving our goals because we do not commit ourselves wholeheartedly. With an escape route in mind, we hold ourselves back from giving our all.”",motivational +4963,"“When someone compromises your mindset principle, your “Grr!” reflex automatically kicks in. Just like your physiological reflexes, this psychological reflex serves and protects by safeguarding a virtue of humanity.”",motivational +3032,“There are two things essential if you want to enhance your Jedi self-confidence: 1/ belief that it is possible 2/ that self-help is the best help”,motivational +5458,“Life rewards those who espouse goodness. Do good even if people are not good to you. You will ultimately feel good and enjoy the goodness of the seeds you planted.”,motivational +6639,“Healthy can be unhealthy too.”,motivational +6623,"“Absence of obstacles, Is not a sign of achievement. Absence of obstacles, Indicates a lack of movement.”",motivational +4876,"“Those who lead a company essentially must do two things. They must ensure that they achieve the greatest possible demand with innovative products, and they must ensure that their company can handle the greatest possible demand with confidence.”",motivational +6355,“The power of confidence is to start believing in yourself and increase your potential to be who you want to be...”,motivational +5209,"“Don’t wait for success to find you. Identify the skills and knowledge you need, pursue them relentlessly, and watch as you surpass your wildest dreams.”",motivational +3479,“Walk the walk that you guarantee about it in order to be bold.”,motivational +3674,"“Fate is like a disability, either blame it all the time or accept it and work around it.”",motivational +5282,“Life can never be a dress rehearsal. It is real. Value your time and put no value on people or things that add no value to your life.”,motivational +4490,“It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.”,motivational +3361,"“Education provides the key, but it's your responsibility to unlock the door to your career”",motivational +6654,"“Should our motivation to achieve be just for the sake of the achievement itself with no thought of who/what we become in the process?If we want to sincerely enjoy our lives, who we become along the way is far more important than what we achieve.”",motivational +6244,“Many things are going to seem few if you desire many things.”,motivational +6277,“Never apologize for who you are.”,motivational +3082,“Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.”,motivational +5769,"“Time management is all about making smart choices. So forget the hustle and grind, and take control of your choices - it's the key to success!”",motivational +3656,"“Carry on, carry on.”",motivational +4223,“The choice is ours to act on what we know.”,motivational +6362,“Just as life has no quick fix; transformation lacks a flick-switch approach as well. Investing in a better version of yourself will take time but pay you rich dividends as well.”,motivational +4999,"“Regardless of the details of your story, your time bank is growing smaller every day. You are the manufacturer! You have the power to set the tone and control the factory floor.”",motivational +5168,“The struggle is the catalyst for change and the birthplace of innovation.”,motivational +5632,“I've set myself to become the king of the pirates... And if I die trying... then at least I tried!”,motivational +5559,"“What drives a teacher is never what lies behind. At the heart of teaching is hope, and hope looks forward.”",motivational +2512,"“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”",motivational +3384,"“If you want to be happy, try never to be negative. As a plan, it is unproductive and does not work.”",motivational +3499,"“There are as many unique paths to self-knowledge as there are souls in the universe. Therefore, one-sized advice can never fit all. One path cannot be judged by another path, and we must struggle to find our own way with God.”",motivational +6650,"“I never consider my team just customer service representatives, rather service excellence providers. Anyone can serve customers, however my team is next level as provides excellence in service to customers.”",motivational +3143,“We don't have to take our personality so personally.”,motivational +4201,“You don't control your results. You always control your inputs.”,motivational +4190,“Live your dreams. Breathe your dreams. Never give up on your dreams.”,motivational +2627,"“Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.”",motivational +3338,"“First, you have to push people’s boundaries and not feel bad about it. No one is going to give you anything if you don’t ask for it.”",motivational +6183,“Make your Mark without Erasing who You are...!...Words of Wisdom...take or leave!”,motivational +3877,"“Stay close, don't go far, hold hands as dance heals all the scars.”",motivational +3248,“Changing a Habit is Never Difficult.Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it”,motivational +2624,"“The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.”",motivational +5346,"“Life will always offer you incredible opportunities to run your race. As you run that race, focus on your lane and not on your neighbours’ if you want to be great.”",motivational +3658,"“It doesn't matter what happens to you on earth, just look in the sky, and look at the stars. Go deep into the galaxy, and dream.”",motivational +4439,"“Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.”",motivational +3520,“The future is a feast prepared from the fruits of today's labor.”,motivational +4172,"“Without peace of mind, how can you perform?”",motivational +3589,"“You possess the power to rewrite your story, so dare to dream big and write a narrative worth sharing.”",motivational +3020,"“The future is greatly different than your life now, the actions that you take must also be greatly different. You cannot do the same thing and get something different.”",motivational +5357,"“Life happens! Just when you expect happiness, something tragic could happen. So, learn to accept any change of circumstance.”",motivational +3067,“Recovery is full of ups and downs.There is no such thing as a linear life.But you can always turn your setbacks into setups to come back stronger.”,motivational +6180,“IT'S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT THE POUNDS LOSTMORE ABOUT THE STRENGTH GAINEDQWANA B.G.R.F”,motivational +5851,“Difference is not division”,motivational +6578,“There are people who merely see what is.And there are people who look beyond what is.There are those who swim in the stream of history. And there are those who shape it.”,motivational +3978,“Don't worry.' What is the point in worrying when there's nothing you can do?”,motivational +3088,“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”,motivational +4802,“Change should start with us that will eventually lead to a change in situation and circumstance and not the other way round.”,motivational +5655,"“Don't be afraid of taking risks or stepping out of your zone of comfort, because that is often when amazing things happen.”",motivational +6757,"“Leader, you have to know your why, for yourself and your business.”",motivational +4187,“Direction is better than speed.”,motivational +6014,"“Honestly, I’ve wanted to give up a lot of times. But I worked hard. I believed I would succeed if I worked hard.”",motivational +5252,"“Life is a mandatory school for the living. Everyone is a learner because every day, life offers mandatory lessons.”",motivational +5864,"“In times of profound silence, we find the stillness to hear our inner voice and the strength to heed it.”",motivational +6553,"“There is nothing I fear as much as idleness - unemployment - inertia - lethargy of the faculties - when the body is idle, the spirit suffers cruelly”",motivational +3751,“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”,motivational +5626,"“Every ending is a new beginning, and every path leads to a different destination.”",motivational +4649,"“Just like how countless stars did, always in the same spot you will shine brightly on your own.”",motivational +5567,“Setting boundaries is not about building walls but creating space for growth.”,motivational +5467,"“Life is not always easy, but when you believe, you will find ways to win.”",motivational +4773,“The second rule of underachievement reversal highlights that underachievers fall into various categories based on their motivation and ability levels at different times.”,motivational +4987,“You the only person who have the dynamic love of shaking the mountains of your heart about you.”,motivational +4143,“Grief does not kill the light...it reveals it.....Agony does not kill the ecstasy....it unfolds it......Dark does not extinguish the Dawn...it unwinds it.....”,motivational +4265,“Allow yourself to be open-minded. Take a step away from the couch and move.”,motivational +4578,"“I made it greater,you always told me to forget the haters.”",motivational +5357,"“Life happens! Just when you expect happiness, something tragic could happen. So, learn to accept any change of circumstance.”",motivational +5759,“Make sustainable changes today to set yourself up for a successful tomorrow. #OwnYourShift”,motivational +6238,“The sharp jagged edges of memory are where both pain and motivation lie.”,motivational +4997,“The only way to know what you're doing is to be prepared”,motivational +4139,“Be careful on two face people the truth is will disturb you and make your life boat sink.”,motivational +5324,"“Life was designed to be neither painful nor pain-free. You have to journey through it, irrespective of the pain or pleasures along the way.”",motivational +3523,“Strong people are the ones who can smile for others’ happiness.”,motivational +3856,"“It lightens the mood when you start to dance; it’s not about the feet, but what moves beneath.”",motivational +5595,"“Don't forget who you are and what you stand for - you are the boss of your life, and no one can cross your boundaries unless you let them.”",motivational +5347,“Life will present you with good opportunities. Seize them and experience a life of possibilities.”,motivational +2843,"“You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.”",motivational +3403,"“Never write people off. Surprisingly, it could be your worst enemy that saves your life.”",motivational +6054,"“If you want to be happy, let go of your anger and bitterness and embrace kindness, compassion, faith, and love.”",motivational +3359,“I never realised power of x for a function f(x) when I was in school.”,motivational +4195,“Only when you go against the flow will you find your own flow.”,motivational +4439,"“Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.”",motivational +6254,"“We need each other more than ever.We cannot get through it alone,find the hope to move forward and doall we need to doalone,find the joy and beautyaloneto have the incentiveto find the hope.”",motivational +4935,“Persistence is the key to success - fear and failures act as your guide to reach the next level.”,motivational +4076,"“Oh I see you shine like a summer rose but it not make everyone turn with you,why?it not balance nced.”",motivational +6508,"“Tidak ada orang yang lahir di dunia tanpa alasan, tidak ada orang yang lahir dan tidak bisa mewujudkan setidaknya satu hal, apapun itu.”",motivational +5246,"“When you do your due diligence to make a difference, you will live a life of elegance.”",motivational +6006,“I would take one minute of peace of mind instead of the best dessert on earth.”,motivational +6421,“Connect your consciousness and bring out the joy and happiness from within...”,motivational +3574,“Making decisions is the only antidote to decision avoidance.”,motivational +4952,“It’s not the activity that holds the key to finding your passion; it’s what your actions accomplish.”,motivational +6615,"“Only believe, you shall behold.”",motivational +5881,"“The first mistake is an opportunity to LEARN. But if you don’t use that experience to make a better decision next time, then that’s not an innocent mistake — it's NEGLIGENCE.”",motivational +6477,"“Acumen binds individuals in tangles and danger, but love breaks all boundaries and dangers.”",motivational +5054,"“All fame is is being known by people you don’t know, and what’s so great about that?”",motivational +3261,“Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion; you don't control it. Stop allowing today's possibilities to be robbed by tomorrow's insecurities.”,motivational +4590,“Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.”,motivational +5282,“Life can never be a dress rehearsal. It is real. Value your time and put no value on people or things that add no value to your life.”,motivational +5404,“Life is not about the absence of trials. They will somehow show up even if we did not commit any crime. The presence of trials helps us stand the test of time.”,motivational +6693,"“When disaster strikes, be open to a solution.”",motivational +3283,“Live! Don't just Exist!!! Don't drag through Life...Live each day as a Celebration.-RVM”,motivational +4133,"“Does every Curve people struggle and stressful through it?I don't think so, search it for yourself it trueth of life.”",motivational +5577,"“Don't confuse busyness with productivity. One leaves you exhausted, the other fulfilled.”",motivational +2925,“CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!”,motivational +2622,“Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.”,motivational +3124,“The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.”,motivational +6482,"“If you are not curious about the world around you I suggest you get curious. Without curiosity, you are the living dead.”",motivational +5775,"“I believe depression is legitimate. But I also believe that if you don’t exercise, eat nutritious food, get sunlight, get enough sleep, consume positive material, surround yourself with support, then you aren’t giving yourself a fighting chance.”",motivational +3333,"“Life calls us to where we need to be, and not where we want to be. It's that simple.”",motivational +4024,“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen the third time.”,motivational +5654,"“Setting boundaries does more than just make you feel empowered, it sends out a message to the universe that you know your worth and won't settle for anything less than respect.”",motivational +2920,“Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.”,motivational +3236,“Confidence can be learned - but not from a book. Confidence comes from from living.”,motivational +5856,"“The clouds may change shape and move, but the sky remains an infinite canvas of possibility.”",motivational +5316,“It is wise to plan effectively and do what is required in order to live a fruitful life.”,motivational +3183,"“jika sebuah mata harus dibalas dengan sebuah mata, hanya akan membuat seluruh dunia ini buta”",motivational +5973,“The most beautiful things I see are when my mind is the calmest.”,motivational +5012,"“To achieve long-lasting success, you need a resilient mindset and an unstoppable spirit.”",motivational +5475,“Life without a clear vision can be frustrating. Do not jump on the bandwagon of those who do not know where they are going. Seek clarity on what you need to do in order to keep growing.”,motivational +5294,"“Life is a beautiful journey filled with discoveries every single day. So, as you go through each day, find ways to celebrate life.”",motivational +3630,“Every day is a blank canvas just waiting for you to paint into it beautiful experiences and positive energy.”,motivational +6587,“Humans will never reach a stage where they know everything.”,motivational +4079,“Beauty Makeover doesn't promote fakeness or being photo copy a by doing that you abuse it.”,motivational +4651,“The ordinary man gets motivation from power and fame. The superior finds motivation in meaning and work itself.”,motivational +4195,“Only when you go against the flow will you find your own flow.”,motivational +6640,“Rock bottom can be our greatest teacher - as long as we don't stay there for too long.”,motivational +6359,"“Being yourself is not a failure, it is a win towards your own problems and so fight your battles, increase your inner strength and be tough...”",motivational +5948,"“Leadership is not about having the most power or authority, it’s about having the courage and drive to turn ideas into action.”",motivational +6274,"“Everyone is intertwined with the past, present, and future.”",motivational +4834,“The most beautiful glow a person can have is the light of their heart.”,motivational +5422,"“Life is a loan which you will one day have to repay before God. Ensure that the day you repay it, you are met with rapturous applause.”",motivational +6460,“Fear in its role as a protector is good when you have someone waiting at home and you don't want their lives disrupted because of your own adventurous spirit ..”,motivational +3103,"“If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.”",motivational +3236,“Confidence can be learned - but not from a book. Confidence comes from from living.”,motivational +3873,“Imagination comes alive when skates scar the ice to tell fairy tales.”,motivational +3206,"“If you dare take the challenge, you will possess the courage to conquer.”",motivational +2903,“A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.”,motivational +6679,“Don't cry for everythingJust try for something”,motivational +5010,“Practice self-care to maintain high levels of energy & motivation throughout the day!”,motivational +4327,"“When all is said and done, more is said than done.”",motivational +3225,"“Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.”",motivational +5290,“Celebrate the present moment and never dwell on what happened in the past if you want to enjoy life.”,motivational +6085,“I’m not afraid of strong winds because I’m learning to fly.”,motivational +2651,"“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”",motivational +5648,"“Accepting yourself and believing in yourself is one of the most important habits when it comes to success! Embrace your uniqueness, and never forget how capable, strong, and powerful you are.”",motivational +5446,"“Life is quite short, do not cut it short by associating with those who make you feel small.”",motivational +6144,"“In this world of Maya, nothing is permanent, not even our pain and suffering.”",motivational +5730,"“If you try nothing new, you’ll never know what you’re truly capable of.”",motivational +3675,"“When things around you are going south, north, east and west just accept it and work on the nearest destination.”",motivational +5124,“Focus beyond the finish line — celebrate incremental progress along the way for sustained motivation!”,motivational +3570,“Wrong key never open the lock similarly wrong path will never help to get right destination..”,motivational +4664,“Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.”,motivational +5490,“Who are you? You are your aim. You are a seeker of whatever you seek.”,motivational +5802,"“Tragedy happens to lots of people. You can decide to let it destroy you, or you can decide to move on.”",motivational +3664,"“You are granted opportunity, through no effort of your own and that you therefore do not deserve, that has been granted to only a tiny fraction of those who have ever lived.”",motivational +3240,“Those who win never give up.Those who give up never win.”,motivational +3461,"“Learning to read and write is like sailing on a sea of knowledge, where every wave is a new opportunity and every shore is a new achievement. Happy International Literacy Day”",motivational +5047,“The great lie of youth: that it will last.”,motivational +5832,"“Hope is the anchor of the soul; keep it strong, and it will keep you steady.”",motivational +5809,“It feels awfully nice to be a little kinder to yourself and everybody else.”,motivational +4050,"“And here comes the battle between you and your thoughts,And you always lose miserably”",motivational +3699,"“The wise person does not become involved in the multiplication of things, knowing that all phenomena are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, and a shadow.”",motivational +5501,"“Life is not easy, but when you put your mind to your vision, and work hard to achieve it, many people will think you have it easy.”",motivational +5189,“The splendour of life is often experienced after you have overcome the challenges in your path.”,motivational +3725,“Experiment with life by exploring and trying new things.”,motivational +4048,"“Before you wake up, your seriousness that never lets you sleep peacefully, starts building up your strengths with your efforts after you wake up.”",motivational +5744,"“We build a beautiful relationship with love, trust, and respect.”",motivational +4894,"“Dream big and aim higher, give the universe permission to show you what's possible if you don't limit yourself!”",motivational +6227,“History continues until we learn from it and change our course.”,motivational +3896,“Freedom will finally be within grasp when you experience heaven on earth with a dance.”,motivational +4364,“Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.”,motivational +3873,“Imagination comes alive when skates scar the ice to tell fairy tales.”,motivational +3007,"“I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.”",motivational +4188,“It's not about the obstacles but your discipline to stay focused on your goal till you win.”,motivational +3018,“With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.”,motivational +3832,“...prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.”,motivational +3663,"“You are sanity, you are sentience,You are the lifeforce of destiny.You are conscience, you are concord,You are the end of animosity.”",motivational +4335,“In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!”,motivational +5649,“Let's face it - the only way to truly make a lasting impact is by embracing change and standing out from the crowd.”,motivational +5994,"“Nature teaches us to be compassionate, kind, and non-discriminatory.”",motivational +4318,"“Tough as thunder, sweet as honey, that's the motto for a braveheart human.”",motivational +5431,"“Sometimes the journey of life can be hard to comprehend. It is like surfing; the best way to enjoy the waves is to study them, know them and experience them.”",motivational +4722,"“Seeking Your face and not only Your hand, I find You embracing me just as I am.”",motivational +6694,"“The darkness of the night does not mean that there is no sun in this universe; Sadness does not mean that there is no happiness in your life: Just change the perspective, everything will change.”",motivational +3221,“Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire.”,motivational +6110,“An Archer must never lose focus. If the world bends Archer. It is in within in contemplation we soar the sky ~”,motivational +6642,“Don't wait on anyone to tell you what you are worth. You have to be the first person who knows what you are worth and who can say what you are worth.”,motivational +6030,"“What you’re good at is important, for sure, but what you love is the greatest motivator you have.”",motivational +3751,“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”,motivational +6217,"“Our minds are constantly filled with self-doubts and internal conflicts that accuse us of being helpless, miserable, stupid, and deceived.”",motivational +3589,"“You possess the power to rewrite your story, so dare to dream big and write a narrative worth sharing.”",motivational +2963,"“Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.”",motivational +3402,“It is often the seemingly least significant details of each day that turn out to shape our most life-altering events.”,motivational +3892,“The Maker is always merciful.”,motivational +4466,"“Act as if it was, and it will be.”",motivational +5580,“True leadership is not about commanding authority; it's about earning respect.”,motivational +4504,"“Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders"".”",motivational +3012,“Notice the difference between being in control and needing control.”,motivational +3722,"“When things are in order, they're easier to deal with.”",motivational +4039,“The clarity of purpose removes lots of nuances”,motivational +5948,"“Leadership is not about having the most power or authority, it’s about having the courage and drive to turn ideas into action.”",motivational +3331,"“Identifying your motivation as a writer serves as a compass, guiding the creative journey with purpose and clarity.”",motivational +3436,“Maturity in any relationship makes the practice of love comfortable.”,motivational +2641,"“It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.”",motivational +4613,"“Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down.”",motivational +6135,"“My eyes speak another language, you just need super powers to read it”",motivational +4360,“Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.”,motivational +6683,"“Businesses have to stop thinking like a companies or corporations, we have to start thinking like customers. People is always the purpose for our business”",motivational +5441,"“Life is a gift which you will get a chance to unwrap each morning as you wake up. Therefore, be a good recipient of this gift. Use it to make an impact.”",motivational +5792,"“The state of your mind is in your hands. You can choose to make it a place of hell or heaven, suffering or happiness, loneliness or solitude.”",motivational +5319,"“No matter how hard life is for you right now, never attempt to take your own life. Give life another chance. Have better plans for the remaining years you have and you will be amazed by how far you get.”",motivational +3758,"“If you want success then you have to be a risk bearer in life, take that courageous step and go on until you achieve it.Go ahead!”",motivational +6020,"“Intellect tangles and knots people, but love and compassion dissolve all tangles.”",motivational +3764,“Second chances are rare and comes with fortune.. thus use the first wisely.Think once!”,motivational +5884,"“When you’re in love, there’s no need to understand what’s going on, because everything happens inside of you.”",motivational +5994,"“Nature teaches us to be compassionate, kind, and non-discriminatory.”",motivational +6092,"“Success isn't a straight line but failure is, you fail straight but you succeed by bending, mending, and molding that line of failure until you reach that position and place you called success.”",motivational +3904,"“Dance is the language that all souls speak, connecting them as one humanity.”",motivational +6145,"“Empathy is the language of the blind who can see, and compassion is the music of the deaf who can hear.”",motivational +5838,"“You don’t go out looking for happiness. It comes from within, from accepting who you are and living in the present.”",motivational +5211,"“Reflect on the impact you make each day. Ask yourself, if someone replaced you today, what would they bring? Strive for excellence, build your skills, and own your success.”",motivational +2978,"“Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.”",motivational +3861,“Hold on; carry on; troubles shall disappear when you dance to your favorite tune.”,motivational +5291,“Celebrate your life and remember that you were given a chance that many aborted babies were denied.”,motivational +5339,“Do not beat yourself up about the things you cannot change. It will make your life difficult. Take heart and take charge of what you need to change.”,motivational +2865,“Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.”,motivational +5527,"“You may be appalled by your world, but you must be gratefully appalled.”",motivational +3175,"“Always be happy, you never know how happy you can make another by just being happy.”",motivational +3653,"“I am my own person, and I will not set fire to myself to keep you warm.”",motivational +6693,"“When disaster strikes, be open to a solution.”",motivational +6227,“History continues until we learn from it and change our course.”,motivational +5253,"“Life offers many free lessons, but most people would rather pay the heavy price of ignorance because they cannot pay attention to the subtle lessons of life.”",motivational +3047,“It's not always what we don't know that gets in our way; sometimes it's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”,motivational +5287,“Your life is more valuable than all the precious stones in this world. Realize your own value and do something of value.”,motivational +6644,“The power of the brain is stronger than the pain”,motivational +6283,"“• Utilize science to help others lessen effects of painful memories• Experience new cultures, languages, lifestyles, and countries• Help others (and yourself) avoid/overcome identity theft, burnout, bankruptcy, and divorce”",motivational +5016,“Don’t wait for someone else to make it happen - own your own destiny by becoming a leader in your own life.”,motivational +5287,“Your life is more valuable than all the precious stones in this world. Realize your own value and do something of value.”,motivational +3432,“Intellectual product is the most creative of all products but appreciated by a few who are in the control of the majority that are mentally lazy.”,motivational +5464,“Life will constantly grant you an opportunity to learn. Use it well.”,motivational +4089,"“It not fashion make you feel good,it style you have.”",motivational +5832,"“Hope is the anchor of the soul; keep it strong, and it will keep you steady.”",motivational +2763,"“Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.”",motivational +4346,"“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.”",motivational +4452,“People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.”,motivational +2517,“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”,motivational +5379,“Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned with your purpose.”,motivational +3305,"“The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.”",motivational +3523,“Strong people are the ones who can smile for others’ happiness.”,motivational +4332,"“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”",motivational +5644,"“Sustainable success isn't a one-time achievement, it's a lifelong journey of intentional action and growth towards a fulfilling life.”",motivational +4701,“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”,motivational +2731,"“The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.”",motivational +6666,“Bersabar bukan hanya sebatas bertahan dalam segala rintangan. Sabar adalah tidak berbuat zalim meski mampu melakukannya.”,motivational +6433,“What’s a greater joy than to see the one you helped smile coz of you?”,motivational +6508,"“Tidak ada orang yang lahir di dunia tanpa alasan, tidak ada orang yang lahir dan tidak bisa mewujudkan setidaknya satu hal, apapun itu.”",motivational +4141,"“When you feel like your hope is gone,look back for a second and remind yourself ""WHY YOU STARTED?"".”",motivational +4660,“[Team player vs team builder]Players focus on the wins and the loses.Builders focus on the team and future of the vision.Let's move our members from team player to team builder.”,motivational +3018,“With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.”,motivational +2892,“You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”,motivational +2912,“In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.”,motivational +4508,“Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.”,motivational +5264,“The best way to live a better life is to do your best while you still have breath.”,motivational +4176,"“Without situations, no strength will be developed.”",motivational +3968,“OPTIMIZE YOUR MIND”,motivational +6144,"“In this world of Maya, nothing is permanent, not even our pain and suffering.”",motivational +5232,“Not everything will make sense in life; that does not mean you should accept nonsense.”,motivational +6686,“To ‘give up’ on the idea of ‘giving up’ is the first step in ‘getting up.”,motivational +4556,“The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.”,motivational +6654,"“Should our motivation to achieve be just for the sake of the achievement itself with no thought of who/what we become in the process?If we want to sincerely enjoy our lives, who we become along the way is far more important than what we achieve.”",motivational +3224,“The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.”,motivational +4331,"“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”",motivational +4589,"“Do not empower your negative thoughts by giving them “legs” so they can run around your mind, creating worries,frustrations, and anxiety in your life.”",motivational +5927,"“I've made plenty of mistakes in my day, but one thing I've learned is that you never have to make the same mistake twice.”",motivational +4082,"“Oh, I see you think to be half necked on your gorgeous or killer outfit is rocking or cool that's not law of fashion and it out of style.”",motivational +2757,“What others think about you is none of your business.”,motivational +3181,“Viața nu e suport pentru artă. Invers stau lucrurile.”,motivational +4673,"“You are thunder and lightning Love and rageIntensity and sensitivity Made of mountains, oceansFire and fierce thingsDreams and curiosityYou are paradoxes and contradictions Some days soft, some daysStrong as fuck Always beautiful.”",motivational +3278,"“Over the years, I've come to realize that determination makes one to punch above one's weight.”",motivational +6470,"“The predator's dread of scarcity haunts it while it hunts for food, and the victim's fear of predation haunts her as she tries to escape being hunted.”",motivational +4492,"“When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we've already made. As we recognize what we've invested and attained, it seems like a waste to give up, and our confidence and commitment surge.”",motivational +3585,"“In the face of adversity, remember that every setback is a setup for a comeback.”",motivational +2743,“Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.”,motivational +2896,“Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”,motivational +5545,"“Don't care about ,who laugh on you.. Care about those who caring about you..”",motivational +4356,"“The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.”",motivational +5322,"“Sometimes people will not comprehend your plans. Go ahead and implement them if God is on your side because in life, not everything you do will make sense to others.”",motivational +5882,"“If you don't want to sink, then it's time to cut the negative anchors loose and start swimming!”",motivational +5786,"“Serenity is inner peace amid chaos and trouble, not their absence.”",motivational +3760,"“Success is no accident.... It is hard work, perseverance , learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all... love of what you are doing.... Tribute to the legend Pele”",motivational +6489,"“You can do everything, this is not useful for you. if you don't believe it”",motivational +4630,"“He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.”",motivational +4658,“Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.”,motivational +3837,“The time we spend here on earth is like a droplet in a pail of eternity. Yet that one droplet affects all the others in that bucket.”,motivational +3866,“Dance elevates the calm and drowns the chaos.”,motivational +4990,"“To fathom the essence of life’s beauty, we must plunge beneath the superficial. Real treasures are veiled, waiting to be discovered by those who dare to explore.”",motivational +4525,"“If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.”",motivational +3839,"“I want to mean something, to leave my mark, to rest in the assurance that people were better off having known me.”",motivational +6769,"“If you get tired, learn to rest not quit.”",motivational +3866,“Dance elevates the calm and drowns the chaos.”,motivational +5685,“Never lose faith and God will reward you”,motivational +4636,"“If you say no to oppurtunity, you had said no to life”",motivational +4688,"“Even in hardship, God’s goodness prevails.”",motivational +2645,"“Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.”",motivational +5980,"“Treasure good health, give thanks to God,”",motivational +5340,"“Find yourself in the right spaces, go places and make the necessary changes. Life is not only about where you have been. It is also about places you should see and people you should meet.”",motivational +6087,“Faith isn’t blind belief; it’s unwavering trust.”,motivational +5539,"“Indecision breeds doubt, but decisive action fuels confidence.”",motivational +6672,“An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.”,motivational +5101,“There is never the potential for success without a corresponding potential for failure.”,motivational +6326,"“Just as learning has no end, so does growth.”",motivational +6646,"“You are the ink, pen and paper, your life is your own decision.”",motivational +6331,“What we want comes from our participation; life does not happen by itself; we must make it happen.”,motivational +6550,"“You are loved beyond your imagining and always protected and never neglected. Ask for all you need and just believe, what is yours is yours and will never leave, soon enough you must receive.”",motivational +4414,“Life’s too short to walk around with your arms crossed and bottom lip poked out. Find a way to smile for yourself even if it’s as simple as licking the spoon clean or putting clean sheets on your bed.”,motivational +3268,"“When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.”",motivational +5953,“Identifying your core values and goals is an incredibly important step on the road to achieving success.”,motivational +3407,"“When you see something wrong happening in the world, you can do nothing about it, or you can do something about it.”",motivational +5455,"“Life is not as easy as it sounds. It is about sailing troubled waters, navigating unprecedented times, and carving new paths.”",motivational +4227,“God requires you to do what is right.”,motivational +2788,“Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!”,motivational +5774,“Don't let fear or doubt stop you from trusting the process! Commit to your goals and trust that everything will turn out just fine.”,motivational +4395,"“No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.”",motivational +5774,“Don't let fear or doubt stop you from trusting the process! Commit to your goals and trust that everything will turn out just fine.”,motivational +3174,"“If you've delayed achieving your goals, have you ever asked yourself, ""What's stopping you?”",motivational +6696,"“As a service excellence provider, I always think about how to turn a customer's pain point into brownie points. Never underestimate the power of any customer transaction”",motivational +3179,“laughing is good. so long as you are not insulting anyone.”,motivational +4477,"“I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.”",motivational +6664,“Organisations always want input with creativity and innovation but often have hierarchical control in place.”,motivational +5630,"“The gentle glow of fireflies, which carries the magic of childhood dreams, sparks our sense of wonder and nostalgia.”",motivational +6408,"“Never settle for others, settle for yourself and bring peace and joy within.”",motivational +3031,“You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.”,motivational +4901,"“Even when we are mired in despair, unwavering acts of compassion are the lights that guide us back to the surface of hope.”",motivational +5625,“You can achieve greatness if you have big dreams and believe in yourself.”,motivational +5101,“There is never the potential for success without a corresponding potential for failure.”,motivational +4476,"“Where there is life, there is hope.”",motivational +4261,“Are your actions making a difference to this world? If not then align your actions to improve people's lives.”,motivational +4804,"“The weight of our worries lies not in the uncertainty of tomorrow, but in the futile attempt to tether the unpredictable winds of the future.”",motivational +4769,“Underachieving hidden gems mostly require support and motivation to inspire them to achieve more or maintain consistency.”,motivational +4794,"“In our efforts to avoid pain, we inadvertently avoid the depths of our true selves. Embrace the pain because it leads to a deeper understanding of who you are beyond the shadows of suffering.”",motivational +6710,“Be a go-getter.”,motivational +5386,“Life offers us an opportunity to live. Choose to live right and be a shining light.”,motivational +6651,"“Fall, fall and fall again, to fall without stopping is rising.”",motivational +6152,“Coz Red is so Dangerously Lovely... U choose...Danger or Love?”,motivational +4563,“The IMPOSSIBLE is ONLY relevant to those who NEVER attempt it...otherwise it is ABSTACT and MEANINGLESS”,motivational +3784,"“Let us leave no effort. let us give it our all we will chase our dreamlike mad men and mad women,who have the gall.”",motivational +5274,"“Harsh words spoken to you must not depict the end of your dreams. Use those words to energize you into doing something great. In life, champions are those who are not afraid to fly high, regardless of any attempt to pull them down.”",motivational +2810,"“Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.”",motivational +3146,"“To become, you must first believe.”",motivational +2563,“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.”,motivational +3033,“Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead”,motivational +6631,“People who are motivated away from things often experience a lot of pain and worry before they’re motivated to act.”,motivational +4633,"“Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.”",motivational +5795,"“Coming together gives energy, and being angry takes it away.”",motivational +2872,"“I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.”",motivational +4154,“You must daily build your strength in the spirit in order to overcome your struggles.”,motivational +3426,“Lazy people do a little work and think they should be winning. Winners work as hard as possible and still worry that they are being lazy.”,motivational +5305,"“In this life, do not take things lightly all the time. Have the wisdom to discern when things are serious.”",motivational +4039,“The clarity of purpose removes lots of nuances”,motivational +5853,"“You're just a character in my book, but I did not give you any lines.”",motivational +4414,“Life’s too short to walk around with your arms crossed and bottom lip poked out. Find a way to smile for yourself even if it’s as simple as licking the spoon clean or putting clean sheets on your bed.”,motivational +5594,“Don't worry about drastic changes because it's the small habits you do consistently that will have a lasting impact on your life!”,motivational +4583,“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus”,motivational +3221,“Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire.”,motivational +3570,“Wrong key never open the lock similarly wrong path will never help to get right destination..”,motivational +4484,“Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.”,motivational +3804,“Extremely complex individuals are not here to be understood. They are here to be felt on a profound level. Whether that's through their existence or their creations. That is something that they will have to come to terms with in their lifetime.”,motivational +2633,“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.”,motivational +6104,“You can be certain that the religion of love accepts everyone.”,motivational +5791,"“Be a victor, not a victim of your situation.”",motivational +4111,"“Like sun shine over the hills! rise and shine before sunset, do what expected on you,yes that you love to do the most world waiting it.”",motivational +2574,"“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”",motivational +2740,“Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose; make a positive difference in someone's life.”,motivational +4664,“Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.”,motivational +3677,“Find the game you like to play - not just to win but because it clicks with you differently.”,motivational +4666,"“Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!- RVM”",motivational +6714,“Maybe the worst reason to do anything. I got scared.”,motivational +4001,"“By sharing your pain with others, you may give them the strength to abuse your wound, but by sharing your pain only with yourself, you gain the strength to overcome the situation”",motivational +6515,"“Eita. Olha essa fera, bicho! Brincadeira! Quem sabe faz ao vivo e se vira nos trinta. Mais do que nunca, uma fera tanto no pessoal quanto no profissional. Errou. Esta pegando fogo bicho!”",motivational +4980,“Be motivated by igniting thought into acton”,motivational +5168,“The struggle is the catalyst for change and the birthplace of innovation.”,motivational +5247,“You can make a difference even with your silence. Life is not always about making unnecessary noise. What matters is what you do to make a difference.”,motivational +4269,"“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. Write to express not to impress.”",motivational +6022,“Nothing hurls an individual towards their goals faster than the sting of defeat. That's when all the probing post-mortem questions get asked. Victory is the fluffing up and reinforcing of the existing ego.”,motivational +4483,“MANAGE YOUR MOOD: Name 1 thing that surprised you today...Name 1 thing that moved you...Name 1 thing that inspired you...”,motivational +4870,“The successful entrepreneur manages to strike the right balance between preservation and renewal.”,motivational +3384,"“If you want to be happy, try never to be negative. As a plan, it is unproductive and does not work.”",motivational +6320,“Build walls of self-esteem and self-confidence in order to make sure the Vibes are just the ones you really wanna feel...”,motivational +5956,“Take a moment. Breathe. Slow Down. Let Go. Experience the calm.”,motivational +3820,“We are a shrine to our destiny. What we achieve depends on what we do”,motivational +3968,“OPTIMIZE YOUR MIND”,motivational +5217,"“Make it your sole intention to be part of the solution. When you learn how to efficiently solve problems, you will attract many opportunities.”",motivational +4832,“One of the worst things you can do against yourself in life is to dream small.”,motivational +4241,“We are storms that never die.”,motivational +4113,“I will be who I choose to be”,motivational +5071,“Entertainment is often just a cheap way to quench our natural thirst for meaning by encouraging us to exercise passivity when we ought to act with passion.”,motivational +5929,“Look deep within. You will find everything you seek.”,motivational +6025,"“If multitasking is the solution for doing more in less time, then the human race is moving towards a time when we will attempt to finish items on our to-do list while we sleep.”",motivational +4905,“I contend that the only thing holding people back from exploring infinite divergence is their will to do so.”,motivational +6243,"“One way of motivating yourself towards implementing your idea is to ask yourself; what and how much would I lose if the idea is practicable, doable, and feasible but I lacked the guts to act and push it to reality?”",motivational +5378,"“Life grants each person a unique purpose to accomplish. You are here on earth for a reason; you just need to find it. If you cannot change the world, at least change yourself. Do something to make the world a better place.”",motivational +3668,“Extend your hand to those who express Gratitude not Attitude.”,motivational +2750,“When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?”,motivational +5098,"“You are not special, but you are unique.”",motivational +3571,“Bad company will destroy you. For eg. Mercury destroy gold.”,motivational +5103,“Perhaps the only thing we might legitimately lament in an old man’s death would be his failure to have used his time well.”,motivational +3427,"“It's true that jealousy is a desease. So instead of shaming those who suffer from it, please wish them a speedy recovery.”",motivational +2513,"“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”",motivational +2975,"“Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among maicians”",motivational +6678,“The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.”,motivational +2511,“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”,motivational +3153,"“When YOU choose to change, your reality must change accordingly. It simply has no other choice.”",motivational +2625,“Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time.”,motivational +5436,“Every living being is presented with the gift of life. It is up to each one to decide what to do with it while there is still time. Blessed are those who make theirs count.”,motivational +5059,"“Easy things do not call us to great action, because they are too easy to require great action.”",motivational +3354,“You are more than your ADHD. Believe in your talents and abilities.”,motivational +5270,"“Even if life had happened the way you wanted, you would still be disgruntled because it is not what happens that makes you content but how you choose to react.”",motivational +3649,"“Leadership is all about making things to move forward, not backward.”",motivational +4318,"“Tough as thunder, sweet as honey, that's the motto for a braveheart human.”",motivational +3231,“Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.”,motivational +2732,“Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”,motivational +6716,"“When in phase of uncertainty, befriend yourself to a new discovery”",motivational +4556,“The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.”,motivational +4081,“To kill it you must finding your body shape with tailors help or tape measurements and follow it with your outfit like clothes that match your body structure .”,motivational +4336,“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”,motivational +4425,"“You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.”",motivational +6742,“The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.”,motivational +4534,"“Whilst some people inspire, others conspire!”",motivational +6252,“Our minds control us; we do not control our minds.”,motivational +3409,"“Under the spotlight, of the streetlightsThat wait for me to shine Over the moonlight, it feels so rightI'm poetry in motionIt's part of my devotionI play with all emotion Under the spotlight, of the streetlights”",motivational +4547,"“I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to.”",motivational +2517,“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”,motivational +2768,“Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible.”,motivational +4181,"“Where there is grief, there once was love, where the barren fields stand, there once was a river that ran, where the drought remains, there once was, a tender stream that flowed.....”",motivational +4727,“Underachieving student have a diverse needs”,motivational +4568,“Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward.”,motivational +6221,"“The choice is yours..., the way you want to live!”",motivational +4127,"“I may not have my Bible, but God's words are in my heart. God is with me, and that is the reason that I have the strength to be sitting here holding it together.”",motivational +2828,"“I’ll detach myself from the crowd if it hinders my growth, I’ll fall from the tree that won’t let me grow.”",motivational +3850,"“Someone you know may tell you ""Why are you stressing out about it? My situation is worse"". But really, the truth is that everyone has their own struggles. Struggles are not something that can be compared.”",motivational +4884,"“Courage is taking the first step, even when you don't know what lies ahead; It's about having the inner strength to take a leap of faith, even when you're not sure what's coming next.”",motivational +5340,"“Find yourself in the right spaces, go places and make the necessary changes. Life is not only about where you have been. It is also about places you should see and people you should meet.”",motivational +5332,“Sometimes life will put you through tough times. Choose not to give up until you overcome.”,motivational +4502,“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”,motivational +5466,"“Life will not always be easy, but the ups and downs make it amazing.”",motivational +4546,“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.”,motivational +5998,"“If you look at nature closely, you will notice miracles all around you.”",motivational +6185,“Your own life struggles are enough to motivate you.”,motivational +3626,"“If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.”",motivational +4112,“She brought light into the darkest hourShe reminded humanity of love’s beautiful power No matter what obstacles she facedNo matter how confidently evil paced”,motivational +6535,"“Life will treat you the same way you treat others; you do yourself a favour by treating others as your sisters, fathers, mothers and brothers.”",motivational +2743,“Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.”,motivational +4477,"“I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.”",motivational +4416,"“Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!”",motivational +2883,“I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”,motivational +6038,“Faith is the power that allows a perplexing world to emerge into the light.”,motivational +5143,"“Success is not guaranteed, but neither is failure. Take a chance and see where it leads you.”",motivational +4078,“No matter how glossy your lips is what I say is it can kill or make someone live either you or someone else better watch it that what bible says.”,motivational +5068,"“Forget yourself, and you may just find what you were made to be and do.”",motivational +5899,"“Each room I enter, every road I walk on, it asks for me, and waits to see whether or not I agreed to it. Did I try? Did I grab the moment? I love these jumps and where they lead.”",motivational +5473,"“Life will take you to places you have never been, let you meet people who pull your heartstrings and help you not to lose your rhythm.”",motivational +6151,“Friends are Family and Family is Bae”,motivational +6358,“Courage can gift you with immense opportunities; you just need to try and take a leap of faith...”,motivational +3380,“Only develop friendships with people you admire. I admired people who broke the rules when the rules made no sense!”,motivational +3760,"“Success is no accident.... It is hard work, perseverance , learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all... love of what you are doing.... Tribute to the legend Pele”",motivational +3822,"“Just because you've presented yourself as this person for a large amount of time, doesn't mean that you have to remain that way. You have the freedom to completely transform in all ways.”",motivational +5406,"“Life will not always be easy, but we can make it easy when we collectively choose to break the existing limits in our society.”",motivational +2585,"“Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.”",motivational +5129,"“Dreaming is easy, hammering out concrete details is hard.”",motivational +6735,"“There are four types of motivational forces: fear, dreams and desires, fulfilling big ideas, and transforming the world to make a better place to live. The fear and security, driven motivational forces are in the lowest level.”",motivational +3108,“Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.”,motivational +3573,"“If we knew what we do not know, then we most probably would not fear it.”",motivational +4644,“I allow manipulation to find out where my enemy wants me to go. Then I use my mind to break the trap and punish the perpetrators.”,motivational +4957,"“To find out who you are, you must also see who you are not.”",motivational +4851,"“Where God has spoken, the voice and wisdom of man is irrelevant.”",motivational +4371,“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”,motivational +3826,“Confidence will take you places you never thought was possible to reach.”,motivational +6105,“Don't spend your life waiting for it to begin.”,motivational +6270,“The kind of seed sown will yield the same type of fruit.”,motivational +4698,“May you find the courage to rise above any circumstance.”,motivational +3500,“It is my hope that entrepreneurship can become a spiritual path for many who feel called but don’t believe they were worthy or haven’t been able to find the capital to make it happen.”,motivational +5220,"“It is hard to define life entirely, but what I know about life is that it will give you a chance to define yourself. So do your level best to put yourself out there.”",motivational +4700,"“Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart.”",motivational +3756,“Do not limit yourself to things that may lead you to successful path.The self-limiting beliefs will hinder you reaching to your goals. Think once!”,motivational +5562,"“Our very definition and understanding of the Comfort Zone is false—or at the very least, incomplete. True, lasting success is not attained outside our Comfort Zone, but rather inside it.”",motivational +6541,"“. Many great things await you in the future, and with your wisdom life will be a game you skillfully manoeuvre.”",motivational +4505,"“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,motivation, and a pinch of creativity”",motivational +6195,“Silence and Smile: Those are two powerful weapons.”,motivational +4659,“You are an artist and the masterpiece is your life.”,motivational +6526,“We can only aspire to become unshakable when we take ownership for our state of mind and how we feel about situations life hands out to us”,motivational +5618,"“Mothers are the heartbeat of our lives, the ones who guide us through the ups and downs, and the light that shines even in the darkest moments.”",motivational +4478,"“I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.”",motivational +2705,“And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.”,motivational +5134,"“Adventure is calling, and it's time to answer with courage and enthusiasm.”",motivational +3710,"“We can pontificate all day about statistics and percentages and death tolls and displacement numbers, easily forgetting that numbers have names and names have faces. Each face has wrinkles that make up a map filled with tragedies to tell.”",motivational +4543,"“It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going.”",motivational +2985,“There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.”,motivational +3762,"“It's not important whether you lose or win, what is that you participate and play, one fine day your experience will make you win.”",motivational +3430,"“If it doesn’t excite me, I do not pursue it.”",motivational +2927,"“Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life.”",motivational +4712,“Follow Your Heart & The world Shall Follow YOU!Reject it and It stops beating!”,motivational +5105,"“Change your perspective on influence – it is a tool that can be used to build meaningful relationships, move conversations in new directions, and bring out the best in people.”",motivational +3628,"“If someone insults you, just chalk it up to them being at a lost for words.”",motivational +5576,"“Being busy is easy, but being productive takes intention.”",motivational +3458,“Who could you be if you didn’t know who you were?”,motivational +4844,"“We do not have money problem, the problem we have as humans is knowledge and wisdom problem, ignorance is darkness.”",motivational +4751,"“motivating people, forcing them to your will, give you a cynical attitude towards humanity. It degrades everything it touches.”",motivational +5153,“Success is not an overnight phenomenon; it's the result of consistent effort over time.”,motivational +4365,"“Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution.”",motivational +4373,"“The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.”",motivational +5420,"“When going through hard times, hold on tight until you overcome. With perseverance and God on your side, things will get better. Never give up on yourself, no matter how hard life becomes. One day, you will be fine.”",motivational +5361,"“Play a role in securing happiness in your life and that of others. When you do that, you will experience leaps and bounds of happiness in life.”",motivational +5736,“Words are like seeds; what you plant in your mind grows and shapes your reality.”,motivational +6227,“History continues until we learn from it and change our course.”,motivational +5736,“Words are like seeds; what you plant in your mind grows and shapes your reality.”,motivational +4879,"“Experienced entrepreneurs understand how to treat risk as a decision for a benefit, accepting a future loss with a determinable probability of occurrence and an uncertain magnitude.”",motivational +5399,"“When other people’s lives are flourishing but yours is not, do not give up. Not all flowers bloom at the same time. Like a flower that blooms in summer, you will flourish if you persevere during the dry seasons of life.”",motivational +6264,“We sometimes have to exercise to want to exercise.”,motivational +6733,“Purposefully pursue your dreams with all diligence.”,motivational +2602,“Discipline Your Mind to Think Positively: Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.”,motivational +5182,“Life is too short to be lived in the confines of your comfort zone. Break free and explore.”,motivational +4463,"“If you practice hard, you can win every battle.”",motivational +3301,“Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.”,motivational +4342,“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”,motivational +4624,“Dream big. Wake up. Take the first step into the unknown.”,motivational +6614,“The greatest winners were once losers”,motivational +5833,"“life never gain by your weight, it gain by your struggle”",motivational +5427,“The One who gave you the gift of life knows that you are good enough. Do not ever doubt what you carry on the inside. Live the rest of your life maximizing your potential.”,motivational +5105,"“Change your perspective on influence – it is a tool that can be used to build meaningful relationships, move conversations in new directions, and bring out the best in people.”",motivational +5713,"“Even when the buds cannot bloom, the tree stands firm, patiently awaiting its turn.”",motivational +3322,"“Jenifer always taught me that starting a job was one thing―—and admirable―—but that following through and completing―—well, that’s where the bravery is.”",motivational +2853,“Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.”,motivational +4857,"“I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes.”",motivational +2870,“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”,motivational +4951,"“Money, however, is not the only incentive that exists for career advancement, it is also the growth and personal development that one experiences through growing to attain those goals.”",motivational +4773,“The second rule of underachievement reversal highlights that underachievers fall into various categories based on their motivation and ability levels at different times.”,motivational +4696,"“You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.”",motivational +5513,"“Never indulge your victimization by labeling yourself a victim, regardless of how much you deserve the title.”",motivational +5789,“Its simple. Do the work to get the perk”,motivational +3492,“Thank you for believing that all humans have intrinsic value and that our job has society is to ensure that all are empowered and have enough.”,motivational +4147,“Your Goals Your Life Your Choices :)”,motivational +3335,“Life Is Meant To Realize Yourself as a Divine Being.”,motivational +5238,"“Showing some people, the door when their time in your life is up is not a crime; it is a proactive stance to save your life.”",motivational +6039,“Greed is the source of all suffering and pain.”,motivational +5443,"“Life is like a colouring book. The drawings may be very standard, but you can choose to colour them in a manner that makes them stand out.”",motivational +6384,“It is assignment that determines your attainment in life.”,motivational +2634,"“Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”",motivational +5685,“Never lose faith and God will reward you”,motivational +5564,"“Your inner wisdom is your friend, and it lives inside the calm security of your Comfort Zone.”",motivational +3111,"“Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. How would your life be different if you became open to new information that can refine, improve, enhance your way of thinking, and empower your way of living?”",motivational +5957,"“When I calm my mind, I experience the greatest joy of all.”",motivational +6654,"“Should our motivation to achieve be just for the sake of the achievement itself with no thought of who/what we become in the process?If we want to sincerely enjoy our lives, who we become along the way is far more important than what we achieve.”",motivational +6041,“You can initiate a phase of death and rebirth at any time. You don't have to sit idle and wait for an outside force to make that happen for you. Choose to end things. This will always spark an opportunity for a new beginning.”,motivational +5875,"“It's so easy to get trapped in the notion that success means having every action regulated and planned, but the truth is far simpler. All you need is enough discipline to develop habits that lead to effortless success!”",motivational +5876,"“Stop beating yourself up! Breaking old habits isn't going to happen overnight, so don't be discouraged if it takes you longer than you planned. Give yourself some grace and remind yourself that consistency and repetition are key.”",motivational +6305,"“Give hope to your inner self to rise above with your self-esteem, work through it and you will succeed.”",motivational +4300,"“Listen up: just because you have the capacity to do something for someone, it doesn't mean you have the obligation to especially when they won't even appreciate you for doing it”",motivational +5369,"“The noble thing about life is that, in different ways, it treats everyone the same.”",motivational +5984,"“Life is beautiful. Cherish every moment, appreciate what you have, and find joy in the present.”",motivational +5925,"“Self-care isn’t just about taking care of your body – it’s about tending to your mental health too, and that’s something all of us could use a little more of!”",motivational +4153,"“Generous in love-God, gives grace.”",motivational +3713,"“The sounds of music have dimmed into a self-censored silence. We pause, we gaze for far too long at the markets from a broken window where Kabul's finest orchestras weeks ago were still learning to play. We linger, remembering what used to be.”",motivational +5538,“Courage is the key that unlocks the door to new possibilities.”,motivational +5380,"“Life will grant you the opportunity to pursue your purpose. Be well-informed, seek wisdom and ensure that whatever you do is purpose-aligned.”",motivational +5580,“True leadership is not about commanding authority; it's about earning respect.”,motivational +4362,"“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”",motivational +6529,"“Maintain your self-confidence and let your inner light shine bright, proving all your inner might and elevating you to a greater height of which you have the right.”",motivational +5216,“The struggle you face today is the strength you will carry tomorrow.”,motivational +6010,"“Regular practice, consistency and self-confidence can only help you becoming a great player.”",motivational +3840,“Maybe prayer isn't just SOMEthing we can do in certain situations. Maybe it's the BEST thing.”,motivational +2709,“God helps those who strut their stuff.”,motivational +6015,“Accept situations without hesitation and allow things to flow naturally in whatever direction they want.”,motivational +6720,"“Don't try to change, be the changeDon't try to be good, be goodDon't try to be a Buddha, be a BuddhaDon't try to be successful, behave successfully”",motivational +3082,“Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.”,motivational +3044,“You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.”,motivational +4133,"“Does every Curve people struggle and stressful through it?I don't think so, search it for yourself it trueth of life.”",motivational +4630,"“He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.”",motivational +2893,“The only easy day was yesterday.”,motivational +5789,“Its simple. Do the work to get the perk”,motivational +2982,“Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life”,motivational +2925,“CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!”,motivational +6108,“Master the mind with meditation.”,motivational +3462,“Every enemy can be beaten. All you need is the right team at your back.”,motivational +3713,"“The sounds of music have dimmed into a self-censored silence. We pause, we gaze for far too long at the markets from a broken window where Kabul's finest orchestras weeks ago were still learning to play. We linger, remembering what used to be.”",motivational +6628,"“Manusia terbentuk dari impian. Tanpa itu, kita hanyalah robot yang bergerak mengikuti hiruk pikuk dunia, tapi tidak mengiringi irama yang dilantuntan bumi. Dan impian bukan sesuatu yang absolut. Ia dapat berubah, bertambah, bahkan berkurang.”",motivational +4498,"“The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”",motivational +6080,"“We are in charge of our destiny, and we control our future by how we think and act.”",motivational +6666,“Bersabar bukan hanya sebatas bertahan dalam segala rintangan. Sabar adalah tidak berbuat zalim meski mampu melakukannya.”,motivational +5221,“It is okay not to be okay when things are not okay in your life.”,motivational +4711,"“He who perseveres like an infant that falls down and keeps getting up, shall eventually find the way.”~ Amunhotep El Bey”",motivational +5628,"“I write so the word, ""Victim"" will not be your mantra.”",motivational +3474,"“Being alone, helps you, find you.”",motivational +5940,"“There is no shortcut to success - it takes hard work and dedication but with perseverance, you can become a leader who draws in quality people.”",motivational +3196,"“Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.”",motivational +6751,"“Great leaders understand that it is impossible to compartmentalize elements of life, so they create opportunities for people to grow in every area.”",motivational +6209,"“We are deluded by Maya, and we are the slaves of illusion.”",motivational +2849,"“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”",motivational +4232,“She is involved in work her soul must have.”,motivational +4300,"“Listen up: just because you have the capacity to do something for someone, it doesn't mean you have the obligation to especially when they won't even appreciate you for doing it”",motivational +4267,"“Learn to learn. The way I see it, it's much more important to be a good learner, than to know it all.”",motivational +5720,"“Though our loved ones may push us towards success, it is often our enemies who drive us to secure the final nail in the coffin of our accomplishments.”",motivational +3497,"“External failure has no real correlation to spiritual failure. For a spiritual entrepreneur, external failure is often essential for spiritual success.”",motivational +4770,"“For underachieving super stars, multiplying what they know through teaching and building mastery contributes to their motivation and achievement.”",motivational +4990,"“To fathom the essence of life’s beauty, we must plunge beneath the superficial. Real treasures are veiled, waiting to be discovered by those who dare to explore.”",motivational +3459,"“Since love is the fundamental energy of the universe, aiming to expand love grows us—not just ourselves personally, but everyone and everything around us.”",motivational +3230,"“Along our chosen paths, we all meet up with demons. We must meet them, and battle them, even when they are nothing but mist in the night.”",motivational +5897,"“Deep silence is the soul's language, where words are unnecessary, and the heart speaks the truth.”",motivational +4587,“Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.”,motivational +5225,“Learn to prohibit anything that hinders your progress in life.”,motivational +4840,“A bounded team can take up an idea or a vision and actualize it.”,motivational +5884,"“When you’re in love, there’s no need to understand what’s going on, because everything happens inside of you.”",motivational +4008,"“My focus is on progression, not perfection. My progression is already perfect -- unfolding as it should, when it should, according to divine alignment”",motivational +2793,"“Everything is within your power,and your power is within you.”",motivational +6003,“Nature's secret is simplicity and patience.”,motivational +4573,"“Intent not followed by action is an insult to your design. Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there!”",motivational +3276,"“With a decision and a defined purpose, you can begin work.”",motivational +5565,"“Analyze like a scientist, plot like a politician, execute like a soldier.”",motivational +4669,“Having what you want may give you Achievement. But wanting what you have will give you Fulfillment.”,motivational +5801,"“And in that glorious burst of energy and speed, Ceridwen whispered the word once more. Onward. Fate. Battle cry. And occasionally, a prayer.”",motivational +3454,"“What does it really take to make a difference in the world? In a word, focus. Relentless focus.”",motivational +5843,“Knowledge is another form of God.”,motivational +6658,"“No time? If you do one thing a day, you will have done thirty things in a month.”",motivational +3989,“I guess every friendship has its ups and downs.”,motivational +4409,"“If reading makes you happy, do it. Whatever makes your heart sing and brings you joy, do that too.”",motivational +5959,"“People say, don’t worry about the small stuff. Determining if your biggest worry is small stuff is a skill. Letting go of small stuff is a gift.”",motivational +6572,“A true hero expects no reward.”,motivational +2562,“The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.”,motivational +4331,"“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”",motivational +5970,“Powerful breathing exercises help me realize good things will happen.”,motivational +5587,"“Embrace feedback, learn from experiences, and evolve. Our journey to success is a continuous one!”",motivational +3340,“Understanding why things happen the way that they do makes you better prepared to face them.”,motivational +5314,"“How far you will go in life depends on how far you are willing to learn, plan and implement the good lessons you have learned.”",motivational +4998,"“When I have clarity, I can begin again every time”",motivational +2835,“One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.”,motivational +5818,"“YOU are in charge of how you experience life. You get to decide! Choose wisely, but most importantly, choose YOU!”",motivational +5808,"“Sometimes the fries are the best choice by a mile, but sometimes an apple with almond butter is paradise on a plate. If you can’t tell the difference, you aren’t quite listening—yet.”",motivational +6183,“Make your Mark without Erasing who You are...!...Words of Wisdom...take or leave!”,motivational +5562,"“Our very definition and understanding of the Comfort Zone is false—or at the very least, incomplete. True, lasting success is not attained outside our Comfort Zone, but rather inside it.”",motivational +4651,“The ordinary man gets motivation from power and fame. The superior finds motivation in meaning and work itself.”,motivational +3819,“I touched peaks impossible.”,motivational +5699,"“Fear is just an emotion. It is not true. The only thing that is true is the action you take, regardless.”",motivational +5046,"“Embrace the power of true North decisions. Say goodbye to impulsiveness, fuel your journey with purpose, and let every choice be a stepping stone to an empowered path of growth and success!”",motivational +6491,“The biggest problem is thinking about the problem and thinking about the solution the greatest solution”,motivational +2672,“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”,motivational +3330,"“My passion shone through my words, captivating the reader’s attention and fostering a connection.”",motivational +3451,“Don't wait for somebody to give you something. You're strong. You're intelligent. Go out and earn it and work for it.”,motivational +3282,“It’s been said that legends are those who shape change into greatness; shaping change is one of the hallmarks of genius.”,motivational +4706,"“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito!”",motivational +5664,“Your goals are within reach – take control of your destiny and manifest greatness through action-driven progress.”,motivational +6750,"“Spiritually healthy employees are the greatest asset and partners an organization can have. They are positive, solution-seeking, and unifying people.”",motivational +6203,"“Life is govern by principles not by how you feel.Just image a farmer who does not sow his seeds & decides that he is going throw them on the roof because he feels so, well he is sure not going to have a harvest.”",motivational +5960,“Finding inner peace should be your highest goal and determining steps to reach it should be your highest priority.”,motivational +3422,“Snap from the danger of your comfort zone; to enable you to become who you are meant to be.”,motivational +3816,“Busyness draws more emotional energy from our reserves than it fills back.”,motivational +6685,“Never underestimate the impact of customer service. Every business has customers that needs to be served.”,motivational +3021,"“Each day gives the opportunity for you to be treated right, to feel worthy, and to be successful. It’s a choice you have to make, a faith you have to embrace, and a standard you have to set.”",motivational +4428,“Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.”,motivational +6102,“Action is precious than plentiful words.”,motivational +3917,"“Motivation is like bacteria. Positivity is good motivation, rarely found, the good bacteria. Negativity, the bad one, found everywhere. Culture good one.”",motivational +5698,"“The ‘ocean of grace’ is vast and infinite, with unfathomable depths and never-ending tides.”",motivational +4063,"“Dress for your body type, to make fashion alive.”",motivational +3312,“These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.”,motivational +3787,“Memories are more important to me.”,motivational +6085,“I’m not afraid of strong winds because I’m learning to fly.”,motivational +5409,“The hardships of life can never be avoided completely. We must be ready to deal with whatsoever happens on this journey.”,motivational +3895,"“To shift, drift, and move, most glorious, is the blessing of dance.”",motivational +5269,“A combination of minutes makes one’s lifetime. Make sure that none of those counts as wasted time.”,motivational +5187,"“Embrace the unknown, for it is where true growth and transformation happen.”",motivational +4614,"“In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.”",motivational +6731,"“If you want to go forward, You must take action and apply yourself”",motivational +5276,"“If you want success in your life, do not focus on what others are doing. Instead, focus on what you should be doing.”",motivational +6461,“Nature makes no distinction between creating and destroying life.”,motivational +5694,"“Motivation gets us started, determination gets us going and discipline gets us to the finish line”",motivational +5788,"“Don't just speak for yourself,Be who stands up for somebody else.”",motivational +5081,"“Time is a slimy wimy thing,Life is a blessy messy thing.Love is a happy crappy thing,Mind is a mighty fighty thing.”",motivational +5107,“Invest in yourself and make progress – use small steps to move towards bigger goals.”,motivational +6541,"“. Many great things await you in the future, and with your wisdom life will be a game you skillfully manoeuvre.”",motivational +2744,“Remember that things are not always as they appear to be... Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.”,motivational +3812,“It does not matter if we do not have an immediate answer. What matters is if we have the right question.”,motivational +5938,"“Life is all about making decisions, but it's not the decisions we make that shape our lives - it's our habits. Habits are the daily actions that give us direction and eventually decide where we end up. So choose your habits wisely.”",motivational +3809,“Our thoughts have the energy to light the candle and burn the hand. It all depends on how we handle them.”,motivational +5049,"“You may treat the past and future as realities, but they are only realities in your memory and imagination. Only the present exists.”",motivational +4559,"“Whatever you think you are, you are always bigger than that...”",motivational +2949,"“The workplace is like a battlefield, and you need to be a warrior to survive. So arm yourself with knowledge and fight for your place in the corporate world.”",motivational +4584,"“Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”",motivational +5688,“Unrealistic expectations are perilous because they are never met.”,motivational +5165,"“Embrace the struggle, for it molds you into the person you are meant to be.”",motivational +6306,“Sometimes you gotta lose a few people to succeed.”,motivational +3312,“These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.”,motivational +2582,"“I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, ""aw shit, he's up!”",motivational +4683,"“What You were Once, Was Also Because You Were Someone Else Before that”",motivational +6432,“The suffering of one man will sting us all. The happiness of one man makes everyone grin.”,motivational +4597,"“Dituntun oleh masa laluku, didorong oleh keberadaanku, aku terbang mencari sesuatu yang tak kuketahui. Antusiasme, rasa ingin tahu, dan harapan menemaniku.”",motivational +2548,“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”,motivational +4589,"“Do not empower your negative thoughts by giving them “legs” so they can run around your mind, creating worries,frustrations, and anxiety in your life.”",motivational +4130,“You think this mountains is bigger than God? Think again!”,motivational +2849,"“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”",motivational +6560,"“If death should come over me, just know that I am happy to be free”",motivational +4582,"“Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.”",motivational +3153,"“When YOU choose to change, your reality must change accordingly. It simply has no other choice.”",motivational +3117,"“Jedi are conversationalists and negotiators, bringing people together and solving problems. Jedi listen and feel to what others are saying.”",motivational +2962,“Leave your excuses and live your dreams!”,motivational +5461,“Life will always take you through various seasons. Learn to thrive in each season and come out ready to deal with any situation.”,motivational +4216,"“The blunderer who expects to receive a searing lash of someone's rage , but instead receives a breeze of their tranquilly is swamped immediately with unfathomable shame and misery.”",motivational +5980,"“Treasure good health, give thanks to God,”",motivational +5477,"“Each of us has only one life, unique from every other, and we all have reason to ask, “Why me?”, not in bitterness or despair but in awe and gratitude.”",motivational +5536,“Being a leader is not easy. It's a delicate balance between humility and self-confidence. It takes immense courage to lead others but also requires an honest awareness of our own limitations.”,motivational +5189,“The splendour of life is often experienced after you have overcome the challenges in your path.”,motivational +6137,“Reality is as necessary as reason.”,motivational +6733,“Purposefully pursue your dreams with all diligence.”,motivational +5575,“Success is not dependent on luck - it starts with personal leadership and the power of intention.”,motivational +3894,"“Beautiful are dance styles, like counting the eternal, limitless stars.”",motivational +6284,"“Love can make the world come together Opening our hearts to the futureOnly love can make the world come together Come together, changing the weather”",motivational +5374,“There’s no school of life where one can get certified. Yet it offers the same courses with a different set of tests for each person alive.”,motivational +5871,“Not All Dry Wood's Face Is A Funance”,motivational +6632,“Embrace your greatness”,motivational +2656,“No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.”,motivational +6358,“Courage can gift you with immense opportunities; you just need to try and take a leap of faith...”,motivational +4566,"“Seek first the kingdom of heaven WITHIN, whereby lies an abundance of treasures and resources that you need”",motivational +3644,"“shit´s already broken so you might as well just try to fix it, and if you can´t at least know you know how to take it apart”",motivational +2694,“Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.”,motivational +5362,"“No one has their life together, even if they do, it will not be forever. At some point in time, life happens to everyone.”",motivational +3758,"“If you want success then you have to be a risk bearer in life, take that courageous step and go on until you achieve it.Go ahead!”",motivational +3841,“Don't stop until you get five-finger clarity on your values and beliefs.”,motivational +6701,"“Till our next generations are not taught about the price paid by our ancestors to retain our identity, the will wind up choosing wrong Heroes.”",motivational +6658,"“No time? If you do one thing a day, you will have done thirty things in a month.”",motivational +5219,"“In recent years, it has become increasingly difficult to digest some situations because of people who make assumptions about life's conditions based solely on screenshots, oblivious to what occurred before those screenshots.”",motivational +4293,"“A crisis which can be distractive, can turn out to be constructive.”",motivational +3258,“I've had many dreams useless dreams while sleeping. Priceless are those that guide me while awake.”,motivational +4270,"“Whoever shall call on the name of the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, shall be saved.”",motivational +6428,"“Stay low grow slow, talk less do more!”",motivational +2989,"“This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered life. Allow upon this fertile moment to be planted the seeds of your happiness and success.”",motivational +2661,“How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.”,motivational +4032,"“You can stay stuck or go forward, but you can't go back. Don't let your fear of falling hold you back! You've got this!”",motivational +4628,"“If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.”",motivational +4851,"“Where God has spoken, the voice and wisdom of man is irrelevant.”",motivational +3748,“A man is created to fellowship with his Marker.”,motivational +2568,"“Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.”",motivational +3446,"“Motivate yourself by practicing positive self discipline. Without self discipline, there is no self motivation.”",motivational +4147,“Your Goals Your Life Your Choices :)”,motivational +6628,"“Manusia terbentuk dari impian. Tanpa itu, kita hanyalah robot yang bergerak mengikuti hiruk pikuk dunia, tapi tidak mengiringi irama yang dilantuntan bumi. Dan impian bukan sesuatu yang absolut. Ia dapat berubah, bertambah, bahkan berkurang.”",motivational +6734,“Anxiety is never your fault. Neither is it an innate part of who you are. Change is possible.”,motivational +6077,“But still hope.”,motivational +3760,"“Success is no accident.... It is hard work, perseverance , learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all... love of what you are doing.... Tribute to the legend Pele”",motivational +6711,"“If we don't wind down, we'll never truly wake up.”",motivational +2679,“Be careful the stories you're telling yourself about your current circumstances; a head full of negative thoughts has no space for positive ones.”,motivational +3966,"“Inspiration is found in the unknown, what you discover there is up to you.”",motivational +6057,“Silence is the most effective tool for accomplishing goals.”,motivational +6705,“Where there's a will there are ten thousand ways”,motivational +4830,“The journey of your life begins the moment you start living out your vision”,motivational +4144,"“To act is to commit, and to commit is to take risks.”",motivational +5623,"“Make progress every day, no matter how small it may be – execution builds momentum that can help you reach new heights!”",motivational +6598,“I’ve learnt only one thing in my life-Never to let the quest culminate At the railing of the skies-There’s a world beyond!”,motivational +5512,"“Once we’ve been victimized, none of us can choose not to have been victimized; we can only choose how to respond.”",motivational +2837,“You are the perfect creation of God. Don't allow you to be down. God is experiencing through you.”,motivational +6148,“The best Gift is to realize how blessed you already are”,motivational +6402,“No need to prove anything to anyone when you already understand your self-esteem.”,motivational +6615,"“Only believe, you shall behold.”",motivational +3849,“It is far better to fail while trying new things than to succeed doing nothing.”,motivational +6171,“Some random clicks shine brighter than we expect!”,motivational +2723,"“remember that trying is eighty percent of doing something. So try and don't give up, because not giving up is the other twenty percent.”",motivational +2846,"“The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.”",motivational +6570,"“I am headed to create classical moments, so that my son can have classic memories.”",motivational +5216,“The struggle you face today is the strength you will carry tomorrow.”,motivational +5660,"“You have the power to make your own journey - be kind to yourself, and embrace the risks you take.”",motivational +4258,"“Your success is your responsibility, nobody else's.”",motivational +4929,"“Falling out of meditation is easy, much like losing luck or drifting into sleep. You often can't precisely pinpoint how it happens but know miracles have ceased to work in your favor.”",motivational +3217,"“It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.”",motivational +6234,“The best reward comes from our collective effort and energy.”,motivational +6150,“Coz Yolande means Purple and I'm loving it!”,motivational +6501,"“In this life cycle, one must willingly carry out one's responsibilities by serving living beings while appreciating the beauty of life.”",motivational +2996,“People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.”,motivational +2554,"“If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”",motivational +5867,“Let's wear the flowers of courage grown from the seeds of hope in the soil of our insecurities.”,motivational +2908,“Live life with a purpose and live it full out.”,motivational +6498,“Every flower represents a soul that is blooming with beauty and innocence.”,motivational +5665,“You are exactly where you need to be.Do something if you want something. Otherwise It will be your whole life.”,motivational +2898,“Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness”,motivational +6361,"“Tell your heart to keep beating and stand strong, and eventually you will bounce back to see colour in the world.”",motivational +3136,"“Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.”",motivational +6740,“Connection gives us the grace and grit to unleash our potential and endure the challenge of our daily mess.”,motivational +5438,"“Regardless of how you perceive it, life is the greatest gift every human being has ever received. Be cheerful about it, and cherish it.”",motivational +4029,"“We're all capable of more, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Keep chasing those dreams, through hard work you'll eventually catch them.”",motivational +3334,"“Do not be petrified while looking behind; burn all the bridges! The only correct path is always, ever forward.”",motivational +4008,"“My focus is on progression, not perfection. My progression is already perfect -- unfolding as it should, when it should, according to divine alignment”",motivational +5802,"“Tragedy happens to lots of people. You can decide to let it destroy you, or you can decide to move on.”",motivational +4927,"“Change is the chisel that shapes our lives, carving the way for our evolution and growth, even though it may be uncomfortable.”",motivational +3442,“The things that pertain to your destiny are bought with time; the way you spend your time determines what you become.”,motivational +5550,“Aligning your goals with your lifestyle is the foundation for living a life that feels both intentional and fulfilling.”,motivational +3974,"“You could have lived my life and I could have lived yours, because without knowing each other I can say that suffering very often shows a similar face when it decides to hit one of us.”",motivational +6069,“There are a thousand different ways to get home. Just dance and celebrate until you dissolve into one.”,motivational +3122,"“It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity.”",motivational +3690,"“You are a princess. All our subjects watch us, observe us and follow the example we set. So, our behaviour should always be exemplary, as several people look up to us.”",motivational +5731,"“Miracles happen every day, but only those who believe in them can see their power.”",motivational +5175,“Every struggle carries within it the seeds of wisdom and strength.”,motivational +2638,"“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”",motivational +5491,“Your aim is not just what you train your eye on; it is how you train your eye.”,motivational +2546,"“When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”",motivational +6467,"“The goal of life is perfection; every incident, no matter how minor or significant, and every adversity we face are all part of a divine plan that will all work out in the end.”",motivational +6095,“They returned our actions and words to us like echoes in a mountain.”,motivational +3428,"“By being kind, you have already begun your journey to the self.”",motivational +5277,"“It is not always easy to go through life. Sometimes stuff happens and you face hard times, but you do not have to be hard on yourself. You can still do your best and become a great success.”",motivational +6619,“It's always too early to quit”,motivational +3000,“Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there.”,motivational +3639,“The successful among us delay gratification and bargain with the future.”,motivational +6029,"“True comfort cannot be bought with fame and luxury, it must be earned through personal growth and self-acceptance”",motivational +2818,"“If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.”",motivational +3246,"“If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.”",motivational +5749,"“Each corpuscle contains the cosmos,Each valve is gateway to valor.Cada corpúsculo contiene el cosmos,Cada válvula es la puerta al valor.”",motivational +3053,“Feelings are real. They often become one’s reality. But they are not always based on truth.”,motivational +4969,"“Excellence requires growth.Growth requires learning.Learning requires change...Change is inextricably imbued with risk.Risk implies that failure is possible, if not likely.But, Great & Good frontload the risk.”",motivational +4312,“Each day is meant to edify you and equip you with the necessary tools for you to reach your destiny.”,motivational +5720,"“Though our loved ones may push us towards success, it is often our enemies who drive us to secure the final nail in the coffin of our accomplishments.”",motivational +6318,"“To start something, you need an idea and to work on it you need confidence, so plant the idea and let the confidence grow with time!”",motivational +3321,“PDA untuk mengurus masa”,motivational +6632,“Embrace your greatness”,motivational +4540,"“Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.”",motivational +2752,“You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.”,motivational +2779,"“People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language. ""I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,"" a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”",motivational +6019,"“It’s never too late to ask yourself, ‘Am I willing to change from within?”",motivational +4279,“The world would change dramatically if people started supporting and appreciating entrepreneurs in the way they appreciate and admire art and artist.”,motivational +3770,"“It’s important to think of what it means to powerfully and successfully rise to challenges, and all that it requires: determination, clarity, and steering clear of victim mentality”",motivational +4932,"“Resilience is the ability to overcome and adapt to change — embrace challenges, keep learning, and Don’t give up!”",motivational +3428,"“By being kind, you have already begun your journey to the self.”",motivational +5938,"“Life is all about making decisions, but it's not the decisions we make that shape our lives - it's our habits. Habits are the daily actions that give us direction and eventually decide where we end up. So choose your habits wisely.”",motivational +5132,“Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it by playing small. Aim for greatness.”,motivational +6268,"“A solution to a problem may be effective, but that doesn't mean it's the best solution”",motivational +4558,“I refuse to live life with unsettled differences”.”,motivational +6008,“Positive emotions are created with peaceful thoughts.”,motivational +3673,"“Do it to perfection, or not at all.”",motivational +2883,“I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”,motivational +4541,"“Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.”",motivational +2653,“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”,motivational +2939,"“If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, ""I can't"" & all of its cousins, such as ""I wish I were able to.”",motivational +3212,"“Anytime you're afraid to try something new...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.”",motivational +5140,“Success is not about reaching the top; it's about lifting others up along the way.”,motivational +3471,"“I kissed your fist, and now you're healed.”",motivational +4742,“the future belongs to those who can change with the times and use personal disappointments as building blocks for the future.”,motivational +4549,"“Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat--things gent freaky. The cool rationality of Isaac Newton gives way to the bizarre unpredictability of Lewis Carroll.”",motivational +4336,“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”,motivational +4616,"“If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.”",motivational +6576,“Drama free workplace and ego free team mates are crucial for a healthier workplace”,motivational +3446,"“Motivate yourself by practicing positive self discipline. Without self discipline, there is no self motivation.”",motivational +3314,“The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.”,motivational +3971,"“They say my future is my choice, but it doesn’t feel like that.”",motivational +5923,"“One small shift in mindset, one tiny tweak to your daily routine — these are the things that can end up driving your future.”",motivational +2518,"“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”",motivational +4376,"“Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”",motivational +3392,"“Words are very good, but it is actions going forward that count!”",motivational +6072,"“As one thinks about the objects of the senses, one becomes attached to them. Attachment comes before desire, and desire comes before anger.”",motivational +3897,“Dance with an energy that makes mountains move to your choreography.”,motivational +5909,“Life is too short to spend it second guessing yourself! Break down those walls of limiting beliefs and get ready for amazing things ahead!”,motivational +3332,“Don't let the past determine the present moment because it has no power over it.”,motivational +4773,“The second rule of underachievement reversal highlights that underachievers fall into various categories based on their motivation and ability levels at different times.”,motivational +3444,“One of the origins of poverty is lack of respect for time.”,motivational +5308,"“Look for the lessons life presents, because through them you can gain the knowledge and wisdom to live well.”",motivational +5061,“Learn to mock your influence on the world or wait for the world to do it for you; you won’t have to wait long.”,motivational +6353,"“Engage yourself in work so that there is no time for regrets, stay focused on your work, and ignore the negative energy...”",motivational +4304,"“When you focus on solving the big problems of this world, you will eventually find big solutions for those problems.”",motivational +2561,"“The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm.”",motivational +3234,"“Don’t forget to collect the memories on your journey. Remember, if you only focus on your destination, you will miss out on the benefits of the journey.”",motivational +5244,"“Sometimes the more you do good, the more tragedies you will experience in life, but you can sleep well at night knowing you have done your best to help others.”",motivational +5678,“The mud-lusciousness of spring is a reminder to embrace life’s messiness and to find beauty in unexpected places.”,motivational +4421,“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.”,motivational +4104,"“By reaching your goal means you grow in some level and show you how well you've done? how strong, brave you're not being bossy and abuse other people rights.”",motivational +4422,“I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.”,motivational +4974,"“The five magicians, a motivational book that will change you forever. If you want to be successful and see the path that leads to it, you must read this book, written with great skill by Bruis Cabilio. The book is available on Amazon.”",motivational +5245,“The quality of your thoughts determines how far you can go in life.”,motivational +3357,“I must always write this way. I must always feel – and deeply.”,motivational +4617,“Achieving success is a challenge but so is struggling so you may as well choose success. ”,motivational +2510,"“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”",motivational +6763,“Behaviour is your character in action”,motivational +6577,"“Each time I try, I lose my aim.And the pain startsall over again.It's not an easy target.It's hopeless.But after a whileI start again.”",motivational +3400,“The amount and the way I love myself is my superpower.”,motivational +4538,“Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.”,motivational +5668,"“Unleash your inner fire, ignite your passion, and blaze a trail that leaves a mark on the world. You hold the power to create your legacy, so rise up, own your strength, and burn bright.”",motivational +4884,"“Courage is taking the first step, even when you don't know what lies ahead; It's about having the inner strength to take a leap of faith, even when you're not sure what's coming next.”",motivational +4441,“A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.”,motivational +3888,"“Yes, my path was a rocky one, but now I can look down on it from the hill with a smile—that is the ether to fill you.”",motivational +6189,"“As long as you keep moving, it doesn't matter how slowly you go.”",motivational +3798,“I believeI can make itOn my ownThanks to my inherent tendencyTo do miraclesThe Waxing”,motivational +4148,“Self-love is the balance between accepting yourself as you are while knowing that you deserve better and working towards it.”,motivational +5190,"“Things may not be going well in your life, but you are still alive. That is all that matters. Look for every opportunity possible to find happiness in your path.”",motivational +3495,"“They say when you put language to something, it creates meaning. Language creates the ability for someone to communicate and explore an idea more fully in a way that is not possible without language.”",motivational +3726,"“Seeing my book mentioned in different interviews and posts is an indescribable feeling. I’ll never take this love for granted.Whatever you’re creating right now, keep going. It is never too late.”",motivational +3863,"“Dance overwhelms you, as though an entire world moves within you.”",motivational +6643,"“For once in your life be a total idiot, for the right cause, for there is no righter cause than the cause of humanity.”",motivational +4068,���Allow yourself to learn new things to be grow”,motivational +3926,“Sometimes what seems like a destination is actually a bridge to a new chapter.”,motivational +3462,“Every enemy can be beaten. All you need is the right team at your back.”,motivational +3491,“Small acts of kindness and love rippled out and had more of an impact than they ever could have imagined.”,motivational +3482,“Mm.. I see you wondering how to take good care of your feet. Walk the journey that you’ll never regret.”,motivational +6641,"“I believe, with all my heart, that anyone can improve and create a life they love from where they are right now.”",motivational +6480,"“Self-awareness— understanding our own motivations, our strengths and challenges—is the key to getting ready to mentor.”",motivational +3421,“Maintain an undying relationship with God and enjoy all of His benefits; do not run to Him only when you feel you need Him; you may be disappointed.”,motivational +2544,"“Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.”",motivational +5895,“It's time to put aside the limits that have been placed on you and start believing in your own strength and potential!”,motivational +4219,“We are all messed up creatures trying to find our way through life.”,motivational +5528,“Your life has come at the expense of a nearly infinite number of other potential lives that will now never get to be lived because you get to live.”,motivational +3303,“They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.”,motivational +6544,"“Allow love to rule your life. Welcome more love into your relationships, your dealings with others and your sense of identity, which will shower you in unexplainable peace and serenity.”",motivational +5619,“Doing the right thing is not a matter of convenience; it reflects your values and integrity.”,motivational +3832,“...prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.”,motivational +2825,"“Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.”",motivational +4904,“Keep on going. Don’t be discouraged. Borrow a leaf from a determined tourist who must get to their destination despite not being conversant with the routes to it.”,motivational +4670,“She appears quiet and subdued.The paradox: Raging storms twirl inside her.”,motivational +5253,"“Life offers many free lessons, but most people would rather pay the heavy price of ignorance because they cannot pay attention to the subtle lessons of life.”",motivational +4099,“Step into a mistry world of believing and trust in you before you blame other people.”,motivational +5619,“Doing the right thing is not a matter of convenience; it reflects your values and integrity.”,motivational +6438,"“An entrepreneur sees reward, not risk!”",motivational +4504,"“Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders"".”",motivational +3820,“We are a shrine to our destiny. What we achieve depends on what we do”,motivational +3793,"“If you can begin to see your life as a feedback mechanism that is reflecting who you are, with the ultimate goal to help you live better and more fully. All of a sudden you realize it was never the world standing in your way but your own mind.”",motivational +4891,"“A True Powerhouse Never Surrenders have courage, stay strong, and win every battle along your path to success.”",motivational +5747,"“Setting boundaries isn't about keeping people out, it's about protecting the energy you allow in.”",motivational +4647,"“When yeu win, your success story can be whatever the fuck yeu want.”",motivational +4212,"“75 percent of the constituent alphabets in the phrase ""Your personal life"" establish one's right to withhold, barricade, and restrict others' access to specific exclusive information, generally referred to as: A SECRET”",motivational +2870,“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”,motivational +5112,“It only takes one step towards a dream for possibilities to open up — stay focused on that goal no matter what gets in your way!”,motivational +4224,“The great deliver is the Divine Being.”,motivational +6246,"“How you live now determines the kind of life you will live & have from now,for if you keep doing the same things then expect the same results.”",motivational +4977,“Stay dedicated even when the motivation fades. That’s true progress.”,motivational +3064,“Have faith in the universe and its capability to lead you to the path of abundance.”,motivational +3333,"“Life calls us to where we need to be, and not where we want to be. It's that simple.”",motivational +5316,“It is wise to plan effectively and do what is required in order to live a fruitful life.”,motivational +5227,“Never desire someone else’s life. You have no clue what they have been through. You may also not fully understand what they are going through.”,motivational +6016,"“Through everything and every Atma (Soul) in this universe, you can see Param-Atma (Supreme).”",motivational +6249,“Character is when alone and nobody is watching while behavior is when one is in the stage spotlight.”,motivational +4082,"“Oh, I see you think to be half necked on your gorgeous or killer outfit is rocking or cool that's not law of fashion and it out of style.”",motivational +6506,“Overthinking is the greatest thief of our dreams.”,motivational +4637,"“Ambivalence is one of the biggest enemies of change. If you aren't sure that you really want to take action on something such as your weight, ambivalence will usually win.”",motivational +4911,"“The scariest moment is always just before you start.After that, things can only get better.”",motivational +5837,“Making excuses for yourself only leads to continued stagnation.”,motivational +3096,“Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.”,motivational +4520,“Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.”,motivational +4055,"“Surround yourself with leaders who have their own thoughts and opinions. This is an incredible way to sharpen your mind, learn from diverse perspectives, and merge genius ideas.”",motivational +2802,“Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.”,motivational +4493,“The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.”,motivational +5625,“You can achieve greatness if you have big dreams and believe in yourself.”,motivational +4198,"“How we treat others is a reflection of how we treat ourselves.It is rare almost impossible, for a mean, conniving, hurtful, racist, bigoted person to truly love themselves.”",motivational +3644,"“shit´s already broken so you might as well just try to fix it, and if you can´t at least know you know how to take it apart”",motivational +4572,“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!”,motivational +3515,"“Rather than seeing each departure as permanent goodbyes, treat them as natural farewells.”",motivational +5022,"“It takes courage to break unhealthy habits and replace them with healthier ones — stick to it, and keep moving forward with determination”",motivational +6034,“Happiness and sufferings coexist on the wheel of life.”,motivational +3755,“Be so positive that negative people take a turn towards positivity!”,motivational +6410,"“Your own lamp of light shall seek you happiness in time, always remember!”",motivational +3943,"“Though I’m curious as hell, I’m also afraid of what the answer might be.”",motivational +3079,"“It's better to do something with quality, no matter how long it takes you rather than do something mediocre, with constant quantity.”",motivational +4890,“Believe in yourself and make it happen — greatness is achieved when you refuse to take no for an answer.”,motivational +3753,“Do not be afraid to start something new and be a beginner/student again.”,motivational +4592,“Accept hardship as a necessary discipline.”,motivational +2785,“You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals.”,motivational +4395,"“No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.”",motivational +3773,"“It is very difficult and, in many cases, ultimately hopeless, to try to be kind to people who are unkind to you. But if you give it a try, it is not impossible and it is the noblest thing to do.”",motivational +3548,"“Inspiration surrounds us in nature, art, kindness, and within ourselves.”",motivational +3425,“The discovery of our calling is a great task; a task that is worth all of our efforts”,motivational +3393,“A running theme. There are no rules.”,motivational +5260,“Life is easy when you live among people who do not make things difficult for you.”,motivational +2529,“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”,motivational +5699,"“Fear is just an emotion. It is not true. The only thing that is true is the action you take, regardless.”",motivational +4861,“Don’t be afraid to restart. It’s an opportunity to start from scratch and create something better.”,motivational +3194,"“Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.”",motivational +2792,"“Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, ""without a vision (dream), a people perish."" You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.”",motivational +6255,"“I personally believe that fear is a great motivator. Being afraid can even be healthy, as you really achieve something grand when you get to the other side of your worst nightmare.”",motivational +3270,“A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that.”,motivational +4936,“Facing adversity with courage will help you stay focused on your end goal — don't be afraid to take the road less traveled.”,motivational +5015,"“Success takes action; it is not enough to simply dream. Let your every step ignite the spark that ignites change, as actions speak louder than words.”",motivational +2536,"“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”",motivational +3414,“Take care of your gut. This will help with your intuition.”,motivational +5612,“Every journey begins with a single step – stop waiting and start taking action TODAY.”,motivational +6507,“You can climb the mountain with courage of concentration.”,motivational +5502,"“Life is not just about putting your foot on the ground, it is about leaving a trail of footprints that create a long-lasting impact.”",motivational +5014,“Journaling is a great way to process any emotions that come up during challenging times – it can also help boost resilience.”,motivational +6117,“I’m frail; I’m heartbroken; I’m a moron; They have deceived me. The mind creates ridiculous doubts and quandaries about itself.”,motivational +6061,"“While you exist, be good.”",motivational +3961,"“I could steal words from my idol,Echo lyrics of a vinyl,But I have this feeling since we first met,That the right words haven’t been written yet.”",motivational +5864,"“In times of profound silence, we find the stillness to hear our inner voice and the strength to heed it.”",motivational +3023,“You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.”,motivational +2546,"“When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”",motivational +5850,"“Amidst the world’s deafening noise, the silence within us speaks the loudest.”",motivational +3394,"“There was a running theme through my friendships, and it was that of anarchy. I just loved people who were clear and definite in the proposition of life.”",motivational +5352,"“While it is great to have equal opportunities in life, it is equally important to use those opportunities to make a difference in other people's lives.”",motivational +4712,“Follow Your Heart & The world Shall Follow YOU!Reject it and It stops beating!”,motivational +3606,“Forgiveness provide you strengthWord Sorry make you calm”,motivational +4331,"“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”",motivational +5709,“Sometimes we do not need motivation to get started but the realization of a great motive behind what we are set to do”,motivational +5663,"“Lead with courage, own your decisions, and embrace accountability - the true hallmark of a fearless leader.”",motivational +5601,"“Don't let the thing you fear most control your life! Remember, your fear of it is only an illusion - if you choose to confront it, you can break free from its power.”",motivational +6038,“Faith is the power that allows a perplexing world to emerge into the light.”,motivational +6286,"“Choose words wisely, wisely you will learnThe manner in which we choose to express Determines the outcome of this game of chess”",motivational +5404,“Life is not about the absence of trials. They will somehow show up even if we did not commit any crime. The presence of trials helps us stand the test of time.”,motivational +5961,“Every moment is a gift; the only moment you know for sure is the present moment.”,motivational +6019,"“It’s never too late to ask yourself, ‘Am I willing to change from within?”",motivational +3496,"“Enoughness isn’t necessarily about getting rich; it’s about the idea that God provides for our needs, and it is our responsibility to share with those who don’t have enough any abundance God has blessed us with.”",motivational +6624,“It is better to say No instead of pretending to have all the answers.”,motivational +6534,"“Stay diligent in your ways; anything you seek with diligence you shall find, and none of your requests to The Universe shall be declined; may take time, but that's because your blessings will be one of a kind.”",motivational +6687,"“When you become a child with a child, you forget everything; That is the real state of happiness”",motivational +4190,“Live your dreams. Breathe your dreams. Never give up on your dreams.”,motivational +6471,"“In my world, women’s motivation change.”",motivational +3441,“One piece of revelation can turn a man into a success story.”,motivational +6106,“Opportunity meets preparation. Prepare today for the opportunities you desire tomorrow.”,motivational +5741,“Technology is a simple tool that can be used for good or evil”,motivational +4488,"“GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.”",motivational +4363,"“We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us.”",motivational +5564,"“Your inner wisdom is your friend, and it lives inside the calm security of your Comfort Zone.”",motivational +3300,“Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.”,motivational +3299,"“If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.”",motivational +4317,“Success is the best Revenge.”,motivational +4763,"“Time, the silent sculptor of fate, moulds our trials into triumphs, showing us that ‘everything happens for good’ in the grand narrative of existence.”",motivational +6118,"“You might be dying, but you’re not dead yet, you miserable wretch, now get up and do something before you allow your brother’ssacrifice and everything we all have lost to be for nothing.”",motivational +4115,"“People can cheer you even if you going on wrong place,why?they don't want to disappoint you!”",motivational +3492,“Thank you for believing that all humans have intrinsic value and that our job has society is to ensure that all are empowered and have enough.”,motivational +6184,“Closeup Clicks are Crazily Cute!”,motivational +5888,"“Don't be fooled into thinking that pushing yourself all the time equals progress - taking a break every now and then is just as important, if not more so.”",motivational +3027,“I would rather live short and right then long and wrong.”,motivational +3098,“How would your life be different if...you had a plan of action towards your goals? Let today be the day...You stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals.”,motivational +3558,"“If they call you a dreamer, ignore them and keep dreaming. I know of a lad who was called that — he went on to become a governor of Egypt.”",motivational +6141,“Nothing is more scrumptious than a cup of bitter coffee.”,motivational +3467,"“some people live for themselves, good people live for others, successful people live for the present and others to come.”",motivational +3200,"“Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.”",motivational +6407,“Achieving something in life brings great joy and happiness.”,motivational +5454,"“Life may not always give you what you want, but do not give up on what you want; until you realize you did all that was required.”",motivational +3034,"“Never engage in gossip, it kills your soul, and wounds another’s heart”",motivational +5732,"“Value the person for who they are, not what they can do for you. True worth is found in their character rather than their accomplishments.”",motivational +4761,"“Occurrence is normal, persistence isn’t”",motivational +5852,“Never look with contempt on even the smallest beginning.”,motivational +6473,"“It is never too late to ask yourself, ‘Am I ready to make a life change?’ Is it possible for me to change from within?”",motivational +4383,“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”,motivational +4271,"“FEAR has its Reasons,COURAGE has Responsibility”",motivational +3028,"“We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love.”",motivational +3524,"“The support of others can get you to the top, but you still you have to develop your strength, by growing your own roots so that you can keep yourself there, even when they stop watering you.”",motivational +2624,"“The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.”",motivational +4941,"“Music is a celestial gift of the supreme, a melody that transcends time and touches the soul.”",motivational +3091,“Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want.”,motivational +2902,“Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.”,motivational +6296,“A queen of a magnificent typeAn angel from a mysterious time The iron lady escaped all the hype She made every moment her prime”,motivational +5276,"“If you want success in your life, do not focus on what others are doing. Instead, focus on what you should be doing.”",motivational +6675,"“She wasn’t a one in a million woman, she was a once in a lifetime lady.”",motivational +6368,“within you there is a power you haven’t tapped into yet. Within you is a potential you haven’t even scratched the surface of. But aren’t you sick of living in your potential and not living out your potential?”,motivational +2781,"“Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy”",motivational +4521,"“When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.”",motivational +3897,“Dance with an energy that makes mountains move to your choreography.”,motivational +6074,"“When one becomes self-aware, all mental delusions fade away like darkness in the sky, banished by the movement of the sun.”",motivational +2673,"“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”",motivational +4075,“I know that your beautiful eyes with or not make up are designed to see beyond you think.”,motivational +3236,“Confidence can be learned - but not from a book. Confidence comes from from living.”,motivational +4551,“The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life!”,motivational +6705,“Where there's a will there are ten thousand ways”,motivational +6004,“One can discover true bliss in nature’s stillness.”,motivational +3286,“Wisdom comes from knowing the order of things...and you are the first order of your business.”,motivational +2721,"“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”",motivational +6270,“The kind of seed sown will yield the same type of fruit.”,motivational +4084,“Welcome in Curve fitness and sports room w'll play and train together to be healthy and flexible mostly spiritual motivated.”,motivational +4956,"“You aren’t a jumbled assortment of traits and characteristics. On the contrary, the various aspects of your being are sublimely interconnected.”",motivational +5444,“Life is like a garden. Nurture it and plant the right seeds so they can bear good fruits. Do not let anyone plant the wrong seeds in your life because you will harvest them.”,motivational +5625,“You can achieve greatness if you have big dreams and believe in yourself.”,motivational +3099,“You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses.You become outstanding by focusing entirely on your strengths.”,motivational +5228,"“The essence of life is to live it, not as a competition but as a race. In this race, you can crawl, walk, or run the best way you deem fit, as long as you are moving forward.”",motivational +3221,“Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire.”,motivational +3443,"“Failure should not be a giving up point, it should give room for a restructured process”",motivational +2509,“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”,motivational +5356,"“If you want to live a life of happiness, do not trust those who are full of empty promises.”",motivational +6552,"“I know me God and I know you see my heartI ain't afraid, nothing will tear us apart”",motivational +4457,“A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.”,motivational +3425,“The discovery of our calling is a great task; a task that is worth all of our efforts”,motivational +5682,“There are lots of ways to celebrate achievements. Showing them that you have recognized their efforts will help them feel a sense of accomplishment and pride in what they are doing.”,motivational +4749,“I praise the day I reach the end of my rope. That is the day true change can take place.”,motivational +2597,"“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”",motivational +4217,"“The healing process, in my opinion, is carried out via a sequence of processes abbreviated as AIR; A - Admitting that you're broken. I - Identifying your shattered and distorted areas R - Repairing it with a hopeful and constructive attitude.”",motivational +4677,“WINNER:is A Runner who “Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine ExcellentRunners!”,motivational +6746,“Have no room for people who set you back.”,motivational +5549,"“Streamlining decision-making is not about sacrificing quality for speed, but rather finding a balance between thoughtful analysis and timely action to drive progress and success.”",motivational +2613,“7 Effective Ways to Make Others Feel Important 1. Use their name.2. Express sincere gratitude.3. Do more listening than talking.4. Talk more about them than about you.5. Be authentically interested.6. Be sincere in your praise.7. Show you care.”,motivational +3394,"“There was a running theme through my friendships, and it was that of anarchy. I just loved people who were clear and definite in the proposition of life.”",motivational +2935,“Action is the universal language of success.”,motivational +4403,"“How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses”",motivational +2824,"“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.”",motivational +3142,"“If you believe ,you can.""But work hard to believe"".”",motivational +4433,"“Don't be afraid to be afraid. Have fear, and then conquer the shit out of it.”",motivational +4564,"“Orang yang selalu menunda-nunda niatnya tidak akan mencapai apa-apa.Bertindak memang ada bahayanya, tetapi bila kita duduk saja menunggu rezeki nomplok, yang akan datang adalah kegagalan.Kesampingkan saja keragu-raguan anda dan maju terus.!”",motivational +5652,“The only way to crush fear is by confronting it and taking action - so don't hesitate - grab life with both hands and make it happen!”,motivational +4778,"“In the tapestry of existence, music is the thread that weaves emotions into the fabric of our hearts, creating a symphony of peace that resonates through the soul.”",motivational +3947,"“He makes a sharp maneuver, trying to hold my wrist for a better grip, but he fails.”",motivational +3060,“The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.”,motivational +3223,“Shrug off the no’s – they are temporary. This is your world. In your world there is only yes.”,motivational +6419,"“A bad memory can lead to sadness but a good memory will keep you happy, now you know what you wanna choose!”",motivational +4221,"“If you’ve had to make an effort to fit-in , then it concludes that you’ve been trying on the wrong size”",motivational +5897,"“Deep silence is the soul's language, where words are unnecessary, and the heart speaks the truth.”",motivational +3615,"“While you give your best, then you can't be regerected after being failed.”",motivational +6714,“Maybe the worst reason to do anything. I got scared.”,motivational +2758,“The most powerful magic of all is choice.”,motivational +4938,"“Khud se jeetne ki zid h khudko hi hrana h ,M bheed nhi hu duniya ki mere andar zamana h.”",motivational +4562,"“If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.”",motivational +2966,“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”,motivational +2715,"“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”",motivational +3407,"“When you see something wrong happening in the world, you can do nothing about it, or you can do something about it.”",motivational +5969,"“By becoming my best friend and being comfortable in the quiet, I can retreat any time into my personal sanctuary.”",motivational +5893,"“When it comes to life, if you believe in yourself and take bold risks, the possibilities are practically infinite.”",motivational +2529,“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”,motivational +2917,"“Professional development is important, but let's not forget about the most important kind of development - personal brand development. Because in the modern workplace, it's not what you know, it's who knows you.”",motivational +3402,“It is often the seemingly least significant details of each day that turn out to shape our most life-altering events.”,motivational +3022,“Intent without dedicated action is simply not enough. Action without a clear intent is a waste. It is when these two powerful forces are aligned that the energy of the universe conspires in your favor.”,motivational +6617,“You will never improve in life if you’re always living on easy street. Strength and progress can be gained if only you just step outside of your comfort zone.”,motivational +4642,"“Yeu only live once.No matter what yeu choose to do with it, it should be worth it.”",motivational +6103,“The next 24 hours is a blank canvas. Your canvas. What will you paint on it?”,motivational +5464,“Life will constantly grant you an opportunity to learn. Use it well.”,motivational +4068,“Allow yourself to learn new things to be grow”,motivational +3774,"“We humans don't regret on what we have done, we regret of how foolish we were.”",motivational +4677,“WINNER:is A Runner who “Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine ExcellentRunners!”,motivational +6146,“It's always never worth the money; until you possess it.”,motivational +3257,“Life isn't a struggled to know what's right. It's a struggle to do it.”,motivational +5935,"“Fear can keep us stuck in our comfort zone, but courage can open us up to tremendous possibilities and growth. The choice is yours.”",motivational +4435,"“Today is the day you choose to find joy, fulfillment and the path that will make your heart sing. It's your choice, never lose sight of that.”",motivational +6312,"“Self-esteem and pride are the two main tools that build confidence, don’t lose them or you will lose yourself...”",motivational +6210,“It is by your faith that you can stand firm.”,motivational +4864,“People who go to work primarily for their income are eager to put in the effort required for it. But people who believe in the company and its purpose are emotionally committed and want to contribute effectively.”,motivational +4843,"“Real dreamers do not quit, but a belly dreamer does.”",motivational +2814,"“A very small percentage of the people in this world will actually experience and live today. So many people will be stuck on another day, another time that traumatized them and caused them to spiritually stutter so they miss out on this day.”",motivational +6173,“Sometimes random clicks turn out to be the prettiest of all”,motivational +4497,"“Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.”",motivational +3169,"“The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.”",motivational +2819,“Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most.”,motivational +5428,"“If you are objective enough to evaluate your journey through life, you will come to the right conclusions about who you are.”",motivational +3590,"“Language has the power to weave inspiration into the fabric of our souls, painting vibrant pictures in our minds.”",motivational +5479,"“Your life is one giant, continuous sacrifice being poured out on the altar of your choosing, moment by moment and day by day.”",motivational +3262,"“Time is too short in this one life, to be able to do everything, but it definitely is long enough at least to be able to develop the will to do anything & everything...”",motivational +6638,"“If you have to hurt other people in order to feel powerful, you are an extremely weak individual.”",motivational +2860,“Your feelings wouldn't get hurt if you were honest with yourself”,motivational +3410,“Running after my own dreamsTripping over my own feetHeld on to my self esteemWalking to my own loud beatSo stand tall or take a seat”,motivational +6396,“Happiness is not a path it is a destination.”,motivational +2666,“Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind.”,motivational +4485,"“If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by.”",motivational +3464,"“In the light of your success, they see you. In the shadows of your struggle, you see them.”",motivational +4579,“Make plans for your new goals. And press towards achieving the goals with all your strength.”,motivational +2911,“To be is to do.”,motivational +5287,“Your life is more valuable than all the precious stones in this world. Realize your own value and do something of value.”,motivational +3895,"“To shift, drift, and move, most glorious, is the blessing of dance.”",motivational +5961,“Every moment is a gift; the only moment you know for sure is the present moment.”,motivational +3463,"“The wrong people will only bring you only sorrow and grief. Good people will give you joy and comfort. Choose wisely whom you come close to, and whom you let go.”",motivational +4220,"“It takes effort to find love.It takes effort to feel fulfilled.It takes effort to be fit.It takes effort to be happy.Which is why most of us do not have love, fulfilment, happiness or fitness in our life.”",motivational +3781,“They make you as they are because it’s the only thing they know and then they tell you it’s your fault because they are jealous you are better than them. But the truth is it’s never your fault. It’s their fault”,motivational +6319,“Master ignoring the unnecessary worry and embrace the positiveness that gives you the confidence to face any issues you might stumble upon.”,motivational +5133,“The greatest failure in life is not trying at all. Dare to chase your dreams.”,motivational +4890,“Believe in yourself and make it happen — greatness is achieved when you refuse to take no for an answer.”,motivational +3949,“You do not bother to think about the past or the future. Now is what really matters.”,motivational +5487,“Worthy goals are always hard.”,motivational +4305,“Where you find the end is the real beginning.”,motivational +6517,"“No matter what happens to you, pray for strength to hold on.”",motivational +3902,"“Immense and intense is the reach of dance, moving souls with its majestic trance.”",motivational +3777,“Do not be afraid to start something new and become a beginner/student again.”,motivational +6222,“The most successful people are full of enthusiasm. There is an unmistakable fire in their eyes. They speak and act with passion.”,motivational +3037,"“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”",motivational +6131,“Beauty is a Treasure while Style is a Fortune”,motivational +5466,"“Life will not always be easy, but the ups and downs make it amazing.”",motivational +5422,"“Life is a loan which you will one day have to repay before God. Ensure that the day you repay it, you are met with rapturous applause.”",motivational +6099,“Why do you continue to live in confinement when the door is so wide open?”,motivational +4655,“If you're jealous of someone else it simply means you have not come to a true acceptance and appreciation of yourself.”,motivational +5877,"“From an acorn grows a mighty oak - don't be embarrassed, be proud of where you're starting from, because it's all part of the journey!”",motivational +3447,“Crave for transcending or else it will become compulsive.”,motivational +3033,“Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead”,motivational +2509,“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”,motivational +2882,"“Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!”",motivational +4848,“The risk from all ventures makes the outcome shine more brightly; the higher the risk the higher the brightness.”,motivational +6513,“A man on fire is a man of faith.”,motivational +5560,"“A teacher casts his work into the wind, knowing not where it will be blown, in hopes that a seed will land somewhere it can take root and outlive the one who cast it.”",motivational +4873,“Entrepreneurs who succeed in employing and promoting the right people for the work within their business and in establishing an appropriate corporate organizational surrounding create the conditions for healthy growth.”,motivational +4033,"“My experiment about life is that what I was trying, with all my interest, now I am getting more or less success from that effort.”",motivational +4154,“You must daily build your strength in the spirit in order to overcome your struggles.”,motivational +2521,“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”,motivational +4786,"“In the lexicon of life, ‘Mother’ is not just a word; it’s the embodiment of the purest emotions and the sweetest lullabies.”",motivational +5663,"“Lead with courage, own your decisions, and embrace accountability - the true hallmark of a fearless leader.”",motivational +2637,"“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”",motivational +6322,"“Be a light of your own darkness, bloom with immense light within to surpass all obstacles in life...”",motivational +5724,"“It takes courage to let go of the past, but the ability to forget it is where true freedom is found.”",motivational +5446,"“Life is quite short, do not cut it short by associating with those who make you feel small.”",motivational +6436,"“Lift others with you and others will lift many more, soon when you look back at where you started you will be proud that you did!”",motivational +4548,"“Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.”",motivational +2535,"“Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.”",motivational +4621,“Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you.”,motivational +3760,"“Success is no accident.... It is hard work, perseverance , learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all... love of what you are doing.... Tribute to the legend Pele”",motivational +4554,"“Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?”",motivational +6531,"“Continue going after your dreams because you deserve them; life has many incredible experiences ahead of you. Today's obstacles are tomorrow's victories, and tomorrow's breakthroughs are today's possibilities.”",motivational +5882,"“If you don't want to sink, then it's time to cut the negative anchors loose and start swimming!”",motivational +5974,“The answers to your most pressing questions will arrive in your mind by being still in the moment and relaxing.”,motivational +5589,"“When a presumptively heterosexual man makes gratuitous transfers of money to a woman who is not his wife or daughter, it raises, fairly or not, questions about the man's motivations.”",motivational +6286,"“Choose words wisely, wisely you will learnThe manner in which we choose to express Determines the outcome of this game of chess”",motivational +3137,"“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”",motivational +2777,"“As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.”",motivational +5147,“Live your life as if every day is an adventure.”,motivational +4501,“Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.”,motivational +5399,"“When other people’s lives are flourishing but yours is not, do not give up. Not all flowers bloom at the same time. Like a flower that blooms in summer, you will flourish if you persevere during the dry seasons of life.”",motivational +5940,"“There is no shortcut to success - it takes hard work and dedication but with perseverance, you can become a leader who draws in quality people.”",motivational +3788,“Different kinds of people getting along can achieve wonderful things together.”,motivational +4868,"“Successful entrepreneurs recognise which business elements need to be maintained, and where changes need to be brought about.”",motivational +3083,"“If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.”",motivational +3815,“Every day you have the choice of how you want to start your day.”,motivational +5700,"“If you want to be truly successful, you must make mistakes and learn from them.”",motivational +5686,“Outliers are not necessarily uncommon; they are simply not always visible.”,motivational +5242,"“Sometimes life will require that you walk a million miles. Do it, no matter how hard it becomes. One day, you will look back and be proud that you were able to do that.”",motivational +4720,“If you accept working for 'peanuts' don't complain when you're treated like a monkey.”,motivational +4860,"“Destiny will open the way for people who have hope and determination. Fate will drown people who have no intention, ambition and motivation.”",motivational +6076,"“Understanding others is a sign of intelligence; understanding oneself is a sign of true wisdom. Controlling others is a sign of strength, but mastering oneself is a sign of true power.”",motivational +4163,“Firm was my resolveand fragile was my heart.I saw many ends and many a start.”,motivational +4087,“Welcome in Curve food you on my kitchen to learn deeply by Motivating and Inspired you in both sides spiritual and physical.”,motivational +4711,"“He who perseveres like an infant that falls down and keeps getting up, shall eventually find the way.”~ Amunhotep El Bey”",motivational +3898,“All possibilities remain within grasp when you dance upon the stage of life.”,motivational +4250,"“Be the cactus, a proof of unsubmission, and blossom amidst the fiercest environment.”",motivational +4433,"“Don't be afraid to be afraid. Have fear, and then conquer the shit out of it.”",motivational +3127,"“Tap into ‘The Force’ and soon, at any given time that you need that extra shot of high octane confidence; you will soon be like a Jedi Master at this technique.”",motivational +3782,“Doing the right things at the right timewill bring the right results.”,motivational +3464,"“In the light of your success, they see you. In the shadows of your struggle, you see them.”",motivational +4447,“Blessings! Count them and be thankful. Ask for an abundance of them and accept with gratitude.”,motivational +6461,“Nature makes no distinction between creating and destroying life.”,motivational +4889,“Create your own destiny by staying true to yourself— find inspiration from within fueled by self-belief and unstoppable determination!”,motivational +3476,“Today’s work is the key to tomorrow’s happiness. Yesterday’s regret is the lock to today’s potential.”,motivational +3824,“To whoever needs to hear this: It's never too late to change directions. Life isn't a linear path. So do not stifle your potential by staying in a lane that doesn't fit what you want for yourself anymore.”,motivational +3551,"“Your dreams have no expiration date. Chase them relentlessly, believe in yourself, and watch as they become your reality.”",motivational +2789,"“Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.”",motivational +5352,"“While it is great to have equal opportunities in life, it is equally important to use those opportunities to make a difference in other people's lives.”",motivational +3566,“Goals are for winners - dreams are for losers.”,motivational +5040,"“If you want to learn about patriarchal families, you don't ask the father, you ask the mother; then maybe you will learn something.”",motivational +6336,"“Challenges have no limits, strive to be the best and seek success.”",motivational +3516,“One special gift that is often overlooked is the spirit of persistence.”,motivational +3737,"“It's funny, haha.Time consuming oil.”",motivational +3543,“Life is a journey of endless opportunities for growth and self-discovery.”,motivational +2783,“You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE.”,motivational +5248,"“Appreciate the lessons brought to you by the courtesy of life. Some came through sweat and blood, but significant for your path.”",motivational +4797,"“In the symphony of humanity, understanding is the harmonious chord that bridges the gaps between hearts, allowing the music of empathy to resonate with the delicate notes of patience.”",motivational +3747,“May you find inner strength to rise up whenever you fall.”,motivational +2633,“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.”,motivational +6573,"“Some opportunities take time. Don't give up. Be patient, stay positive and watch them unfold. The best feeling in the world is getting paid to do what you love!”",motivational +6376,“JULY - Joy Unlimited Locate You”,motivational +3716,“The Maker makes it possible for us to move.”,motivational +5757,"“Fear makes us think we need more information before deciding, but often we just need courage!”",motivational +3426,“Lazy people do a little work and think they should be winning. Winners work as hard as possible and still worry that they are being lazy.”,motivational +6431,“Comfort is the goal of the man with no vision.”,motivational +4477,"“I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.”",motivational +5301,"“Not everyone was given a chance to be alive today. So, find happiness, enjoy your life and make a difference.”",motivational +3399,“There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”,motivational +4541,"“Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.”",motivational +3872,“The world seems void of silence whenever footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes.”,motivational +2636,“Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.”,motivational +3522,“Every inventive dream conjured today illuminates the possible pathways of tomorrow.”,motivational +4307,“Focus on one thing and be blind for everything else so that the whole world can see you shining.”,motivational +4026,“Freedom is free beyond a person's limit but it is better for him to free himself within his limits.”,motivational +6689,“A quote equals a good book”,motivational +3706,“Women are the armour of thousands of lives that rise up and shield one another from the darkest wounds.”,motivational +6381,"“Once you carry your water, you will learn the value of every drop.”",motivational +4982,"“What do you mean by ""Back in my day?"" Today is your day. So is tomorrow.”",motivational +5993,"“The brisk wind, flowing river, rocky mountains, dense forest, and blue sky all contribute to my deep understanding of life.”",motivational +6557,“Celebrate your now on the way to your next.”,motivational +6227,“History continues until we learn from it and change our course.”,motivational +2810,"“Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.”",motivational +6460,“Fear in its role as a protector is good when you have someone waiting at home and you don't want their lives disrupted because of your own adventurous spirit ..”,motivational +3494,"“But there is value in telling a story from the perspective of the mundane, from the real perspective that many of us are in for most of our lives.”",motivational +4371,“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”,motivational +5580,“True leadership is not about commanding authority; it's about earning respect.”,motivational +5632,“I've set myself to become the king of the pirates... And if I die trying... then at least I tried!”,motivational +3835,"“What motivates us? Challenge. What moves us? Challenge. What makes us better and stronger and more courageous? Challenge. Embrace the challenge, people!”",motivational +4916,"“Connections are the threads that weave the tapestry of our existence, and in their gentle care, we find the warmth that makes life’s fabric whole.”",motivational +6181,"“When you're given the opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give you things. You take things.”",motivational +5799,"“Writing is pain relief, or at least pain management.”",motivational +6541,"“. Many great things await you in the future, and with your wisdom life will be a game you skillfully manoeuvre.”",motivational +3211,"“Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,”",motivational +3082,“Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.”,motivational +5740,"“Just as the wind can be both gentle and fierce, life can be both beautiful and challenging.”",motivational +5140,“Success is not about reaching the top; it's about lifting others up along the way.”,motivational +6336,"“Challenges have no limits, strive to be the best and seek success.”",motivational +5738,“Peace begins with a conscious decision to remain calm under all circumstances”,motivational +2996,“People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.”,motivational +3855,"“Release yourself from this static state, and dance without end when the melody plays.”",motivational +6189,"“As long as you keep moving, it doesn't matter how slowly you go.”",motivational +5681,"“People with a strong sense of purpose, persistence and accomplishment perform better at work.”",motivational +4175,“Just be good. Baby you are a queen. Give wisdom a chance to be seen.”,motivational +4145,"“To open the door to progress, close the hinge of laziness.”",motivational +6622,"“Those who don't do, bark. Those who are humans, do.”",motivational +6061,"“While you exist, be good.”",motivational +3508,“The choices we make today will either haunt or empower the future; let wisdom guide our actions for the sake of our planet.”,motivational +3358,“Your days are numbered. Change your ways before it’s too late.”,motivational +3896,“Freedom will finally be within grasp when you experience heaven on earth with a dance.”,motivational +6220,“Every journey begins with a small step”,motivational +3875,"“The sensation of dance guides and heals, and magnifies what you feel.”",motivational +3329,“A Leo is not after a status. A Leo is the status.”,motivational +2962,“Leave your excuses and live your dreams!”,motivational +4132,“Quess what? would be a dramatic love look on your transformed body fat to a healthy muscles through body activities.”,motivational +5280,"“If you value your time, do not entertain anything that does not edify your life.”",motivational +6234,“The best reward comes from our collective effort and energy.”,motivational +5655,"“Don't be afraid of taking risks or stepping out of your zone of comfort, because that is often when amazing things happen.”",motivational +6597,"“Debt is like ice. Icebergs are dangerous, but once you apply a bit of heat (attention), the giant insurmountable force becomes something harmless that you can put in a cup and drink.”",motivational +4698,“May you find the courage to rise above any circumstance.”,motivational +3424,"“When you hide from responsibilities, you hide from greatness and you hide from progress”",motivational +6494,"“A perfect traveller who, as it flows, overcomes all obstacles. It cuts through the rock, flows through the meadows, crosses the dense forest, clears all the dirt in its path, and sets off on its own wonderful adventure.”",motivational +5383,“You can only realize the splendour of life if you are willing to fulfil your purpose while you still have time.”,motivational +3948,"“I’ve had the whole world at my disposal,The seven wonders for my rehearsal,But that was not enough,It’s tough to describe you.”",motivational +3243,“Not all things that fall down break. Some develop wings.”,motivational +6076,"“Understanding others is a sign of intelligence; understanding oneself is a sign of true wisdom. Controlling others is a sign of strength, but mastering oneself is a sign of true power.”",motivational +5846,"“When we tried to open the lock, we saw that is already open. And the problem we are trying to solve. It may be that there is no problem at all.”",motivational +5523,"“To expect a hospitable world is hubris. Instead, expect the opposite. Expect a world that may destroy you at its whim at any moment.”",motivational +5397,"“There comes a time in life when beauty has little or no value. That is why you should focus on what is more meaningful—invest in your brains. Do not allow beauty to deceive you; it fades, just like a magnificent building going up in flames.”",motivational +3469,"“And once you realise that you've been me and I have been you, you'd be more understanding.”",motivational +5497,"“Life is not about competing with others. It is about running your race with courage, and completing it in the right lane.”",motivational +6356,“Be confident in your own skin and face your insecurities with pride.”,motivational +3534,"“Choose any sport or entertainment that stimulates your mind and body. At least, commit to one.”",motivational +6373,"“Once you feel accomplished doing the inside work, the outside work will start to become easier, like second nature, because now you have mastered how to use your internal feelings to fuel your physical world.”",motivational +5371,“The wisdom to tackle the challenges of life differentiates extraordinary people from ordinary ones.”,motivational +5009,“Achieving sustainable success isn't just about working hard; it's about working smart too! High-performance habits can really make a difference!”,motivational +4455,“Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.”,motivational +3685,“A faithful God gives hope to face unknown future.”,motivational +2519,"“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”",motivational +5872,"“The fall of a leaf is not the end of its journey, but the beginning of something greater.”",motivational +5530,“Categorizing yourself by either your victimization or your privilege fails to give any clarity to life’s fundamental question: What are you going to do with it?”,motivational +5879,"“Taking time for yourself doesn't have to be hard or expensive - whether it's treating yourself to something small or dedicating an afternoon to relax, taking some time for self-care can make all the difference in your life.”",motivational +5338,"“Depend not on human beings because they change time and again. People who were once close can become estranged. That is the strange thing about life, it changes right in front of your eyes.”",motivational +2550,"“When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.”",motivational +3451,“Don't wait for somebody to give you something. You're strong. You're intelligent. Go out and earn it and work for it.”,motivational +4898,"“Being indecisive can hold you back. It's like chains that keep you from moving forward and growing. It's all fueled by fear, stopping you from taking those crucial steps towards progress.”",motivational +5053,"“You exist to be cared for only to a point, and with a purpose: that one day you might care for others.”",motivational +4919,"“Not trusting people does not make you a badperson, not trusting people prevents youfrom becoming a broken and a bad person.”",motivational +3512,"“The battle for a greener future begins within each individual, through conscious choices made daily.”",motivational +2528,"“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.”",motivational +2914,"“Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison.”",motivational +3522,“Every inventive dream conjured today illuminates the possible pathways of tomorrow.”,motivational +4346,"“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.”",motivational +5696,“True humility is recognizing that every being has something to teach us.”,motivational +3222,"“Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.”",motivational +6654,"“Should our motivation to achieve be just for the sake of the achievement itself with no thought of who/what we become in the process?If we want to sincerely enjoy our lives, who we become along the way is far more important than what we achieve.”",motivational +6362,“Just as life has no quick fix; transformation lacks a flick-switch approach as well. Investing in a better version of yourself will take time but pay you rich dividends as well.”,motivational +2648,“Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself.”,motivational +3471,"“I kissed your fist, and now you're healed.”",motivational +2880,"“When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable.”",motivational +6143,“Whoever does not comprehend your silence likely will not comprehend what you say.”,motivational +5049,"“You may treat the past and future as realities, but they are only realities in your memory and imagination. Only the present exists.”",motivational +6118,"“You might be dying, but you’re not dead yet, you miserable wretch, now get up and do something before you allow your brother’ssacrifice and everything we all have lost to be for nothing.”",motivational +4200,"“If I can't trust you, it doesn't matter how smart you are.”",motivational +2613,“7 Effective Ways to Make Others Feel Important 1. Use their name.2. Express sincere gratitude.3. Do more listening than talking.4. Talk more about them than about you.5. Be authentically interested.6. Be sincere in your praise.7. Show you care.”,motivational +4189,“I live in a way to make my daybook readable and interesting.”,motivational +6605,"“The effort involved in splitting the wood will be amply repaid by the warmth that it brings to the house. However, at the point that the axe becomes heavy and my arms get sore, the idea of the warmth goes cold.”",motivational +6524,"“When the world shakes you up, stay grounded; and when the world tries to ground you, shake the world up!”",motivational +5144,“Success is not about being better than others; it's about being the best version of yourself.”,motivational +4645,“The seeds you planted last year will grow in this year. Think hard on that when you plant again.”,motivational +5924,"“Sometimes it can feel like success comes in leaps and bounds, but the truth is that small shifts and tweaks are the things that will bring you closer to your desired future.”",motivational +6038,“Faith is the power that allows a perplexing world to emerge into the light.”,motivational +3794,"“You are only right when your timing is right, but you are never right when your timing is not right, no matter how hard you struggle to get your timing right.”",motivational +5687,“Sometimes the hardest paths lead us to the most beautiful places.”,motivational +6162,“A smiling heart makes the soul shine brighter”,motivational +4867,"“It is a fundamental mistake when companies with leadership problems, with inconsistent or exhausting management use incentives or well-being measures as a last resort instead of changing their leadership style or culture.”",motivational +2952,"“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”",motivational +2543,“It's never too late to change your life for the better. You don't have to take huge steps to change your life. Making even the smallest changes to your daily routine can make a big difference to your life.”,motivational +3983,“What could be sillier than having an imaginary boyfriend?”,motivational +6465,"“Love is eternal; the aspect may change,but not the essence.”",motivational +4306,"“Sometimes you start early and finish later, it does not mean that you have taken more time, it means that you experienced much more than others.”",motivational +4353,"“You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds...Claim and consciously use your power.”",motivational +3916,"“Genius doesn't wait for moments,they create it.”",motivational +4216,"“The blunderer who expects to receive a searing lash of someone's rage , but instead receives a breeze of their tranquilly is swamped immediately with unfathomable shame and misery.”",motivational +5446,"“Life is quite short, do not cut it short by associating with those who make you feel small.”",motivational +3808,“No leader can take the company forward if the company remains stuck in its past glories.”,motivational +3751,“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”,motivational +6484,“Never allow a struggle to turn your sky into a ceiling. You must believe there's always a way.”,motivational +5605,"“Time keeps ticking, but chances of success don’t have to pass you by. Take a leap of courage and put your best foot forward - because it is undeniably harder to fail than to never have tried.”",motivational +2517,“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”,motivational +4933,“Don't let distractions throw you off your game! Find your flow and make it count.”,motivational +4168,"“If you're facing the worst, then your back is certainly towards the best. All that remains is for you to decide whether or not to make that 180-degree turn that will surely bring a sharp contrast to your life.”",motivational +5139,“Surround yourself with positive influences and watch your life transform.”,motivational +3580,"“Believe in yourself and you'll be unstoppable, for within you lies infinite potential.”",motivational +5733,"“If you train your eyes to see the good in others, you will inspire them to see the good in themselves.”",motivational +3824,“To whoever needs to hear this: It's never too late to change directions. Life isn't a linear path. So do not stifle your potential by staying in a lane that doesn't fit what you want for yourself anymore.”,motivational +6653,“Leading from the front is cliché. I lead from the back to push you forward or be there to catch you. I lead from the side because Im your ally and here to serve you. Leaders are accessible at all times.”,motivational +6191,"“Identify your whys to motivation. One positive thought is the key to inspiration. Tweak a bit to approach the target. Don't lose your mind, Just one step will work up the rest!”",motivational +5781,“Believe in your abilities to overcome any challenges that may arise.”,motivational +2653,“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”,motivational +5548,"“Boost your productivity by focusing on the tasks that truly matter, working with intentionality and purpose, and continuously seeking new ways to optimize your workflow.”",motivational +3970,“EMBRACE THE NOW”,motivational +4092,“Mathon is starting on the road but it starts from days before you hit the road by dreaming and margin about it.”,motivational +2990,“The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.”,motivational +5687,“Sometimes the hardest paths lead us to the most beautiful places.”,motivational +3757,"“Fitness is vital for sportsperson, I never take it for granted. My fitness mantra is healthy eating and daily exercise.”",motivational +3138,"“Nothing is permanent in my mysterious world, even my moments of belief - Jenifer”",motivational +3169,"“The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.”",motivational +6011,"“There is no limit to what one can ask of one's adolescent self"".”",motivational +5360,“Never allow sadness to engulf your life. Learn to live a life of happiness.”,motivational +4974,"“The five magicians, a motivational book that will change you forever. If you want to be successful and see the path that leads to it, you must read this book, written with great skill by Bruis Cabilio. The book is available on Amazon.”",motivational +3495,"“They say when you put language to something, it creates meaning. Language creates the ability for someone to communicate and explore an idea more fully in a way that is not possible without language.”",motivational +4054,"“Remove the words “impossible” and “I can’t” from your vocabulary. These words have became too significant in your thought process. Remember that what can be conceived in the mind, can also be brought into reality.”",motivational +3157,"“It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.”",motivational +3476,“Today’s work is the key to tomorrow’s happiness. Yesterday’s regret is the lock to today’s potential.”,motivational +5145,"“Embrace uncertainty, for it is the gateway to growth and transformation.”",motivational +3608,“Don't trust on anyone except yourselves”,motivational +2948,"“The modern job market is like a game of musical chairs. You need to be the one with a chair when the music stops, or you're out of luck.”",motivational +3277,“Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.”,motivational +3851,"“If love does not arrive, sing and dance with melodies by your side.”",motivational +6237,"“Life is a boomerang. What you give, you get.”",motivational +6414,“Enjoy every moment with yourself even if your standing alone coz some people won’t even travel half way through in crowds.”,motivational +4085,“Being motivated and inspired spiritual body size and physical fitness will be easy piece.”,motivational +6516,“Little things don't make perfection but perfection is made out of little things.”,motivational +5859,"“Moonlight reminds us that there is still light to guide us, even in the darkest of nights.”",motivational +4857,"“I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes.”",motivational +6110,“An Archer must never lose focus. If the world bends Archer. It is in within in contemplation we soar the sky ~”,motivational +3749,“Sometimes all we need to do is simply remind ourselves of how good we have it right now and joy would naturally flow within us... Ingratitude is the result of forgetfulness.”,motivational +3633,“It's better to ask a stupid question than to make a stupid assumption.”,motivational +5109,"“The power of influence lies within each person, allowing them to build something beautiful and impactful when harnessed correctly.”",motivational +3698,“Inspiration is an attempt to solve a problem with an alternative solution if not better.”,motivational +6639,“Healthy can be unhealthy too.”,motivational +2580,"“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”",motivational +4422,“I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.”,motivational +4980,“Be motivated by igniting thought into acton”,motivational +5554,“Time spent under a burden is often time well spent.”,motivational +3215,"“Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.”",motivational +4312,“Each day is meant to edify you and equip you with the necessary tools for you to reach your destiny.”,motivational +6221,"“The choice is yours..., the way you want to live!”",motivational +5072,“Meaning is not found in passivity. You must track it down with fervent pursuit and fierce endurance. Meaning must be earned.”,motivational +4983,"“Let age be your motivator, not your excuse.”",motivational +6118,"“You might be dying, but you’re not dead yet, you miserable wretch, now get up and do something before you allow your brother’ssacrifice and everything we all have lost to be for nothing.”",motivational +6763,“Behaviour is your character in action”,motivational +5331,"“If you want a life of success, you should be ready to make the necessary sacrifices.”",motivational +4243,"���God promises, therefore, he can performs.”",motivational +4093,"“Remember you can fly but you'll sleep on the ground, never look other people down cause tomorrow you'll land on them.”",motivational +2574,"“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”",motivational +5569,“Focus on yourself first before trying to please others - success starts from within!”,motivational +4936,“Facing adversity with courage will help you stay focused on your end goal — don't be afraid to take the road less traveled.”,motivational +6661,“Excellence doesn't just happen. Its a practise.”,motivational +2849,"“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”",motivational +5282,“Life can never be a dress rehearsal. It is real. Value your time and put no value on people or things that add no value to your life.”,motivational +5325,"“Even if you have been through a painful past, do not dwell on that. What matters is that you are still alive. Bank on that and make your life count.”",motivational +5169,"“Strength grows in the moments when you think you can't go on, but you keep going anyway.”",motivational +3740,“Your comfort zone isn't nourishing you anymore. What are you going to do about this?”,motivational +6382,"“Life denotes the beginning of dying, and death denotes the origin of life.”",motivational +4909,"“The air resonates with the harmonious chorus of birds, their dance on branches an ode to the timeless symphony of existence.”",motivational +4002,"“Choose someone who can love you not only during the day but also during your darkest nights, even when the sun and the moon resist sharing their light.”",motivational +6719,“Don't wait for the right moment. Just get started and learn along the way.”,motivational +3169,"“The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.”",motivational +6391,“You can realize no significant change without changing your actions.”,motivational +6127,“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”,motivational +4376,"“Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”",motivational +4842,"“If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.”",motivational +5882,"“If you don't want to sink, then it's time to cut the negative anchors loose and start swimming!”",motivational +3524,"“The support of others can get you to the top, but you still you have to develop your strength, by growing your own roots so that you can keep yourself there, even when they stop watering you.”",motivational +2715,"“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”",motivational +5173,"“Within every struggle lies an opportunity for resilience, growth, and personal evolution.”",motivational +5001,"“I have great willpower, as I know the sky is my mirror and my spirit is its reflection”",motivational +3140,"“Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?”",motivational +4610,"“If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we’ll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been.”",motivational +5467,"“Life is not always easy, but when you believe, you will find ways to win.”",motivational +5591,"“Remember, what others say or do is a reflection of their own internal experience, not yours. Their opinion doesn't have to be your truth.”",motivational +4439,"“Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.”",motivational +6227,“History continues until we learn from it and change our course.”,motivational +5070,"“A man long enough sedated may no longer even realize he’s being sedated, or want to.”",motivational +4187,“Direction is better than speed.”,motivational +2744,“Remember that things are not always as they appear to be... Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.”,motivational +4048,"“Before you wake up, your seriousness that never lets you sleep peacefully, starts building up your strengths with your efforts after you wake up.”",motivational +6451,“Deliver what others never expected and watch how you climb the ladder of success faster...”,motivational +2871,“Live your vision and demand your success.”,motivational +4876,"“Those who lead a company essentially must do two things. They must ensure that they achieve the greatest possible demand with innovative products, and they must ensure that their company can handle the greatest possible demand with confidence.”",motivational +2793,"“Everything is within your power,and your power is within you.”",motivational +2656,“No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.”,motivational +6545,"“Divine assistance is working in your life right now, even if you don't see it. Your heart's desires are currently manifesting, compensating the time and effort you've been investing.”",motivational +4274,"“No matter how hard you work on something, only when you find a smart way to do it, do people recognize you.”",motivational +3520,“The future is a feast prepared from the fruits of today's labor.”,motivational +5339,“Do not beat yourself up about the things you cannot change. It will make your life difficult. Take heart and take charge of what you need to change.”,motivational +5015,"“Success takes action; it is not enough to simply dream. Let your every step ignite the spark that ignites change, as actions speak louder than words.”",motivational +4031,“You know what's amazing? The fact that every day you probably make someone you don't even know smile.”,motivational +5293,“It is not easy to forget those who touched your life in a special way. It is good to celebrate life’s heroes while they are still alive. Choose to appreciate the good things they have done.”,motivational +5064,"“To be called is to be drawn by something outside yourself, something bigger than yourself.”",motivational +6233,"“The MORE you clean up, the more you climb up”",motivational +4109,“The story needed to be told that how Curvaceous world like as a harmonic words in the ocean.”,motivational +4916,"“Connections are the threads that weave the tapestry of our existence, and in their gentle care, we find the warmth that makes life’s fabric whole.”",motivational +2848,"“How would your life be different if...You stopped focusing on what you didn’t want and started focusing on what you do want? Let today be the day...You establish a clear intent, make a plan, and take actions towards your intent.”",motivational +5325,"“Even if you have been through a painful past, do not dwell on that. What matters is that you are still alive. Bank on that and make your life count.”",motivational +5004,“Propose not oppose. Input not dispute. Your leadership vocabulary on makes a difference.”,motivational +4233,"“Just don't give up, a miracle could happen!”",motivational +4197,"“Your kindness might cause you pain, a sense of betrayal, heartburn. Be kind anyway.”",motivational +5775,"“I believe depression is legitimate. But I also believe that if you don’t exercise, eat nutritious food, get sunlight, get enough sleep, consume positive material, surround yourself with support, then you aren’t giving yourself a fighting chance.”",motivational +2769,“Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.”,motivational +3950,“Shouldn’t plans be constantly under review?”,motivational +2913,“You have seen me fall; now see me rise.”,motivational +4698,“May you find the courage to rise above any circumstance.”,motivational +2751,“The greatest revenge is massive success.”,motivational +6615,"“Only believe, you shall behold.”",motivational +3068,“I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.”,motivational +6645,“The world isn’t changed by people who are ready.”,motivational +5233,“One act of kindness can change or even save someone's life. Be kind to yourself and others!”,motivational +3101,“The whole world's a canvas for our sketchesHorizons as far as the mind stretchesA work of art with soft edgesWaiting to come aliveNow's the time”,motivational +4334,"“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”",motivational +5737,"“Although the moon appears alone in the sky, it shines brightly enough to light up the darkest of nights and guide us on our way.”",motivational +5795,"“Coming together gives energy, and being angry takes it away.”",motivational +6581,“How do you validate ideas whose links to the past do not exist?”,motivational +2641,"“It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.”",motivational +5646,"“Life doesn't always have to be about trying something new, pushing ourselves to the limit or achieving our next goal. Sometimes it's important to stop and celebrate the successes you have gained along the way.”",motivational +6427,“Envision yourself to be what you want!”,motivational +2580,"“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”",motivational +6733,“Purposefully pursue your dreams with all diligence.”,motivational +5486,"“What discouraged me most from the goals of my youth were not my failures but my successes, that they proved so hollow.”",motivational +4493,“The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.”,motivational +3300,“Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.”,motivational +6767,“When you have done your homework and hard work then let God work on you so you become successful.”,motivational +2602,“Discipline Your Mind to Think Positively: Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.”,motivational +3641,"“My body is a sacred temple. I treat it with love, kindness, nourishment, and respect.”",motivational +2745,"“You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you”",motivational +5454,"“Life may not always give you what you want, but do not give up on what you want; until you realize you did all that was required.”",motivational +5038,“Not giving up is like continuous practice ꓽ you get better in the end.”,motivational +4468,"“motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.”",motivational +3556,"“Dive into the ocean of adventure, and you'll discover treasures within yourself that you never knew existed.”",motivational +5037,"“Consistency, not gurus. Discipline, not motivation. Action, not information, is the key.”",motivational +5472,"“Life will sometimes require that you partner with others in order to access a larger piece of the pie. As you do that, always avoid those who do not realize that you also deserve good things in life.”",motivational +3471,"“I kissed your fist, and now you're healed.”",motivational +3044,“You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.”,motivational +6731,"“If you want to go forward, You must take action and apply yourself”",motivational +6187,"“What motivates a person is a sense of meaning. A clearly defined, even uniquely determined role in life brings about life satisfaction.”",motivational +6695,"“The empty glass is filled with air; Just change the perspective, everything will change.”",motivational +6232,"“We all have a list of things that we failed at. This list is not kept in our mind to remind us of the failure, but it's there so we remember that we cannot let that be the thing we are known for. We must try again - this time, we will not fail”",motivational +3050,“One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!”,motivational +3353,"“Progress, not perfection. Take small steps forward each day.”",motivational +6111,“Knowledge is the ink of eternal Bliss ~”,motivational +5544,“The reason you’ve been dragging your feet for so many years is most likely because your motivation to change is far less than the powerful force of inertia which is probably due to the comfort zone.”,motivational +5002,"“Time dances to its rhythm, and as the sun sets on every life, let us embrace the beauty of impermanence.”",motivational +5227,“Never desire someone else’s life. You have no clue what they have been through. You may also not fully understand what they are going through.”,motivational +4392,"“Dear me, one day I'll make you proud.”",motivational +6646,"“You are the ink, pen and paper, your life is your own decision.”",motivational +5709,“Sometimes we do not need motivation to get started but the realization of a great motive behind what we are set to do”,motivational +5218,"“In life, some questions do not require you to get answers from outside. They need you to search on the inside.”",motivational +4461,“but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.”,motivational +6358,“Courage can gift you with immense opportunities; you just need to try and take a leap of faith...”,motivational +3197,“Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities.”,motivational +4458,“Rejection is a challenge.”,motivational +2964,“God didn’t give fear a body. God gave love a body.”,motivational +4638,"“Tidak ada seorang pun yang bisa dikalahkan, sampai dia menyerah--DI DALAM PIKIRANNYA SENDIRI!”",motivational +6484,“Never allow a struggle to turn your sky into a ceiling. You must believe there's always a way.”,motivational +6752,“The ‘purpose’ element of onboarding is where you begin to lay the foundation of success for your new team member.”,motivational +3687,"“Why” precedes “How” in all places other than the dictionary. If your why is strong enough, you will figure out how in one way or another.”",motivational +6073,"“Whenever we reach an unexpected barrier in the way of honoring our souls' truth through action, it is essential to dust ourselves off and keep flying toward our dreams.”",motivational +3390,"“It is as much about input – the conversation of imaginative men (women and children not excluded) has a rhythm, a phrase that follows a thought and precedes the development of further thought ... try not to be a cunt.”",motivational +2907,"“As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?”",motivational +3116,"“Jedi are always assessing situations, actions and possibilities. Jedi don’t just think outside of the box with the help from the Force, they also adapt to situations outside of the box!”",motivational +4146,“Your Goals Your Life Your Choices :)”,motivational +4656,"“Embrace every new day with gratitude, hope and love.”",motivational +3890,"“Great entrepreneurs are the jack of all trades, master of some.”",motivational +3911,“Your capacity to say ‘No’ determines your capacity to say ‘Yes’ to greater things.”,motivational +3327,"“Dušo,me mogu bove,ograničiti more.”",motivational +5800,"“Step forward in faith, rather living in pray & hope.”",motivational +3327,"“Dušo,me mogu bove,ograničiti more.”",motivational +2927,"“Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life.”",motivational +6727,“If you are tired of doing the work.You are tired of winning.”,motivational +5810,"“Time is the most frequent obstacle to change that my clients name. Luckily, it comes in small increments. It can be broken down and taken back in pocket-sized, clever little nuggets: one minute, five minutes, fifteen minutes at a time.”",motivational +4016,“Nothing perishes... nothing dies.”,motivational +3275,"“Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves. - RVM.”",motivational +4552,“we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn”,motivational +4647,"“When yeu win, your success story can be whatever the fuck yeu want.”",motivational +5537,"“It's easy to sit on the sidelines and analyze different strategies, but true growth comes from taking action.”",motivational +4057,"“No matter how crazy it may feel, I found thatfollowing my intuitive hunch is always my bestbet. When we are grounded, it will never steer us in the wrong direction. Acting as our guiding light and divine compass. So don't question it. Trust it.”",motivational +4272,"“Still staying fervently prayerful, for I know God is forever faithful to fulfill his promises.”",motivational +5153,“Success is not an overnight phenomenon; it's the result of consistent effort over time.”,motivational +6224,“The most expensive thing that you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.”,motivational +4801,"“Wisdom is available to those who can labor for her, she is expensive and hidden to the lazy mind.”",motivational +5216,“The struggle you face today is the strength you will carry tomorrow.”,motivational +3408,"“It’s hard, until it’s not.”",motivational +5592,"“Remember, it's not always about big changes but instead small steps done with confidence and consistency that will get you to where you want to go.”",motivational +4517,“Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.”,motivational +2749,"“Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”",motivational +4893,“Surround yourself with positivity and tap into the power of affirmations! They can help shift your mindset and unlock your inner potential.”,motivational +3179,“laughing is good. so long as you are not insulting anyone.”,motivational +2671,“To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.”,motivational +2972,“You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.”,motivational +5550,“Aligning your goals with your lifestyle is the foundation for living a life that feels both intentional and fulfilling.”,motivational +4950,"“Obstacles are stepping stones to resilience; with each challenge we conquer, we forge the path to our own strength.”",motivational +4863,“Entrepreneurs who devote themselves with dedication and passion to work 'on' their company and the people working in it create the conditions for sustainable growth and success.”,motivational +5065,"“You may not have the power to do anything or everything you would like, but you do have the power to do something.”",motivational +3053,“Feelings are real. They often become one’s reality. But they are not always based on truth.”,motivational +6343,“You won’t get applause if you don’t work for a cause!”,motivational +3101,“The whole world's a canvas for our sketchesHorizons as far as the mind stretchesA work of art with soft edgesWaiting to come aliveNow's the time”,motivational +6312,"“Self-esteem and pride are the two main tools that build confidence, don’t lose them or you will lose yourself...”",motivational +3967,“Just leave the bedroom and live your life!”,motivational +6001,“Throw yourself into nature's arms when you're completely lost in the dark; it will reveal a new glimmer of hope.”,motivational +5109,"“The power of influence lies within each person, allowing them to build something beautiful and impactful when harnessed correctly.”",motivational +4952,“It’s not the activity that holds the key to finding your passion; it’s what your actions accomplish.”,motivational +5180,“Don't be afraid to go against the grain. It's in the unconventional that greatness often lies.”,motivational +6708,"“Motivating your team is like cooking. You need to select and blend the right quality ingredients and serve them fresh as often as you can; otherwise, your team will get hungry and grumpy.”",motivational +2524,“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”,motivational +5699,"“Fear is just an emotion. It is not true. The only thing that is true is the action you take, regardless.”",motivational +2900,"“Interrupt your thoughts of ""I should"", with your action of doing.”",motivational +2932,"“Don't be one of those who don't want others to be empowered. Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter.”",motivational +3079,"“It's better to do something with quality, no matter how long it takes you rather than do something mediocre, with constant quantity.”",motivational +6139,"“A delicious meal needs pepper and salt, but if they dominate, the meal is ruined.”",motivational +3628,"“If someone insults you, just chalk it up to them being at a lost for words.”",motivational +2749,"“Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”",motivational +6405,“Don’t give the key of consent to someone unworthy!”,motivational +6603,“Motivated people build better stuff.”,motivational +4787,"“you either be strong or become strong, no other option”",motivational +3296,“What is an unconditional state?”,motivational +3222,"“Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.”",motivational +5357,"“Life happens! Just when you expect happiness, something tragic could happen. So, learn to accept any change of circumstance.”",motivational +3283,“Live! Don't just Exist!!! Don't drag through Life...Live each day as a Celebration.-RVM”,motivational +6534,"“Stay diligent in your ways; anything you seek with diligence you shall find, and none of your requests to The Universe shall be declined; may take time, but that's because your blessings will be one of a kind.”",motivational +4755,"“A soothing lullaby, a golden potion, as sweet as honey, an ethereal salve that calms the racing heart and transports it to the shores of peace.”",motivational +2586,"“If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way.”",motivational +6434,"“Being tired is better than being broke, so make sure you do your best and leave to God the rest!”",motivational +3363,"“But you know... This was actually fun while it lasted. Humans, Jujutsu Sorcerers, Cursed Spirits... You're not bad compared to those I fought over the last thousand years. Stand proud. You're strong.”",motivational +4656,"“Embrace every new day with gratitude, hope and love.”",motivational +3539,"“Language is not just a tool; it's a bridge that connects hearts, minds, and the boundless realms of inspiration.”",motivational +5779,“Everything worth doing is difficult.”,motivational +6084,"“The mind is everything in this world. It is the source of all pain and suffering. If the mind can be healed, it will cure all illnesses in this world.”",motivational +6690,“You didn’t lose your power; you GAVE it away. It won’t come back on its own; you must TAKE it back!”,motivational +5964,“The ultimate pleasure is found in the calmness of the mind.”,motivational +6014,"“Honestly, I’ve wanted to give up a lot of times. But I worked hard. I believed I would succeed if I worked hard.”",motivational +2915,"“In the modern workplace, you gotta be a jack-of-all-trades. Mastering your career is all about being adaptable, versatile, and always learning.”",motivational +5219,"“In recent years, it has become increasingly difficult to digest some situations because of people who make assumptions about life's conditions based solely on screenshots, oblivious to what occurred before those screenshots.”",motivational +5596,“It's easy to get fooled by the noise - don't let it distract you from your truth and what's right for YOU.”,motivational +4176,"“Without situations, no strength will be developed.”",motivational +2655,“Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.”,motivational +6405,“Don’t give the key of consent to someone unworthy!”,motivational +4458,“Rejection is a challenge.”,motivational +2873,"“Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.”",motivational +4182,“Of what use are the memories if not to grow flowers..... on the barren fields. Of what use are the falling tears if not to weave the string of pearls in the hardest hours...”,motivational +5054,"“All fame is is being known by people you don’t know, and what’s so great about that?”",motivational +3070,“Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.”,motivational +6070,"“According to the wheel of life, everything is subject to change and extinction.”",motivational +4997,“The only way to know what you're doing is to be prepared”,motivational +3280,“En la vida se tienen pretextos o resultados. Hay quienes piensan que ambas cosas valen lo mismo.”,motivational +4545,"“Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.”",motivational +5931,“You have to find power in everything negative in your life.”,motivational +5075,“Your legacy is not simply a matter of what you do but a matter of who you do it for.”,motivational +4081,“To kill it you must finding your body shape with tailors help or tape measurements and follow it with your outfit like clothes that match your body structure .”,motivational +6202,"“Blue is said to be the colour of Magic, did you notice or should I blink again?”",motivational +5799,"“Writing is pain relief, or at least pain management.”",motivational +3754,“May the Maker extend his mercies to all mankind.”,motivational +6227,“History continues until we learn from it and change our course.”,motivational +6347,"“Determination is the root of success, believing in success will make you unstoppable and your dream will bloom into reality...”",motivational +2867,"“When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.”",motivational +4884,"“Courage is taking the first step, even when you don't know what lies ahead; It's about having the inner strength to take a leap of faith, even when you're not sure what's coming next.”",motivational +5517,"“Perhaps you are no rock climber, but faced with a big enough rock, you will have to become one.”",motivational +5501,"“Life is not easy, but when you put your mind to your vision, and work hard to achieve it, many people will think you have it easy.”",motivational +3470,"“Being in a toxic relationship is a drug, and it needs to be treated like any other drug.”",motivational +6140,"“No project will go perfectly, nor will the end result be perfect, but as long as you had fun, that’s what matters most.”",motivational +4335,“In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!”,motivational +4121,"“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”",motivational +4148,“Self-love is the balance between accepting yourself as you are while knowing that you deserve better and working towards it.”,motivational +4724,"“There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.”",motivational +2885,"“Just because I'm doing what I love, doesn't mean It's always going to be fun.”",motivational +6722,“Always try to avoid looking backward and forward if you want to be upward.”,motivational +2877,"“What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!”",motivational +4704,“It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it.”,motivational +6255,"“I personally believe that fear is a great motivator. Being afraid can even be healthy, as you really achieve something grand when you get to the other side of your worst nightmare.”",motivational +3159,“Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.”,motivational +3277,“Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.”,motivational +4929,"“Falling out of meditation is easy, much like losing luck or drifting into sleep. You often can't precisely pinpoint how it happens but know miracles have ceased to work in your favor.”",motivational +3288,"“Problems are everywhere, so are Solutions. Unfortunately, we see more of the Problems than the Solutions.-RVM”",motivational +4224,“The great deliver is the Divine Being.”,motivational +6491,“The biggest problem is thinking about the problem and thinking about the solution the greatest solution”,motivational +3819,“I touched peaks impossible.”,motivational +5867,“Let's wear the flowers of courage grown from the seeds of hope in the soil of our insecurities.”,motivational +3030,“You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life.”,motivational +3029,“Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.”,motivational +4828,“Wise words doesn't make you wise...It makes you a smart person!Wisdom makes you a gentleman.”,motivational +3443,"“Failure should not be a giving up point, it should give room for a restructured process”",motivational +4738,"“In the tapestry of relationships, ignoring the ones who were once dear, weaves threads of heartache that endure longer than the fabric of love itself.”",motivational +6548,"“stay focused on your desires, knowing that you will make it happen so long as you never give up; victory shall be your cup.”",motivational +6205,"“Like all rivers, they will eventually lead to the sea.”",motivational +5345,"“In life, not all opportunities will come easily. Some will even seem as if they do not exist. But it is up to you to search for, find, and utilize them while time still allows.”",motivational +6591,"“Your team are people, your customers are people. If you want to lead, you have to love people.”",motivational +4969,"“Excellence requires growth.Growth requires learning.Learning requires change...Change is inextricably imbued with risk.Risk implies that failure is possible, if not likely.But, Great & Good frontload the risk.”",motivational +5751,"“The wings of time may carry us on diverse journeys, but the common roots we share will always guide us back to the same ground.”",motivational +5867,“Let's wear the flowers of courage grown from the seeds of hope in the soil of our insecurities.”,motivational +3193,"“Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for”",motivational +4668,"“Apunta a la luna y si fallas, al menos estaras entre las estrellas.”",motivational +6496,"“We came from the earth, we return to the dirt, and we bloom, fade, and wilt in between.”",motivational +6574,"“One of its primary roles is in motivation and reward. You probably know of dopamine because of its reputation as the brain’s pleasure juice. When you feel pleasure, you are getting squirted on by dopamine.”",motivational +4075,“I know that your beautiful eyes with or not make up are designed to see beyond you think.”,motivational +2546,"“When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”",motivational +5052,"“Life is hard because it cannot last, because it must not last. Its very definition is that which lies tenuously between nonexistence and nonexistence.”",motivational +3764,“Second chances are rare and comes with fortune.. thus use the first wisely.Think once!”,motivational +5498,"“Life is not about the loud cheers, or the pats on the back. It is about making an impact.”",motivational +4704,“It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it.”,motivational +5976,“The best way to receive abundance is to believe abundance is already present.”,motivational +5216,“The struggle you face today is the strength you will carry tomorrow.”,motivational +2809,“Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.”,motivational +3154,"“How far can your imagination take you? I don't know. That's up to you, but I think you should find out.”",motivational +4267,"“Learn to learn. The way I see it, it's much more important to be a good learner, than to know it all.”",motivational +3105,“The lion never fears to walk alone.”,motivational +3169,"“The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.”",motivational +3876,"“When a heart breaks, the ointment of dance heals all the pain.”",motivational +5089,"“Anxiety and depression are your friends. They tell you there is something undone that must be done, something you must do. They demand action.”",motivational +6376,“JULY - Joy Unlimited Locate You”,motivational +6045,“Not all soldiers wield spears.”,motivational +2790,“People are successful because they think and act like successful people.”,motivational +6186,“The quest of one man is the quest of all mankind.”,motivational +3994,“find a way or make your own”,motivational +6590,"“If the earth is a hotel, our life is just about the time we spend in a hotel between check-in and check-out.”",motivational +6691,“Criticism and hate will always boost your confidence to achieve your goals”,motivational +2968,"“If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.”",motivational +4833,"“Once a man can accurately and clearly define his path, follow through the path, the rest of the journey becomes like a miracle.”",motivational +6262,“Memorisation come from the head but meditation is from the heart.”,motivational +4976,"“No pain, no progress.”",motivational +4232,“She is involved in work her soul must have.”,motivational +3884,"“Evil can be transmuted into tragedy, loss into gain, temporality into deathlessness, by creating beauty.”",motivational +5251,"“Learn to be open-minded. Master the right lessons and do not ignore the red flags, for they can hinder your progress.”",motivational +3022,“Intent without dedicated action is simply not enough. Action without a clear intent is a waste. It is when these two powerful forces are aligned that the energy of the universe conspires in your favor.”,motivational +3210,“You cannot ‘fit yourself in’ to greatness. This can only be done by embracing and pursuing your biggest dreams and desires.”,motivational +4161,“Words go beyond the human imagination - it grips and roots themselves into your frequency which ultimately affects your energy.”,motivational +4574,"“They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.”",motivational +2530,“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”,motivational +4968,"“Don't go at it alone, my friend. Look for allies who'll lend a hand, easing the burden with a peaceful flow instead of pushing you into that grind-hustle cycle.”",motivational +3812,“It does not matter if we do not have an immediate answer. What matters is if we have the right question.”,motivational +5808,"“Sometimes the fries are the best choice by a mile, but sometimes an apple with almond butter is paradise on a plate. If you can’t tell the difference, you aren’t quite listening—yet.”",motivational +2869,“Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece!”,motivational +6235,“Every sunrise is an invitation to rise and make someone's day brighter.”,motivational +3792,"“If you can begin to see your life as a feedbackmechanism that is reflecting who you are, with the ultimate goal to help you live better and more fully. All of a sudden you realize it was never the world standing in your way but your own mind.”",motivational +3022,“Intent without dedicated action is simply not enough. Action without a clear intent is a waste. It is when these two powerful forces are aligned that the energy of the universe conspires in your favor.”,motivational +2956,“Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.”,motivational +4363,"“We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us.”",motivational +6070,"“According to the wheel of life, everything is subject to change and extinction.”",motivational +5028,“Small wins lead to a big mindset shift - from 'I can't' to 'I can'. Celebrate them all.”,motivational +5589,"“When a presumptively heterosexual man makes gratuitous transfers of money to a woman who is not his wife or daughter, it raises, fairly or not, questions about the man's motivations.”",motivational +3936,"“Once you are left with no hope, it is hope you are left with.”",motivational +6475,“One should be revitalized and reborn at every beat and with each new breath.”,motivational +3430,"“If it doesn’t excite me, I do not pursue it.”",motivational +5645,"“Life is like a roller coaster, filled with its ups and downs, but at the end of the day it's up to you to find the courage and determination to pick yourself up and try again.”",motivational +4667,“Don't be managed by the likelihood of mishaps. Be motivated by the promise of favor!”,motivational +5055,"“No one appreciates anonymity as much as those who have lost it, and you only get to lose it once.”",motivational +5487,“Worthy goals are always hard.”,motivational +4789,“Leading is about people and their wellbeing the first foundation to the organisations wellbeing.”,motivational +5157,"“Live life on your terms, make decisions based on facts and not on opinions, and blaze your own path.”",motivational +2821,“Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.”,motivational +5121,"“Embrace your desires and strive for greatness, but do so with grace and ease. Be kind to yourself, and understand that setbacks are a natural part of any journey.”",motivational +5591,"“Remember, what others say or do is a reflection of their own internal experience, not yours. Their opinion doesn't have to be your truth.”",motivational +4764,“Words pen the lyrics of the soul.”,motivational +3545,“Find inspiration within yourself to overcome challenges.”,motivational +5997,"“... Perspective is everything.That is, when you can break apart something, or look at it from a new angle, it loses its power over you.”",motivational +5142,“Adversity reveals our true strength and resilience. Embrace it as a catalyst for growth.”,motivational +6491,“The biggest problem is thinking about the problem and thinking about the solution the greatest solution”,motivational +4286,"“Life is so precious, we all are having a very limited time. To access the knowledge of Truth & the Creation.The sooner you get it, the lesser you'll struggle in between the conflicts of Consciousness and Heart ”",motivational +6403,"“We all need to Ignore the regrets, accept change and live a happy life only then can we say we moved on to a better Future!”",motivational +3632,"“If you have less and that [less] is good for you, It's is way better than the (more) you have but actually you don't.”",motivational +3205,"“Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.”",motivational +4687,"“When every minute of your day is planned & you are packed for days, you shall soon realize that the pain of past fades, vision of life gets clearer and all that seemed to poison your life Ceases to exist.”",motivational +3912,“Success is not a number. It's about accomplishing your mission. Noah spent years building a boat that was only used once. Ignore the critiques. Build your boat!”,motivational +3551,"“Your dreams have no expiration date. Chase them relentlessly, believe in yourself, and watch as they become your reality.”",motivational +4437,“If only we had the certainty in our strength that we do in our weaknesses and capacity for failure - oh how wonderful life would be”,motivational +3521,"“Each sunrise offers a new canvas, blank and brimming with potential.”",motivational +2734,“Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.”,motivational +4336,“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”,motivational +4531,“God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.”,motivational +4960,"“Though you may value many principles, there is one you instinctively uphold above all others.”",motivational +4593,“When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win.”,motivational +3588,“Failure is not the end; it is merely a stepping stone on the path to success.”,motivational +4828,“Wise words doesn't make you wise...It makes you a smart person!Wisdom makes you a gentleman.”,motivational +5698,"“The ‘ocean of grace’ is vast and infinite, with unfathomable depths and never-ending tides.”",motivational +5138,"“Be curious, be adventurous, and never stop exploring the world around you.”",motivational +5071,“Entertainment is often just a cheap way to quench our natural thirst for meaning by encouraging us to exercise passivity when we ought to act with passion.”,motivational +5800,"“Step forward in faith, rather living in pray & hope.”",motivational +6094,"“Be as delicate as a flower at all times. A flower can still bloom when surrounded by thorns, but you can’t smile if you’re in pain.”",motivational +5455,"“Life is not as easy as it sounds. It is about sailing troubled waters, navigating unprecedented times, and carving new paths.”",motivational +6467,"“The goal of life is perfection; every incident, no matter how minor or significant, and every adversity we face are all part of a divine plan that will all work out in the end.”",motivational +5321,“Some delays are meant to preserve your life. So do not be weary when things do not go according to your plan.”,motivational +5091,“Life is amply confusing on its own; don’t create confusion where it doesn’t exist. You don’t get to make the world whatever you wish it to be. You don’t get to make yourself whatever you wish to be.”,motivational +2669,“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”,motivational +3101,“The whole world's a canvas for our sketchesHorizons as far as the mind stretchesA work of art with soft edgesWaiting to come aliveNow's the time”,motivational +5767,"“When you have an understanding of how things work, you will know better how to work things out”",motivational +6663,“Saying someone is lost is as crazy as saying there is somewhere they are supposed to be.”,motivational +5470,“Life will present you with great things after you have endured some gruesome tests.”,motivational +6396,“Happiness is not a path it is a destination.”,motivational +5898,“Twilight is the transition period between the end of the day and the beginning of the night. A time to let go of the past and embrace the unknown.”,motivational +3171,“It so happens that at times your desires tend to disagree with the reality and this is due to the fact that you have not let the two elements complement each other.”,motivational +3640,“Det är nu som gäller”,motivational +3049,“Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.”,motivational +5482,“Passion and talent with right knowledge and consistent practice leads to self fulfilment.”,motivational +3375,"“Search out the pretensions, the rubbish, the gloss, the whitewash, the emulsions of life covering the real feeling, real examination, real creativity”",motivational +4574,"“They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.”",motivational +2939,"“If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, ""I can't"" & all of its cousins, such as ""I wish I were able to.”",motivational +3714,"“In the end, it came down to tea and talking just as much as bullets and butchery.”",motivational +5036,“Integrity must always be seen in action and never in question.”,motivational +3677,“Find the game you like to play - not just to win but because it clicks with you differently.”,motivational +3338,"“First, you have to push people’s boundaries and not feel bad about it. No one is going to give you anything if you don’t ask for it.”",motivational +4159,“Beauty rises ...from a place of tenderness...for it is what pushes a human.... to be humane....”,motivational +3644,"“shit´s already broken so you might as well just try to fix it, and if you can´t at least know you know how to take it apart”",motivational +5318,"“Never give up on yourself, no matter what happens in life. When you follow God's plans for your life, one day you will be fine.”",motivational +2983,“What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”,motivational +5318,"“Never give up on yourself, no matter what happens in life. When you follow God's plans for your life, one day you will be fine.”",motivational +3834,"“Don't be too stubborn to change, change is law of life.”",motivational +3527,"“Seek the solution for a problem, not the problem again”",motivational +4344,“Rise and rise again until lambs become lions”,motivational +6764,“Hard work does not pay off. Your discipline does.Working hard ones is not enough. Work hard as a habit.”,motivational +4956,"“You aren’t a jumbled assortment of traits and characteristics. On the contrary, the various aspects of your being are sublimely interconnected.”",motivational +3791,"“Deepen your understanding of life, expand your knowledge, and open your mind up to the unknown. You are ready to receive the wisdom and personal growth that comes with this evolution.”",motivational +3167,“Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.”,motivational +4518,“Do not be afraid of what should be afraid of you”,motivational +2906,"“Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Instead, shake things up today! Live through today. Don’t just exist through it - LIVE through it!”",motivational +4241,“We are storms that never die.”,motivational +4633,"“Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.”",motivational +4679,"“Leadership is all about caring, daring and sharing!Caring for people, Daring to Act fearlessly,& Sharing the success with all!”",motivational +2582,"“I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, ""aw shit, he's up!”",motivational +5979,"“Em vez de pensarmos na família como algo que existe, temos de pensar nela como algo que se constrói. Nós «fazemos» a família.”",motivational +3344,"“The words of the Qur’an are omnipresent—yet its spirit lies dormant,”",motivational +3007,"“I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.”",motivational +2645,"“Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.”",motivational +4605,"“Here's how man thinks: ""If no one’s done it, why should I try? It’s a waste of time; but if he’s done it, I can do it better.”",motivational +6204,“Your Children will See What You're All About by What you Live rather than What you Say.”,motivational +4393,"“Participate in your dreams today. There are unlimited opportunities available with this new day. Take action on those wonderful dreams you've had in your mind for so long. Remember, success is something you experience when you act accordingly.”",motivational +5265,"“Time will keep moving even after your life comes to an end. So, make sure you live well and leave a legacy that can outlast your time on earth.”",motivational +6428,"“Stay low grow slow, talk less do more!”",motivational +4408,"“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.”",motivational +5118,"“The path to success is paved with hard work, persistence, and a willingness to take action.”",motivational +6494,"“A perfect traveller who, as it flows, overcomes all obstacles. It cuts through the rock, flows through the meadows, crosses the dense forest, clears all the dirt in its path, and sets off on its own wonderful adventure.”",motivational +3957,"“Despite how hard I try to hide, my whole face gathers in a coup to let him know how much I fancy him.”",motivational +3054,"“The more clouds you have in your sky, the more colorful sunset it will be.”",motivational +4511,“Let your playerhaters be your motivators.”,motivational +4604,"“Today is a gift that will be taken from you at day's end. Don't waste a moment, a chance, a lesson. You'll never live today again.”",motivational +3211,"“Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,”",motivational +4911,"“The scariest moment is always just before you start.After that, things can only get better.”",motivational +4133,"“Does every Curve people struggle and stressful through it?I don't think so, search it for yourself it trueth of life.”",motivational +5839,“The best philosophy is to live in the present moment while planning for the future and learning from the past.”,motivational +5486,"“What discouraged me most from the goals of my youth were not my failures but my successes, that they proved so hollow.”",motivational +5347,“Life will present you with good opportunities. Seize them and experience a life of possibilities.”,motivational +5892,"“Don't be held back by insecurity or fear, because you never know what might be on the other side of that leap of faith.”",motivational +5167,"“The struggle may be tough, but so are you. Keep pushing forward.”",motivational +4369,"“I said ""Somebody should do something about that."" Then I realized I am somebody.”",motivational +5364,“Self-mastery is a significant skill for those who want a life of victory.”,motivational +3193,"“Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for”",motivational +4127,"“I may not have my Bible, but God's words are in my heart. God is with me, and that is the reason that I have the strength to be sitting here holding it together.”",motivational +3939,“Have you ever reached a truly quiet state of mind?”,motivational +3383,“We are never fucking brave enough.”,motivational +4969,"“Excellence requires growth.Growth requires learning.Learning requires change...Change is inextricably imbued with risk.Risk implies that failure is possible, if not likely.But, Great & Good frontload the risk.”",motivational +3873,“Imagination comes alive when skates scar the ice to tell fairy tales.”,motivational +3751,“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”,motivational +2670,"“If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.”",motivational +4482,“While others were dreaming about it - I was getting it done.”,motivational +5799,"“Writing is pain relief, or at least pain management.”",motivational +2777,"“As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.”",motivational +3139,“The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine. ”,motivational +3413,"“Sometimes you aren’t meant to worry about the 'how'. Instead, you are being called to focus on taking things step-by-step. One foot in front of the other. It’s all coming together.”",motivational +5979,"“Em vez de pensarmos na família como algo que existe, temos de pensar nela como algo que se constrói. Nós «fazemos» a família.”",motivational +5761,“Swap out burnout for inner balance by embracing daily rituals that support sustainable success with ease.”,motivational +4522,“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”,motivational +4149,“Happiness doesn't always involve achieving success. Most of the time it's about showing up every single day.”,motivational +2712,"“Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.”",motivational +3089,“Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.”,motivational +3348,“Every challenge in life is an opportunity to polish your skills.”,motivational +4227,“God requires you to do what is right.”,motivational +5151,“Success is not about the applause; it's about how you feel about yourself.”,motivational +4805,“Change should start with us and will eventually lead to a change in situation and circumstance and not the other way around.”,motivational +3382,“Contribute. Be bold!”,motivational +3197,“Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities.”,motivational +6508,"“Tidak ada orang yang lahir di dunia tanpa alasan, tidak ada orang yang lahir dan tidak bisa mewujudkan setidaknya satu hal, apapun itu.”",motivational +5649,“Let's face it - the only way to truly make a lasting impact is by embracing change and standing out from the crowd.”,motivational +3930,“Joy is like vapour. You can't save it for later.”,motivational +3179,“laughing is good. so long as you are not insulting anyone.”,motivational +3679,"“You're either moving forward or standing still, and if you're standing still, you might as well be moving backwards.”",motivational +6234,“The best reward comes from our collective effort and energy.”,motivational +3451,“Don't wait for somebody to give you something. You're strong. You're intelligent. Go out and earn it and work for it.”,motivational +3957,"“Despite how hard I try to hide, my whole face gathers in a coup to let him know how much I fancy him.”",motivational +6245,“We constantly place value on the material world and consider it to be the source of ultimate truth and happiness.”,motivational +5047,“The great lie of youth: that it will last.”,motivational +6467,"“The goal of life is perfection; every incident, no matter how minor or significant, and every adversity we face are all part of a divine plan that will all work out in the end.”",motivational +6768,“Difficulties only add value to a dream.”,motivational +4869,"“On the one hand, many people show great enthusiasm for strategy development, but on the other hand, a large proportion of them have used up this enthusiasm by the time of implementation at the latest.”",motivational +6160,"“Life can't always be perfect, thats why we capture memories to look back on!”",motivational +6178,“Happiness starts with a cute snout and lots of Fur...I promise you it doesn't end here!”,motivational +4261,“Are your actions making a difference to this world? If not then align your actions to improve people's lives.”,motivational +4860,"“Destiny will open the way for people who have hope and determination. Fate will drown people who have no intention, ambition and motivation.”",motivational +4446,"“What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire.”",motivational +2878,“The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.”,motivational +4439,"“Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.”",motivational +2932,"“Don't be one of those who don't want others to be empowered. Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter.”",motivational +3402,“It is often the seemingly least significant details of each day that turn out to shape our most life-altering events.”,motivational +3105,“The lion never fears to walk alone.”,motivational +5570,“Don't underestimate the power of positive vibes & positive affirmations! They help sustain success & motivation.”,motivational +4844,"“We do not have money problem, the problem we have as humans is knowledge and wisdom problem, ignorance is darkness.”",motivational +4195,“Only when you go against the flow will you find your own flow.”,motivational +3080,"“Today is a special day that will go by very fast, so let’s take every second to make the most out of every moment.”",motivational +4598,"“Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.”",motivational +6177,"“unless I am myself, I am nobody.”",motivational +4141,"“When you feel like your hope is gone,look back for a second and remind yourself ""WHY YOU STARTED?"".”",motivational +4025,"“Two times in life you do not waste time arguing with someone: when you are wrong, and when you are right.”",motivational +5165,"“Embrace the struggle, for it molds you into the person you are meant to be.”",motivational +6156,“Coz Black...is Beautiful!”,motivational +6096,"“If you want to sing, you sing without considering who is listening or what they might think.”",motivational +4045,"“I have the power I need to create the destiny that I desire. I am open to the Universe's abundance, and magic happens when I live in my eternal truth.”",motivational +5645,"“Life is like a roller coaster, filled with its ups and downs, but at the end of the day it's up to you to find the courage and determination to pick yourself up and try again.”",motivational +2605,“What you stay focused on will grow.”,motivational +5723,“The warmth that comes from a kind and compassionate heart is true beauty”,motivational +6258,“A true beggar is unable to discover his true wealth.”,motivational +5665,“You are exactly where you need to be.Do something if you want something. Otherwise It will be your whole life.”,motivational +2851,"“If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”",motivational +3118,“The gratitude that you feel leads to faith in the abundance and with every resonance that radiates from your mind more strong feelings of faith start to reside in you.”,motivational +4235,"“˝ Not failure, just a lesson I had to learn. ˝”",motivational +4798,“The fantasy of today is the reality of tomorrow”,motivational +4362,"“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”",motivational +5116,"“Feeling overwhelmed? Take action. By breaking tasks into manageable steps, you can conquer overwhelm and achieve your goals.”",motivational +4587,“Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.”,motivational +4832,“One of the worst things you can do against yourself in life is to dream small.”,motivational +3685,“A faithful God gives hope to face unknown future.”,motivational +3599,“All existing paths have a creator. Be the creator of your own path.”,motivational +5299,"“Life will present you with different people, things and places. What matters is what you do with them in order to make a difference.”",motivational +4257,"“In a war between customers and the company, customers might lose the fight due to the difference of powers, but the company is the ultimate loser.”",motivational +5183,“Don't let fear of failure hold you back. Embrace it as a stepping stone towards success.”,motivational +3289,“Are you living in the moment?”,motivational +5556,"“When answering life's big questions, it doesn’t even matter what you say your answers are; what matters is what you do.”",motivational +4613,"“Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down.”",motivational +6375,"“Leaders set direction, build and inspiring vision where they want to go, and create a path for others to follow.”",motivational +4621,“Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you.”,motivational +6478,"“ALL doubt, whether from myself or others, is the enemy of my dreams and goals. I have zero tolerance for doubt.”",motivational +4499,“Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning.”,motivational +3575,"“Fear is your friend, your sous chef, your co-pilot -- embrace it!”",motivational +4085,“Being motivated and inspired spiritual body size and physical fitness will be easy piece.”,motivational +3519,“History flows through us. We need only gaze inward to glimpse the future's unwritten pages.”,motivational +4782,"“Farewell, but not goodbye, as our paths may cross again.”",motivational +4322,"“Find your friends, because life is too short to spend with enemies.”",motivational +4934,"“It's never too late to start fresh! Embrace every chance to grow, take risks, and never ever give up!”",motivational +5059,"“Easy things do not call us to great action, because they are too easy to require great action.”",motivational +6165,"“There is always a Reason, when its the Season...so lets smile together”",motivational +2515,"“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”",motivational +5063,"“Why leave the comfort of the harbor? Because you are a ship captain, and a ship captain sails.”",motivational +2983,“What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”,motivational +4719,"“Ish #177 ""You never know what you don't know, until you finally know it.”",motivational +2992,"“Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.”",motivational +4793,“Communicate confidence in your current self but also a certainty that your future self will know better.”,motivational +6033,"“Micro-sized habit changes make problems more manageable and goals more attainable. You can do this anytime, anywhere for the low, low cost of totally free. There are no barriers to entry.”",motivational +5847,"“Whatever happens. But don't lose your faith. When we lose our faith, we are going to lose a lot. Always remember great power is within you.”",motivational +5330,"“If you always think of ways to succeed, you will find ways to succeed. In life, everything begins with how you think.”",motivational +5432,"“Sometimes the journey of life will be too hard, but that does not mean you will never overcome.”",motivational +2766,"“Seize the wind,"" I whispered. ""Don't become the kite that never flies.”",motivational +2790,“People are successful because they think and act like successful people.”,motivational +4406,"“Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.”",motivational +6643,"“For once in your life be a total idiot, for the right cause, for there is no righter cause than the cause of humanity.”",motivational +5484,“A goal is not the same thing as a wish. A goal is something you work toward; a wish is something you hope will happen to you.”,motivational +4775,"“I don’t read too much, but I stay glued to books on the average of five hours per day.”",motivational +5708,"“If you motivate an idiot, you will end up with a motivated idiot”",motivational +3120,"“I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.”",motivational +3195,"“I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfillment in life.”",motivational +6198,"“Lie may last for a few hours, but the truth will last forever.”",motivational +3120,"“I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.”",motivational +4815,"“In the bitterness of the present, the seeds of future sweetness lie concealed.”",motivational +5521,"“Justice is a fickle mistress, alluring but elusive, ever delivering less than she promises.”",motivational +4289,"“There are two bases for our decisions: logic or comfort. When we start making decisions around our comforts, our reasoning abilities become weaker, and our comfort zone becomes smaller.”",motivational +5099,“An honest life starts with an honest assessment of self. You are neither worthless nor preeminent but somewhere in between.”,motivational +5204,"“You know you have mastered the art of life when you refuse to be the one who points fingers, and decide to be the one who helps find the right answers.”",motivational +6466,“Life is a journey...a yearning for love.”,motivational +3082,“Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.”,motivational +4418,“You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.”,motivational +6112,“When your compass is shaking there's always another one reaching out . Be a gallon when its finds you ~”,motivational +3177,"“We, as human beings, enjoy freedom of choice.Your attitude is your choice!”",motivational +3791,"“Deepen your understanding of life, expand your knowledge, and open your mind up to the unknown. You are ready to receive the wisdom and personal growth that comes with this evolution.”",motivational +3431,"“The greatest support you can get from a well-wisher is one question, “do you THINK you can do it""?”",motivational +3633,“It's better to ask a stupid question than to make a stupid assumption.”,motivational +4037,“The treasure of life should motivate you to do your very best.”,motivational +4102,“Be an influencer to avoid being influenced that will measure your strength.”,motivational +2754,“الأحلام التي لا تدفعك للتحدث عنها بشغف هي أحلام ناقصة”,motivational +6219,“The mind is the source of both bondage and liberation.”,motivational +4068,“Allow yourself to learn new things to be grow”,motivational +4908,"“Paddy fields sway gracefully in the cool, gentle breeze, a dance of nature’s elegance.”",motivational +4751,"“motivating people, forcing them to your will, give you a cynical attitude towards humanity. It degrades everything it touches.”",motivational +6372,"“Nothing is permanent in this material world. All that you smell, hear, touch, see, and taste are outcomes of Prakriti and they are transitory - 'One moment here, the next moment it is gone.”",motivational +4447,“Blessings! Count them and be thankful. Ask for an abundance of them and accept with gratitude.”,motivational +5577,"“Don't confuse busyness with productivity. One leaves you exhausted, the other fulfilled.”",motivational +2734,“Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.”,motivational +6055,"“To find peace, let go of your rage, lust, greed, guilt, and bitterness.”",motivational +2772,"“Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.”",motivational +3903,"“When words are less through dance, we express the emotions hidden within.”",motivational +6065,“When you have a soul sometimes it burns.”,motivational +3153,"“When YOU choose to change, your reality must change accordingly. It simply has no other choice.”",motivational +5498,"“Life is not about the loud cheers, or the pats on the back. It is about making an impact.”",motivational +4407,“Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.”,motivational +5012,"“To achieve long-lasting success, you need a resilient mindset and an unstoppable spirit.”",motivational +5280,"“If you value your time, do not entertain anything that does not edify your life.”",motivational +3662,“Great things happen to those who have tremendous belief in their little dreams.”,motivational +3095,"“There is no real world, just the one you create.”",motivational +4329,“You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”,motivational +3493,“Can we measure love? Or connection? Or beauty? Or the feeling of being alive?”,motivational +6587,“Humans will never reach a stage where they know everything.”,motivational +5856,"“The clouds may change shape and move, but the sky remains an infinite canvas of possibility.”",motivational +6339,“Hard work will only pay off when you actually start working hard!”,motivational +3749,“Sometimes all we need to do is simply remind ourselves of how good we have it right now and joy would naturally flow within us... Ingratitude is the result of forgetfulness.”,motivational +2697,“You have the ability to choose your reactions.”,motivational +3488,"“Milo's Way- A HaikuStrength sought in small steps,Like Milo's calf on shoulders,Grow with steady will.”",motivational +4206,"“Motivation supplies ignition, and habit provides fuel, to the flame of desire”",motivational +4223,“The choice is ours to act on what we know.”,motivational +5101,“There is never the potential for success without a corresponding potential for failure.”,motivational +6644,“The power of the brain is stronger than the pain”,motivational +3606,“Forgiveness provide you strengthWord Sorry make you calm”,motivational +4834,“The most beautiful glow a person can have is the light of their heart.”,motivational +5755,“Indecision can be a slippery slope. Take care with each step and move forward confidently.”,motivational +3403,"“Never write people off. Surprisingly, it could be your worst enemy that saves your life.”",motivational +4182,“Of what use are the memories if not to grow flowers..... on the barren fields. Of what use are the falling tears if not to weave the string of pearls in the hardest hours...”,motivational +5417,“It is risky not to take calculated risks in life.”,motivational +3438,"“The higher you fly; the higher they look up to you, fly up for their sake.”",motivational +3231,“Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.”,motivational +5448,"“Life is so good, when you are surrounded by good people.”",motivational +3597,“Be so good they can't ignore you”,motivational +3443,"“Failure should not be a giving up point, it should give room for a restructured process”",motivational +4803,"“Through the tapestry of time, love and death stand as the master weavers, altering the threads of our destinies with a tenderness that mends and a cruelty that rends, leaving no heart untouched by their transformative touch.”",motivational +2663,"“Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.”",motivational +3578,"“Still trust in God, even if the going gets tough.”",motivational +4466,"“Act as if it was, and it will be.”",motivational +5009,“Achieving sustainable success isn't just about working hard; it's about working smart too! High-performance habits can really make a difference!”,motivational +6727,“If you are tired of doing the work.You are tired of winning.”,motivational +6338,“Believe in yourself because that is the actual start to planning and executing your goals.”,motivational +3362,“Nothing enriches our life more than the moments we share with our family. They inspire us to work harder and dream bigger every day.”,motivational +3147,"“You're going to find the people that make it work NEVER quit, quitting is NOT an option.”",motivational +4746,"“The desire for escape is not a plea for sacrifice, but a yearning to elude the shadows of fear, the sting of pain, and the enduring echoes of suffering.”",motivational +4110,"“Tell me your sad story that eating you alive, I promise to be silent only God will read it and sort it for you.”",motivational +2949,"“The workplace is like a battlefield, and you need to be a warrior to survive. So arm yourself with knowledge and fight for your place in the corporate world.”",motivational +3844,“The irresponsibility of others must not hinder us from doing what is right and good.”,motivational +6208,“We all live in a myriad of dualities.”,motivational +3456,"“Despite the despair and suffering still on our planet, humanity is moving toward unity, justice, love, and peace.”",motivational +5881,"“The first mistake is an opportunity to LEARN. But if you don’t use that experience to make a better decision next time, then that’s not an innocent mistake — it's NEGLIGENCE.”",motivational +2967,"“When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because, honey, the work you put into it will be more than worth it in the end. The best things always are.”",motivational +2900,"“Interrupt your thoughts of ""I should"", with your action of doing.”",motivational +6446,“A well-planned day makes you a better focused entrepreneur with a greater vision.”,motivational +4295,"“The thing about making butter is that it feels like it'll never be done, almost right up to the moment when it is done. If what you want is butter, you have to keep going, even if you only half believe you'll get there.”",motivational +4765,"“Embrace your own story, light up the dark, conquer your fears - take the journey to your next level, Win the battle against the end._ ”",motivational +3646,“It's not breaking the rules What I find makes fun. It is However outsmarting the system and finding a way around it that brings me joy and satisfaction”,motivational +6316,“Self-confidence is one of the sharpest weapons you have and I am sure losing it isnt wise!”,motivational +4962,“The formula to end burnout is straightforward: maximize your passion and minimize your void.”,motivational +3974,"“You could have lived my life and I could have lived yours, because without knowing each other I can say that suffering very often shows a similar face when it decides to hit one of us.”",motivational +6182,"“Here they resisted to the last, with their swords if they had them, and if not, with their hands and teeth”",motivational +3885,"“Can there be one best way to tend a garden, one best way to love, one truest cause for love? No. It equates free will with submission.”",motivational +5105,"“Change your perspective on influence – it is a tool that can be used to build meaningful relationships, move conversations in new directions, and bring out the best in people.”",motivational +2649,“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”,motivational +5167,"“The struggle may be tough, but so are you. Keep pushing forward.”",motivational +3347,"“Question asked with a matching answer, help to light your path in life, as you light up your path, you have lightened the world; which is your contribution to humanity.”",motivational +6126,“Being a candle is difficult because one must first burn in order to emit light.”,motivational +6425,"“Don't just aim for the Sky, look further into the stars and reach out to the Galaxy!”",motivational +3103,"“If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.”",motivational +4412,"“Imagination is not bound by possibilities. The creative mind will always break the shackles—making the impossible, possible.”",motivational +2788,“Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!”,motivational +2931,“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”,motivational +6757,"“Leader, you have to know your why, for yourself and your business.”",motivational +4258,"“Your success is your responsibility, nobody else's.”",motivational +4475,"“The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.”",motivational +6596,"“Trigger a thought in your mind, thereafter, your mind will create continuity.”",motivational +6686,“To ‘give up’ on the idea of ‘giving up’ is the first step in ‘getting up.”,motivational +5454,"“Life may not always give you what you want, but do not give up on what you want; until you realize you did all that was required.”",motivational +3957,"“Despite how hard I try to hide, my whole face gathers in a coup to let him know how much I fancy him.”",motivational +4839,"“Barriers only enjoy the power we WILL to it, the moment you decide to withdraw the power, you will surely become a free man.”",motivational +4728,"“There's no such thing as a bad person; Just look at yourself, for example.”",motivational +6297,“Deep and clear ideasHave a way of coming true They sense every single clueI always seek to discoverOptions and their subtle bordersI know their kind never accepts orders”,motivational +5318,"“Never give up on yourself, no matter what happens in life. When you follow God's plans for your life, one day you will be fine.”",motivational +4039,“The clarity of purpose removes lots of nuances”,motivational +5498,"“Life is not about the loud cheers, or the pats on the back. It is about making an impact.”",motivational +3651,“Have you made a practical plan for your dreams yet?”,motivational +3441,“One piece of revelation can turn a man into a success story.”,motivational +3968,“OPTIMIZE YOUR MIND”,motivational +5231,"“No matter the difficulties you face, do not be a difficult person. Choose to make life easy for others.”",motivational +5020,"“Just being on the right track isn't enough to guarantee success. You must keep moving forward and taking action, or you'll get left behind.”",motivational +2793,"“Everything is within your power,and your power is within you.”",motivational +2772,"“Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.”",motivational +4875,“Companies that do not anticipate the conditions of the VUCA world are on a direct path to losing their competitiveness.”,motivational +5955,"“Stress is like a storm, quietly building. If I can remain calm, I quiet the storm.”",motivational +4270,"“Whoever shall call on the name of the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, shall be saved.”",motivational +5556,"“When answering life's big questions, it doesn’t even matter what you say your answers are; what matters is what you do.”",motivational +4889,“Create your own destiny by staying true to yourself— find inspiration from within fueled by self-belief and unstoppable determination!”,motivational +4777,"“To understand another, delve into the unspoken realms, for there, in the silence, you’ll find the authentic tapestry of their existence.”",motivational +2548,“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”,motivational +2575,"“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!”",motivational +3495,"“They say when you put language to something, it creates meaning. Language creates the ability for someone to communicate and explore an idea more fully in a way that is not possible without language.”",motivational +6516,“Little things don't make perfection but perfection is made out of little things.”,motivational +5706,“Someday you are the guitarist; someday you are the guitar.”,motivational +5032,"“Have the courage to take risks, because if you don't, you'll never know what lies beyond your comfort zone.”",motivational +3593,"“Language is the key that unlocks the door to inspiration, allowing us to explore the limitless depths of imagination.”",motivational +4987,“You the only person who have the dynamic love of shaking the mountains of your heart about you.”,motivational +4201,“You don't control your results. You always control your inputs.”,motivational +4823,"“Success is a team sport, not a solo endeavor.”",motivational +3286,“Wisdom comes from knowing the order of things...and you are the first order of your business.”,motivational +4093,"“Remember you can fly but you'll sleep on the ground, never look other people down cause tomorrow you'll land on them.”",motivational +4000,“Profit begins with passion.”,motivational +3168,"“Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse”",motivational +3856,"“It lightens the mood when you start to dance; it’s not about the feet, but what moves beneath.”",motivational +3807,“People who don't know driving can only blow horns.”,motivational +6448,“Plan your dream but focus on your goals!”,motivational +4494,“Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.”,motivational +4552,“we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn”,motivational +6024,"“Using less time to produce more is intelligent, then why do intelligent people choose to multitask?”",motivational +3566,“Goals are for winners - dreams are for losers.”,motivational +3484,“Knowledge saves.”,motivational +3235,“Make peace with your past so you don't mess up the present!”,motivational +5035,"“True leadership is not about commanding authority, it's about earning respect.”",motivational +5644,"“Sustainable success isn't a one-time achievement, it's a lifelong journey of intentional action and growth towards a fulfilling life.”",motivational +2850,"“Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity”",motivational +3955,“It depends on whether you seek to live your own life or somebody else’s.”,motivational +4887,“Developing good habits and building upon them is crucial for making sustainable progress. The key is to stay consistent with your routine!”,motivational +6167,“Style can leave someone speechless but I suggest you focus on that Smile!”,motivational +3034,"“Never engage in gossip, it kills your soul, and wounds another’s heart”",motivational +4404,"“No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!”",motivational +4581,"“Choose to hustle now, to work hard now, to make all the sacrifice now. So that you can enjoy your tomorrow. Whatever it is that you suppose to do now. If you don't do it now, it will affect you badly for the rest of your life.”",motivational +2913,“You have seen me fall; now see me rise.”,motivational +4081,“To kill it you must finding your body shape with tailors help or tape measurements and follow it with your outfit like clothes that match your body structure .”,motivational +6248,"“When consciousness ends, that is where the otherness unfolds naturally as a whole.”",motivational +6735,"“There are four types of motivational forces: fear, dreams and desires, fulfilling big ideas, and transforming the world to make a better place to live. The fear and security, driven motivational forces are in the lowest level.”",motivational +4354,"“Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.”",motivational +3986,"“Even though we don’t speak the same language, at this moment, we understand each other.”",motivational +4903,"“He sometimes keeps Her off of the sky,But then She teaches Him how to fly.”",motivational +3279,"“When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows.”",motivational +3086,“Always make your future bigger than your past.”,motivational +5409,“The hardships of life can never be avoided completely. We must be ready to deal with whatsoever happens on this journey.”,motivational +2701,"“If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.”",motivational +4515,"“Urusan pembaca adalah mengekalkan ingatan pada apa yang mereka sukai. Sebaliknya, urusan penulis adalah menghapus ingatan dari apa-apa yang sudah ia bikin. Ia hanya memusatkan perhatian pada bagaimana melahirkan karya sebaik-baiknya saat ini.”",motivational +3693,“Never give up on your goals or aspirations; approach them with a fighting spirit and determination to succeed.”,motivational +4902,"“She's living That life,with the view, she designed.”",motivational +5506,"“The alternative to a posture of humble gratitude is one of entitlement, which produces thanklessness toward your own blessings and envy toward the blessings of others.”",motivational +4300,"“Listen up: just because you have the capacity to do something for someone, it doesn't mean you have the obligation to especially when they won't even appreciate you for doing it”",motivational +3618,“Don't give example.. Make yourselves as an example..”,motivational +6513,“A man on fire is a man of faith.”,motivational +4769,“Underachieving hidden gems mostly require support and motivation to inspire them to achieve more or maintain consistency.”,motivational +6244,“Many things are going to seem few if you desire many things.”,motivational +6301,“Why be human when you can be a god?”,motivational +4444,“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”,motivational +3237,“The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile.”,motivational +5959,"“People say, don’t worry about the small stuff. Determining if your biggest worry is small stuff is a skill. Letting go of small stuff is a gift.”",motivational +4648,"“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.”",motivational +4152,"“Do not take your health for granted, thank God for your well being.”",motivational +5308,"“Look for the lessons life presents, because through them you can gain the knowledge and wisdom to live well.”",motivational +2649,“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”,motivational +3963,“A crush for whom I’m saving my first kiss.”,motivational +4604,"“Today is a gift that will be taken from you at day's end. Don't waste a moment, a chance, a lesson. You'll never live today again.”",motivational +3833,“It is amazing how the Powerful God provides.”,motivational +3721,“Drumul învingătorului e înainte! Chiar dacă ar călca pe cadavre.”,motivational +3667,"“What students need to do, is “learn to think, learn to speak, learn to write, and find something that they are excited about. If they can do that, they’re going to do well.”",motivational +2848,"“How would your life be different if...You stopped focusing on what you didn’t want and started focusing on what you do want? Let today be the day...You establish a clear intent, make a plan, and take actions towards your intent.”",motivational +6336,"“Challenges have no limits, strive to be the best and seek success.”",motivational +4476,"“Where there is life, there is hope.”",motivational +3211,"“Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,”",motivational +4937,"“Leadership is not only about guiding those who are struggling, but also motivating those who have already achieved success to strive for more.”",motivational +4308,"“How do you cultivate optimism? By learning the secret of contentment. If you can learn that, then no matter what happens to you, you can weather the storm and build on the good you find in any situation.”",motivational +3363,"“But you know... This was actually fun while it lasted. Humans, Jujutsu Sorcerers, Cursed Spirits... You're not bad compared to those I fought over the last thousand years. Stand proud. You're strong.”",motivational +4320,"“What drives your buying decisions - necessities, comforts, pleasures, status, or ego?”",motivational +5374,“There’s no school of life where one can get certified. Yet it offers the same courses with a different set of tests for each person alive.”,motivational +6150,“Coz Yolande means Purple and I'm loving it!”,motivational +2690,"“Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.”",motivational +5620,"“In the flutter of a butterfly’s wings, we find a gentle reminder to appreciate the small moments in life and to find joy in life’s simple pleasures.”",motivational +4025,"“Two times in life you do not waste time arguing with someone: when you are wrong, and when you are right.”",motivational +3864,"“Excitement spreads beneath when you lock your feet to the dancing beat,”",motivational +4682,"“All have dreams, live for them, They add meaning to LIFE.The only thing that differentiates us from other beings is the fact that us can DREAM!!!”",motivational +6137,“Reality is as necessary as reason.”,motivational +6136,"“You don’t need to be brilliant, wealthy, attractive, or perfect to make a difference in someone’s life. Just show some concern.”",motivational +6604,“The fastest way to get over anything in your life is by revisiting it and giving it a different meaning”,motivational +5747,"“Setting boundaries isn't about keeping people out, it's about protecting the energy you allow in.”",motivational +6199,"“Your action - A hastiness lead to regret, but patience and empathy leads - to peace and happiness.”",motivational +2526,“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”,motivational +5911,"“Believe in yourself and take on every challenge with confidence — your success is something only you can define. Be bold and embrace life's opportunities, trust me—you won't regret it!”",motivational +5512,"“Once we’ve been victimized, none of us can choose not to have been victimized; we can only choose how to respond.”",motivational +3640,“Det är nu som gäller”,motivational +5847,"“Whatever happens. But don't lose your faith. When we lose our faith, we are going to lose a lot. Always remember great power is within you.”",motivational +5819,"“Every challenge is an opportunity, so open yourself up and get ready to move!”",motivational +5880,"“If you take on a challenge and really commit to it, you'll find that it's not just about that one thing - it will create new habits, skills and behaviors that can be applied in other parts of your life.”",motivational +3495,"“They say when you put language to something, it creates meaning. Language creates the ability for someone to communicate and explore an idea more fully in a way that is not possible without language.”",motivational +5829,"“Today, I will focus on the present and not worry about the future or how my story will end. The story will end when it is supposed to, and it will end with greatness because it will be a life well-lived.”",motivational +2681,"“When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.”",motivational +6249,“Character is when alone and nobody is watching while behavior is when one is in the stage spotlight.”,motivational +5560,"“A teacher casts his work into the wind, knowing not where it will be blown, in hopes that a seed will land somewhere it can take root and outlive the one who cast it.”",motivational +3234,"“Don’t forget to collect the memories on your journey. Remember, if you only focus on your destination, you will miss out on the benefits of the journey.”",motivational +6268,"“A solution to a problem may be effective, but that doesn't mean it's the best solution”",motivational +4383,“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”,motivational +6541,"“. Many great things await you in the future, and with your wisdom life will be a game you skillfully manoeuvre.”",motivational +3497,"“External failure has no real correlation to spiritual failure. For a spiritual entrepreneur, external failure is often essential for spiritual success.”",motivational +6252,“Our minds control us; we do not control our minds.”,motivational +5194,"“Watching drama play out from afar could seem fun, but it can be very sad if it is in your life. Avoid any form of drama and stay away from those who fuel it with their lies.”",motivational +2927,"“Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life.”",motivational +3101,“The whole world's a canvas for our sketchesHorizons as far as the mind stretchesA work of art with soft edgesWaiting to come aliveNow's the time”,motivational +4282,“It's okay if people reject you too many times not everyone deserves great opportunities and not everyone deserves to work with great people.”,motivational +4967,“No need for the hustle & grind when you can tap into your inner power & manifest what you desire with grace & ease.”,motivational +3443,"“Failure should not be a giving up point, it should give room for a restructured process”",motivational +6316,“Self-confidence is one of the sharpest weapons you have and I am sure losing it isnt wise!”,motivational +2839,"“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”",motivational +5957,"“When I calm my mind, I experience the greatest joy of all.”",motivational +5210,“Don’t let unfinished business weigh you down. Finish what you started and unlock the door to limitless possibilities.”,motivational +6514,“There is no learning without study.”,motivational +6376,“JULY - Joy Unlimited Locate You”,motivational +6708,"“Motivating your team is like cooking. You need to select and blend the right quality ingredients and serve them fresh as often as you can; otherwise, your team will get hungry and grumpy.”",motivational +2709,“God helps those who strut their stuff.”,motivational +5005,"“In a world full of distractions, pause and feel the world around you—the gentle rhythm of raindrops, the laughter of children, and the pulse of humanity’s collective heartbeat.”",motivational +4350,“Your inner strength is your outer foundation”,motivational +4374,“Life's short. Live passionately.”,motivational +4504,"“Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders"".”",motivational +3417,"“Once to live, once to die; while you're living, live a memorable life.”",motivational +5697,"“We may not be born equal, but we can all make a positive difference in the world.”",motivational +3278,"“Over the years, I've come to realize that determination makes one to punch above one's weight.”",motivational +5663,"“Lead with courage, own your decisions, and embrace accountability - the true hallmark of a fearless leader.”",motivational +5009,“Achieving sustainable success isn't just about working hard; it's about working smart too! High-performance habits can really make a difference!”,motivational +5222,"“It is significant to look after yourself and your significant others. In the process, do away with the insignificant things in life.”",motivational +6093,“Nobody can take your happiness away from you. Once you learn how to create it.”,motivational +4136,“Avoid to quit before starting.”,motivational +2894,“Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.”,motivational +5929,“Look deep within. You will find everything you seek.”,motivational +6516,“Little things don't make perfection but perfection is made out of little things.”,motivational +6601,"“Imagine, Envision, & Create the World You want to See. The Future is Ours.”",motivational +4974,"“The five magicians, a motivational book that will change you forever. If you want to be successful and see the path that leads to it, you must read this book, written with great skill by Bruis Cabilio. The book is available on Amazon.”",motivational +4790,"“Understanding why you did a thing, he had heard it said many times, did not make it easier to do it. If anything the opposite was true.”",motivational +4364,“Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.”,motivational +4506,"“When you SEE into the invisible, you will DARE to do the impossible!”",motivational +3744,“Don’t give away what you stand for.. It is who you are .. So do not lose yourself”,motivational +6652,"“Competitions are for horses, not heroes.”",motivational +3658,"“It doesn't matter what happens to you on earth, just look in the sky, and look at the stars. Go deep into the galaxy, and dream.”",motivational +3939,“Have you ever reached a truly quiet state of mind?”,motivational +4327,"“When all is said and done, more is said than done.”",motivational +4832,“One of the worst things you can do against yourself in life is to dream small.”,motivational +3638,“It’s better to do something badly than to not do it at all.”,motivational +5166,"“When faced with adversity, remember that stars shine brightest in the darkest skies.”",motivational +6008,“Positive emotions are created with peaceful thoughts.”,motivational +2882,"“Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!”",motivational +4628,"“If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.”",motivational +6528,"“Remain patient in your ways, for with The Universe, there are no delays and your rewards will do nothing but amaze.”",motivational +4529,"“Perserverance: Outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves.”",motivational +6213,“We are solely to blame for our misery.”,motivational +5767,"“When you have an understanding of how things work, you will know better how to work things out”",motivational +5943,"“If you want to have long-term success as a coach or in any role of leadership, having an obsession with your craft is essential.”",motivational +4397,“The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.”,motivational +4331,"“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”",motivational +3982,“Don’t be afraid of failure because it prepares you for success!”,motivational +4750,"“In leadership, you gotta love people first. Love the position second.”",motivational +5751,"“The wings of time may carry us on diverse journeys, but the common roots we share will always guide us back to the same ground.”",motivational +5642,"“As long as you remain consistent in taking small steps forward each day, it won't be long before you're powering through projects with greater success than ever before!”",motivational +4578,"“I made it greater,you always told me to forget the haters.”",motivational +2867,"“When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.”",motivational +4549,"“Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat--things gent freaky. The cool rationality of Isaac Newton gives way to the bizarre unpredictability of Lewis Carroll.”",motivational +3649,"“Leadership is all about making things to move forward, not backward.”",motivational +4143,“Grief does not kill the light...it reveals it.....Agony does not kill the ecstasy....it unfolds it......Dark does not extinguish the Dawn...it unwinds it.....”,motivational +6508,"“Tidak ada orang yang lahir di dunia tanpa alasan, tidak ada orang yang lahir dan tidak bisa mewujudkan setidaknya satu hal, apapun itu.”",motivational +4451,“Habits stay with you even when you don’t have the motivation.”,motivational +5869,“The gorgeous sunrise is the one that gives you hope in your heart and gives you another day to pursue your dreams.”,motivational +5488,"“If my family is the price of my success, then I am grateful to have had so little of it.”",motivational +2514,"“Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.”",motivational +5775,"“I believe depression is legitimate. But I also believe that if you don’t exercise, eat nutritious food, get sunlight, get enough sleep, consume positive material, surround yourself with support, then you aren’t giving yourself a fighting chance.”",motivational +4099,“Step into a mistry world of believing and trust in you before you blame other people.”,motivational +5772,"“Discipline may be a tricky but at the end of the day, it's believing that you can achieve your goals and dreams that will get you closer to them.”",motivational +5114,"“We’re all on our own journey, so never forget to love yourself enough and make every moment count.”",motivational +5727,“Today is full of potential; all it takes to make the most of it is a little effort. Don't worry about tomorrow until today's work is done!”,motivational +5781,“Believe in your abilities to overcome any challenges that may arise.”,motivational +3421,“Maintain an undying relationship with God and enjoy all of His benefits; do not run to Him only when you feel you need Him; you may be disappointed.”,motivational +4519,“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!”,motivational +3950,“Shouldn’t plans be constantly under review?”,motivational +5562,"“Our very definition and understanding of the Comfort Zone is false—or at the very least, incomplete. True, lasting success is not attained outside our Comfort Zone, but rather inside it.”",motivational +6054,"“If you want to be happy, let go of your anger and bitterness and embrace kindness, compassion, faith, and love.”",motivational +6729,“Meditation is good for sound mind.”,motivational +5436,“Every living being is presented with the gift of life. It is up to each one to decide what to do with it while there is still time. Blessed are those who make theirs count.”,motivational +4337,“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.”,motivational +3083,"“If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.”",motivational +3437,"“Reading will give you happiness, happiness will lighten up your face, and lightened face will attract favor.”",motivational +6267,"“Of course, it comes down to a little creativity and a lot of motivation. The creativity is inside all of us. The motivation is rougher.”",motivational +6207,“Actions are the seed of destiny.”,motivational +3971,"“They say my future is my choice, but it doesn’t feel like that.”",motivational +5783,“Life without faith is like a world without love and will end in motion without meaning.”,motivational +3562,"“In the face of environmental challenges, innovation becomes our greatest ally in shaping a sustainable future.”",motivational +4408,"“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.”",motivational +3965,“I will not blink. I will not be intimidated.”,motivational +3907,"“Those who practice it can’t get enough, whose expressions are countless; what else but dance?”",motivational +5923,"“One small shift in mindset, one tiny tweak to your daily routine — these are the things that can end up driving your future.”",motivational +2950,“Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences – increases your self-esteem – boosts confidence in your ability to decisions – and ultimately leads to achieve success in life.”,motivational +6158,“Lovely Hair = bae”,motivational +3686,"“Find what you love and go after it. Know where you would love to build your strength. Pursue what keeps you excited for longer than anyone else, for that’s the thing where you will start to have an added advantage over everyone else.”",motivational +3765,"“Self-confidence will give you that success which no other way can help, it is the prime key. Look into the mirror, say- Yes! you canThink once!”",motivational +6142,“Don't waste your time living the life of someone else.”,motivational +4349,"“Many times in life, we are held back from achieving our goals because we do not commit ourselves wholeheartedly. With an escape route in mind, we hold ourselves back from giving our all.”",motivational +4817,“Turn obstacles into opportunities— and embrace failures along the journey to becoming a powerhouse. It's all part of the process!”,motivational +3418,"“A dream is like a child, it should be conceived, cared for, birthed, nurtured, and tender till it grows to become giant”",motivational +6517,"“No matter what happens to you, pray for strength to hold on.”",motivational +4677,“WINNER:is A Runner who “Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine ExcellentRunners!”,motivational +4680,"“Once You keep Aside the Emotional side Of yours,Is when You stop using the phrase “This was a BAD PHASE” of life..”",motivational +2631,“Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.”,motivational +5666,“Life is full of battles. Ye cannae escape them. Ye can only prepare to stand yer ground and fight them.”,motivational +3293,"“See it first in your mind, then become it.”",motivational +4924,"“Time is a serious phenomena, unending nights and days.Why use finite numbers (calendar) to measure endless time?Man needs a break and some excitement.”",motivational +3304,“To think is good. To obsess is bad.”,motivational +6680,"“So, we hide, and we fight, and we hide, and we train, and we fight.”",motivational +6662,“Do not apologize for having standards”,motivational +4444,“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”,motivational +4664,“Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.”,motivational +6315,“Inhale positivity and exhale negativity because positivity will resolve 90% of the issue most of the times!”,motivational +3809,“Our thoughts have the energy to light the candle and burn the hand. It all depends on how we handle them.”,motivational +6671,“Your dreams are free but the hustle is sold separately.”,motivational +5648,"“Accepting yourself and believing in yourself is one of the most important habits when it comes to success! Embrace your uniqueness, and never forget how capable, strong, and powerful you are.”",motivational +5744,"“We build a beautiful relationship with love, trust, and respect.”",motivational +4860,"“Destiny will open the way for people who have hope and determination. Fate will drown people who have no intention, ambition and motivation.”",motivational +4440,"“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”",motivational +5229,“Never let the tragedies of life transform you into a human tragedy.”,motivational +2872,"“I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.”",motivational +4898,"“Being indecisive can hold you back. It's like chains that keep you from moving forward and growing. It's all fueled by fear, stopping you from taking those crucial steps towards progress.”",motivational +3454,"“What does it really take to make a difference in the world? In a word, focus. Relentless focus.”",motivational +3885,"“Can there be one best way to tend a garden, one best way to love, one truest cause for love? No. It equates free will with submission.”",motivational +3947,"“He makes a sharp maneuver, trying to hold my wrist for a better grip, but he fails.”",motivational +5688,“Unrealistic expectations are perilous because they are never met.”,motivational +2848,"“How would your life be different if...You stopped focusing on what you didn’t want and started focusing on what you do want? Let today be the day...You establish a clear intent, make a plan, and take actions towards your intent.”",motivational +5497,"“Life is not about competing with others. It is about running your race with courage, and completing it in the right lane.”",motivational +2890,"“If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice”",motivational +4064,“It not clothes that unfit you it you not doing it.”,motivational +2807,“Success is a poor teacher”,motivational +2646,“The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.”,motivational +2866,“Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.”,motivational +4030,“THE END OF FAILURE IS BETTER THAN WINNING”,motivational +5964,“The ultimate pleasure is found in the calmness of the mind.”,motivational +4135,“You tired to call by names through your body size look just change the lifestyle.”,motivational +3811,"“Success is always relative; in isolation, everyone is a winner.”",motivational +3642,“A dumb idea isn't dumb if it works so you might as well just try it out”,motivational +4694,“The greatest obsession is I believe in myself.”,motivational +5678,“The mud-lusciousness of spring is a reminder to embrace life’s messiness and to find beauty in unexpected places.”,motivational +6343,“You won’t get applause if you don’t work for a cause!”,motivational +4659,“You are an artist and the masterpiece is your life.”,motivational +3745,"“If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.”",motivational +6243,"“One way of motivating yourself towards implementing your idea is to ask yourself; what and how much would I lose if the idea is practicable, doable, and feasible but I lacked the guts to act and push it to reality?”",motivational +5342,“Life can change at any time. That is why you need loved ones who can take care of you when things go south.”,motivational +6768,“Difficulties only add value to a dream.”,motivational +3506,“Hello read and buy this book is always ready to contribute a great impact in your life.”,motivational +5075,“Your legacy is not simply a matter of what you do but a matter of who you do it for.”,motivational +3815,“Every day you have the choice of how you want to start your day.”,motivational +3164,"“Spirituality is for people. It’s not just for those who you might have read about in books, it’s for people.”",motivational +5168,“The struggle is the catalyst for change and the birthplace of innovation.”,motivational +4719,"“Ish #177 ""You never know what you don't know, until you finally know it.”",motivational +4417,"“We all grow tired eventually; it happens to everyone. Even the sun, at the close of the year, is no longer a morning person.”",motivational +6238,“The sharp jagged edges of memory are where both pain and motivation lie.”,motivational +4554,"“Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?”",motivational +5670,"“Embrace your quirks, own your flaws, and flaunt your fabulousness. Being true to yourself is not just a trend; it's a lifestyle.”",motivational +3648,"“Those who wish to readalways find a book,there’ll new chapters, new pagesand new journey to embark on.”",motivational +2774,"“Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars.”",motivational +4353,"“You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds...Claim and consciously use your power.”",motivational +4216,"“The blunderer who expects to receive a searing lash of someone's rage , but instead receives a breeze of their tranquilly is swamped immediately with unfathomable shame and misery.”",motivational +6138,"“Men all pass away. However, not all men live.”",motivational +5719,"“Your life is your kingdom, and you're the ruler. Don't let anyone else take the throne.”",motivational +4801,"“Wisdom is available to those who can labor for her, she is expensive and hidden to the lazy mind.”",motivational +6240,"“Whatever life throws at you, what you make of it is entirely up to you.”",motivational +6337,“Every step a beginner takes leads him to be an expert someday!”,motivational +4018,“The distance between dreams and reality is called Fate”,motivational +2983,“What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”,motivational +3484,“Knowledge saves.”,motivational +3715,"“Spend time with people who encourage you to grow, to explore new things, and who take joy in your successes.”",motivational +4468,"“motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.”",motivational +3065,“Always have a 'Plan C”,motivational +3390,"“It is as much about input – the conversation of imaginative men (women and children not excluded) has a rhythm, a phrase that follows a thought and precedes the development of further thought ... try not to be a cunt.”",motivational +4702,"“Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practed two hundred times.”",motivational +5175,“Every struggle carries within it the seeds of wisdom and strength.”,motivational +4118,“People live miserably without loving well and people love miserably without living well.”,motivational +5996,"“When you are in the presence of the beauty of nature, nothing but happiness can overtake you.”",motivational +4962,“The formula to end burnout is straightforward: maximize your passion and minimize your void.”,motivational +4454,“The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.”,motivational +5316,“It is wise to plan effectively and do what is required in order to live a fruitful life.”,motivational +6333,"“Dream higher to reach higher, never lose faith and watch how things go great!”",motivational +6044,“We must peel away the bitterness of life from time to time in order to reveal the richer aspects of life.”,motivational +6310,"“Life takes a magical turn when you start believing in yourself, cast your own spells, and see your life-changing...”",motivational +6685,“Never underestimate the impact of customer service. Every business has customers that needs to be served.”,motivational +4478,"“I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.”",motivational +6330,“There is always a law of connection; we just have to be observant and tune into it.”,motivational +5327,"“Sometimes, painful circumstances will find their way into your life. Be prepared for them and find ways to overcome them!”",motivational +3410,“Running after my own dreamsTripping over my own feetHeld on to my self esteemWalking to my own loud beatSo stand tall or take a seat”,motivational +2872,"“I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.”",motivational +6766,"“Magic will happen, Just distance yourself from negativity.”",motivational +5627,"“When I walk into the wild, I leave behind the world’s noise and chaos and enter a realm of simplicity and marvel.”",motivational +5066,"“You can’t conjure up moments of clarity at will, but you can make a habit of quieting yourself and giving them the opportunity to occur.”",motivational +4371,“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”,motivational +2623,“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”,motivational +4892,“Be unstoppable — challenge yourself to push the boundaries of what's possible.”,motivational +6443,“Secrecy is the best way to show people your results!”,motivational +4998,"“When I have clarity, I can begin again every time”",motivational +3450,"“Create something out of nothing. You are a vessel and your vessel is important. But if you don’t treat it like it’s important, then you’re not gonna have what it is you want to have. You’ll always be so close but no cigar.”",motivational +4232,“She is involved in work her soul must have.”,motivational +4842,"“If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.”",motivational +5275,"“If you can understand the basics of life, you are better than a person who complicates even the easiest things.”",motivational +3645,"“There's always going to be someone better than you at something, but remember that for someone Else, you might be the person that is better than them”",motivational +5035,"“True leadership is not about commanding authority, it's about earning respect.”",motivational +6625,"“Rock bottom is somewhere none of us ever want to be, but sometimes it happens. It's a place that, if we allow it, can destroy us. On the other hand, it can teach us about the deepest, darkest parts of ourselves for our ultimate growth.”",motivational +5928,"“Don't let anyone's opinion of you define who you can be. Life is too short to worry about what other people think. It's your life, so own it!”",motivational +6414,“Enjoy every moment with yourself even if your standing alone coz some people won’t even travel half way through in crowds.”,motivational +6145,"“Empathy is the language of the blind who can see, and compassion is the music of the deaf who can hear.”",motivational +5461,“Life will always take you through various seasons. Learn to thrive in each season and come out ready to deal with any situation.”,motivational +4875,“Companies that do not anticipate the conditions of the VUCA world are on a direct path to losing their competitiveness.”,motivational +6729,“Meditation is good for sound mind.”,motivational +2784,"“Orang yang tidak pernah dibakar panas mentari, mustahil menghargai rimbun berteduh - peribahasa Turki.”",motivational +4507,"“Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.”",motivational +3735,“Living From Your Art is POSSIBLE!!!”,motivational +6260,“Any intensely lived emotion simply liberates us from those very emotions.”,motivational +6243,"“One way of motivating yourself towards implementing your idea is to ask yourself; what and how much would I lose if the idea is practicable, doable, and feasible but I lacked the guts to act and push it to reality?”",motivational +3203,"“If you are not able to see your goals, they will take longer to achieve, and sometimes “longer” is ""never.”",motivational +3817,"“If the busiest person in the office is the CEO, it only means that either the leadership has failed to create evolving systems or the leadership itself has failed.”",motivational +6660,“Intelligence is knowing the what's and the how's. Wisdom is knowing when and where to use it. Humility is knowing the who and why.”,motivational +5742,"“A reservoir of strength exists deep within me, waiting to be tapped when life's challenges arise.”",motivational +6622,"“Those who don't do, bark. Those who are humans, do.”",motivational +4819,“True leaders don't command; they inspire.”,motivational +5349,“There are endless opportunities in life; do not miss out. Be smart and put yourself to the task of looking them up.”,motivational +6716,"“When in phase of uncertainty, befriend yourself to a new discovery”",motivational +6067,“Why are you looking outside when it is already inside you?”,motivational +5906,"“Every setback is an opportunity to grow if we take the time to reflect, find out what went wrong, and use our experiences to move forward.”",motivational +3049,“Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.”,motivational +5202,"“When you rewrite the story of your life, make sure the new chapters are much better than the old ones.”",motivational +3596,"“If you take everything to heart, happiness will deviate from your path.”",motivational +5871,“Not All Dry Wood's Face Is A Funance”,motivational +2532,“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”,motivational +4080,“Welcome in Curve fashion world allow me to walk in to your wardrobe .”,motivational +5466,"“Life will not always be easy, but the ups and downs make it amazing.”",motivational +6744,"“A good Athlete may not be a good Coach, likewise, a good Coach may not be a good Athlete”",motivational +4275,“Success doesn’t just happen; it doesn’t pot out on its own.Success is all about the choices you make.It’s a balancing act betweenwhat to choose and what not to.”,motivational +4743,"“If both the people and the system are leaky, the chances for failure are great. Sometimes it is hard to know whether the problem is the person or the system that is failing.”",motivational +2708,"“Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing...changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.”",motivational +5706,“Someday you are the guitarist; someday you are the guitar.”,motivational +2764,“Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination. Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.”,motivational +6255,"“I personally believe that fear is a great motivator. Being afraid can even be healthy, as you really achieve something grand when you get to the other side of your worst nightmare.”",motivational +4749,“I praise the day I reach the end of my rope. That is the day true change can take place.”,motivational +5683,"“Being surrounded by trees serves as a constant reminder that, while growth is a slow process, the outcomes can be breathtaking.”",motivational +6114,“The storm that chases is the storm that revels ~”,motivational +5844,“Knowledge is another form of God. If someone loves both. So he will get the answers to every question.”,motivational +2921,“Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go... you are a part of everything.”,motivational +4522,“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”,motivational +3889,"“Really, it's newsletters and direct followings that are always the main determinant for winning anyway.”",motivational +3606,“Forgiveness provide you strengthWord Sorry make you calm”,motivational +5934,"“If you want to have long-term success as a coach, or in any role of leadership, having an obsession with your craft is essential. It isn't enough to be knowledgeable about what you do - you have to be hungry for improvement.”",motivational +6163,“Red is the Colour I LOVE ... coz Red is the Colour of LOVE”,motivational +3417,"“Once to live, once to die; while you're living, live a memorable life.”",motivational +2695,"“No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?”",motivational +6552,"“I know me God and I know you see my heartI ain't afraid, nothing will tear us apart”",motivational +6264,“We sometimes have to exercise to want to exercise.”,motivational +4523,“Competition is a rude yet effective motivation.”,motivational +4600,“May you find the strength of will and the grace of endurance to overcome every challenge.”,motivational +6152,“Coz Red is so Dangerously Lovely... U choose...Danger or Love?”,motivational +4638,"“Tidak ada seorang pun yang bisa dikalahkan, sampai dia menyerah--DI DALAM PIKIRANNYA SENDIRI!”",motivational +2865,“Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.”,motivational +4930,“Successful leaders don't just think outside the box; they create new boxes to paint their vision of the future. They make themselves and their belief system so contagious that others can't help but to follow them along on the journey.”,motivational +6765,"“As a leader, my job as a CEO is Culture + Excellence Officer. My team are proffessionals, they know their job. I just maintain culture and drive excellence.”",motivational +4005,“Viral Code...I want my dreamsAnd I want them now;Give me my dreams;Only dreams can cure me;Everyone deserves dreamsBecause no one deserves them”,motivational +4666,"“Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!- RVM”",motivational +5063,"“Why leave the comfort of the harbor? Because you are a ship captain, and a ship captain sails.”",motivational +4850,"“To be great in any endeavor, passion is not negotiable.”",motivational +5459,"“Life will always have its highs and lows. Do not just go with the flow. Learn to bloom, even when you are feeling low.”",motivational +3746,"“If you fall, do not forger stay down. May you find inner strength to rise again.”",motivational +3481,“Every Thick woman say yes on solid and balance shoes sole for a firm legs.”,motivational +6473,"“It is never too late to ask yourself, ‘Am I ready to make a life change?’ Is it possible for me to change from within?”",motivational +3558,"“If they call you a dreamer, ignore them and keep dreaming. I know of a lad who was called that — he went on to become a governor of Egypt.”",motivational +6209,"“We are deluded by Maya, and we are the slaves of illusion.”",motivational +5288,"“Beyond today, no one knows how life will turn out. So, while you can, celebrate the special moments.”",motivational +4096,“Don't confuse being kind and being played this is life not the game you must know the different before you regret.”,motivational +6386,"“If you know where you want to go in life, people tend to help or get out of the way.Both of those are useful.”",motivational +4876,"“Those who lead a company essentially must do two things. They must ensure that they achieve the greatest possible demand with innovative products, and they must ensure that their company can handle the greatest possible demand with confidence.”",motivational +2944,"“If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.”",motivational +5336,"“From time to time, life will present you with an opportunity to make your mark. Learn to discern and choose to be different. It is when you do the things that help you stand out that you will be able to shine your light.”",motivational +4064,“It not clothes that unfit you it you not doing it.”,motivational +6366,"“Life finds a way when love finds a way, and love finds a way when the human makes a way.”",motivational +3812,“It does not matter if we do not have an immediate answer. What matters is if we have the right question.”,motivational +4892,“Be unstoppable — challenge yourself to push the boundaries of what's possible.”,motivational +2690,"“Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.”",motivational +4097,“I'm sorry to step you in your corners but the truth must be told that you can't Loved by all people cause you not the money.”,motivational +4095,“In the name of look beautiful help the world by being beautiful inside and out to avoid confusion.”,motivational +3167,“Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.”,motivational +2667,"“Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.”",motivational +6461,“Nature makes no distinction between creating and destroying life.”,motivational +3519,“History flows through us. We need only gaze inward to glimpse the future's unwritten pages.”,motivational +2560,“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”,motivational +4815,"“In the bitterness of the present, the seeds of future sweetness lie concealed.”",motivational +3736,“Do you know how they make the strongest sword? They hammer it flat then hold it to the fire.”,motivational +3543,“Life is a journey of endless opportunities for growth and self-discovery.”,motivational +6210,“It is by your faith that you can stand firm.”,motivational +6553,"“There is nothing I fear as much as idleness - unemployment - inertia - lethargy of the faculties - when the body is idle, the spirit suffers cruelly”",motivational +3772,"“Your worth is not measured by your income level, job status, job title, productivity, popularity, or performance ratings.”",motivational +4392,"“Dear me, one day I'll make you proud.”",motivational +4317,“Success is the best Revenge.”,motivational +5675,“Puddle-wonderful moments are like rainbows after a storm. They remind us that there is beauty in every situation.”,motivational +6305,"“Give hope to your inner self to rise above with your self-esteem, work through it and you will succeed.”",motivational +4849,"“It is in winning the battle of life that man becomes a hero, not in running from them – life’s battles are life exams.”",motivational +5922,"“It takes courage and strength to take a long, hard look at who you are, what you want out ofthis life, and how to make it happen.”",motivational +3325,"“It was in 2020 that I started posting my poetry online. The world was too lonely and scared then, and I wanted to see if my words could be of any help.”",motivational +4945,"“All around us, everyday heroes have overcome many things in their lives. Someone's story could be a source of inspiration for you and make you feel motivated.”",motivational +3396,"“Be the change, then lead the change.”",motivational +3175,"“Always be happy, you never know how happy you can make another by just being happy.”",motivational +5132,“Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it by playing small. Aim for greatness.”,motivational +6740,“Connection gives us the grace and grit to unleash our potential and endure the challenge of our daily mess.”,motivational +3326,“You can't control how you're loved. Otherwise you will only get the control and not the love.”,motivational +4696,"“You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.”",motivational +3614,“The best way to reply is to make them defeated”,motivational +4732,“Embrace the transformative power of becoming the best version of yourself. It's time to turn your dreams into reality and create a life that's truly fulfilling and meaningful.”,motivational +2705,“And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.”,motivational +5179,"“Life is meant to be an adventure. Seek experiences that ignite your soul.failure, inspiration, life, motivation, pep-talk-radio, struggle, success, passion, adventure”",motivational +6000,"“Every time I admire nature, I wish I could just disappear into it.”",motivational +4956,"“You aren’t a jumbled assortment of traits and characteristics. On the contrary, the various aspects of your being are sublimely interconnected.”",motivational +2978,"“Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.”",motivational +4456,"“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”",motivational +6407,“Achieving something in life brings great joy and happiness.”,motivational +4518,“Do not be afraid of what should be afraid of you”,motivational +6308,“Self-believing and self-realization will help you become stronger mentally and will guide you to take proper decisions in your life...”,motivational +6626,"“Those who don't lift, laugh. Those who are humans, lift.”",motivational +6304,"“Never justify yourself for who you are, your attitude leads to whom you want to be...”",motivational +6496,"“We came from the earth, we return to the dirt, and we bloom, fade, and wilt in between.”",motivational +2742,“How would your life be different if...You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day...You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.”,motivational +3436,“Maturity in any relationship makes the practice of love comfortable.”,motivational +6115,"“Without meditation, how can you be motivated?”",motivational +3030,“You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life.”,motivational +6031,"“Why can’t I change?? Why???????? You yell to the heavens, momentarily forgetting that you are not the leading character in a silent film being tied ceremoniously to a train track by a scurrilous villain with a handlebar mustache.”",motivational +4137,“Being a Qoets author is not about know how to hold or have a pen it about having a word neither being healthy fit is not about having a gym equipment and knowing what to do is about doing it.”,motivational +3824,“To whoever needs to hear this: It's never too late to change directions. Life isn't a linear path. So do not stifle your potential by staying in a lane that doesn't fit what you want for yourself anymore.”,motivational +5365,“Some people made it in life not because they attained the highest marks in class but because they chose to make their mark.”,motivational +3632,"“If you have less and that [less] is good for you, It's is way better than the (more) you have but actually you don't.”",motivational +5095,"“Life is a risk. Life is also punctuated by moments of great risk, and your identity and legacy are shaped by how you respond in those critical moments.”",motivational +3531,"“Life is not about finding someone beautiful, it is about finding someone who makes your life beautiful.”",motivational +3886,“The simple ineluctable truth is that desire has no bearing on our duties.”,motivational +5882,"“If you don't want to sink, then it's time to cut the negative anchors loose and start swimming!”",motivational +4027,"“Repent, be refreshed.”",motivational +2734,“Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.”,motivational +3399,“There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”,motivational +6580,"“If you want to see changes in our world, become an agent of change by taking the first step.”",motivational +4765,"“Embrace your own story, light up the dark, conquer your fears - take the journey to your next level, Win the battle against the end._ ”",motivational +5296,"“Be good to yourself and others. When you do that, you will be able to make a difference in life.”",motivational +2904,"“When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.”",motivational +4586,"“the worst thing said about him is that he was ""uncurious.”",motivational +5745,"“It takes strength to let go of the past, but the power to forget it brings true liberation.”",motivational +6401,"“Don't doubt your skills improve it, levelling up is the way to go!”",motivational +4513,“Fear is a powerful stimulant.”,motivational +4524,"“If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.”",motivational +5679,"“The opportunity window is always open, but it is up to us to decide whether to seize it or let it pass.”",motivational +5176,"“The struggle shapes us, but it does not define us. We define ourselves through how we overcome.”",motivational +4386,"“When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.”",motivational +3704,"“What is a game? (Marx said) It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”",motivational +4280,“I have failed more than a hundred times in different things in my life but the only reason I am successful is that I do not stop myself from trying one more time.”,motivational +2669,“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”,motivational +6484,“Never allow a struggle to turn your sky into a ceiling. You must believe there's always a way.”,motivational +4259,"“Raise your power in silence, become a dynamite of resilience.”",motivational +3283,“Live! Don't just Exist!!! Don't drag through Life...Live each day as a Celebration.-RVM”,motivational +3447,“Crave for transcending or else it will become compulsive.”,motivational +5728,“Life is too short to be miserable! Choose happiness - it might seem hard at first but I promise it's worth it. Let go of the negativity and open up to a world of possibilities.”,motivational +3047,“It's not always what we don't know that gets in our way; sometimes it's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”,motivational +3969,"“I’ve been saving my thoughts for years, bound by the promise of a vast array of alternatives, only to find out my subservience is doomed to last forever, because my future is being forced to follow a path drawn by them.”",motivational +2863,“Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison.”,motivational +6112,“When your compass is shaking there's always another one reaching out . Be a gallon when its finds you ~”,motivational +5831,"“Life is short, but it is broad enough for those who fully embrace it.”",motivational +2742,“How would your life be different if...You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day...You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.”,motivational +4056,“Try not to fear what you do not understand. Be open and allow yourself to learn new things in life. Ignorance is truly NOT bliss.”,motivational +4604,"“Today is a gift that will be taken from you at day's end. Don't waste a moment, a chance, a lesson. You'll never live today again.”",motivational +6721,"“Life is but an experiment of trial and error, instead of fretting the future, cherish the experiment.”",motivational +4609,"“There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..."" he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, ""Revenge.”",motivational +4181,"“Where there is grief, there once was love, where the barren fields stand, there once was a river that ran, where the drought remains, there once was, a tender stream that flowed.....”",motivational +4608,"“Unity is the intentional inclination to corporately control our destination. In other words, achieving the dream takes a team!”",motivational +6165,"“There is always a Reason, when its the Season...so lets smile together”",motivational +6104,“You can be certain that the religion of love accepts everyone.”,motivational +6256,“The mission of a man is his message.”,motivational +5681,"“People with a strong sense of purpose, persistence and accomplishment perform better at work.”",motivational +4323,“Spark exists for a moment and then turns into ash. How is human life different?”,motivational +6349,"“Stairs are the only option to reach your desire, just take a new step and keep walking till you reach where you wish to be...”",motivational +4513,“Fear is a powerful stimulant.”,motivational +3182,“All work and no play will make you sad and grey!”,motivational +2894,“Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.”,motivational +4666,"“Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!- RVM”",motivational +5169,"“Strength grows in the moments when you think you can't go on, but you keep going anyway.”",motivational +4572,“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!”,motivational +6359,"“Being yourself is not a failure, it is a win towards your own problems and so fight your battles, increase your inner strength and be tough...”",motivational +5761,“Swap out burnout for inner balance by embracing daily rituals that support sustainable success with ease.”,motivational +3247,“Confident Assured Posture: Foundation of Powerful Style”,motivational +3909,"“Embody what you most want to impart, and keep your mouth shut.”",motivational +5767,"“When you have an understanding of how things work, you will know better how to work things out”",motivational +4785,“Defy these preconceived notions and embrace your inner strength.”,motivational +6412,“Be a rose that gives fragrance of overwhelming happiness not a thorn that pricks unexpectedly.”,motivational +6431,“Comfort is the goal of the man with no vision.”,motivational +6722,“Always try to avoid looking backward and forward if you want to be upward.”,motivational +5735,"“Fear, any fear, is a waste of time. As the regrets.”",motivational +5339,“Do not beat yourself up about the things you cannot change. It will make your life difficult. Take heart and take charge of what you need to change.”,motivational +6266,"“To purify yourself, you must first learn to pray.”",motivational +5020,"“Just being on the right track isn't enough to guarantee success. You must keep moving forward and taking action, or you'll get left behind.”",motivational +4659,“You are an artist and the masterpiece is your life.”,motivational +6183,“Make your Mark without Erasing who You are...!...Words of Wisdom...take or leave!”,motivational +5253,"“Life offers many free lessons, but most people would rather pay the heavy price of ignorance because they cannot pay attention to the subtle lessons of life.”",motivational +6374,"“All inanimate objects, things, and living bodies in this universe go through the cycle of inception, maintenance, and dissolution.”",motivational +6272,“What we want comes from participation; life does not happen by itself; we must make it happen.”,motivational +4730,“Step outside your comfort zone and let your desired outcomes become your reality.”,motivational +5300,“Make a meaningful difference in someone’s life. It is of paramount importance to them and you as well.”,motivational +4205,"“The bondage is broken by the blood of the blameless lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ.”",motivational +5970,“Powerful breathing exercises help me realize good things will happen.”,motivational +6571,"“If you have no helper, remember there is a God who can help you.”",motivational +4032,"“You can stay stuck or go forward, but you can't go back. Don't let your fear of falling hold you back! You've got this!”",motivational +2540,“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”,motivational +6533,“Embrace integrity and live your life honestly; always knowing who you are and in the dark nights being the star whose light spreads afar.”,motivational +5074,"“I've realized that you might have big waves, and you may have small waves. But it never matters because the waves always break. And what if they don't? That just means that you must keep swimming until your wave appears.”",motivational +5311,“Wisdom is the ability to close your eyes and open your mouth to ask God about His plans for your life.”,motivational +6404,“Some decisions are not made to live a life without pain but to live a happy life with future gains...”,motivational +6217,"“Our minds are constantly filled with self-doubts and internal conflicts that accuse us of being helpless, miserable, stupid, and deceived.”",motivational +3227,"“Trust your passion, identify your dreams, and find the courage to share them with others, no matter how many times they call you a fool.”",motivational +3480,"“Healthy food that you feed your spirit, mind and body keep you long enough to reach your destination.”",motivational +6226,"“Nothing is unwanted in this world. Everybody & everything has value. Never worry about the value. Beyond every unwanted stage, you will find recycled & reborn stage.”",motivational +4715,“Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.”,motivational +5538,“Courage is the key that unlocks the door to new possibilities.”,motivational +6083,“Love and kindness serve as a bridge between you and all living things.”,motivational +5624,“Focus on small wins to reach big achievements – use momentum generated by execution as the fuel for success!”,motivational +5793,“we all are puppets under someone's control”,motivational +3151,“I'm not talented at all. It's just that I spend more time thinking about art than others.”,motivational +2702,“Either you run the day or the day runs you..”,motivational +6504,"“English: ""Each of us has a meaning, because our decisions influence others through the world."" Česky: „Každý máme smysl, protože naše rozhodnutí skrze svět ovlivňují ostatní.”",motivational +2996,“People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.”,motivational +4712,“Follow Your Heart & The world Shall Follow YOU!Reject it and It stops beating!”,motivational +5165,"“Embrace the struggle, for it molds you into the person you are meant to be.”",motivational +5784,"“If you don't know where you're going, you're never going to get there.”",motivational +3610,"“At the end of the day, no religion, no border, no philosophy can separate all of us. We are humans!”",motivational +3749,“Sometimes all we need to do is simply remind ourselves of how good we have it right now and joy would naturally flow within us... Ingratitude is the result of forgetfulness.”,motivational +3023,“You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.”,motivational +2900,"“Interrupt your thoughts of ""I should"", with your action of doing.”",motivational +3138,"“Nothing is permanent in my mysterious world, even my moments of belief - Jenifer”",motivational +6224,“The most expensive thing that you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.”,motivational +4355,“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.”,motivational +5163,“Within every struggle lies an opportunity for growth and self-discovery.”,motivational +3487,"“The Masterpiece?Head down, she obeys...Her mind, a virgin canvas,World paints its own strokes.”",motivational +5910,“Stop letting self-doubt be the energy that drives your life.”,motivational +6379,“Thou must gather thine own sunshine.”,motivational +2785,“You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals.”,motivational +2740,“Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose; make a positive difference in someone's life.”,motivational +4060,"“Color, type, and metirial doesn't matter babe you can Rock it with style.”",motivational +5778,"“Where there is hope, there is a way forward. The light of hope can illuminate even the darkest of times and point us toward a brighter tomorrow.”",motivational +4917,“Having thousands of birds in the sky doesn't stop you from flying your kite.”,motivational +6020,"“Intellect tangles and knots people, but love and compassion dissolve all tangles.”",motivational +2533,"“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”",motivational +2968,"“If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.”",motivational +6272,“What we want comes from participation; life does not happen by itself; we must make it happen.”,motivational +5939,"“Leadership often requires learning, and learning requires leadership. It’s not a coincidence that these two concepts are intertwined – without one, you can’t have the other.”",motivational +5991,"“I Sh*t, therefore I am”",motivational +4502,“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”,motivational +2998,“Success is not only dependent on understanding your own skill-set. It’s also important to recognize the talents of others and know how to profit from them.”,motivational +3580,"“Believe in yourself and you'll be unstoppable, for within you lies infinite potential.”",motivational +5681,"“People with a strong sense of purpose, persistence and accomplishment perform better at work.”",motivational +2723,"“remember that trying is eighty percent of doing something. So try and don't give up, because not giving up is the other twenty percent.”",motivational +4231,“Be thankful to thy teacher.”,motivational +4100,“Wear high hill shoes in hard situations to finish up some stuff it your body language.”,motivational +5114,"“We’re all on our own journey, so never forget to love yourself enough and make every moment count.”",motivational +2666,“Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind.”,motivational +5821,“Don't let circumstances dictate how your life looks - act like the architect and design the lie that reflects your values and purpose.”,motivational +5349,“There are endless opportunities in life; do not miss out. Be smart and put yourself to the task of looking them up.”,motivational +4284,"“In misery, do not be sad but sing.”",motivational +4560,“I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.”,motivational +4803,"“Through the tapestry of time, love and death stand as the master weavers, altering the threads of our destinies with a tenderness that mends and a cruelty that rends, leaving no heart untouched by their transformative touch.”",motivational +4204,“Loss is a result.Fear is an input.You don't control your results.You always control your inputs.”,motivational +5501,"“Life is not easy, but when you put your mind to your vision, and work hard to achieve it, many people will think you have it easy.”",motivational +4977,“Stay dedicated even when the motivation fades. That’s true progress.”,motivational +4454,“The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.”,motivational +6317,“Do not compare yourself with others as you are greater than you think you are...”,motivational +5291,“Celebrate your life and remember that you were given a chance that many aborted babies were denied.”,motivational +6152,“Coz Red is so Dangerously Lovely... U choose...Danger or Love?”,motivational +5008,"“Take aligned actions that echo your core values, igniting a spark that inspires others to do the same.”",motivational +6153,“They say eyes reflect reality...I believe it!”,motivational +5153,“Success is not an overnight phenomenon; it's the result of consistent effort over time.”,motivational +4857,"“I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes.”",motivational +4440,"“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”",motivational +5802,"“Tragedy happens to lots of people. You can decide to let it destroy you, or you can decide to move on.”",motivational +4265,“Allow yourself to be open-minded. Take a step away from the couch and move.”,motivational +3624,"“You're not everything you could be, and you know it.”",motivational +5075,“Your legacy is not simply a matter of what you do but a matter of who you do it for.”,motivational +6007,"“By smiling, you automatically feel peace.”",motivational +3000,“Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there.”,motivational +5814,“The best way to get over trauma is to go through even more trauma.”,motivational +3127,"“Tap into ‘The Force’ and soon, at any given time that you need that extra shot of high octane confidence; you will soon be like a Jedi Master at this technique.”",motivational +5740,"“Just as the wind can be both gentle and fierce, life can be both beautiful and challenging.”",motivational +6331,“What we want comes from our participation; life does not happen by itself; we must make it happen.”,motivational +4888,"“Success isn’t measured by a single accomplishment —Take bold leaps, even when faced with uncertainty.”",motivational +4054,"“Remove the words “impossible” and “I can’t” from your vocabulary. These words have became too significant in your thought process. Remember that what can be conceived in the mind, can also be brought into reality.”",motivational +6071,“Eternal Light is something that has always existed. The amount of light you receive will depend on your actions.”,motivational +4113,“I will be who I choose to be”,motivational +6260,“Any intensely lived emotion simply liberates us from those very emotions.”,motivational +4398,"“When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.”",motivational +3783,“Master the mind with meditations.”,motivational +5251,"“Learn to be open-minded. Master the right lessons and do not ignore the red flags, for they can hinder your progress.”",motivational +5001,"“I have great willpower, as I know the sky is my mirror and my spirit is its reflection”",motivational +2864,“You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”,motivational +3377,“Don't lead a life consumed by triviality. Let others do that.”,motivational +3393,“A running theme. There are no rules.”,motivational +4509,"“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.”",motivational +3791,"“Deepen your understanding of life, expand your knowledge, and open your mind up to the unknown. You are ready to receive the wisdom and personal growth that comes with this evolution.”",motivational +3127,"“Tap into ‘The Force’ and soon, at any given time that you need that extra shot of high octane confidence; you will soon be like a Jedi Master at this technique.”",motivational +3390,"“It is as much about input – the conversation of imaginative men (women and children not excluded) has a rhythm, a phrase that follows a thought and precedes the development of further thought ... try not to be a cunt.”",motivational +3304,“To think is good. To obsess is bad.”,motivational +6150,“Coz Yolande means Purple and I'm loving it!”,motivational +5933,"“Great leaders don't just establish a following; they create an army of leaders, who are empowered to think for themselves and become their own heroes!”",motivational +3804,“Extremely complex individuals are not here to be understood. They are here to be felt on a profound level. Whether that's through their existence or their creations. That is something that they will have to come to terms with in their lifetime.”,motivational +2752,“You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.”,motivational +5403,"“Life is given to each one of us. In most cases, we choose how we want to navigate our individual paths.”",motivational +3437,"“Reading will give you happiness, happiness will lighten up your face, and lightened face will attract favor.”",motivational +3027,“I would rather live short and right then long and wrong.”,motivational +5720,"“Though our loved ones may push us towards success, it is often our enemies who drive us to secure the final nail in the coffin of our accomplishments.”",motivational +4917,“Having thousands of birds in the sky doesn't stop you from flying your kite.”,motivational +2515,"“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”",motivational +5033,"“Your past does not define your future. Learn from your mistakes, let go of what no longer serves you, and create a brighter tomorrow.”",motivational +5931,“You have to find power in everything negative in your life.”,motivational +4527,“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”,motivational +6175,“My eyes reflect the passion I hold for my dreams”,motivational +6179,“Smile coz its therapy for your heart that cleanses your soul; reflecting in your eyes!”,motivational +5309,“Many situations in life will make you wise if you learn to glean wisdom from the littlest things.”,motivational +2593,“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”,motivational +5623,"“Make progress every day, no matter how small it may be – execution builds momentum that can help you reach new heights!”",motivational +6740,“Connection gives us the grace and grit to unleash our potential and endure the challenge of our daily mess.”,motivational +4976,"“No pain, no progress.”",motivational +6127,“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”,motivational +4144,"“To act is to commit, and to commit is to take risks.”",motivational +6091,"“I am not this skin, this flesh, this bone, this hair, or this other physical component; rather, I am the soul that resides there.”",motivational +6517,"“No matter what happens to you, pray for strength to hold on.”",motivational +5834,"“Tough times in life are not meant to define you, but to refine and strengthen you.”",motivational +4726,"“Underachievement has a cyclical nature, and underachieving persons may change their behaviours based on their current motivation and ability levels.”",motivational +4725,"“Considering the age and mental language of underachievers, provides a tailored approach to addressing their basic needs”",motivational +4877,“The best leader cannot provide the necessary constant renewal if he or she lacks entrepreneurial skills.”,motivational +6146,“It's always never worth the money; until you possess it.”,motivational +5011,"“Tap into the power of time clarity. Just set a timer, track your progress, and see firsthand how you can achieve greatness in short bursts of productivity.”",motivational +3451,“Don't wait for somebody to give you something. You're strong. You're intelligent. Go out and earn it and work for it.”,motivational +5345,"“In life, not all opportunities will come easily. Some will even seem as if they do not exist. But it is up to you to search for, find, and utilize them while time still allows.”",motivational +5168,“The struggle is the catalyst for change and the birthplace of innovation.”,motivational +5444,“Life is like a garden. Nurture it and plant the right seeds so they can bear good fruits. Do not let anyone plant the wrong seeds in your life because you will harvest them.”,motivational +6455,“Immerse yourself in the world or the industry that you wish to master.”,motivational +4184,"“In any situation, always remember God is step ahead”",motivational +3704,"“What is a game? (Marx said) It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”",motivational +6613,"“A positive attitude acts like a fork in the road, which effectively alters the course of your life for the better.”",motivational +5295,“The most important thing in life is not to be a celebrity. It is to be able to celebrate life regardless of your status in society.”,motivational +3969,"“I’ve been saving my thoughts for years, bound by the promise of a vast array of alternatives, only to find out my subservience is doomed to last forever, because my future is being forced to follow a path drawn by them.”",motivational +5826,“Any dream can come true if we have the courage to pursue it with zeal and persistence.”,motivational +3174,"“If you've delayed achieving your goals, have you ever asked yourself, ""What's stopping you?”",motivational +4684,“Have a GOAL to keep the following 5-‘H’ OUT of your lifeH – HarassH – HamperH – HurtH – HarmH – HinderTo Ensure H=Happiness Prevails forever!”,motivational +6251,“The highest call in life is when you give yourself to others and expect nothing from them”,motivational +3108,“Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.”,motivational +5160,“Challenges are not roadblocks; they are stepping stones on the path to greatness.”,motivational +6332,"“Dream it, to achieve it! because dreams will turn into reality only if you start working on them!”",motivational +6414,“Enjoy every moment with yourself even if your standing alone coz some people won’t even travel half way through in crowds.”,motivational +3487,"“The Masterpiece?Head down, she obeys...Her mind, a virgin canvas,World paints its own strokes.”",motivational +4959,"“A mindset is an innate disposition governing how you expect people to behave (and not behave), what you are motivated to do (and not do), and why you do what you do (and the consequence if you do not).”",motivational +3136,"“Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.”",motivational +4137,“Being a Qoets author is not about know how to hold or have a pen it about having a word neither being healthy fit is not about having a gym equipment and knowing what to do is about doing it.”,motivational +6204,“Your Children will See What You're All About by What you Live rather than What you Say.”,motivational +5938,"“Life is all about making decisions, but it's not the decisions we make that shape our lives - it's our habits. Habits are the daily actions that give us direction and eventually decide where we end up. So choose your habits wisely.”",motivational +6182,"“Here they resisted to the last, with their swords if they had them, and if not, with their hands and teeth”",motivational +6437,“Think every possible way to be an entrepreneur as the future to your success can be built by you alone!”,motivational +5273,“Fixate your eyes on things that can fix your life.”,motivational +2623,“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”,motivational +4511,“Let your playerhaters be your motivators.”,motivational +3200,"“Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.”",motivational +5670,"“Embrace your quirks, own your flaws, and flaunt your fabulousness. Being true to yourself is not just a trend; it's a lifestyle.”",motivational +3613,"“While destination see far away, Then see in telescope and keep moving”",motivational +5516,"“To merely survive victimization is to let it consume you still, only bite by bite rather than all at once, to let it loiter in your life and chew at you forever. The only way to truly overcome victimization is to transcend it.”",motivational +4669,“Having what you want may give you Achievement. But wanting what you have will give you Fulfillment.”,motivational +2661,“How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.”,motivational +6207,“Actions are the seed of destiny.”,motivational +6294,“As with all daring and successful men the tricks and devices of his subconscious nature were much more formidable than his rational schemes; and so by a sort of automatic protective instinct he kept them subconscious.”,motivational +3572,"“Every decision is ultimately a guess, some better than others.”",motivational +6708,"“Motivating your team is like cooking. You need to select and blend the right quality ingredients and serve them fresh as often as you can; otherwise, your team will get hungry and grumpy.”",motivational +4421,“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.”,motivational +3724,“Being free of hesitation is the greatest feeling in the world. Detach it and take a bigger step.”,motivational +4909,"“The air resonates with the harmonious chorus of birds, their dance on branches an ode to the timeless symphony of existence.”",motivational +4280,“I have failed more than a hundred times in different things in my life but the only reason I am successful is that I do not stop myself from trying one more time.”,motivational +4468,"“motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.”",motivational +5288,"“Beyond today, no one knows how life will turn out. So, while you can, celebrate the special moments.”",motivational +5379,“Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned with your purpose.”,motivational +3168,"“Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse”",motivational +5143,"“Success is not guaranteed, but neither is failure. Take a chance and see where it leads you.”",motivational +4837,"“The tapestry of our existence is woven with the threads of our preconceived joys and sorrows, for it is our choices that cast the die of our emotional journey.”",motivational +6462,“The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.”,motivational +4958,"“Your mindset helps you understand who you are by understanding the How, What, and Why aspects within you.”",motivational +3640,“Det är nu som gäller”,motivational +3207,“The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It’s the tender understanding that we’re living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there’s quite a bit of wonder in that.”,motivational +4546,“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.”,motivational +4687,"“When every minute of your day is planned & you are packed for days, you shall soon realize that the pain of past fades, vision of life gets clearer and all that seemed to poison your life Ceases to exist.”",motivational +5346,"“Life will always offer you incredible opportunities to run your race. As you run that race, focus on your lane and not on your neighbours’ if you want to be great.”",motivational +3381,"“Above all, surround yourself with friends who make you laugh, especially if you live with them. When they no longer make you laugh, throw them out and recycle them.”",motivational +2591,"“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”",motivational +3930,“Joy is like vapour. You can't save it for later.”,motivational +5183,“Don't let fear of failure hold you back. Embrace it as a stepping stone towards success.”,motivational +5688,“Unrealistic expectations are perilous because they are never met.”,motivational +6483,"“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”",motivational +3899,"“Create some commotion, like ripples in the ocean, shoeless or clueless, dance the dance of life.”",motivational +5726,"“Life is a journey, and it’s full of twists and turns - some amazing, some challenging. But no matter how tough the roads or uncomfortable the accommodations, there’s still something to learn from it all.”",motivational +6715,“I love travelling to places far from civilization. I always feel more civilized when I return.”,motivational +3122,"“It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity.”",motivational +5479,"“Your life is one giant, continuous sacrifice being poured out on the altar of your choosing, moment by moment and day by day.”",motivational +6073,"“Whenever we reach an unexpected barrier in the way of honoring our souls' truth through action, it is essential to dust ourselves off and keep flying toward our dreams.”",motivational +6084,"“The mind is everything in this world. It is the source of all pain and suffering. If the mind can be healed, it will cure all illnesses in this world.”",motivational +2778,"“Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.”",motivational +6574,"“One of its primary roles is in motivation and reward. You probably know of dopamine because of its reputation as the brain’s pleasure juice. When you feel pleasure, you are getting squirted on by dopamine.”",motivational +4976,"“No pain, no progress.”",motivational +3898,“All possibilities remain within grasp when you dance upon the stage of life.”,motivational +5862,"“It’s better than nothing,” his father replied. “And remember,the most important thing is to stay calm and focus on youropponent. Antichrist may be powerful, but he’s not unbeatable.”",motivational +6643,"“For once in your life be a total idiot, for the right cause, for there is no righter cause than the cause of humanity.”",motivational +6115,"“Without meditation, how can you be motivated?”",motivational +5091,“Life is amply confusing on its own; don’t create confusion where it doesn’t exist. You don’t get to make the world whatever you wish it to be. You don’t get to make yourself whatever you wish to be.”,motivational +6581,“How do you validate ideas whose links to the past do not exist?”,motivational +5583,“Your discipline will take you places your motivation won't and your obsession will take you places your discipline can't.”,motivational +6414,“Enjoy every moment with yourself even if your standing alone coz some people won’t even travel half way through in crowds.”,motivational +2797,“Do more listening than talking; talk more about them than about you.”,motivational +4988,"“In the vast expanse of life, we often find ourselves navigating wild, uncharted waters, where adventure and discovery await those who dare to explore.”",motivational +5760,"“Start small, think big: Believe in yourself enough to own your shifts.”",motivational +2786,"“Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.”",motivational +5432,"“Sometimes the journey of life will be too hard, but that does not mean you will never overcome.”",motivational +3088,“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”,motivational +2761,“It is difficult to make the right choice if you fear choosing wrongly.”,motivational +3332,“Don't let the past determine the present moment because it has no power over it.”,motivational +6340,"“Focus on goals, take small steps, keep your targets in mind & never give up coz there is no shortcut to success!”",motivational +3207,“The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It’s the tender understanding that we’re living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there’s quite a bit of wonder in that.”,motivational +3888,"“Yes, my path was a rocky one, but now I can look down on it from the hill with a smile—that is the ether to fill you.”",motivational +6404,“Some decisions are not made to live a life without pain but to live a happy life with future gains...”,motivational +4181,"“Where there is grief, there once was love, where the barren fields stand, there once was a river that ran, where the drought remains, there once was, a tender stream that flowed.....”",motivational +5235,“Save your life. Stay away from people who do not like to see you smile.”,motivational +5664,“Your goals are within reach – take control of your destiny and manifest greatness through action-driven progress.”,motivational +5896,“Life is too short to settle for anything less than amazing!”,motivational +2891,“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.”,motivational +2849,"“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”",motivational +4495,"“To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.”",motivational +6567,“Success can't exist unless you have execution. Your work should show progress.”,motivational +5617,“Sylvie aced the classes she was interested in but got C's or D's in everything else. Julia had operated her determination like a lawn mower and mowed through high school with the next step in her sights.”,motivational +6590,"“If the earth is a hotel, our life is just about the time we spend in a hotel between check-in and check-out.”",motivational +5306,"“Life offers various lessons, but it is your choice to take them or leave them. If you take those lessons, you will make your way into the world of wisdom.”",motivational +5748,"“Each corpuscle contains the cosmos, each valve is gateway to valor.”",motivational +4496,“Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.”,motivational +5922,"“It takes courage and strength to take a long, hard look at who you are, what you want out ofthis life, and how to make it happen.”",motivational +4357,"“You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you.”",motivational +2813,"“Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.”",motivational +6121,“I am extreme in everything I do...Can immensely love and can immensely hate...U choose”,motivational +5257,“Life comes once. Live wisely.”,motivational +3643,"“People call me a redneck engineer because I make things that they say barely work, but I see it as finding unorthodox ways of getting things to work as I need them to”",motivational +2713,"“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”",motivational +5958,“Gratitude and service are the best way to a happy and joyful life.”,motivational +6319,“Master ignoring the unnecessary worry and embrace the positiveness that gives you the confidence to face any issues you might stumble upon.”,motivational +6130,“Late night work and random selfies always go hand-in-hand”,motivational +6107,“There is no positive energy like praying.”,motivational +5059,"“Easy things do not call us to great action, because they are too easy to require great action.”",motivational +2817,“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become”,motivational +5216,“The struggle you face today is the strength you will carry tomorrow.”,motivational +4499,“Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning.”,motivational +2779,"“People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language. ""I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,"" a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”",motivational +6150,“Coz Yolande means Purple and I'm loving it!”,motivational +6594,"“If every moment is a pearl, are you a pearl gatherer or a crusher?”",motivational +4330,“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.”,motivational +5781,“Believe in your abilities to overcome any challenges that may arise.”,motivational +3028,"“We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love.”",motivational +3484,“Knowledge saves.”,motivational +6230,"“Charisma without character is like fire without heat, it doesn't burn anything.”",motivational +6059,“Always keep your head held high.”,motivational +6613,"“A positive attitude acts like a fork in the road, which effectively alters the course of your life for the better.”",motivational +5281,"“If you want a valuable life, ensure that whosoever is part of your inner circle protects your peace of mind and adds value in their own right.”",motivational +5060,“Don’t fear high expectations; embrace them. Choose to do hard things.”,motivational +5340,"“Find yourself in the right spaces, go places and make the necessary changes. Life is not only about where you have been. It is also about places you should see and people you should meet.”",motivational +6415,“You deserve to be held responsible for your own happiness.”,motivational +2660,"“Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.”",motivational +5472,"“Life will sometimes require that you partner with others in order to access a larger piece of the pie. As you do that, always avoid those who do not realize that you also deserve good things in life.”",motivational +5424,“Cherish the gift of life that you have been given. Trust that your Creator can do great things through you. Love yourself and be content with the life you have and you will become a magnet that attracts blessings from all corners of the earth.”,motivational +5308,"“Look for the lessons life presents, because through them you can gain the knowledge and wisdom to live well.”",motivational +4260,"“Bearing crisis upon crisis, we shall rise as creator.”",motivational +5118,"“The path to success is paved with hard work, persistence, and a willingness to take action.”",motivational +6383,"“You should motivate yourself, NOW!”",motivational +3612,“Broken from inside. Cant be joined from outside.”,motivational +5044,"“Tap into the boundless power of your core values, ignite purpose-driven actions, and unlock limitless success.”",motivational +6707,"“Until a child that has issues with learning is diagnosed by ""an expert"" as having a learning disability, nothing is wrong with that child except that his motivation and feelings about the said ""learning"" is inadequate.”",motivational +6362,“Just as life has no quick fix; transformation lacks a flick-switch approach as well. Investing in a better version of yourself will take time but pay you rich dividends as well.”,motivational +6002,“Music is all around you; all you have to do is listen to it.”,motivational +4422,“I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.”,motivational +5580,“True leadership is not about commanding authority; it's about earning respect.”,motivational +3514,"“Let us strive to be the change-makers who steer our planet towards a sustainable future, where both humanity and nature thrive.”",motivational +2914,"“Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison.”",motivational +2674,“What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.”,motivational +3016,“Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS.”,motivational +4169,“A man is protected by his prayers.”,motivational +6172,“You never fail to make my smile bigger than it is”,motivational +5997,"“... Perspective is everything.That is, when you can break apart something, or look at it from a new angle, it loses its power over you.”",motivational +3188,"“Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.”",motivational +5032,"“Have the courage to take risks, because if you don't, you'll never know what lies beyond your comfort zone.”",motivational +4628,"“If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.”",motivational +3871,“Only a dancer can sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.”,motivational +3839,"“I want to mean something, to leave my mark, to rest in the assurance that people were better off having known me.”",motivational +4800,"“Without initiative, the attainment of goals is uncertain.”",motivational +4046,“Beauty makeup artist not make you beautiful the thing is it add on how you look cause sometimes you wear it and become opposite direction instead of people looking you beautiful see different person in it.”,motivational +5916,“Make yourself the light in the darkness”,motivational +3068,“I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.”,motivational +3607,"“Forget what you have done, Do what is right, Think what you plan.”",motivational +4411,“Remember to celebrate the small accomplishments along your journey because they will provide the support needed when the road gets rocky. ”,motivational +2682,“...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.”,motivational +4664,“Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.”,motivational +4738,"“In the tapestry of relationships, ignoring the ones who were once dear, weaves threads of heartache that endure longer than the fabric of love itself.”",motivational +6668,“A great world is only as far away as our willingness to make it great.”,motivational +6428,"“Stay low grow slow, talk less do more!”",motivational +4005,“Viral Code...I want my dreamsAnd I want them now;Give me my dreams;Only dreams can cure me;Everyone deserves dreamsBecause no one deserves them”,motivational +6362,“Just as life has no quick fix; transformation lacks a flick-switch approach as well. Investing in a better version of yourself will take time but pay you rich dividends as well.”,motivational +5679,"“The opportunity window is always open, but it is up to us to decide whether to seize it or let it pass.”",motivational +4075,“I know that your beautiful eyes with or not make up are designed to see beyond you think.”,motivational +3659,“Silk threads of reflection spin from the mind entombing uncertainty; but soon you’ll emerge from your chrysalis of doubt spreading wings and sharing your beauty.”,motivational +2876,“Change is the parent of progress.”,motivational +2550,"“When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.”",motivational +4415,"“Writers create impressions that inspire, stir emotions, evoke questions and sprinkle seeds of awe.”",motivational +5998,"“If you look at nature closely, you will notice miracles all around you.”",motivational +5043,"“How can we become writers if we do not believe ourselves, first of all, that we can write and that the qualities of a writer can flourish in us?”",motivational +6681,“A wise person keeps the faith and remains hopeful despite the dissemination of stupidity that surrounds them.”,motivational +5381,"“The gift of life is too precious, do not live your life under the pressure of someone who misdirects you from your purpose.”",motivational +4332,"“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”",motivational +3801,"“Start believing in conspiracies, because those who have the power conspire, and they keep their power by having people not believing in conspiracies”",motivational +5894,"“Dare to dream bigger and unlock the power within, because there are no boundaries that can hold you back.”",motivational +5480,"“You’ve been sacrificing your life for your entire life, and you will continue to do so until you have no more life left to sacrifice. Your only choice is what you sacrifice it to.”",motivational +6430,"“Astuteness is consistently cautious, warning, ‘Be careful,’ whereas love says, ‘Goodness, don’t bother!’ ‘Dive in!”",motivational +3500,“It is my hope that entrepreneurship can become a spiritual path for many who feel called but don’t believe they were worthy or haven’t been able to find the capital to make it happen.”,motivational +4894,"“Dream big and aim higher, give the universe permission to show you what's possible if you don't limit yourself!”",motivational +4748,“Pay attention to yourself and your life. Make it what you want because the life you dream about isn’t going to fall into your lap. Go out and create it!”,motivational +3984,"“I still have doubts about it, but I don’t want her to know.”",motivational +5915,“Nature's serene beauty and tranquillity aid in one's search.”,motivational +2897,“Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.”,motivational +3507,“Sustainable living is the key to unlocking a harmonious coexistence between humanity and the environment.”,motivational +4363,"“We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us.”",motivational +3166,"“Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.”",motivational +5271,"“Even if you admire someone else’s life, do not desire it, for you do not know what they have gone through.”",motivational +6171,“Some random clicks shine brighter than we expect!”,motivational +3989,“I guess every friendship has its ups and downs.”,motivational +6239,"“Always pursue glory. Shine like the stars. Burn up with ambition. Shed your old skin. Try, try, and try again. Fail, fail, and fail again. But fail better, and one day you will not fail at all.”",motivational +2959,“Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you could just get BETTER. What do you think?”,motivational +4983,"“Let age be your motivator, not your excuse.”",motivational +5730,"“If you try nothing new, you’ll never know what you’re truly capable of.”",motivational +4045,"“I have the power I need to create the destiny that I desire. I am open to the Universe's abundance, and magic happens when I live in my eternal truth.”",motivational +5601,"“Don't let the thing you fear most control your life! Remember, your fear of it is only an illusion - if you choose to confront it, you can break free from its power.”",motivational +3390,"“It is as much about input – the conversation of imaginative men (women and children not excluded) has a rhythm, a phrase that follows a thought and precedes the development of further thought ... try not to be a cunt.”",motivational +6576,“Drama free workplace and ego free team mates are crucial for a healthier workplace”,motivational +5074,"“I've realized that you might have big waves, and you may have small waves. But it never matters because the waves always break. And what if they don't? That just means that you must keep swimming until your wave appears.”",motivational +5785,"“Let go of the past, wash away your pain, anger, and hatred, and emerge refreshed, renewed, and pure like the waterfall.”",motivational +2882,"“Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!”",motivational +6205,"“Like all rivers, they will eventually lead to the sea.”",motivational +5570,“Don't underestimate the power of positive vibes & positive affirmations! They help sustain success & motivation.”,motivational +5758,“Success is not a momentary event; it's an ever-evolving journey. #HighPerformanceCoaching”,motivational +2620,“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.”,motivational +5705,“Fall a thousand times; get up a thousand and one.”,motivational +4886,“Embarking on a journey of a thousand miles begins with one bold step.”,motivational +4432,“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes”,motivational +2647,"“Great Leaders Create More LeadersGood leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.”",motivational +3932,“I don't like answerable questions. They produce questionable answers.”,motivational +5457,“Life may not seem fair; but it does give everyone a fair chance.”,motivational +5676,"“In life, whatever you give to your society should be more than what you receive from it.”",motivational +3024,"“When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.”",motivational +5124,“Focus beyond the finish line — celebrate incremental progress along the way for sustained motivation!”,motivational +3395,“What do you want to do with your life?”,motivational +5612,“Every journey begins with a single step – stop waiting and start taking action TODAY.”,motivational +2557,"“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”",motivational +6459,“Pain is growth.”,motivational +6068,"“When you earn your worth, you learn your worth... This is why learning is a never- ending process.”",motivational +2526,“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”,motivational +3981,"“The only thing we ever have less of is time."" - Jill Reid | Discover Your Personal Truth”",motivational +6569,"“When you get too free, they kill you because you are getting too close to the truth. (Remember and never forget, The Gun Line BOSS) in my Eddie Murphy voice”",motivational +5114,"“We’re all on our own journey, so never forget to love yourself enough and make every moment count.”",motivational +2959,“Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you could just get BETTER. What do you think?”,motivational +6273,“Our world has no place for cowards.”,motivational +4946,"“Should you have lost some of your fire over the years, you should reclaim it. Better yet, make the fire inside bigger than it ever was before!”",motivational +4057,"“No matter how crazy it may feel, I found thatfollowing my intuitive hunch is always my bestbet. When we are grounded, it will never steer us in the wrong direction. Acting as our guiding light and divine compass. So don't question it. Trust it.”",motivational +5982,“Don’t pass judgement on how humans communicate with the supreme because everyone has their way of doing things.”,motivational +2635,"“The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”",motivational +5269,“A combination of minutes makes one’s lifetime. Make sure that none of those counts as wasted time.”,motivational +3923,"“Although it is not possible for everyone to be the best at everything, still the one who has the strong desire for it, is capable of showing the best that he has, but he should not forget to develop it as a priority”",motivational +2709,“God helps those who strut their stuff.”,motivational +4877,“The best leader cannot provide the necessary constant renewal if he or she lacks entrepreneurial skills.”,motivational +3025,"“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”",motivational +3849,“It is far better to fail while trying new things than to succeed doing nothing.”,motivational +4496,“Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.”,motivational +6053,"“Life goes on, and others replace the dead. Death changes nothing.”",motivational +6310,"“Life takes a magical turn when you start believing in yourself, cast your own spells, and see your life-changing...”",motivational +5783,“Life without faith is like a world without love and will end in motion without meaning.”,motivational +6162,“A smiling heart makes the soul shine brighter”,motivational +4942,"“Nature’s cycle, a poetic reflection of life’s eternal dance.”",motivational +2715,"“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”",motivational +5141,“Life is too precious to be spent dwelling on the past. Live in the present and create a brighter future.”,motivational +6625,"“Rock bottom is somewhere none of us ever want to be, but sometimes it happens. It's a place that, if we allow it, can destroy us. On the other hand, it can teach us about the deepest, darkest parts of ourselves for our ultimate growth.”",motivational +2661,“How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.”,motivational +5874,"“Personal Integrity is a trait that so many people overlook and undervalue, but it's one of the most important qualities to possess.”",motivational +4026,“Freedom is free beyond a person's limit but it is better for him to free himself within his limits.”,motivational +5108,“Action-oriented thinking leads to lasting change - set yourself up for success by committing to executing your plans with purpose.”,motivational +4703,"“Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?”",motivational +6062,"“Every glittering stone, like every shining metal, is not precious.”",motivational +4922,"“In the diverse gallery of urban surprises, spotting a crocodile inside a swimming pool is just another masterpiece on the canvas of quirky city life.”",motivational +5357,"“Life happens! Just when you expect happiness, something tragic could happen. So, learn to accept any change of circumstance.”",motivational +4250,"“Be the cactus, a proof of unsubmission, and blossom amidst the fiercest environment.”",motivational +3814,“We do have the option to make use of our time more intelligently.”,motivational +6357,"“Self-belief is the key to define the future, make your own path, and reach the destination of your life...”",motivational +6676,“Well being is a great wealth.”,motivational +6703,“Listening to others can be hard. It is even harder if we don’t learn to listen to ourselves”,motivational +5063,"“Why leave the comfort of the harbor? Because you are a ship captain, and a ship captain sails.”",motivational +4813,"“Feedback is the tonic of great champions; be humble to take the good, the bad, and the ugly of feedback.”",motivational +3596,"“If you take everything to heart, happiness will deviate from your path.”",motivational +5150,“Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important and capture the good times.”,motivational +3685,“A faithful God gives hope to face unknown future.”,motivational +5502,"“Life is not just about putting your foot on the ground, it is about leaving a trail of footprints that create a long-lasting impact.”",motivational +3067,“Recovery is full of ups and downs.There is no such thing as a linear life.But you can always turn your setbacks into setups to come back stronger.”,motivational +5472,"“Life will sometimes require that you partner with others in order to access a larger piece of the pie. As you do that, always avoid those who do not realize that you also deserve good things in life.”",motivational +3779,"“What you have now, it will have to be enough”",motivational +4321,“Why do we want to be present in many worlds at the same time? Just choose to live in the moment; it’s the most straightforward recipe for happiness.”,motivational +5423,“Life is a series of many mysteries. Go out there and make great discoveries. The sweet caress of Mother Nature will help you experience God’s splendour.”,motivational +3117,"“Jedi are conversationalists and negotiators, bringing people together and solving problems. Jedi listen and feel to what others are saying.”",motivational +4969,"“Excellence requires growth.Growth requires learning.Learning requires change...Change is inextricably imbued with risk.Risk implies that failure is possible, if not likely.But, Great & Good frontload the risk.”",motivational +6628,"“Manusia terbentuk dari impian. Tanpa itu, kita hanyalah robot yang bergerak mengikuti hiruk pikuk dunia, tapi tidak mengiringi irama yang dilantuntan bumi. Dan impian bukan sesuatu yang absolut. Ia dapat berubah, bertambah, bahkan berkurang.”",motivational +2791,"“Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!”",motivational +5436,“Every living being is presented with the gift of life. It is up to each one to decide what to do with it while there is still time. Blessed are those who make theirs count.”,motivational +3599,“All existing paths have a creator. Be the creator of your own path.”,motivational +3324,"“North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.”",motivational +2590,"“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.”",motivational +4428,“Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.”,motivational +5999,"“Regrettably, we believe we own the earth, the trees, the mountains, flowing rivers, and many other things, but we are all owned by nature.”",motivational +5652,“The only way to crush fear is by confronting it and taking action - so don't hesitate - grab life with both hands and make it happen!”,motivational +4601,“To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.”,motivational +2683,“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.”,motivational +5212,"“Time is the fuel of life. Use it wisely, prioritize your tasks, and unlock your full potential.”",motivational +2877,"“What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!”",motivational +4326,"“Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.Focus on your character, not your reputation.Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.”",motivational +4609,"“There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..."" he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, ""Revenge.”",motivational +5998,"“If you look at nature closely, you will notice miracles all around you.”",motivational +4287,“There's a part of you that can never change. That's the inner you. That's your BEAUTIFUL SOUL.”,motivational +3872,“The world seems void of silence whenever footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes.”,motivational +5850,"“Amidst the world’s deafening noise, the silence within us speaks the loudest.”",motivational +6184,“Closeup Clicks are Crazily Cute!”,motivational +4934,"“It's never too late to start fresh! Embrace every chance to grow, take risks, and never ever give up!”",motivational +2580,"“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”",motivational +5470,“Life will present you with great things after you have endured some gruesome tests.”,motivational +3367,"“Sorry, but you didn't love your brothers... And I can't understand that.”",motivational +6364,“If a mere mortal like me can turn every predicament of life into a testimony of courage; then you can tap into the same power. All you have to do is find that flame and fan it to burn brighter than the force that tries to smother it.”,motivational +6646,"“You are the ink, pen and paper, your life is your own decision.”",motivational +4932,"“Resilience is the ability to overcome and adapt to change — embrace challenges, keep learning, and Don’t give up!”",motivational +3572,"“Every decision is ultimately a guess, some better than others.”",motivational +4725,"“Considering the age and mental language of underachievers, provides a tailored approach to addressing their basic needs”",motivational +6525,"“Time is a human invention,You can slow down or you can speed it up.”",motivational +4767,“Underachievement leads to noticeable behavioral changes usually dues to lack of motivation to excel in academic for one reason or the other”,motivational +6259,"“Guilt provides far more effective motivation than greed. For greed, at times, can be satiated.”",motivational +4594,"“No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it.”",motivational +2876,“Change is the parent of progress.”,motivational +5312,“Your life will take better shape if you are willing to find wisdom and have the courage to climb the highest mountains.”,motivational +2658,“You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.”,motivational +3642,“A dumb idea isn't dumb if it works so you might as well just try it out”,motivational +5292,"“Do not get it twisted. Life will always have twists and turns. One way or another, your turn to celebrate or cry will come. Either way, live a joyful life!”",motivational +6672,“An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.”,motivational +4854,"“Not money first, preparation precedes opportunity, or else when opportunity showcases itself, it would not be recognized.”",motivational +4758,"“Amidst life’s tempests, the art of graceful presentation emerges as a silent anthem of resilience, echoing the indomitable spirit that refuses to be overshadowed by adversity.”",motivational +2568,"“Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.”",motivational +5518,“Be grateful for pain. Don’t ignore it or deny it. Don’t anesthetize yourself from it. Swallow it and make it a part of you.”,motivational +6409,"“The more the merrier to share the Joy that’s achieved when we succeed, but dont forget the ones who held your hands during the Journey.”",motivational +3845,“Naivety can lead to disillusionment. But disillusionment can lead to learning.”,motivational +3692,"“The moment you learn not to quit, you’ve already achieved something.”",motivational +4059,“Every style can suit you if you know how to wear for it.”,motivational +4137,“Being a Qoets author is not about know how to hold or have a pen it about having a word neither being healthy fit is not about having a gym equipment and knowing what to do is about doing it.”,motivational +3835,"“What motivates us? Challenge. What moves us? Challenge. What makes us better and stronger and more courageous? Challenge. Embrace the challenge, people!”",motivational +4034,"“Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them. More is not better. Happiness is not experiencing something else; it's continually experiencing what you already have in new and different ways.”",motivational +4181,"“Where there is grief, there once was love, where the barren fields stand, there once was a river that ran, where the drought remains, there once was, a tender stream that flowed.....”",motivational +3869,“Every celebration of life begins and ends with a dance.”,motivational +4081,“To kill it you must finding your body shape with tailors help or tape measurements and follow it with your outfit like clothes that match your body structure .”,motivational +5194,"“Watching drama play out from afar could seem fun, but it can be very sad if it is in your life. Avoid any form of drama and stay away from those who fuel it with their lies.”",motivational +4874,"“Those who dedicate themselves to planting and nurturing culture, people and organisation will reap significant growth and change.”",motivational +6265,“To memories is to think with your head; to meditate is to think with your heart.”,motivational +4942,"“Nature’s cycle, a poetic reflection of life’s eternal dance.”",motivational +4501,“Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.”,motivational +3377,“Don't lead a life consumed by triviality. Let others do that.”,motivational +3522,“Every inventive dream conjured today illuminates the possible pathways of tomorrow.”,motivational +4419,“Curiosity is the engine of achievement.”,motivational +3110,"“If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.”",motivational +6329,“Our lives are entirely the result of our efforts.”,motivational +3198,"“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”",motivational +3001,"“If you can't be brave, be determined. And you'll end up in the same place.”",motivational +2997,"“Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.”",motivational +5064,"“To be called is to be drawn by something outside yourself, something bigger than yourself.”",motivational +2802,“Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.”,motivational +6535,"“Life will treat you the same way you treat others; you do yourself a favour by treating others as your sisters, fathers, mothers and brothers.”",motivational +5351,"“When good opportunities come in your life, it is not time to sit around. It is time to arise and utilize them so you can prosper.”",motivational +5420,"“When going through hard times, hold on tight until you overcome. With perseverance and God on your side, things will get better. Never give up on yourself, no matter how hard life becomes. One day, you will be fine.”",motivational +4225,“The Lord keeps the lamp burning continually.”,motivational +5104,"“Successful people don't let fear paralyze them. They feel it, acknowledge it, and use it as motivation to keep pushing forward.”",motivational +4381,"“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ”",motivational +5766,"“We don't need to make longerregret lists. We don't need people thatare very very smart and yet do nothing.We need people that do the things theyalready know how to do. Stop learning and start doing. Motivation, not education.”",motivational +5325,"“Even if you have been through a painful past, do not dwell on that. What matters is that you are still alive. Bank on that and make your life count.”",motivational +2952,"“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”",motivational +6149,“Do my eyes reflect a vibe?”,motivational +3249,“Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective.”,motivational +4549,"“Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat--things gent freaky. The cool rationality of Isaac Newton gives way to the bizarre unpredictability of Lewis Carroll.”",motivational +3187,"“Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.”",motivational +4975,“no struggle is harderthan survival for our existence..”,motivational +6205,"“Like all rivers, they will eventually lead to the sea.”",motivational +3866,“Dance elevates the calm and drowns the chaos.”,motivational +2570,"“If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.”",motivational +5067,“An essential part of figuring out who you are is taking your eyes off yourself and seeing everything that is not you.”,motivational +6277,“Never apologize for who you are.”,motivational +2642,“Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.”,motivational +6152,“Coz Red is so Dangerously Lovely... U choose...Danger or Love?”,motivational +4643,“Berani tanpa disertai kesabaran akan membunuh anda.Ambisius tanpa kesabaran dapat memusnahkan karier yang paling menjanjikan.Berjuang meraih harta tanpa kesabaran akan mengamblaskan milik yang sudah ada.”,motivational +5786,"“Serenity is inner peace amid chaos and trouble, not their absence.”",motivational +3330,"“My passion shone through my words, captivating the reader’s attention and fostering a connection.”",motivational +5582,"“If you save a man struggling, or thrashing, both of you will go down. But if the man is no longer moving, you can drag him up easily.”",motivational +5489,"“Your identity is formed in part by your past, but only in part, and not the most important part. Your past is merely a starting point.”",motivational +2628,“Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.”,motivational +4145,"“To open the door to progress, close the hinge of laziness.”",motivational +3432,“Intellectual product is the most creative of all products but appreciated by a few who are in the control of the majority that are mentally lazy.”,motivational +3152,“Live Life Fully & Abundantly”,motivational +4540,"“Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.”",motivational +5269,“A combination of minutes makes one’s lifetime. Make sure that none of those counts as wasted time.”,motivational +4576,“What have you gained since you haven't prayed? What will you lose if you pray?”,motivational +2749,"“Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”",motivational +5176,"“The struggle shapes us, but it does not define us. We define ourselves through how we overcome.”",motivational +3310,"“The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.”",motivational +6672,“An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.”,motivational +2703,“Your opinion is not my reality.”,motivational +4695,"“Great achievement requires personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.”",motivational +6023,“Busyness is expensive.”,motivational +4838,"“Business is about putting you into action.”I was watching X-Factor auditioning and one of the contestants was engulfed in performing his lyrics, it did done on me that business is about putting you into action.”",motivational +4867,"“It is a fundamental mistake when companies with leadership problems, with inconsistent or exhausting management use incentives or well-being measures as a last resort instead of changing their leadership style or culture.”",motivational +6114,“The storm that chases is the storm that revels ~”,motivational +2784,"“Orang yang tidak pernah dibakar panas mentari, mustahil menghargai rimbun berteduh - peribahasa Turki.”",motivational +2568,"“Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.”",motivational +5898,“Twilight is the transition period between the end of the day and the beginning of the night. A time to let go of the past and embrace the unknown.”,motivational +4421,“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.”,motivational +6435,“Manage your time doing something productive and in time you will be happy to see what all you have achieved”,motivational +5099,“An honest life starts with an honest assessment of self. You are neither worthless nor preeminent but somewhere in between.”,motivational +3074,"“Forgive to forget, do not forget to forgive”",motivational +6443,“Secrecy is the best way to show people your results!”,motivational +4079,“Beauty Makeover doesn't promote fakeness or being photo copy a by doing that you abuse it.”,motivational +3708,“Every child born in Afghanistan is a child who comes into life a victim of war. And every parent too often puts those they love most to sleep with the uncertainty that one or all may not rise to the shards of peeping pink light again.”,motivational +5362,"“No one has their life together, even if they do, it will not be forever. At some point in time, life happens to everyone.”",motivational +5403,"“Life is given to each one of us. In most cases, we choose how we want to navigate our individual paths.”",motivational +3744,“Don’t give away what you stand for.. It is who you are .. So do not lose yourself”,motivational +2644,“Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.”,motivational +3537,“Our planet's beauty lies in its diversity; let us protect it so that future generations can experience its wonders.”,motivational +4664,“Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.”,motivational +5102,“You should neither attempt to justify a bad risk because it turned out well nor regret too much a good risk that turned out badly.”,motivational +3169,"“The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.”",motivational +4980,“Be motivated by igniting thought into acton”,motivational +5185,“Success is not about the applause; it's about the satisfaction that comes from knowing you gave it your all.”,motivational +4816,“Effective leadership requires both vision and action. It's about setting clear goals and creating habits to achieve them.”,motivational +2594,“Dreams don't work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.”,motivational +5020,"“Just being on the right track isn't enough to guarantee success. You must keep moving forward and taking action, or you'll get left behind.”",motivational +5450,"“Life is too short to be whining. Keep dreaming, keep grinding, and keep winning.”",motivational +5281,"“If you want a valuable life, ensure that whosoever is part of your inner circle protects your peace of mind and adds value in their own right.”",motivational +5012,"“To achieve long-lasting success, you need a resilient mindset and an unstoppable spirit.”",motivational +5818,"“YOU are in charge of how you experience life. You get to decide! Choose wisely, but most importantly, choose YOU!”",motivational +4208,"“When the efforts made to accomplish it are blinding, success is visible.”",motivational +6178,“Happiness starts with a cute snout and lots of Fur...I promise you it doesn't end here!”,motivational +5208,"“Whether you want to double down on previous successes, address significant challenges, or embark on new endeavors, identify your top three goals.”",motivational +6137,“Reality is as necessary as reason.”,motivational +4155,“Wait patiently on God because the heavenly blessings he gives are permanent inheritance.”,motivational +5826,“Any dream can come true if we have the courage to pursue it with zeal and persistence.”,motivational +6195,“Silence and Smile: Those are two powerful weapons.”,motivational +3104,"“Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?""-Morrie”",motivational +2992,"“Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.”",motivational +3153,"“When YOU choose to change, your reality must change accordingly. It simply has no other choice.”",motivational +5597,"“Listen to your gut, trust your instincts, and be brave - the universe has something special in store for you!”",motivational +3228,“On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.”,motivational +3006,“The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering.”,motivational +4181,"“Where there is grief, there once was love, where the barren fields stand, there once was a river that ran, where the drought remains, there once was, a tender stream that flowed.....”",motivational +5575,“Success is not dependent on luck - it starts with personal leadership and the power of intention.”,motivational +2622,“Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.”,motivational +5487,“Worthy goals are always hard.”,motivational +4244,“Freedom is not for the cowards and the weak. It must be defended wherever it resides. Defended by all that seek it's enduring existence.”,motivational +6119,“Real Beauty is the Light in the Heart that Shines in the Eyes”,motivational +4761,"“Occurrence is normal, persistence isn’t”",motivational +4802,“Change should start with us that will eventually lead to a change in situation and circumstance and not the other way round.”,motivational +6138,"“Men all pass away. However, not all men live.”",motivational +2654,"“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”",motivational +6490,"“If you want to know the power of an idea just know, that it can change your whole life”",motivational +5961,“Every moment is a gift; the only moment you know for sure is the present moment.”,motivational +4918,"“Like a dark cloud before the pour, adversity often heralds the cleansing rain of resilience and strength.”",motivational +2644,“Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.”,motivational +5868,“Look around you for a moment. You’ll be surprised at how much beauty you’ve been missing.”,motivational +5513,"“Never indulge your victimization by labeling yourself a victim, regardless of how much you deserve the title.”",motivational +6060,“I believe that self-defense is essential in protecting one’s well-being and dignity.”,motivational +2526,“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”,motivational +4750,"“In leadership, you gotta love people first. Love the position second.”",motivational +2956,“Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.”,motivational +4456,"“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”",motivational +3453,"“The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.”",motivational +6744,"“A good Athlete may not be a good Coach, likewise, a good Coach may not be a good Athlete”",motivational +4428,“Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.”,motivational +5485,“Wisdom is found in nature only by mining a lot of rock.”,motivational +6696,"“As a service excellence provider, I always think about how to turn a customer's pain point into brownie points. Never underestimate the power of any customer transaction”",motivational +6523,“Work hard enough and your dreams will become memories.”,motivational +2746,"“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.”",motivational +2712,"“Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.”",motivational +5115,"“Own your power, take action toward your goals, and watch them become a reality.”",motivational +5896,“Life is too short to settle for anything less than amazing!”,motivational +5480,"“You’ve been sacrificing your life for your entire life, and you will continue to do so until you have no more life left to sacrifice. Your only choice is what you sacrifice it to.”",motivational +5195,"“Whatever you do, do it right. If it comes back to you later in life, you will be glad you did what was right.”",motivational +6674,"“Change is inevitable, but evolution is optional ... So, I chose to evolve. What are you choosing?”",motivational +3856,"“It lightens the mood when you start to dance; it’s not about the feet, but what moves beneath.”",motivational +3324,"“North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.”",motivational +3328,"“Darling, buoys can't confine the sea.”",motivational +2700,“People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.”,motivational +4284,"“In misery, do not be sad but sing.”",motivational +6153,“They say eyes reflect reality...I believe it!”,motivational +2758,“The most powerful magic of all is choice.”,motivational +4296,"“If you ever feel helpless... go and help someone. Yes, you! Just go...”",motivational +6208,“We all live in a myriad of dualities.”,motivational +4971,"“Maybe you asking yourself about your prosperity think about who you’re on getting it, rain is coming for everyone”",motivational +3675,"“When things around you are going south, north, east and west just accept it and work on the nearest destination.”",motivational +6401,"“Don't doubt your skills improve it, levelling up is the way to go!”",motivational +3604,“If you unable to do then avoid...”,motivational +5187,"“Embrace the unknown, for it is where true growth and transformation happen.”",motivational +4355,“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.”,motivational +6412,“Be a rose that gives fragrance of overwhelming happiness not a thorn that pricks unexpectedly.”,motivational +3012,“Notice the difference between being in control and needing control.”,motivational +4129,"“With your room allawence, this mountains stumbled you to succeed must fall.”",motivational +4980,“Be motivated by igniting thought into acton”,motivational +5054,"“All fame is is being known by people you don’t know, and what’s so great about that?”",motivational +3895,"“To shift, drift, and move, most glorious, is the blessing of dance.”",motivational +5502,"“Life is not just about putting your foot on the ground, it is about leaving a trail of footprints that create a long-lasting impact.”",motivational +6324,"“By changing ourselves, we change our lives.”",motivational +3225,"“Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.”",motivational +5992,“Your understanding of life will deepen as you spend more time in nature.”,motivational +3166,"“Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.”",motivational +6516,“Little things don't make perfection but perfection is made out of little things.”,motivational +6742,“The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.”,motivational +6272,“What we want comes from participation; life does not happen by itself; we must make it happen.”,motivational +5497,"“Life is not about competing with others. It is about running your race with courage, and completing it in the right lane.”",motivational +4612,“Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well.”,motivational +3763,“Believe in yourself that you can and you will! As there are no limits to what we as women can achieve.”,motivational +4990,"“To fathom the essence of life’s beauty, we must plunge beneath the superficial. Real treasures are veiled, waiting to be discovered by those who dare to explore.”",motivational +2891,“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.”,motivational +5115,"“Own your power, take action toward your goals, and watch them become a reality.”",motivational +2701,"“If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.”",motivational +6315,“Inhale positivity and exhale negativity because positivity will resolve 90% of the issue most of the times!”,motivational +6227,“History continues until we learn from it and change our course.”,motivational +5089,"“Anxiety and depression are your friends. They tell you there is something undone that must be done, something you must do. They demand action.”",motivational +5073,“It always works when you know what you're doing”,motivational +5271,"“Even if you admire someone else’s life, do not desire it, for you do not know what they have gone through.”",motivational +5306,"“Life offers various lessons, but it is your choice to take them or leave them. If you take those lessons, you will make your way into the world of wisdom.”",motivational +4847,"“The world gives way to action-oriented people, you are not successful yet because you have not taken action on the idea begging you for exploit.”",motivational +5914,"“Faith is no slave to rituals, rules or even religion. Many a godless men attained faith; many a faithless men attained god.”",motivational +3239,"“Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one’s daily life – it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.”",motivational +5380,"“Life will grant you the opportunity to pursue your purpose. Be well-informed, seek wisdom and ensure that whatever you do is purpose-aligned.”",motivational +5628,"“I write so the word, ""Victim"" will not be your mantra.”",motivational +6685,“Never underestimate the impact of customer service. Every business has customers that needs to be served.”,motivational +5112,“It only takes one step towards a dream for possibilities to open up — stay focused on that goal no matter what gets in your way!”,motivational +4890,“Believe in yourself and make it happen — greatness is achieved when you refuse to take no for an answer.”,motivational +3039,“A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.”,motivational +3142,"“If you believe ,you can.""But work hard to believe"".”",motivational +4277,“Your real investment for the future is not in banks but in your skills. How much are you investing in your new skills.?”,motivational +6312,"“Self-esteem and pride are the two main tools that build confidence, don’t lose them or you will lose yourself...”",motivational +4878,"“Being a good leader does not automatically mean being a good entrepreneur, because as such you also must ensure constant change and successful transformation.”",motivational +2510,"“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”",motivational +2713,"“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”",motivational +6643,"“For once in your life be a total idiot, for the right cause, for there is no righter cause than the cause of humanity.”",motivational +5129,"“Dreaming is easy, hammering out concrete details is hard.”",motivational +5398,"“When nighttime comes, it becomes dark—such is life. There won’t be sunshine all the time, learn to live with that.”",motivational +5701,"“People with a negative outlook on life are miserable. Instead of being unhappy, decide to see the wonder and beauty in the world.”",motivational +5174,“Struggle is the fire that tempers the steel of our determination.”,motivational +5814,“The best way to get over trauma is to go through even more trauma.”,motivational +3405,“Let's bend this voices beyond around us and choose to be brave!”,motivational +3593,"“Language is the key that unlocks the door to inspiration, allowing us to explore the limitless depths of imagination.”",motivational +3787,“Memories are more important to me.”,motivational +3178,"“To believe in miracles in one thing...to know what miracle you want to manifest right now, and accept it, is another.”",motivational +4013,"“Chess does not only teach us to analyse the present situation, but it also enables us to think about the possibilities and consequences. This is the art of forward-thinking.”",motivational +6083,“Love and kindness serve as a bridge between you and all living things.”,motivational +4463,"“If you practice hard, you can win every battle.”",motivational +2757,“What others think about you is none of your business.”,motivational +4400,“You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.”,motivational +5947,“Leadership is not about having the most power or authority. It’s about having the courage and drive to turn ideas into action.”,motivational +4361,“Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”,motivational +5362,"“No one has their life together, even if they do, it will not be forever. At some point in time, life happens to everyone.”",motivational +4011,“I was 29 years of age and that was the first time I had experienced true love. Even the love of a Father!”,motivational +5893,"“When it comes to life, if you believe in yourself and take bold risks, the possibilities are practically infinite.”",motivational +6079,“Even a king must submit to great art.”,motivational +6300,"“Every story has a story. And always more important than a story itself, is the reason behind why it was told.”",motivational +5934,"“If you want to have long-term success as a coach, or in any role of leadership, having an obsession with your craft is essential. It isn't enough to be knowledgeable about what you do - you have to be hungry for improvement.”",motivational +2551,"“Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.”",motivational +6120,"“Beauty is not in the face, its the reflection of your Soul that will never change nor fade”",motivational +5126,“Success belongs to those who dream big and focus on what matters most.”,motivational +5671,"“Greatness is not a gift, it's a choice. It's not a talent, it's a habit. And habits can be built through consistency, dedication, and unwavering commitment.”",motivational +3796,“Champions are men and women who refuses to fall back even in the midst of setbacks.”,motivational +5450,"“Life is too short to be whining. Keep dreaming, keep grinding, and keep winning.”",motivational +2727,"“The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.”",motivational +4433,"“Don't be afraid to be afraid. Have fear, and then conquer the shit out of it.”",motivational +5480,"“You’ve been sacrificing your life for your entire life, and you will continue to do so until you have no more life left to sacrifice. Your only choice is what you sacrifice it to.”",motivational +6021,“It's absolutely ok to make poor choices; no one knows the world completely. To come out with better results is real responsibility.”,motivational +4956,"“You aren’t a jumbled assortment of traits and characteristics. On the contrary, the various aspects of your being are sublimely interconnected.”",motivational +5979,"“Em vez de pensarmos na família como algo que existe, temos de pensar nela como algo que se constrói. Nós «fazemos» a família.”",motivational +5282,“Life can never be a dress rehearsal. It is real. Value your time and put no value on people or things that add no value to your life.”,motivational +3498,"“Understanding who we are, how God created us, how we grow, and how we give those gifts back to others is core work of the spiritual entrepreneur.”",motivational +5454,"“Life may not always give you what you want, but do not give up on what you want; until you realize you did all that was required.”",motivational +4320,"“What drives your buying decisions - necessities, comforts, pleasures, status, or ego?”",motivational +3311,"“If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.”",motivational +2997,"“Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.”",motivational +6064,"“When you sow a seed it will grow. Somehow, someway, it will grow.”",motivational +4001,"“By sharing your pain with others, you may give them the strength to abuse your wound, but by sharing your pain only with yourself, you gain the strength to overcome the situation”",motivational +6153,“They say eyes reflect reality...I believe it!”,motivational +5399,"“When other people’s lives are flourishing but yours is not, do not give up. Not all flowers bloom at the same time. Like a flower that blooms in summer, you will flourish if you persevere during the dry seasons of life.”",motivational +4213,"“Riveting discoveries unfurl when one thinks the unimaginable, instead of imagining the unthinkable...for thought precedes imagination and sculptures acceptance for new ideas.”",motivational +6024,"“Using less time to produce more is intelligent, then why do intelligent people choose to multitask?”",motivational +5848,“When someone listens to his heart. Than he Uses a big law of success.”,motivational +2561,"“The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm.”",motivational +5083,"“I'll find out the truth,' Leta whispered into the black. 'I promise, Mother.”",motivational +6099,“Why do you continue to live in confinement when the door is so wide open?”,motivational +3123,“Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron”,motivational +3462,“Every enemy can be beaten. All you need is the right team at your back.”,motivational +4941,"“Music is a celestial gift of the supreme, a melody that transcends time and touches the soul.”",motivational +4137,“Being a Qoets author is not about know how to hold or have a pen it about having a word neither being healthy fit is not about having a gym equipment and knowing what to do is about doing it.”,motivational +5289,"“Capture the best moments in life, and overlook the bad ones. Learn to celebrate life while you still have time.”",motivational +3157,"“It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.”",motivational +4855,"“Amidst the storms of life, I find solace in a place where your love endures.”",motivational +5786,"“Serenity is inner peace amid chaos and trouble, not their absence.”",motivational +5148,“The best way to predict your future is to create it with passion and purpose.”,motivational +6309,“Proving something to yourself is more important than proving anything to others.”,motivational +5069,“A lazy man often lacks the motivation to fight the very thing that has sapped him of his motivation.”,motivational +5757,"“Fear makes us think we need more information before deciding, but often we just need courage!”",motivational +2878,“The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.”,motivational +3365,"“Whether they're superior or inferior, older brothers are role models for their younger brothers. If the older brother takes the wrong path, the younger brothers can avoid it. And if I take the right path, my little brothers can follow behind.”",motivational +2891,“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.”,motivational +6385,"“Just because it didn’t work doesn’t mean it was the wrong choice.The world is full of probabilities, not certainties.Find a game where the probabilities favor you and keep taking shots.”",motivational +5060,“Don’t fear high expectations; embrace them. Choose to do hard things.”,motivational +5233,“One act of kindness can change or even save someone's life. Be kind to yourself and others!”,motivational +6542,"“Keep following your intuition and never forget that you are not doing this alone, you are constantly guided and all your needs will be constantly provided.”",motivational +5801,"“And in that glorious burst of energy and speed, Ceridwen whispered the word once more. Onward. Fate. Battle cry. And occasionally, a prayer.”",motivational +6759,"“You want your people recruiting, especially your highest performers.”",motivational +6496,"“We came from the earth, we return to the dirt, and we bloom, fade, and wilt in between.”",motivational +3430,"“If it doesn’t excite me, I do not pursue it.”",motivational +5423,“Life is a series of many mysteries. Go out there and make great discoveries. The sweet caress of Mother Nature will help you experience God’s splendour.”,motivational +5458,“Life rewards those who espouse goodness. Do good even if people are not good to you. You will ultimately feel good and enjoy the goodness of the seeds you planted.”,motivational +5554,“Time spent under a burden is often time well spent.”,motivational +3482,“Mm.. I see you wondering how to take good care of your feet. Walk the journey that you’ll never regret.”,motivational +3738,“If there is a winner. he cannot become a winner. Only one who was once a loser can become a winner.”,motivational +4943,"“Mongooses lack the larynx and jaws for speech, to say nothing of the motivation.”",motivational +4322,"“Find your friends, because life is too short to spend with enemies.”",motivational +5442,"“A bee will sting but still make honey. A rose will prick, but have a good scent. Life is like that, there will always be bad and good aspects. Yours is to focus on what is more important.”",motivational +3871,“Only a dancer can sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.”,motivational +6448,“Plan your dream but focus on your goals!”,motivational +2711,“The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.”,motivational +2668,"“If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish.”",motivational +3276,"“With a decision and a defined purpose, you can begin work.”",motivational +6256,“The mission of a man is his message.”,motivational +5089,"“Anxiety and depression are your friends. They tell you there is something undone that must be done, something you must do. They demand action.”",motivational +3601,“When you can't tolerate.. Then should skip immediately”,motivational +3115,“Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.”,motivational +4048,"“Before you wake up, your seriousness that never lets you sleep peacefully, starts building up your strengths with your efforts after you wake up.”",motivational +5383,“You can only realize the splendour of life if you are willing to fulfil your purpose while you still have time.”,motivational +5699,"“Fear is just an emotion. It is not true. The only thing that is true is the action you take, regardless.”",motivational +4345,“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”,motivational +3197,“Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities.”,motivational +6267,"“Of course, it comes down to a little creativity and a lot of motivation. The creativity is inside all of us. The motivation is rougher.”",motivational +5457,“Life may not seem fair; but it does give everyone a fair chance.”,motivational +4611,“The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.”,motivational +2873,"“Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.”",motivational +6083,“Love and kindness serve as a bridge between you and all living things.”,motivational +6707,"“Until a child that has issues with learning is diagnosed by ""an expert"" as having a learning disability, nothing is wrong with that child except that his motivation and feelings about the said ""learning"" is inadequate.”",motivational +6680,"“So, we hide, and we fight, and we hide, and we train, and we fight.”",motivational +4886,“Embarking on a journey of a thousand miles begins with one bold step.”,motivational +3713,"“The sounds of music have dimmed into a self-censored silence. We pause, we gaze for far too long at the markets from a broken window where Kabul's finest orchestras weeks ago were still learning to play. We linger, remembering what used to be.”",motivational +6347,"“Determination is the root of success, believing in success will make you unstoppable and your dream will bloom into reality...”",motivational +5243,"“Sometimes people will come into your life asking for your help, only for them to put you in a mess. Help yourself by all means; do not allow anyone’s mess to leave you in distress.”",motivational +5855,"“Moonlight, the mystic smile of the night, can soothe the soul and calm the mind.”",motivational +4183,“Life becomes a moment to moment ecstasy when you stay connected to your spirit as you learn to live by what binds you to your soul even a speck of dust will turn to a glittered star folding your despair while unfolding your dreams.....”,motivational +2806,"“We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.”",motivational +3464,"“In the light of your success, they see you. In the shadows of your struggle, you see them.”",motivational +3622,“When you don't win... You have option to break record of winner in next attempt..”,motivational +5013,"“Don't forget to have fun! Remember, taking breaks and enjoying yourself will help increase your ability to stay resilient.”",motivational +3982,“Don’t be afraid of failure because it prepares you for success!”,motivational +6234,“The best reward comes from our collective effort and energy.”,motivational +5979,"“Em vez de pensarmos na família como algo que existe, temos de pensar nela como algo que se constrói. Nós «fazemos» a família.”",motivational +5336,"“From time to time, life will present you with an opportunity to make your mark. Learn to discern and choose to be different. It is when you do the things that help you stand out that you will be able to shine your light.”",motivational +5358,"“Life is great when you take charge of your happiness. If it happens that you lose it somewhere, go back and fetch it. Never leave behind your happiness, and never settle for a life of brokenness.”",motivational +5014,“Journaling is a great way to process any emotions that come up during challenging times – it can also help boost resilience.”,motivational +6278,“Life With Adventure”,motivational +5472,"“Life will sometimes require that you partner with others in order to access a larger piece of the pie. As you do that, always avoid those who do not realize that you also deserve good things in life.”",motivational +3457,“Spiritual entrepreneurship is a collective community working together to expand love.”,motivational +5358,"“Life is great when you take charge of your happiness. If it happens that you lose it somewhere, go back and fetch it. Never leave behind your happiness, and never settle for a life of brokenness.”",motivational +2673,"“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”",motivational +5994,"“Nature teaches us to be compassionate, kind, and non-discriminatory.”",motivational +5017,“You are capable of achieving anything! Just focus on developing yourself through personal leadership for long-lasting success.”,motivational +3427,"“It's true that jealousy is a desease. So instead of shaming those who suffer from it, please wish them a speedy recovery.”",motivational +2621,"“You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in.”",motivational +6012,“The Law of Karma states that neither a drop of kindness nor a speck of evil will go unreturned.”,motivational +3499,"“There are as many unique paths to self-knowledge as there are souls in the universe. Therefore, one-sized advice can never fit all. One path cannot be judged by another path, and we must struggle to find our own way with God.”",motivational +6347,"“Determination is the root of success, believing in success will make you unstoppable and your dream will bloom into reality...”",motivational +3766,"“Exude power when you should, not when you can !!”",motivational +5934,"“If you want to have long-term success as a coach, or in any role of leadership, having an obsession with your craft is essential. It isn't enough to be knowledgeable about what you do - you have to be hungry for improvement.”",motivational +3022,“Intent without dedicated action is simply not enough. Action without a clear intent is a waste. It is when these two powerful forces are aligned that the energy of the universe conspires in your favor.”,motivational +5704,"“By being true to yourself and defending what you believe in, you can change the world.”",motivational +5092,"“Not everything put into you is good or right, but it is good enough, and it is all important.”",motivational +2575,"“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!”",motivational +4104,"“By reaching your goal means you grow in some level and show you how well you've done? how strong, brave you're not being bossy and abuse other people rights.”",motivational +2526,“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”,motivational +5238,"“Showing some people, the door when their time in your life is up is not a crime; it is a proactive stance to save your life.”",motivational +6029,"“True comfort cannot be bought with fame and luxury, it must be earned through personal growth and self-acceptance”",motivational +3080,"“Today is a special day that will go by very fast, so let’s take every second to make the most out of every moment.”",motivational +4766,"“In the eternal dance of existence, creation unfolds as a continuous melody, orchestrating the symphony of life with each fleeting note.”",motivational +5410,“There will be fewer problems in life if we cease to entrust problematic people with the development of solutions.”,motivational +3158,“The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.”,motivational +5095,"“Life is a risk. Life is also punctuated by moments of great risk, and your identity and legacy are shaped by how you respond in those critical moments.”",motivational +5770,"“Time management is about making choices: what do you prioritize and why? Being aware of your finite time and consciously deciding how to spend it will give you control, clarity, and peace of mind.”",motivational +3846,“Things aren't always as they appear. We must realize the bigger picture.”,motivational +6142,“Don't waste your time living the life of someone else.”,motivational +5335,"“You may not have everything right now, but you can choose to make something out of your life.”",motivational +4725,"“Considering the age and mental language of underachievers, provides a tailored approach to addressing their basic needs”",motivational +6047,"“As God moves us into a new year, normalize doing your own thing regardless of what anyone says or thinks. Mind your business and become great at it. Lastly, stop being accessible to everyone, you will find peace within.”",motivational +3545,“Find inspiration within yourself to overcome challenges.”,motivational +6486,"“If you have a dream, don't let it go unfulfilled. Gather the courage to believe in your ability to succeed, and make the necessary plans to make it a reality."" – Shree Shambav”",motivational +5469,“Life will offer you a chance to present your gifts to the world. It is up to you to grab that chance or live with regret.”,motivational +5734,“All your stress is not from others - it's just from your Thoughts.”,motivational +3606,“Forgiveness provide you strengthWord Sorry make you calm”,motivational +4832,“One of the worst things you can do against yourself in life is to dream small.”,motivational +3447,“Crave for transcending or else it will become compulsive.”,motivational +6224,“The most expensive thing that you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.”,motivational +5922,"“It takes courage and strength to take a long, hard look at who you are, what you want out ofthis life, and how to make it happen.”",motivational +3956,“My eyes tremble while my lips fight to hold the words that i'm too afraid to say”,motivational +3078,"“A cord that remains, always. in many ways...”",motivational +5412,“Anyone can become great in life as long as they stop focusing on what they do not have and build on what they do have until their greatness is manifest.”,motivational +5013,"“Don't forget to have fun! Remember, taking breaks and enjoying yourself will help increase your ability to stay resilient.”",motivational +3425,“The discovery of our calling is a great task; a task that is worth all of our efforts”,motivational +4382,"“When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.”",motivational +4186,“Deep courage come from knowing Christ.”,motivational +3123,“Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron”,motivational +4257,"“In a war between customers and the company, customers might lose the fight due to the difference of powers, but the company is the ultimate loser.”",motivational +6333,"“Dream higher to reach higher, never lose faith and watch how things go great!”",motivational +6696,"“As a service excellence provider, I always think about how to turn a customer's pain point into brownie points. Never underestimate the power of any customer transaction”",motivational +4985,"“Sip the morning’s first cup of joy, where lemony whispers meet the sweet embrace of honey, and you’ll find the perfect blend to awaken your day.”",motivational +6013,"“You are pretty now. But if you don’t learn to love yourself, even if you are pretty, you are not truly considered beautiful.”",motivational +5983,“Walking alone through nature can be meditative.”,motivational +3643,"“People call me a redneck engineer because I make things that they say barely work, but I see it as finding unorthodox ways of getting things to work as I need them to”",motivational +6508,"“Tidak ada orang yang lahir di dunia tanpa alasan, tidak ada orang yang lahir dan tidak bisa mewujudkan setidaknya satu hal, apapun itu.”",motivational +2882,"“Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!”",motivational +2714,“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”,motivational +3827,"“Knowing when to let go, and actually doing it, is an essential skill that can be developed. However, it requires you to have a lot of trust in yourself.”",motivational +3649,"“Leadership is all about making things to move forward, not backward.”",motivational +5198,"“When you are surrounded by those who make life easy, you will enjoy it. But in the company of those who complicate things, life will not be easy.”",motivational +5763,"“When you give up, you close the door on opportunities you may not have realised existed.”",motivational +2597,"“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”",motivational +6616,“The wood is not the fuel. The cold is the fuel. For the cold creates the passion for the fire.”,motivational +5528,“Your life has come at the expense of a nearly infinite number of other potential lives that will now never get to be lived because you get to live.”,motivational +4365,"“Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution.”",motivational +3312,“These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.”,motivational +3452,"“Acknowledge that it will require blood, sweat, and tears. Many people will tell you to only work smart. But the reality is that you have to work hard, smart, and long.”",motivational +5297,"“If you want to make a difference in life, do not be terrified of change. It will position you in a higher dimension.”",motivational +6383,"“You should motivate yourself, NOW!”",motivational +4118,“People live miserably without loving well and people love miserably without living well.”,motivational +5431,"“Sometimes the journey of life can be hard to comprehend. It is like surfing; the best way to enjoy the waves is to study them, know them and experience them.”",motivational +6390,“Wake up to the transitory nature of things – this will free your mind.”,motivational +5729,"“May you always be filled with joy, no matter what your circumstances are?”",motivational +4895,“Our beliefs shape our reality so let's believe anything is possible and make it happen!”,motivational +3449,“Everything that is due to me is going to be given to me.”,motivational +5074,"“I've realized that you might have big waves, and you may have small waves. But it never matters because the waves always break. And what if they don't? That just means that you must keep swimming until your wave appears.”",motivational +3483,“Continue on doing pedicures detox and treatment as you see it on my blogs out there don’t forget to do manicures on your short hands nails as well that will be extremely gorgeous”,motivational +3462,“Every enemy can be beaten. All you need is the right team at your back.”,motivational +3770,"“It’s important to think of what it means to powerfully and successfully rise to challenges, and all that it requires: determination, clarity, and steering clear of victim mentality”",motivational +3451,“Don't wait for somebody to give you something. You're strong. You're intelligent. Go out and earn it and work for it.”,motivational +4710,"“If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.”",motivational +5835,"“Advice is just that, advice!”",motivational +4767,“Underachievement leads to noticeable behavioral changes usually dues to lack of motivation to excel in academic for one reason or the other”,motivational +4336,“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”,motivational +3765,"“Self-confidence will give you that success which no other way can help, it is the prime key. Look into the mirror, say- Yes! you canThink once!”",motivational +2972,“You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.”,motivational +5802,"“Tragedy happens to lots of people. You can decide to let it destroy you, or you can decide to move on.”",motivational +3738,“If there is a winner. he cannot become a winner. Only one who was once a loser can become a winner.”,motivational +5162,“A diamond shines brightest after enduring immense pressure.”,motivational +3392,"“Words are very good, but it is actions going forward that count!”",motivational +6313,"“Your attitude decides your victory, follow your intent, plan your strategy and win the rewards of life...”",motivational +6364,“If a mere mortal like me can turn every predicament of life into a testimony of courage; then you can tap into the same power. All you have to do is find that flame and fan it to burn brighter than the force that tries to smother it.”,motivational +5643,“Success isn't a distant dream; it's waiting for you at the finish line of every action you take.”,motivational +3432,“Intellectual product is the most creative of all products but appreciated by a few who are in the control of the majority that are mentally lazy.”,motivational +4054,"“Remove the words “impossible” and “I can’t” from your vocabulary. These words have became too significant in your thought process. Remember that what can be conceived in the mind, can also be brought into reality.”",motivational +3602,“No any glue can join broken heart..”,motivational +4919,"“Not trusting people does not make you a badperson, not trusting people prevents youfrom becoming a broken and a bad person.”",motivational +5125,“Take responsibility for your actions and strive to become even better every day — this is the key to lasting success!”,motivational +3270,“A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that.”,motivational +4831,“The most incredible service you can render to yourself is to clearly define WHY you are here and live it out.”,motivational +6653,“Leading from the front is cliché. I lead from the back to push you forward or be there to catch you. I lead from the side because Im your ally and here to serve you. Leaders are accessible at all times.”,motivational +5283,"“Look around. You will never find another person with your exact kind of life. Your path is unique. So, make sure that your thoughts, convictions and values enable you to add value.”",motivational +5663,"“Lead with courage, own your decisions, and embrace accountability - the true hallmark of a fearless leader.”",motivational +6478,"“ALL doubt, whether from myself or others, is the enemy of my dreams and goals. I have zero tolerance for doubt.”",motivational +4548,"“Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.”",motivational +3091,“Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want.”,motivational +4611,“The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.”,motivational +4450,"“Motivation will keep you going forwards, Hesitation will only drag you backwards.”",motivational +2617,“Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.”,motivational +2699,“Times will change for the better when you change.”,motivational +3411,“A warrior sharpens his blade even in times of peace.”,motivational +3369,"“Kadar imaš polno rit vsega, ni noben stol dovolj udoben.”",motivational +3591,"“Like an orchestra of words, let your language serenade the world with inspiring melodies of wisdom and creativity.”",motivational +3157,"“It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.”",motivational +6642,“Don't wait on anyone to tell you what you are worth. You have to be the first person who knows what you are worth and who can say what you are worth.”,motivational +6119,“Real Beauty is the Light in the Heart that Shines in the Eyes”,motivational +3144,“Self -pity is the worst form of poison. It kills a person without the person realizing it ~ Aarush Kashyap”,motivational +3544,“Learning is the key to personal and professional success. Embrace it.”,motivational +6639,“Healthy can be unhealthy too.”,motivational +4656,"“Embrace every new day with gratitude, hope and love.”",motivational +6373,"“Once you feel accomplished doing the inside work, the outside work will start to become easier, like second nature, because now you have mastered how to use your internal feelings to fuel your physical world.”",motivational +5665,“You are exactly where you need to be.Do something if you want something. Otherwise It will be your whole life.”,motivational +6095,“They returned our actions and words to us like echoes in a mountain.”,motivational +5802,"“Tragedy happens to lots of people. You can decide to let it destroy you, or you can decide to move on.”",motivational +6769,"“If you get tired, learn to rest not quit.”",motivational +4938,"“Khud se jeetne ki zid h khudko hi hrana h ,M bheed nhi hu duniya ki mere andar zamana h.”",motivational +4387,“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.”,motivational +6474,"“I find it terrifying how so many people are prepared to spend so much on motivation and inspiration, yet spend so little on education and information.”",motivational +6221,"“The choice is yours..., the way you want to live!”",motivational +6634,“The greatest test you will ever face is mastering yourself.”,motivational +6614,“The greatest winners were once losers”,motivational +4519,“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!”,motivational +5881,"“The first mistake is an opportunity to LEARN. But if you don’t use that experience to make a better decision next time, then that’s not an innocent mistake — it's NEGLIGENCE.”",motivational +4651,“The ordinary man gets motivation from power and fame. The superior finds motivation in meaning and work itself.”,motivational +5008,"“Take aligned actions that echo your core values, igniting a spark that inspires others to do the same.”",motivational +3797,“People oppose you when you uncomfort them... When you don't reciprocate their actions. Or when you point their guilt. They tell bad things about you exaggerating. You can tell more bad things about them but you don't do it... to be positive”,motivational +3955,“It depends on whether you seek to live your own life or somebody else’s.”,motivational +5707,"“Your only limitation is your willingness, which prevents you from exceeding your limit.”",motivational +4451,“Habits stay with you even when you don’t have the motivation.”,motivational +5691,"“The withering wind whispers secrets of change, reminding us that nothing stays the same forever.”",motivational +5724,"“It takes courage to let go of the past, but the ability to forget it is where true freedom is found.”",motivational +5644,"“Sustainable success isn't a one-time achievement, it's a lifelong journey of intentional action and growth towards a fulfilling life.”",motivational +5826,“Any dream can come true if we have the courage to pursue it with zeal and persistence.”,motivational +5290,“Celebrate the present moment and never dwell on what happened in the past if you want to enjoy life.”,motivational +3498,"“Understanding who we are, how God created us, how we grow, and how we give those gifts back to others is core work of the spiritual entrepreneur.”",motivational +4661,“You don't get time.You create time.”,motivational +2733,“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.”,motivational +3284,“That failure serves a purpose!”,motivational +5345,"“In life, not all opportunities will come easily. Some will even seem as if they do not exist. But it is up to you to search for, find, and utilize them while time still allows.”",motivational +3195,"“I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfillment in life.”",motivational +3037,"“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”",motivational +5950,“Don't let anything stop you from exploring what lies ahead and making a lasting impact that none of us could have predicted!”,motivational +4661,“You don't get time.You create time.”,motivational +3802,"“Allow yourself the grace to change your mind, goals, and perspective whenever you feel called to.”",motivational +4034,"“Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them. More is not better. Happiness is not experiencing something else; it's continually experiencing what you already have in new and different ways.”",motivational +5404,“Life is not about the absence of trials. They will somehow show up even if we did not commit any crime. The presence of trials helps us stand the test of time.”,motivational +5611,"“Growth comes from pushing yourself and taking risks - stand firm in your resolve, and accept the journey with grace.”",motivational +4948,"“If you think you know everything, then look at the clouds hovering in the sky for a while, and then you will realize how ignorant you are.”",motivational +6643,"“For once in your life be a total idiot, for the right cause, for there is no righter cause than the cause of humanity.”",motivational +6310,"“Life takes a magical turn when you start believing in yourself, cast your own spells, and see your life-changing...”",motivational +3352,“Your mind is a garden filled with beautiful ideas. Make time to nurture them.”,motivational +2954,"“If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.”",motivational +6423,“Who you are is defined by your deepest driving desire.”,motivational +5617,“Sylvie aced the classes she was interested in but got C's or D's in everything else. Julia had operated her determination like a lawn mower and mowed through high school with the next step in her sights.”,motivational +3742,"“If someone else can do it, why can't you?”",motivational +2734,“Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.”,motivational +6651,"“Fall, fall and fall again, to fall without stopping is rising.”",motivational +5467,"“Life is not always easy, but when you believe, you will find ways to win.”",motivational +4338,"“Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”",motivational +6287,“Is this how we want to live our livesIs this how we want to shape our archivesAngry and bitter from moments that left us empty Forgetting why we ever thought it was a good decisionTo get stuck tied down in the wrong kind of vision”,motivational +2694,“Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.”,motivational +5385,"“Life is what you make of it. It will not always give you what you want, but you can still choose what you want to become.”",motivational +5043,"“How can we become writers if we do not believe ourselves, first of all, that we can write and that the qualities of a writer can flourish in us?”",motivational +4440,"“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”",motivational +5432,"“Sometimes the journey of life will be too hard, but that does not mean you will never overcome.”",motivational +3356,"“Fear and failure are inevitable in life, but those who face them with courage and perseverance transform their lives and inspire others with their actions.”",motivational +4540,"“Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.”",motivational +3760,"“Success is no accident.... It is hard work, perseverance , learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all... love of what you are doing.... Tribute to the legend Pele”",motivational +4389,"“Never run from the enemy, tackle them”",motivational +2777,"“As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.”",motivational +4138,“Start to finish and quite to fail”,motivational +5711,"“Dreams are like stars; they may appear distant, but they shine brightest when the night is darkest.”",motivational +4082,"“Oh, I see you think to be half necked on your gorgeous or killer outfit is rocking or cool that's not law of fashion and it out of style.”",motivational +5400,"“In this life, we are here for a short while. How we will be remembered after that depends on how we treat others while alive.”",motivational +4203,“Safe is better than sorry. Nope. Risk is better than regret.”,motivational +5766,"“We don't need to make longerregret lists. We don't need people thatare very very smart and yet do nothing.We need people that do the things theyalready know how to do. Stop learning and start doing. Motivation, not education.”",motivational +5770,"“Time management is about making choices: what do you prioritize and why? Being aware of your finite time and consciously deciding how to spend it will give you control, clarity, and peace of mind.”",motivational +3953,"“Just be clear about your question, and I will give you the answer you are looking for.”",motivational +2727,"“The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.”",motivational +2560,“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”,motivational +4265,“Allow yourself to be open-minded. Take a step away from the couch and move.”,motivational +4174,“Believe in Your Vision because Purpose and Missionare led by Vision.” ~Sherrie Rose”,motivational +5293,“It is not easy to forget those who touched your life in a special way. It is good to celebrate life’s heroes while they are still alive. Choose to appreciate the good things they have done.”,motivational +3227,"“Trust your passion, identify your dreams, and find the courage to share them with others, no matter how many times they call you a fool.”",motivational +2913,“You have seen me fall; now see me rise.”,motivational +4802,“Change should start with us that will eventually lead to a change in situation and circumstance and not the other way round.”,motivational +2579,"“Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.”",motivational +4561,“Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action”,motivational +3737,"“It's funny, haha.Time consuming oil.”",motivational +4075,“I know that your beautiful eyes with or not make up are designed to see beyond you think.”,motivational +6190,"“You are the entire ocean in a drop, not just a drop in the sea.”",motivational +5461,“Life will always take you through various seasons. Learn to thrive in each season and come out ready to deal with any situation.”,motivational +3206,"“If you dare take the challenge, you will possess the courage to conquer.”",motivational +3334,"“Do not be petrified while looking behind; burn all the bridges! The only correct path is always, ever forward.”",motivational +2856,“All worries are less with wine.”,motivational +6416,“Be a dewdrop and spread happiness in the lives of others because life is too short to waste time thinking you cannot!”,motivational +2815,“Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.”,motivational +5924,"“Sometimes it can feel like success comes in leaps and bounds, but the truth is that small shifts and tweaks are the things that will bring you closer to your desired future.”",motivational +4842,"“If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.”",motivational +5317,"“Life will always throw different situations at you, no matter who you are or where you are, but there is comfort in knowing that no situation will last forever. No matter how hard it gets, plan to overcome and there will always be a way out.”",motivational +6066,“The success zone and the comfort zone are not in the same place.”,motivational +5985,“Everything around you will change when you change yourself into the person you want to be.”,motivational +5194,"“Watching drama play out from afar could seem fun, but it can be very sad if it is in your life. Avoid any form of drama and stay away from those who fuel it with their lies.”",motivational +5493,"“Only by making your legacy your aim can you ensure that your essential goals, those that stir from your very essence, remain uncorrupted by a million other, lesser goals that constantly vie for your attention.”",motivational +2783,“You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE.”,motivational +5055,"“No one appreciates anonymity as much as those who have lost it, and you only get to lose it once.”",motivational +5272,"“Even if you have the best mentors, you still have to go out and do the work. No one can do life on your behalf.”",motivational +2844,"“Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto”",motivational +4481,"“Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.”",motivational +5487,“Worthy goals are always hard.”,motivational +6476,"“Everything that you look at, even the things you like, or the people that you disdain or abhor, exists in you to varying degrees.”",motivational +3418,"“A dream is like a child, it should be conceived, cared for, birthed, nurtured, and tender till it grows to become giant”",motivational +4504,"“Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders"".”",motivational +5637,“Whoever is motivated can go great things.”,motivational +6712,“The downs in life only make you appreciate the ups much more.”,motivational +6265,“To memories is to think with your head; to meditate is to think with your heart.”,motivational +2835,“One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.”,motivational +4307,“Focus on one thing and be blind for everything else so that the whole world can see you shining.”,motivational +2822,“Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.”,motivational +6053,"“Life goes on, and others replace the dead. Death changes nothing.”",motivational +3642,“A dumb idea isn't dumb if it works so you might as well just try it out”,motivational +5254,"“Life will always teach you good lessons and if you are a good learner, you will become wiser.”",motivational +4028,“There is no great teacher like God.”,motivational +2663,"“Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.”",motivational +4232,“She is involved in work her soul must have.”,motivational +5851,“Difference is not division”,motivational +3394,"“There was a running theme through my friendships, and it was that of anarchy. I just loved people who were clear and definite in the proposition of life.”",motivational +5581,"“Busy bees make honey, but productive bees make a hive. Don't just buzz around; create something that lasts.”",motivational +5313,“Do not sit back and let people make key plans on your behalf. Wake up and stand up for your life.”,motivational +3229,"“Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author.”",motivational +3420,“The bank of knowledge is a sure bank of success; for it can birth any imagined good endeavor.”,motivational +5865,“I think that there is some advantages to just lying to yourself.”,motivational +3378,"“Keep fixed on the important things like love, loving and being loved.”",motivational +6616,“The wood is not the fuel. The cold is the fuel. For the cold creates the passion for the fire.”,motivational +3005,"“The people who really make you angry, control you!”",motivational +4264,“The frustration of the customer grows exponentially. It’s best resolved at the bottom of the curve.”,motivational +3625,“Anxiety and depression cannot be easily treated if the sufferer has unpredictable daily routines.”,motivational +5917,"“Though the physical appearance changes, the soul remains constant. In this way, everything changes around us, but nothing ever changes. The essence was always the same.”",motivational +5336,"“From time to time, life will present you with an opportunity to make your mark. Learn to discern and choose to be different. It is when you do the things that help you stand out that you will be able to shine your light.”",motivational +4155,“Wait patiently on God because the heavenly blessings he gives are permanent inheritance.”,motivational +5491,“Your aim is not just what you train your eye on; it is how you train your eye.”,motivational +2650,“Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one.”,motivational +5269,“A combination of minutes makes one’s lifetime. Make sure that none of those counts as wasted time.”,motivational +5943,"“If you want to have long-term success as a coach or in any role of leadership, having an obsession with your craft is essential.”",motivational +4939,"“Body is the temple, soul is god rest are perceptions.”",motivational +4356,"“The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.”",motivational +5204,"“You know you have mastered the art of life when you refuse to be the one who points fingers, and decide to be the one who helps find the right answers.”",motivational +4225,“The Lord keeps the lamp burning continually.”,motivational +5580,“True leadership is not about commanding authority; it's about earning respect.”,motivational +3575,"“Fear is your friend, your sous chef, your co-pilot -- embrace it!”",motivational +5294,"“Life is a beautiful journey filled with discoveries every single day. So, as you go through each day, find ways to celebrate life.”",motivational +6299,"“Live every day your way, and wear your blessings well. In Jesus name, amen.”",motivational +3796,“Champions are men and women who refuses to fall back even in the midst of setbacks.”,motivational +6379,“Thou must gather thine own sunshine.”,motivational +4314,“You can change your Future by changing your mindset”,motivational +4012,“Treasure every moment as a miracle.”,motivational +5816,"“Focus on yourself, and everything will focus on you.”",motivational +5459,"“Life will always have its highs and lows. Do not just go with the flow. Learn to bloom, even when you are feeling low.”",motivational +2579,"“Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.”",motivational +4198,"“How we treat others is a reflection of how we treat ourselves.It is rare almost impossible, for a mean, conniving, hurtful, racist, bigoted person to truly love themselves.”",motivational +3852,"“If love is a city, to enter it, you must pass through the gates of dance.”",motivational +5811,"“The linchpin for successful change is in the reward. The reward for a new routine has to be pleasurable, and it has to be quick. If the payoff takes too long to arrive or doesn’t feel good, odds are you won’t stick with it.”",motivational +5621,"“Make what's missing.If you are watching a movie and griping, 'why didn't they do this?'. Well, it sounds like you have some writing to do.”",motivational +3390,"“It is as much about input – the conversation of imaginative men (women and children not excluded) has a rhythm, a phrase that follows a thought and precedes the development of further thought ... try not to be a cunt.”",motivational +6742,“The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.”,motivational +5170,“Greatness is not achieved without conquering the battles that come your way.”,motivational +4012,“Treasure every moment as a miracle.”,motivational +4971,"“Maybe you asking yourself about your prosperity think about who you’re on getting it, rain is coming for everyone”",motivational +5061,“Learn to mock your influence on the world or wait for the world to do it for you; you won’t have to wait long.”,motivational +3240,“Those who win never give up.Those who give up never win.”,motivational +4256,“Perfect your own powers.”,motivational +6432,“The suffering of one man will sting us all. The happiness of one man makes everyone grin.”,motivational +2931,“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”,motivational +5986,“Letting go of thoughts that no longer serve you will increase your inner peace.”,motivational +4099,“Step into a mistry world of believing and trust in you before you blame other people.”,motivational +3000,“Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there.”,motivational +2699,“Times will change for the better when you change.”,motivational +3006,“The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering.”,motivational +3764,“Second chances are rare and comes with fortune.. thus use the first wisely.Think once!”,motivational +4476,"“Where there is life, there is hope.”",motivational +4694,“The greatest obsession is I believe in myself.”,motivational +3324,"“North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.”",motivational +5728,“Life is too short to be miserable! Choose happiness - it might seem hard at first but I promise it's worth it. Let go of the negativity and open up to a world of possibilities.”,motivational +3981,"“The only thing we ever have less of is time."" - Jill Reid | Discover Your Personal Truth”",motivational +3594,"“In a world where words are brushstrokes, let your language create masterpieces that inspire hearts and ignite minds.”",motivational +6707,"“Until a child that has issues with learning is diagnosed by ""an expert"" as having a learning disability, nothing is wrong with that child except that his motivation and feelings about the said ""learning"" is inadequate.”",motivational +4382,"“When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.”",motivational +3378,"“Keep fixed on the important things like love, loving and being loved.”",motivational +4550,"“Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.”",motivational +2780,"“One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.”",motivational +3537,“Our planet's beauty lies in its diversity; let us protect it so that future generations can experience its wonders.”,motivational +5726,"“Life is a journey, and it’s full of twists and turns - some amazing, some challenging. But no matter how tough the roads or uncomfortable the accommodations, there’s still something to learn from it all.”",motivational +6577,"“Each time I try, I lose my aim.And the pain startsall over again.It's not an easy target.It's hopeless.But after a whileI start again.”",motivational +3559,"“Sometimes you gotta embrace the chaos in your life in order to find the peace in it, ya know?”",motivational +6541,"“. Many great things await you in the future, and with your wisdom life will be a game you skillfully manoeuvre.”",motivational +4081,“To kill it you must finding your body shape with tailors help or tape measurements and follow it with your outfit like clothes that match your body structure .”,motivational +5698,"“The ‘ocean of grace’ is vast and infinite, with unfathomable depths and never-ending tides.”",motivational +6305,"“Give hope to your inner self to rise above with your self-esteem, work through it and you will succeed.”",motivational +5797,“The devil is more motivated because he sacrificed heaven. He only has one goal in mind.”,motivational +6255,"“I personally believe that fear is a great motivator. Being afraid can even be healthy, as you really achieve something grand when you get to the other side of your worst nightmare.”",motivational +4613,"“Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down.”",motivational +2815,“Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.”,motivational +5867,“Let's wear the flowers of courage grown from the seeds of hope in the soil of our insecurities.”,motivational +5684,"“To engage in later thinking, one must let go of preconceived notions and consider novel concepts.”",motivational +3759,“Stress is a consequences of negative happenings or impact in life. But important is how to overcome it.”,motivational +5255,“What distinguishes the wise from the unwise is their ability to embrace life’s distinctive lessons.”,motivational +4025,"“Two times in life you do not waste time arguing with someone: when you are wrong, and when you are right.”",motivational +3886,“The simple ineluctable truth is that desire has no bearing on our duties.”,motivational +4469,"“Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love - that is motivation enough, it turns many into poets and painters, it spurs the creativity in you.”",motivational +5371,“The wisdom to tackle the challenges of life differentiates extraordinary people from ordinary ones.”,motivational +5164,“The struggle is not a sign of weakness but a testament to your determination.”,motivational +5002,"“Time dances to its rhythm, and as the sun sets on every life, let us embrace the beauty of impermanence.”",motivational +6513,“A man on fire is a man of faith.”,motivational +6071,“Eternal Light is something that has always existed. The amount of light you receive will depend on your actions.”,motivational +3430,"“If it doesn’t excite me, I do not pursue it.”",motivational +6740,“Connection gives us the grace and grit to unleash our potential and endure the challenge of our daily mess.”,motivational +5467,"“Life is not always easy, but when you believe, you will find ways to win.”",motivational +2691,"“The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.”",motivational +5866,“The goal of life is to make everyone and everything around you happy. With your act of kindness and compassion.”,motivational +3906,"“No differences exist, as equals remain, the novice and the masters who practice the art of dance.”",motivational +5304,"“In life, it is wise to acknowledge that you do not know certain things. After all, no one knows everything.”",motivational +3044,“You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.”,motivational +3781,“They make you as they are because it’s the only thing they know and then they tell you it’s your fault because they are jealous you are better than them. But the truth is it’s never your fault. It’s their fault”,motivational +5475,“Life without a clear vision can be frustrating. Do not jump on the bandwagon of those who do not know where they are going. Seek clarity on what you need to do in order to keep growing.”,motivational +5557,"“We will all be average in some things, above average in others, and below average in still others. But to aspire to be average is another thing entirely.”",motivational +3604,“If you unable to do then avoid...”,motivational +3813,“The outcome of a day with white spaces is far greater than a packed day extending to long working hours.”,motivational +3423,“I will reach out to the world from the corner of my little space and no devil can stop me from fulfilling this purpose.”,motivational +5589,"“When a presumptively heterosexual man makes gratuitous transfers of money to a woman who is not his wife or daughter, it raises, fairly or not, questions about the man's motivations.”",motivational +6755,“Culture has the single greatest impact on your bottom line.”,motivational +3536,"“The best time to save our environment and secure our future is today, for tomorrow may be too late.”",motivational +4485,"“If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by.”",motivational +5862,"“It’s better than nothing,” his father replied. “And remember,the most important thing is to stay calm and focus on youropponent. Antichrist may be powerful, but he’s not unbeatable.”",motivational +5019,"“Please remember: when you are so afraid to run that even your fluffy ears and tail are shaking, that is exactly the moment you must do it. Otherwise, you will be left on the starting line all the time.”",motivational +2778,"“Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.”",motivational +3694,"“No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time. No such thing as down time. All you got is life time”",motivational +6708,"“Motivating your team is like cooking. You need to select and blend the right quality ingredients and serve them fresh as often as you can; otherwise, your team will get hungry and grumpy.”",motivational +6272,“What we want comes from participation; life does not happen by itself; we must make it happen.”,motivational +4906,"“Amidst the tranquil dawn, the sun’s gentle rays breathe life into dew-kissed leaves, a reminder that beauty awakens in subtlety.”",motivational +6743,“Inspiration ignites the spark of magic. Creativity is magic.”,motivational +6690,“You didn’t lose your power; you GAVE it away. It won’t come back on its own; you must TAKE it back!”,motivational +4219,“We are all messed up creatures trying to find our way through life.”,motivational +4738,"“In the tapestry of relationships, ignoring the ones who were once dear, weaves threads of heartache that endure longer than the fabric of love itself.”",motivational +2636,“Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.”,motivational +3777,“Do not be afraid to start something new and become a beginner/student again.”,motivational +6180,“IT'S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT THE POUNDS LOSTMORE ABOUT THE STRENGTH GAINEDQWANA B.G.R.F”,motivational +4109,“The story needed to be told that how Curvaceous world like as a harmonic words in the ocean.”,motivational +6478,"“ALL doubt, whether from myself or others, is the enemy of my dreams and goals. I have zero tolerance for doubt.”",motivational +6752,“The ‘purpose’ element of onboarding is where you begin to lay the foundation of success for your new team member.”,motivational +3135,"“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”",motivational +6305,"“Give hope to your inner self to rise above with your self-esteem, work through it and you will succeed.”",motivational +4552,“we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn”,motivational +6060,“I believe that self-defense is essential in protecting one’s well-being and dignity.”,motivational +4849,"“It is in winning the battle of life that man becomes a hero, not in running from them – life’s battles are life exams.”",motivational +5722,"“Believe in yourself, work hard, stay focused, and never give up. Success will come.”",motivational +2757,“What others think about you is none of your business.”,motivational +5433,"“Sometimes, the journey of life can be difficult, but remember, this is your race to run; no one can do it on your behalf.”",motivational +3482,“Mm.. I see you wondering how to take good care of your feet. Walk the journey that you’ll never regret.”,motivational +3833,“It is amazing how the Powerful God provides.”,motivational +3491,“Small acts of kindness and love rippled out and had more of an impact than they ever could have imagined.”,motivational +3396,"“Be the change, then lead the change.”",motivational +5445,"“Life is like a glass bowl—very fragile. Please handle it with utmost care because once it breaks, it will still have cracks even after glueing it together.”",motivational +4625,"“Ish #211 ""Your child is your parental obligation, not friend.”",motivational +5180,“Don't be afraid to go against the grain. It's in the unconventional that greatness often lies.”,motivational +3834,"“Don't be too stubborn to change, change is law of life.”",motivational +2978,"“Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.”",motivational +4495,"“To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.”",motivational +2598,“It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.”,motivational +3037,"“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”",motivational +6567,“Success can't exist unless you have execution. Your work should show progress.”,motivational +5281,"“If you want a valuable life, ensure that whosoever is part of your inner circle protects your peace of mind and adds value in their own right.”",motivational +4194,"“Life is as incomplete and imperfect without difficulties, as a rose without a staircase of thorns.”",motivational +2699,“Times will change for the better when you change.”,motivational +4494,“Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.”,motivational +6131,“Beauty is a Treasure while Style is a Fortune”,motivational +4693,“Don’t believe negative voices. Listen to the divine-instinct of awaken soul.”,motivational +3516,“One special gift that is often overlooked is the spirit of persistence.”,motivational +6291,“I think that negativeEmotions have their place ConfusionAngerSadnessFearThey have their placeThey set a paceEach unraveling a unique faceAnd it’s up to our choicesWhether we learn from their voices”,motivational +4560,“I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.”,motivational +5816,"“Focus on yourself, and everything will focus on you.”",motivational +4224,“The great deliver is the Divine Being.”,motivational +2818,"“If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.”",motivational +3768,“Tiny changes. Remarkable results.”,motivational +6440,"“Predicting the future isn’t what you should focus on, hard work is where your concentration should lie, your future will be built even if you don’t judge.”",motivational +5776,“Give me a library and a good book and we will be friends for life.”,motivational +3092,“I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever...”,motivational +5307,"“Life requires both discernment and wisdom because some people come to help solve problems, while others come to create more problems. Discernment will help you know them, and wisdom will help you know how to deal with them.”",motivational +2867,"“When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.”",motivational +5374,“There’s no school of life where one can get certified. Yet it offers the same courses with a different set of tests for each person alive.”,motivational +4519,“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!”,motivational +6514,“There is no learning without study.”,motivational +4133,"“Does every Curve people struggle and stressful through it?I don't think so, search it for yourself it trueth of life.”",motivational +5272,"“Even if you have the best mentors, you still have to go out and do the work. No one can do life on your behalf.”",motivational +3398,"“If you’re not going to go down fighting, then you don’t deserve to be here.”",motivational +3239,"“Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one’s daily life – it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.”",motivational +6469,“Fear of death transforms all living organisms into predators or prey in the food cycle.”,motivational +5012,"“To achieve long-lasting success, you need a resilient mindset and an unstoppable spirit.”",motivational +3122,"“It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity.”",motivational +6314,"“Don't doubt your instinct of becoming bigger, follow the intuition and grow in life because intuition guides you to be more assertive and self-dependent...”",motivational +4227,“God requires you to do what is right.”,motivational +4095,“In the name of look beautiful help the world by being beautiful inside and out to avoid confusion.”,motivational +4119,"“They think they can keep me out, but it does not matter how many locks they hang at the entrance. There is always another door. — The Thief Who Stole the Stars, by Tristan Chirsley”",motivational +3404,“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”,motivational +2785,“You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals.”,motivational +4144,"“To act is to commit, and to commit is to take risks.”",motivational +4666,"“Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!- RVM”",motivational +4940,“An alignment crisis happens when we remain chronically misaligned with our purpose.”,motivational +6412,“Be a rose that gives fragrance of overwhelming happiness not a thorn that pricks unexpectedly.”,motivational +5770,"“Time management is about making choices: what do you prioritize and why? Being aware of your finite time and consciously deciding how to spend it will give you control, clarity, and peace of mind.”",motivational +3957,"“Despite how hard I try to hide, my whole face gathers in a coup to let him know how much I fancy him.”",motivational +3740,“Your comfort zone isn't nourishing you anymore. What are you going to do about this?”,motivational +6625,"“Rock bottom is somewhere none of us ever want to be, but sometimes it happens. It's a place that, if we allow it, can destroy us. On the other hand, it can teach us about the deepest, darkest parts of ourselves for our ultimate growth.”",motivational +3185,"“Strive to make small changes and learn something new daily, because there is always these experiences you have had to tap into for the future.”",motivational +5166,"“When faced with adversity, remember that stars shine brightest in the darkest skies.”",motivational +4536,"“If you concentrate on small, manageable steps you can cross unimaginable distances.”",motivational +6266,"“To purify yourself, you must first learn to pray.”",motivational +4545,"“Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.”",motivational +5157,"“Live life on your terms, make decisions based on facts and not on opinions, and blaze your own path.”",motivational +3164,"“Spirituality is for people. It’s not just for those who you might have read about in books, it’s for people.”",motivational +2673,"“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”",motivational +3097,"“The word ""seek"" is a verb. Are you treating it as such in your life? If you seek change, success, or love, DO it - BE it!”",motivational +5329,"“Success in life is possible if you allow yourself to learn, dare to be different and make a difference in the world.”",motivational +6766,"“Magic will happen, Just distance yourself from negativity.”",motivational +3770,"“It’s important to think of what it means to powerfully and successfully rise to challenges, and all that it requires: determination, clarity, and steering clear of victim mentality”",motivational +2579,"“Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.”",motivational +6024,"“Using less time to produce more is intelligent, then why do intelligent people choose to multitask?”",motivational +6088,"“The human brain is capable of doing more than just thinking about earning bread and butter. Live your life to the fullest so that you won't regret it in future. Travel, explore, Learn, create, and help!”",motivational +2776,"“Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the ""To-Do"" list of tomorrow! It’s inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.”",motivational +4284,"“In misery, do not be sad but sing.”",motivational +4970,"“When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey.”",motivational +3776,“Endings are overrated.”,motivational +3523,“Strong people are the ones who can smile for others’ happiness.”,motivational +5230,“No amount of wealth is worth your life. Never sell your soul in exchange for a fat cheque. Remember that you can only enjoy that wealth when you are alive.”,motivational +3591,"“Like an orchestra of words, let your language serenade the world with inspiring melodies of wisdom and creativity.”",motivational +6609,"“Work with all your heart, because - I promise 0 if you show up for your work day after day after day, you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom.”",motivational +2914,"“Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison.”",motivational +5584,“How I handle myself is how you treat me.”,motivational +3493,“Can we measure love? Or connection? Or beauty? Or the feeling of being alive?”,motivational +6111,“Knowledge is the ink of eternal Bliss ~”,motivational +3217,"“It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.”",motivational +5126,“Success belongs to those who dream big and focus on what matters most.”,motivational +3919,"“Without circumstances, there is no change.”",motivational +3993,“Now that I found my destinyCan't be the endBefore the startSo I ignore what they sayAnd I listen to my heartAnd then I knowThat I'm enough”,motivational +5458,“Life rewards those who espouse goodness. Do good even if people are not good to you. You will ultimately feel good and enjoy the goodness of the seeds you planted.”,motivational +5442,"“A bee will sting but still make honey. A rose will prick, but have a good scent. Life is like that, there will always be bad and good aspects. Yours is to focus on what is more important.”",motivational +6622,"“Those who don't do, bark. Those who are humans, do.”",motivational +3511,“A sustainable future is not an option; it is an imperative if we wish to inherit a world worth living in.”,motivational +4974,"“The five magicians, a motivational book that will change you forever. If you want to be successful and see the path that leads to it, you must read this book, written with great skill by Bruis Cabilio. The book is available on Amazon.”",motivational +4974,"“The five magicians, a motivational book that will change you forever. If you want to be successful and see the path that leads to it, you must read this book, written with great skill by Bruis Cabilio. The book is available on Amazon.”",motivational +4446,"“What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire.”",motivational +4447,“Blessings! Count them and be thankful. Ask for an abundance of them and accept with gratitude.”,motivational +4143,“Grief does not kill the light...it reveals it.....Agony does not kill the ecstasy....it unfolds it......Dark does not extinguish the Dawn...it unwinds it.....”,motivational +4206,"“Motivation supplies ignition, and habit provides fuel, to the flame of desire”",motivational +4599,"“Remember, the talking about the thing isn't the thing. Doing the thing is the thing.”",motivational +4403,"“How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses”",motivational +6748,“Sometimes what others say about us matters the most.”,motivational +5906,"“Every setback is an opportunity to grow if we take the time to reflect, find out what went wrong, and use our experiences to move forward.”",motivational +3581,“Challenges are not roadblocks; they are opportunities to discover your true strength.”,motivational +4910,“Imitation preceded creation.”,motivational +5720,"“Though our loved ones may push us towards success, it is often our enemies who drive us to secure the final nail in the coffin of our accomplishments.”",motivational +6545,"“Divine assistance is working in your life right now, even if you don't see it. Your heart's desires are currently manifesting, compensating the time and effort you've been investing.”",motivational +3659,“Silk threads of reflection spin from the mind entombing uncertainty; but soon you’ll emerge from your chrysalis of doubt spreading wings and sharing your beauty.”,motivational +4953,"“Your mindset touches nearly every aspect of your life, yet for the most part, you don’t realize it exists, or that most people come equipped with a different mindset than you.”",motivational +4464,"“Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.”",motivational +6415,“You deserve to be held responsible for your own happiness.”,motivational +3315,"“Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.”",motivational +2694,“Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.”,motivational +3815,“Every day you have the choice of how you want to start your day.”,motivational +4792,"“The echoes of falsehood are the whispers of a fearful heart. In essence, a liar is a soul seeking refuge from the storms of truth.”",motivational +3265,"“When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership”",motivational +6739,“Failure and rejections are just words. It is your choice to go ahead and be a champion or to just cry whole life.”,motivational +6362,“Just as life has no quick fix; transformation lacks a flick-switch approach as well. Investing in a better version of yourself will take time but pay you rich dividends as well.”,motivational +4714,"“It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.”",motivational +6066,“The success zone and the comfort zone are not in the same place.”,motivational +4088,“More healthy lifestyle balanced come from healthy eating spiritual and physical.”,motivational +3469,"“And once you realise that you've been me and I have been you, you'd be more understanding.”",motivational +6355,“The power of confidence is to start believing in yourself and increase your potential to be who you want to be...”,motivational +6083,“Love and kindness serve as a bridge between you and all living things.”,motivational +3383,“We are never fucking brave enough.”,motivational +4926,"“In the boundless sky, the wind knows no boundaries; it flows freely, seeking solace in the embrace of nature’s mysteries.”",motivational +6706,"“The sense of greatness, the sense of education, the sense that we can always figure it out, find a way to overcome almost anything through learning and education”",motivational +3509,"“Every small step we take towards environmental conservation paves the way for a brighter, greener tomorrow.”",motivational +5892,"“Don't be held back by insecurity or fear, because you never know what might be on the other side of that leap of faith.”",motivational +6574,"“One of its primary roles is in motivation and reward. You probably know of dopamine because of its reputation as the brain’s pleasure juice. When you feel pleasure, you are getting squirted on by dopamine.”",motivational +5353,“A life of happiness requires you to get rid of any form of bitterness.”,motivational +3989,“I guess every friendship has its ups and downs.”,motivational +5809,“It feels awfully nice to be a little kinder to yourself and everybody else.”,motivational +3165,“There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination.”,motivational +5288,"“Beyond today, no one knows how life will turn out. So, while you can, celebrate the special moments.”",motivational +2930,“Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy.”,motivational +6189,"“As long as you keep moving, it doesn't matter how slowly you go.”",motivational +5218,"“In life, some questions do not require you to get answers from outside. They need you to search on the inside.”",motivational +2960,"“It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.”",motivational +4905,“I contend that the only thing holding people back from exploring infinite divergence is their will to do so.”,motivational +4483,“MANAGE YOUR MOOD: Name 1 thing that surprised you today...Name 1 thing that moved you...Name 1 thing that inspired you...”,motivational +4165,“If you don't do anything to improve upon yourself no one will do that for you.”,motivational +5049,"“You may treat the past and future as realities, but they are only realities in your memory and imagination. Only the present exists.”",motivational +5583,“Your discipline will take you places your motivation won't and your obsession will take you places your discipline can't.”,motivational +5672,"“Stop waiting for permission to be great. Own your power, and unleash your full potential. You are the BOSS of your life, and it's time to start making executive decisions.”",motivational +5474,"“Life becomes better when you keep these realities in mind. 1. Your days are numbered, 2. You are not better than anyone, and 3. You can’t just live anyhow.”",motivational +4561,“Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action”,motivational +2795,“A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.”,motivational +5725,“Take your time investing so much emotion into other people's behavior. Many philosophies instruct us never to become invested in the behavior of others.”,motivational +6362,“Just as life has no quick fix; transformation lacks a flick-switch approach as well. Investing in a better version of yourself will take time but pay you rich dividends as well.”,motivational +3955,“It depends on whether you seek to live your own life or somebody else’s.”,motivational +3115,“Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.”,motivational +4272,"“Still staying fervently prayerful, for I know God is forever faithful to fulfill his promises.”",motivational +3733,"“Ako se danas ne boriš, sutra nemoj da plačeš.”",motivational +3743,“They told me I can’t... They ignited my determination..”,motivational +3537,“Our planet's beauty lies in its diversity; let us protect it so that future generations can experience its wonders.”,motivational +5179,"“Life is meant to be an adventure. Seek experiences that ignite your soul.failure, inspiration, life, motivation, pep-talk-radio, struggle, success, passion, adventure”",motivational +6470,"“The predator's dread of scarcity haunts it while it hunts for food, and the victim's fear of predation haunts her as she tries to escape being hunted.”",motivational +5685,“Never lose faith and God will reward you”,motivational +6230,"“Charisma without character is like fire without heat, it doesn't burn anything.”",motivational +3983,“What could be sillier than having an imaginary boyfriend?”,motivational +5404,“Life is not about the absence of trials. They will somehow show up even if we did not commit any crime. The presence of trials helps us stand the test of time.”,motivational +3316,"“To deliver your own personal maximum, you’ll realise there are no shortcuts; if you want to be a champion it is all about rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.”",motivational +3486,"“It is not about hate,It is about Time....”",motivational +4971,"“Maybe you asking yourself about your prosperity think about who you’re on getting it, rain is coming for everyone”",motivational +3233,"“Holding on, holding out and holding fast when the going is tough constitutes a winning mindset.”",motivational +5009,“Achieving sustainable success isn't just about working hard; it's about working smart too! High-performance habits can really make a difference!”,motivational +5870,"“I came out of the storm, not the same person, but stronger, braver, and more resilient.”",motivational +3724,“Being free of hesitation is the greatest feeling in the world. Detach it and take a bigger step.”,motivational +6559,“Society teaches us to fall in line and be grateful even in times of injustice. It'll feel almost alien when you start speaking up but standing up for yourself is always the right thing to do.”,motivational +4705,"“Goal Of LIFE Is patience,Goal Of Patience Is LIFE!”",motivational +5314,"“How far you will go in life depends on how far you are willing to learn, plan and implement the good lessons you have learned.”",motivational +3286,“Wisdom comes from knowing the order of things...and you are the first order of your business.”,motivational +3480,"“Healthy food that you feed your spirit, mind and body keep you long enough to reach your destination.”",motivational +5318,"“Never give up on yourself, no matter what happens in life. When you follow God's plans for your life, one day you will be fine.”",motivational +4631,"“The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.”",motivational +3106,“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”,motivational +5849,“If you want to keep everything good. So always keep your mind good.”,motivational +2732,“Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”,motivational +3348,“Every challenge in life is an opportunity to polish your skills.”,motivational +4322,"“Find your friends, because life is too short to spend with enemies.”",motivational +3614,“The best way to reply is to make them defeated”,motivational +2632,"“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”",motivational +5754,“Burnout prevention starts with YOU. Invest in your happiness & well-being for a better tomorrow.”,motivational +5439,"“No matter where you are, appreciate the gift of life. Find reasons to smile because there comes a time when it becomes impossible to see the sunrise.”",motivational +6633,“I’ve lost heart more times than I can count. But God has always helped me find it one more time than I can count.”,motivational +5479,"“Your life is one giant, continuous sacrifice being poured out on the altar of your choosing, moment by moment and day by day.”",motivational +4525,"“If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.”",motivational +4923,"“While the enlightened develop a dynamic mindset to flow with time and live free, those in the dark stick to a static mindset and live in fear.”",motivational +5604,"“You're capable of pushing boundaries, taking risks, and looking beyond external validation. Dare to step into uncharted waters and be brave enough to realize the extraordinary potential within you!”",motivational +4117,"“You are your own savior, champion, and best friend, your own Knight in Shining Armor.”",motivational +3225,"“Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.”",motivational +6069,“There are a thousand different ways to get home. Just dance and celebrate until you dissolve into one.”,motivational +3524,"“The support of others can get you to the top, but you still you have to develop your strength, by growing your own roots so that you can keep yourself there, even when they stop watering you.”",motivational +6073,"“Whenever we reach an unexpected barrier in the way of honoring our souls' truth through action, it is essential to dust ourselves off and keep flying toward our dreams.”",motivational +4468,"“motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.”",motivational +3556,"“Dive into the ocean of adventure, and you'll discover treasures within yourself that you never knew existed.”",motivational +3865,“Freedom will be within grasp when you take a chance and dance.”,motivational +5934,"“If you want to have long-term success as a coach, or in any role of leadership, having an obsession with your craft is essential. It isn't enough to be knowledgeable about what you do - you have to be hungry for improvement.”",motivational +2623,“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”,motivational +4603,“Self determination is greatest will power.”,motivational +4309,“Behind every triumph there's a thousand tragedies.”,motivational +4654,“Every failure is a chance to make things better than ever”,motivational +4128,“Don’t blame me for your mediocrity it’s not my fault you lack integrity”,motivational +5458,“Life rewards those who espouse goodness. Do good even if people are not good to you. You will ultimately feel good and enjoy the goodness of the seeds you planted.”,motivational +6300,"“Every story has a story. And always more important than a story itself, is the reason behind why it was told.”",motivational +5449,"“Life is surely not a movie, do not live it as though you were acting. Be genuine.”",motivational +3485,"“Once, I was flying as usual.Some people called me ill.I, too, for a while, Believed them...Then I saw,Their sophisticated cage!”",motivational +5574,"“Don't just live the day, own it! Take charge of your time and make every moment count.”",motivational +3291,"“Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.”",motivational +2748,“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”,motivational +4061,"“When people reject you God welcome you, which you prefer?”",motivational +3520,“The future is a feast prepared from the fruits of today's labor.”,motivational +2694,“Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.”,motivational +4389,"“Never run from the enemy, tackle them”",motivational +2938,“The Key to Success is Action”,motivational +2746,"“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.”",motivational +4853,"“Greatness is the outcome of a sincere, committed, and consistent effort over time.”",motivational +2583,“Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”,motivational +3864,"“Excitement spreads beneath when you lock your feet to the dancing beat,”",motivational +4838,"“Business is about putting you into action.”I was watching X-Factor auditioning and one of the contestants was engulfed in performing his lyrics, it did done on me that business is about putting you into action.”",motivational +4410,“Sustain joy by anchoring yourself with gratitude.”,motivational +6521,“Pikiran yang kusut nggak bakalan jadi jernih kalau nggak diatasi sama pikiran juga.”,motivational +4567,“I was determined to move forward.”,motivational +2648,“Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself.”,motivational +4297,"“Da giovane è facile credere che ciò che desideri sia ciò che ti meriti, è facile convincersi che se davvero vuoi qualcosa, è tuo sacrosanto diritto ottenerla.”",motivational +6134,“I dont just have to be perfect...I have to be me”,motivational +2524,“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”,motivational +2972,“You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.”,motivational +4335,“In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!”,motivational +5536,“Being a leader is not easy. It's a delicate balance between humility and self-confidence. It takes immense courage to lead others but also requires an honest awareness of our own limitations.”,motivational +3027,“I would rather live short and right then long and wrong.”,motivational +2597,"“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”",motivational +5359,“Life is too short to be unhappy. Disengage from anyone or anything that takes your happiness away.”,motivational +5351,"“When good opportunities come in your life, it is not time to sit around. It is time to arise and utilize them so you can prosper.”",motivational +4392,"“Dear me, one day I'll make you proud.”",motivational +6679,“Don't cry for everythingJust try for something”,motivational +3433,"“A lazy hand cannot smell true success, no matter his level of faith, hope, and or aspiration.”",motivational +6242,“We do what we do because we are who we are.”,motivational +3477,“Personal growth happens when you transform your potential into action.”,motivational +3602,“No any glue can join broken heart..”,motivational +5703,"“Fairy tales serve as a timeless reminder that there is magic in the world and that, with enough faith, anything is possible.”",motivational +3912,“Success is not a number. It's about accomplishing your mission. Noah spent years building a boat that was only used once. Ignore the critiques. Build your boat!”,motivational +5872,"“The fall of a leaf is not the end of its journey, but the beginning of something greater.”",motivational +6490,"“If you want to know the power of an idea just know, that it can change your whole life”",motivational +6521,“Pikiran yang kusut nggak bakalan jadi jernih kalau nggak diatasi sama pikiran juga.”,motivational +5600,“Having a clear vision leads to greater self-awareness — use it as a guide to empower yourself and pave the way for success!”,motivational +6667,"“We don't learn from our experiences, we learn from reflecting on our experiences.”",motivational +4582,"“Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.”",motivational +2792,"“Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, ""without a vision (dream), a people perish."" You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.”",motivational +3695,"“Be careful where you spend your time. Be careful what you allow your soul to be exposed to. The difference is palpable. You have a choice, and if you don't, create one”",motivational +6477,"“Acumen binds individuals in tangles and danger, but love breaks all boundaries and dangers.”",motivational +5473,"“Life will take you to places you have never been, let you meet people who pull your heartstrings and help you not to lose your rhythm.”",motivational +3291,"“Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.”",motivational +3457,“Spiritual entrepreneurship is a collective community working together to expand love.”,motivational +6447,“Sell what others can't! Always remember... UNIQUENESS IS VALUED!”,motivational +2552,"“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”",motivational +4318,"“Tough as thunder, sweet as honey, that's the motto for a braveheart human.”",motivational +4589,"“Do not empower your negative thoughts by giving them “legs” so they can run around your mind, creating worries,frustrations, and anxiety in your life.”",motivational +6006,“I would take one minute of peace of mind instead of the best dessert on earth.”,motivational +3337,“No one can teach you the better than adversity.”,motivational +4417,"“We all grow tired eventually; it happens to everyone. Even the sun, at the close of the year, is no longer a morning person.”",motivational +5089,"“Anxiety and depression are your friends. They tell you there is something undone that must be done, something you must do. They demand action.”",motivational +3199,"“Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.”",motivational +6527,“Be proud and stand tall; Ain't no one living your life.”,motivational +3439,“No one ever gets anywhere by being mentally weak.”,motivational +5914,"“Faith is no slave to rituals, rules or even religion. Many a godless men attained faith; many a faithless men attained god.”",motivational +2655,“Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.”,motivational +3540,"“With every word we speak, we have the power to ignite a flame of inspiration in someone's heart and change their world forever.”",motivational +3819,“I touched peaks impossible.”,motivational +2895,“The beginning is always NOW.”,motivational +5629,“Make a wish on a shooting star; the universe will align to hear your heart’s desires.”,motivational +4381,"“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ”",motivational +6096,"“If you want to sing, you sing without considering who is listening or what they might think.”",motivational +3423,“I will reach out to the world from the corner of my little space and no devil can stop me from fulfilling this purpose.”,motivational +4386,"“When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.”",motivational +6256,“The mission of a man is his message.”,motivational +2785,“You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals.”,motivational +4485,"“If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by.”",motivational +4367,"“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!”",motivational +5544,“The reason you’ve been dragging your feet for so many years is most likely because your motivation to change is far less than the powerful force of inertia which is probably due to the comfort zone.”,motivational +5879,"“Taking time for yourself doesn't have to be hard or expensive - whether it's treating yourself to something small or dedicating an afternoon to relax, taking some time for self-care can make all the difference in your life.”",motivational +4690,“The 4 pillars Of the Greatest Religion ever Are Love Trust Character & Brotherhood...”,motivational +3678,"“Find what you love, find it for a long, and don’t settle until you find it. Find something you would love to fail in – because that’s where you will have the most chance (in each successive attempt) to make a big win.”",motivational +2997,"“Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.”",motivational +5033,"“Your past does not define your future. Learn from your mistakes, let go of what no longer serves you, and create a brighter tomorrow.”",motivational +3690,"“You are a princess. All our subjects watch us, observe us and follow the example we set. So, our behaviour should always be exemplary, as several people look up to us.”",motivational +6766,"“Magic will happen, Just distance yourself from negativity.”",motivational +4996,"“I arise to face my failures every morning, but I never fail to face them”",motivational +4384,"“There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when help is sought.”",motivational +860,"“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”",famous_quote +1294,"“Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”",famous_quote +1130,“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”,famous_quote +1095,“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”,famous_quote +1638,“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”,famous_quote +2169,"“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”",famous_quote +466,“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”,famous_quote +1238,“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”,famous_quote +330,"“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”",famous_quote +1482,"“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”",famous_quote +2135,“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”,famous_quote +130,"“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”",famous_quote +1685,“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”,famous_quote +769,“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”,famous_quote +2391,“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”,famous_quote +1515,"“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”",famous_quote +2433,"“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”",famous_quote +1215,“The first draft of anything is shit.”,famous_quote +955,"“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”",famous_quote +2324,“The mountains are calling and I must go.”,famous_quote +1184,"“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”",famous_quote +459,"“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”",famous_quote +21,“We accept the love we think we deserve.”,famous_quote +2300,“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”,famous_quote +747,“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”,famous_quote +474,"“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”",famous_quote +1082,“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”,famous_quote +2047,"“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”",famous_quote +975,"“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”",famous_quote +1806,"“Ah, music,"" he said, wiping his eyes. ""A magic beyond all we do here!”",famous_quote +189,"“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”",famous_quote +562,“I cannot live without books.”,famous_quote +1899,“You can make anything by writing.”,famous_quote +1267,"“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”",famous_quote +1528,“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”,famous_quote +646,"“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”",famous_quote +2068,“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”,famous_quote +2214,"“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”",famous_quote +1297,"“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”",famous_quote +2435,"“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”",famous_quote +600,"“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”",famous_quote +2363,"“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”",famous_quote +2061,"“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”",famous_quote +241,“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”,famous_quote +2041,“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”,famous_quote +1363,"“Why were you lurking under our window?""""Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?""""Listening to the news,"" said Harry in a resigned voice.His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.""Listening to the news! Again?""""Well, it changes every day, you see,"" said Harry.”",famous_quote +2139,"“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”",famous_quote +1390,"“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”",famous_quote +1478,"“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”",famous_quote +775,"“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.â€�I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”",famous_quote +34,“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”,famous_quote +2253,“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”,famous_quote +1955,“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”,famous_quote +1585,"“I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”",famous_quote +1021,"“There are no facts, only interpretations.”",famous_quote +1129,“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”,famous_quote +1500,"“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”",famous_quote +702,"“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”",famous_quote +2449,“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”,famous_quote +1579,“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”,famous_quote +161,"“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”",famous_quote +201,"“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”",famous_quote +1981,"“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”",famous_quote +995,"“You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.”",famous_quote +2317,“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”,famous_quote +815,"“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”",famous_quote +455,“Never laugh at live dragons.”,famous_quote +1275,"“Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!”",famous_quote +1016,“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”,famous_quote +2343,“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”,famous_quote +337,“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”,famous_quote +878,“When love is not madness it is not love.”,famous_quote +1076,"“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”",famous_quote +791,"“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours”",famous_quote +2264,"“How long was I asleep?"" she whispered. He didn't respond. ""How long was I asleep?"" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks. ""You were asleep, too?"" ""Until you began drooling on my shoulder.”",famous_quote +763,"“Will looked horrified. ""What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”",famous_quote +2235,"“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”",famous_quote +379,“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”,famous_quote +492,“I am not young enough to know everything.”,famous_quote +1180,"“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”",famous_quote +2062,"“Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!”",famous_quote +64,“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”,famous_quote +1367,“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”,famous_quote +1152,“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”,famous_quote +2027,“Curiouser and curiouser!”,famous_quote +1495,"“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”",famous_quote +1162,“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”,famous_quote +1522,“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”,famous_quote +391,“It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”,famous_quote +1698,"“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”",famous_quote +418,"“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”",famous_quote +2336,“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”,famous_quote +378,"“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”",famous_quote +1796,“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”,famous_quote +2278,“All thinking men are atheists.”,famous_quote +2088,"“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”",famous_quote +2182,“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”,famous_quote +200,“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”,famous_quote +1863,“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”,famous_quote +779,"“When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.”",famous_quote +502,“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”,famous_quote +2454,“The soul is healed by being with children.”,famous_quote +1751,"“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”",famous_quote +804,“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”,famous_quote +2146,"“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”",famous_quote +1895,"“I am always saying ""Glad to've met you"" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”",famous_quote +1570,"“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...”",famous_quote +960,“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”,famous_quote +1485,"“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”",famous_quote +1028,"“You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rainare moving across the landscapes,over the prairies and the deep trees,the mountains and the rivers.Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,are heading home again.Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,the world offers itself to your imagination,calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –over and over announcing your placein the family of things.”",famous_quote +502,“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”,famous_quote +397,"“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”",famous_quote +870,"“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”",famous_quote +392,“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”,famous_quote +206,"“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”",famous_quote +1038,“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”,famous_quote +1881,"“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”",famous_quote +1484,"“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”",famous_quote +863,“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”,famous_quote +563,"“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”",famous_quote +1020,“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”,famous_quote +95,“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”,famous_quote +1923,"“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”",famous_quote +1757,“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”,famous_quote +2278,“All thinking men are atheists.”,famous_quote +1678,"“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”",famous_quote +540,“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”,famous_quote +1059,"“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”",famous_quote +1183,"“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”",famous_quote +1722,"“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”",famous_quote +1819,"“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”",famous_quote +1597,"“Name one hero who was happy.""I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.""You can't."" He was sitting up now, leaning forward.""I can't.""""I know. They never let you be famous AND happy."" He lifted an eyebrow. ""I'll tell you a secret.""""Tell me."" I loved it when he was like this.""I'm going to be the first."" He took my palm and held it to his. ""Swear it.""""Why me?""""Because you're the reason. Swear it.""""I swear it,"" I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.""I swear it,"" he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.""I feel like I could eat the world raw.”",famous_quote +795,“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”,famous_quote +1051,"“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow. Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail. A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live. When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”",famous_quote +1643,“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”,famous_quote +1363,"“Why were you lurking under our window?""""Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?""""Listening to the news,"" said Harry in a resigned voice.His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.""Listening to the news! Again?""""Well, it changes every day, you see,"" said Harry.”",famous_quote +1981,"“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”",famous_quote +1354,“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”,famous_quote +1663,“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”,famous_quote +1529,"“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”",famous_quote +2038,"“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”",famous_quote +1496,"“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”",famous_quote +2237,“there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space.”,famous_quote +1408,“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”,famous_quote +1400,“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”,famous_quote +1306,"“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”",famous_quote +972,“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”,famous_quote +1768,"“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”",famous_quote +1282,“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”,famous_quote +709,"“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”",famous_quote +1479,"“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”",famous_quote +1434,"“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”",famous_quote +648,"“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.—""Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'"" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”",famous_quote +317,“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”,famous_quote +1257,“Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.”,famous_quote +683,“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”,famous_quote +663,“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”,famous_quote +1998,“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”,famous_quote +1631,"“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”",famous_quote +1495,"“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”",famous_quote +1136,“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”,famous_quote +1853,"“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”",famous_quote +1520,"“Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”",famous_quote +2489,“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.”,famous_quote +563,"“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”",famous_quote +1291,“To say goodbye is to die a little.”,famous_quote +1636,"“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”",famous_quote +698,"“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”",famous_quote +2160,"“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”",famous_quote +1,"“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”",famous_quote +641,"“Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.”",famous_quote +2267,"“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”",famous_quote +1589,“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”,famous_quote +854,“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”,famous_quote +1759,"“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”",famous_quote +2432,“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”,famous_quote +1661,"“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”",famous_quote +1153,“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”,famous_quote +1076,"“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”",famous_quote +1707,“I drink to make other people more interesting.”,famous_quote +1695,“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”,famous_quote +1733,"“You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you."" Jace's eyebrows went up. ""Hotter than me?"" ""It could happen,"" Clary said, ""You know, theoretically.""""Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things,"" Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, ""are just too unlikely to dwell upon.”",famous_quote +1439,"“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”",famous_quote +2294,"“Stop fighting me!"" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!â€� I yelled back.But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again.See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.I looked him in the eye. ""I will always love you.""Then I plunged the stake into his chest.It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one.""That’s what I was supposed to say. . .â€� he gasped out.Those were his last words.”",famous_quote +835,"“Don't talk to me.""""Why not?""""Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...”",famous_quote +202,“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”,famous_quote +122,"“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”",famous_quote +400,"“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”",famous_quote +766,"“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”",famous_quote +293,"“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”",famous_quote +2327,"“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”",famous_quote +197,"“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”",famous_quote +1930,"“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”",famous_quote +2191,“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”,famous_quote +608,"“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”",famous_quote +1147,"“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”",famous_quote +186,“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”,famous_quote +1794,"“He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through.""""How very rude of him.""""I told him I was.""Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. ""I am very touched, Harry.”",famous_quote +659,"“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”",famous_quote +1955,“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”,famous_quote +2450,"“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”",famous_quote +1369,“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”,famous_quote +1986,“I'd rather die my way than live yours.”,famous_quote +1534,“A good book is an event in my life.”,famous_quote +146,“Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean!”,famous_quote +1734,"“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”",famous_quote +1843,"“The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work."" When he didn't say anything, I tried to grip his shirt, but my fingers were too weak. ""Did you? Did you want me?""His words came out thickly. ""Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together.""""Then why did you lie to me?""We reached the clinic, and he managed to open the door while still holding me. As soon as he stepped inside, he began yelling for help. ""Why did you lie?"" I murmured again.Still holding me in his arms, he looked down at me. I could hear voices and footsteps getting closer.""Because we can't be together.""""Because of the age thing, right?"" I asked. ""Because you're my mentor?""His fingertip gently wiped away a tear that had escaped down my cheek. ""That's part of it,"" he said. ""But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her.""I know that. Of course that's what you have to do."" The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out.""No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”",famous_quote +488,“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”,famous_quote +1959,“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”,famous_quote +1663,“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”,famous_quote +2385,“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”,famous_quote +640,"“Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poemAnd he called it ""Chops"" because that was the name of his dogAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an A and a gold starAnd his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his auntsThat was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zooAnd he let them sing on the busAnd his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hairAnd his mother and father kissed a lotAnd the girl around the corner sent him aValentine signed with a row of X's and he had to ask his father what the X's meantAnd his father always tucked him in bed at nightAnd was always there to do itOnce on a piece of white paper with blue lines he wrote a poemAnd he called it ""Autumn"" because that was the name of the seasonAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an A and asked him to write more clearlyAnd his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because of its new paintAnd the kids told him that Father Tracy smoked cigarsAnd left butts on the pewsAnd sometimes they would burn holesThat was the year his sister got glasses with thick lenses and black framesAnd the girl around the corner laughed when he asked her to go see Santa ClausAnd the kids told him why his mother and father kissed a lotAnd his father never tucked him in bed at nightAnd his father got mad when he cried for him to do it.Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poemAnd he called it ""Innocence: A Question"" because that was the question about his girlAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his professor gave him an A and a strange steady lookAnd his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed herThat was the year that Father Tracy diedAnd he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed wentAnd he caught his sister making out on the back porchAnd his mother and father never kissed or even talkedAnd the girl around the corner wore too much makeupThat made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to doAnd at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed his father snoring soundlyThat's why on the back of a brown paper bag he tried another poemAnd he called it ""Absolutely Nothing""Because that's what it was really all aboutAnd he gave himself an A and a slash on each damned wristAnd he hung it on the bathroom door because this time he didn't think he could reach the kitchen.”",famous_quote +1802,"“What day is it?â€� asked Pooh. “It’s today,â€� squeaked Piglet.“My favorite day,â€� said Pooh.”",famous_quote +1969,"“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”",famous_quote +2198,"“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”",famous_quote +1438,"“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”",famous_quote +1634,"“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ""Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”",famous_quote +262,"“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”",famous_quote +1787,"“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”",famous_quote +2191,“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”,famous_quote +2393,"“If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Momâ€�, she’s gonna call me “Point B.â€� Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she can say “Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.â€�She’s gonna learn that this life will hit you, hard, in the face, wait for you to get back up so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. There is hurt, here, that cannot be fixed by band-aids or poetry, so the first time she realizes that Wonder-woman isn’t coming, I’ll make sure she knows she doesn’t have to wear the cape all by herself. Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.And “Baby,â€� I’ll tell her “don’t keep your nose up in the air like that, I know that trick, you’re just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else, find the boy who lit the fire in the first place to see if you can change him.â€�But I know that she will anyway, so instead I’ll always keep an extra supply of chocolate and rain boats nearby, ‘cause there is no heartbreak that chocolate can’t fix. Okay, there’s a few heartbreaks chocolate can’t fix. But that’s what the rain boots are for, because rain will wash away everything if you let it.I want her to see the world through the underside of a glass bottom boat, to look through a magnifying glass at the galaxies that exist on the pin point of a human mind. Because that’s how my mom taught me. That there’ll be days like this, “There’ll be days like this my momma saidâ€� when you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you wanna save are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain and you’ll be up to your knees in disappointment and those are the very days you have all the more reason to say “thank you,â€� ‘cause there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it’s sent away.You will put the “windâ€� in win some lose some, you will put the “starâ€� in starting over and over, and no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life.And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting I am pretty damn naive but I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.“Baby,â€� I’ll tell her “remember your mama is a worrier but your papa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more.â€�Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you’ve done something wrong but don’t you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.Your voice is small but don’t ever stop singing and when they finally hand you heartbreak, slip hatred and war under your doorstep and hand you hand-outs on street corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.”",famous_quote +623,“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”,famous_quote +1016,“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”,famous_quote +880,"“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”",famous_quote +2049,"“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”",famous_quote +1327,"“Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace”",famous_quote +2301,"“God alert!"" Blackjack yelled. ""It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. ""The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!”",famous_quote +452,"“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.""Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”",famous_quote +1183,"“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”",famous_quote +2056,"“You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met."" “That’s too bad,â€� said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.”",famous_quote +1682,“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”,famous_quote +2255,“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”,famous_quote +1154,"“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”",famous_quote +403,"“Let us find the dam snack bar,"" Zoe said. ""We should eat while we can.""Grover cracked a smile. ""The dam snack bar?""Zoe blinked. ""Yes. What is funny?""""Nothing,"" Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. ""I could use some dam french fries.""Even Thalia smiled at that. ""And I need to use the dam restroom.""...I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. ""I do not understand.""""I want to use the dam water fountain,"" Grover said.""And..."" Thalia tried to catch her breath. ""I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”",famous_quote +2199,“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”,famous_quote +2101,“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”,famous_quote +1696,"“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”",famous_quote +627,"“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”",famous_quote +586,“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”,famous_quote +1648,"“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”",famous_quote +1443,“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”,famous_quote +1445,"“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”",famous_quote +103,“Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.”,famous_quote +253,"“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""""If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”",famous_quote +1496,"“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”",famous_quote +98,"“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'Jace said, ""Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself.""...""At least,"" she said, ""you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.""""Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”",famous_quote +2200,"“You are okay?"" he asked. ""Not eaten by monsters?""""Not even a little bit."" I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily.""Yay!"" he said. ""Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!""I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.”",famous_quote +1884,"“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”",famous_quote +1919,"“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”",famous_quote +877,"“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”",famous_quote +337,“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”,famous_quote +956,"“What's this?"" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.""It's a girl,"" Jace said,recovering his composure. ""Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”",famous_quote +1704,"“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”",famous_quote +160,“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”,famous_quote +1603,“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”,famous_quote +397,"“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”",famous_quote +1300,“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”,famous_quote +815,"“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”",famous_quote +1527,"“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”",famous_quote +1919,"“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”",famous_quote +1415,“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”,famous_quote +1158,"“The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with eager feet,Until it joins some larger wayWhere many paths and errands meet.And whither then? I cannot say”",famous_quote +1218,“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”,famous_quote +400,"“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”",famous_quote +639,"“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”",famous_quote +459,"“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”",famous_quote +954,“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”,famous_quote +469,"“I might be in love with you."" He smiles a little. ""I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”",famous_quote +1045,"“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”",famous_quote +1693,“My library is an archive of longings.”,famous_quote +2085,"“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”",famous_quote +2277,“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”,famous_quote +562,“I cannot live without books.”,famous_quote +2485,"“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”",famous_quote +1799,“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”,famous_quote +2074,"“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”",famous_quote +225,"“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”",famous_quote +797,"“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”",famous_quote +2331,"“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”",famous_quote +959,“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”,famous_quote +1504,“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”,famous_quote +452,"“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.""Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”",famous_quote +815,"“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”",famous_quote +658,“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”,famous_quote +546,"“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”",famous_quote +1215,“The first draft of anything is shit.”,famous_quote +16,“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”,famous_quote +1243,"“Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.”",famous_quote +2205,"“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”",famous_quote +1069,“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”,famous_quote +2146,"“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”",famous_quote +1768,"“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”",famous_quote +1060,"“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”",famous_quote +2327,"“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”",famous_quote +301,“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”,famous_quote +180,“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”,famous_quote +606,“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”,famous_quote +699,“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”,famous_quote +992,"“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”",famous_quote +1139,"“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”",famous_quote +190,“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”,famous_quote +2300,“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”,famous_quote +980,"“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”",famous_quote +2006,"“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”",famous_quote +1184,"“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”",famous_quote +127,“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”,famous_quote +2065,"“Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. ""Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.""""Canoodle?"" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before.""Magnificent?"" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like ""Get out.”",famous_quote +1816,"“The moon is a loyal companion.It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”",famous_quote +1758,“Reading brings us unknown friends”,famous_quote +569,“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”,famous_quote +1346,“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”,famous_quote +1895,"“I am always saying ""Glad to've met you"" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”",famous_quote +625,“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”,famous_quote +1686,"“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”",famous_quote +154,“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”,famous_quote +1409,"“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”",famous_quote +784,"“Love conquers all,"" Aphrodite promised. ""Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?""""Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?""""Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.”",famous_quote +245,"“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”",famous_quote +1500,"“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”",famous_quote +1705,"“silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”",famous_quote +537,“Hearts are made to be broken.”,famous_quote +1890,“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”,famous_quote +1841,“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”,famous_quote +920,“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”,famous_quote +2455,"“Clary felt suddenly annoyed. ""When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?""""Exsanguinated,"" said Jace, impressed. ""That's a big word.""""And you're a big-""""Tsk tsk,"" he interupted. ""No swearing in church.”",famous_quote +524,“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”,famous_quote +1529,"“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”",famous_quote +35,“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”,famous_quote +684,“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”,famous_quote +19,“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”,famous_quote +2368,"“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”",famous_quote +399,"“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”",famous_quote +971,"“Why is it,"" he said, one time, at the subway entrance, ""I feel I've known you so many years?""""Because I like you,"" she said, ""and I don't want anything from you.”",famous_quote +1906,“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”,famous_quote +1166,“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”,famous_quote +1115,"“There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. ""Is this the moment?"" Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. ""OI! There's a war going on here!"" Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other. ""I know, mate,"" said Ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a Bludger, ""so it's now or never, isn't it?"" ""Never mind that, what about the Horcrux?"" Harry shouted. ""D'you think you could just --- just hold it in, until we've got the diadem?"" ""Yeah --- right --- sorry ---"" said Ron, and he and Hermione set about gathering up fangs, both pink in the face.”",famous_quote +833,"“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”",famous_quote +1823,"“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”",famous_quote +1982,“My rapier wit hides my inner pain.”,famous_quote +853,"“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”",famous_quote +50,“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”,famous_quote +574,"“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”",famous_quote +1148,“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”,famous_quote +2197,"“Gus: ""It tastes like...""Me: ""Food.""Gus: ""Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?""Me: ""It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table.""Gus: ""Nicely phrased.""Gus's father: ""Our children are weird.""My dad: ""Nicely phrased.”",famous_quote +2361,“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”,famous_quote +2352,"“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”",famous_quote +1715,“A house without books is like a room without windows.”,famous_quote +681,"“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”",famous_quote +837,"“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”",famous_quote +1077,"“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”",famous_quote +2491,"“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”",famous_quote +2311,“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”,famous_quote +1595,“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”,famous_quote +4,“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”,famous_quote +1126,"“The thing about growing up with Fred and George,"" said Ginny thoughtfully, ""is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”",famous_quote +1219,"“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”",famous_quote +773,"“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”",famous_quote +876,"“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”",famous_quote +991,“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”,famous_quote +46,"“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”",famous_quote +268,“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”,famous_quote +369,"“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”",famous_quote +635,"“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”",famous_quote +1129,“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”,famous_quote +1693,“My library is an archive of longings.”,famous_quote +1682,“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”,famous_quote +656,“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”,famous_quote +119,"“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”",famous_quote +830,“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”,famous_quote +1810,“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”,famous_quote +1081,"“Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.”",famous_quote +1974,“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”,famous_quote +1369,“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”,famous_quote +740,"“If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busyâ€� is another word for “asshole.â€� “Assholeâ€� is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.”",famous_quote +116,"“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”",famous_quote +1853,"“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”",famous_quote +1150,"“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”",famous_quote +1931,“The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.”,famous_quote +1012,"“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”",famous_quote +1664,"“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”",famous_quote +1081,"“Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.”",famous_quote +633,“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”,famous_quote +512,“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”,famous_quote +1119,“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”,famous_quote +1141,"“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”",famous_quote +559,"“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”",famous_quote +487,"“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”",famous_quote +896,"“Can I help you with something?""Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. ""Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you.""Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. ""Of course they are,"" he said, ""I am stunningly attractive.”",famous_quote +1212,"“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”",famous_quote +703,"“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”",famous_quote +1470,“love the life you live.live the life you love.”,famous_quote +580,"“I am a man"" he told her, ""and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.”",famous_quote +2294,"“Stop fighting me!"" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!â€� I yelled back.But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again.See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.I looked him in the eye. ""I will always love you.""Then I plunged the stake into his chest.It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one.""That’s what I was supposed to say. . .â€� he gasped out.Those were his last words.”",famous_quote +153,"“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”",famous_quote +1679,"“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”",famous_quote +996,"“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”",famous_quote +1243,"“Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.”",famous_quote +1092,"“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”",famous_quote +1008,“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”,famous_quote +2141,“Hope is a waking dream.”,famous_quote +1773,"“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.”",famous_quote +957,"“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”",famous_quote +452,"“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.""Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen��€” and the dreams that are answered.”",famous_quote +1227,“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”,famous_quote +2265,"“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”",famous_quote +2479,“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”,famous_quote +2388,“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”,famous_quote +550,"“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”",famous_quote +1635,"“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”",famous_quote +1312,"“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”",famous_quote +1757,“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”,famous_quote +356,"“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”",famous_quote +2070,"“You’re dangerous,â€� he says.“Why?â€�“Because you make me believe in the impossible”",famous_quote +1785,"“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”",famous_quote +1781,“No one has ever become poor by giving.”,famous_quote +2489,“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.”,famous_quote +1631,"“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”",famous_quote +1015,“Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”,famous_quote +1348,“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”,famous_quote +515,"“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”",famous_quote +335,"“Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""""Yes.""""You called her a liar?""""Yes.""""You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?""""Yes.""""Have a biscuit, Potter.”",famous_quote +1782,"“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, ""It might have been.”",famous_quote +2305,"“Seventeen, eh!"" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred.""Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?""""Vaguely,"" said Harry, grinning up at him. ""Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?""""I forge’ the details,"" Hagrid chortled.”",famous_quote +496,“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”,famous_quote +895,“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”,famous_quote +2207,“I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seenOf meadow flowers and butterfliesIn summers that have beenOf yellow leaves and gossamerIn autumns that there wereWith morning mist and silver sunAnd wind upon my hairI sit beside the fire and thinkOf how the world will beWhen winter comes without a spring That I shall ever seeFor still there are so many thingsThat I have never seenIn every wood in every springThere is a different greenI sit beside the fire and thinkOf people long agoAnd people that will see a worldThat I shall never knowBut all the while I sit and thinkOf times there were beforeI listen for returning feet And voices at the door”,famous_quote +851,"“He must have known I'd want to leave you.""""No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”",famous_quote +1687,"“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”",famous_quote +1931,“The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.”,famous_quote +2427,“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”,famous_quote +1568,“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”,famous_quote +956,"“What's this?"" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.""It's a girl,"" Jace said,recovering his composure. ""Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”",famous_quote +1636,"“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”",famous_quote +1291,“To say goodbye is to die a little.”,famous_quote +1440,“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”,famous_quote +1191,“I wantTo do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”,famous_quote +1066,“Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final”,famous_quote +284,“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”,famous_quote +2444,"“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”",famous_quote +11,"“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”",famous_quote +1630,"“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”",famous_quote +753,"“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”",famous_quote +2082,"“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”",famous_quote +89,“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”,famous_quote +775,"“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.â€�I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”",famous_quote +1625,"“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”",famous_quote +417,“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”,famous_quote +114,“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”,famous_quote +616,"“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”",famous_quote +825,"“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”",famous_quote +1649,"“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”",famous_quote +1516,"“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”",famous_quote +412,"“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”",famous_quote +728,"“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”",famous_quote +675,"“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”",famous_quote +1892,"“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”",famous_quote +2504,"“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”",famous_quote +2239,"“You’ll get over it…â€� It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘itâ€� is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”",famous_quote +1122,"“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”",famous_quote +1571,"“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”",famous_quote +977,"“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”",famous_quote +1008,“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”,famous_quote +2143,"“to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.”",famous_quote +1687,"“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”",famous_quote +36,"“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”",famous_quote +1548,"“So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?"" ""You could say that.""""Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.""""I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.”",famous_quote +2326,"“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”",famous_quote +2264,"“How long was I asleep?"" she whispered. He didn't respond. ""How long was I asleep?"" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks. ""You were asleep, too?"" ""Until you began drooling on my shoulder.”",famous_quote +872,“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”,famous_quote +1821,"“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?â€� I say.“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,â€� he says.“You should wake me,â€� I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,â€� he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”",famous_quote +1296,“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”,famous_quote +2109,"“I don't go out with strangers,"" I said.""Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.”",famous_quote +595,"“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”",famous_quote +1903,"“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”",famous_quote +728,"“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”",famous_quote +1365,"“Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”",famous_quote +396,"“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”",famous_quote +698,"“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”",famous_quote +2224,"“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”",famous_quote +1635,"“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”",famous_quote +395,"“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”",famous_quote +2492,"“All right,"" said Susan. ""I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.""REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.""Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—""YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.""So we can believe the big ones?""YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.""They're not the same at all!""YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.""Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—""MY POINT EXACTLY.”",famous_quote +75,“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”,famous_quote +264,"“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”",famous_quote +2502,"“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”",famous_quote +1819,"“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”",famous_quote +717,"“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”",famous_quote +850,“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”,famous_quote +1390,"“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”",famous_quote +143,“Reality continues to ruin my life.”,famous_quote +884,"“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”",famous_quote +395,"“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”",famous_quote +1492,"“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”",famous_quote +1167,"“Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”",famous_quote +1062,"“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”",famous_quote +2156,"“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”",famous_quote +1065,“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”,famous_quote +1209,“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”,famous_quote +2445,“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”,famous_quote +633,“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”,famous_quote +1156,"“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”",famous_quote +1238,“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”,famous_quote +732,"“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.”",famous_quote +234,“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”,famous_quote +750,"“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”",famous_quote +953,“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”,famous_quote +1542,“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”,famous_quote +1197,"“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”",famous_quote +1676,"“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”",famous_quote +1191,“I wantTo do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”,famous_quote +2217,"“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is achingâ€� than to say “My heart is broken.”",famous_quote +1416,“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”,famous_quote +1217,“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”,famous_quote +1540,"“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”",famous_quote +2076,“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”,famous_quote +1445,"“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”",famous_quote +2386,"“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”",famous_quote +1519,“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”,famous_quote +1388,“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”,famous_quote +1856,"“What do you want?""""Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”",famous_quote +1365,"“Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”",famous_quote +499,"“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”",famous_quote +1680,"“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”",famous_quote +510,“What's meant to be will always find a way”,famous_quote +216,“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”,famous_quote +1324,"“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”",famous_quote +1155,"“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”",famous_quote +1827,"“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”",famous_quote +1810,“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”,famous_quote +2492,"“All right,"" said Susan. ""I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.""REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.""Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—""YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.""So we can believe the big ones?""YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.""They're not the same at all!""YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.""Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—""MY POINT EXACTLY.”",famous_quote +1205,"“And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,""You owe Me.""Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.”",famous_quote +2214,"“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”",famous_quote +90,"“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”",famous_quote +713,"“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”",famous_quote +1881,"“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”",famous_quote +38,"“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”",famous_quote +172,“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”,famous_quote +652,“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”,famous_quote +753,"“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”",famous_quote +1243,"“Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.”",famous_quote +1081,"“Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.”",famous_quote +1683,“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”,famous_quote +455,“Never laugh at live dragons.”,famous_quote +828,“None but ourselves can free our minds.”,famous_quote +894,"“Begin at the beginning,"" the King said, very gravely, ""and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”",famous_quote +1384,"“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”",famous_quote +1958,"“Did you see that dress?â€� ""I saw the dress.â€� ""Did you like it?â€� He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. ""Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?â€� When he spoke, I could barely hear him. ""You'll endanger the school.â€� I smiled and fell asleep.”",famous_quote +2434,"“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”",famous_quote +1996,"“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”",famous_quote +2395,"“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: ""It's gonna go wrong."" Or ""She's going to hurt me."" Or,""I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ."" Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”",famous_quote +189,"“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”",famous_quote +504,“Always do what you are afraid to do.”,famous_quote +1214,"“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”",famous_quote +1531,“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”,famous_quote +823,"“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”",famous_quote +928,“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”,famous_quote +933,“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”,famous_quote +1140,"“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”",famous_quote +133,"“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”",famous_quote +2105,"“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”",famous_quote +684,“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”,famous_quote +2220,“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”,famous_quote +1852,"“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.”",famous_quote +814,“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”,famous_quote +1172,"“I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you,"" he said, ""and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew.”",famous_quote +79,“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”,famous_quote +202,“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”,famous_quote +1252,“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”,famous_quote +1699,"“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”",famous_quote +1250,"“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”",famous_quote +1682,“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”,famous_quote +1555,"“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”",famous_quote +2094,“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”,famous_quote +1256,"“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”",famous_quote +1549,“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”,famous_quote +1166,“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”,famous_quote +1396,"“The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.""""It was probably important to her.”",famous_quote +470,"“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”",famous_quote +1035,“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”,famous_quote +1353,"“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-""God damn it, you've got to be kind.”",famous_quote +967,"“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”",famous_quote +357,"“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”",famous_quote +667,“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”,famous_quote +372,“Where there is love there is life.”,famous_quote +1031,"“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were ""I go to seek a Great Perhaps."" That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”",famous_quote +1145,"“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.”",famous_quote +1371,"“One can never have enough socks,"" said Dumbledore. ""Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”",famous_quote +89,“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”,famous_quote +539,"“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”",famous_quote +868,"“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”",famous_quote +40,"“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”",famous_quote +739,“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”,famous_quote +1946,"“1. Be Impeccable With Your WordSpeak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2. Don't Take Anything PersonallyNothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. 3. Don't Make AssumptionsFind the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. 4. Always Do Your BestYour best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”",famous_quote +1224,"“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”",famous_quote +928,“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”,famous_quote +2036,"“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”",famous_quote +924,"“Mom says it's because she has PMS.Do you even know what that means?""I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome”",famous_quote +1581,"“I meant,"" said Ipslore bitterly, ""what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?""Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”",famous_quote +389,"“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”",famous_quote +1617,"“People have forgotten this truth,"" the fox said. ""But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”",famous_quote +255,"“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”",famous_quote +708,“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”,famous_quote +1838,“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”,famous_quote +1944,“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”,famous_quote +2497,“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”,famous_quote +9,“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”,famous_quote +797,"“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”",famous_quote +876,"“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”",famous_quote +1028,"“You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rainare moving across the landscapes,over the prairies and the deep trees,the mountains and the rivers.Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,are heading home again.Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,the world offers itself to your imagination,calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –over and over announcing your placein the family of things.”",famous_quote +1015,“Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”,famous_quote +1824,“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”,famous_quote +373,"“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”",famous_quote +2193,"“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more”",famous_quote +223,"“When adults say, ""Teenagers think they are invincible"" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”",famous_quote +1262,"“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”",famous_quote +2224,"“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”",famous_quote +1802,"“What day is it?â€� asked Pooh. “It’s today,â€� squeaked Piglet.“My favorite day,â€� said Pooh.”",famous_quote +852,"“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”",famous_quote +62,“,famous_quote +1240,“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”,famous_quote +688,“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”,famous_quote +1484,"“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”",famous_quote +1633,"“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”",famous_quote +2152,"“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”",famous_quote +510,“What's meant to be will always find a way”,famous_quote +384,“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”,famous_quote +404,"“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”",famous_quote +517,“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”,famous_quote +475,"“Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?"" asked Jace.""It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.""""As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome,"" said Simon.""I knew we should have left you a rat.”",famous_quote +2000,"“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”",famous_quote +1668,"“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”",famous_quote +1893,"“Ginny!"" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. ""Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?”",famous_quote +1460,"“Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”",famous_quote +713,"“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”",famous_quote +82,“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”,famous_quote +1168,"“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”",famous_quote +2504,"“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”",famous_quote +1901,“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”,famous_quote +2048,"“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!”",famous_quote +50,“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”,famous_quote +684,“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”,famous_quote +716,“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”,famous_quote +1469,"“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”",famous_quote +448,"“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”",famous_quote +880,"“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”",famous_quote +487,"“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”",famous_quote +1823,"“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”",famous_quote +2081,"“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”",famous_quote +2142,"“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”",famous_quote +1574,"“I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.”",famous_quote +2201,"“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”",famous_quote +249,“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”,famous_quote +673,“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”,famous_quote +437,"“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”",famous_quote +2165,"“Always be a poet, even in prose.”",famous_quote +770,"“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”",famous_quote +267,"“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”",famous_quote +1984,“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”,famous_quote +1077,"“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”",famous_quote +235,“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”,famous_quote +388,“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”,famous_quote +762,"“You haven't got a letter on yours,"" George observed. ""I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”",famous_quote +1848,“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”,famous_quote +2448,“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”,famous_quote +623,“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”,famous_quote +1252,“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”,famous_quote +577,"“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”",famous_quote +2122,“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”,famous_quote +434,"“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”",famous_quote +2150,“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”,famous_quote +763,"“Will looked horrified. ""What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”",famous_quote +1329,"“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”",famous_quote +2145,"“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of ""parties"" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”",famous_quote +1358,“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”,famous_quote +2482,"“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”",famous_quote +446,"“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”",famous_quote +2017,"“
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”",famous_quote +1331,"“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”",famous_quote +248,“Do you hate people?â€�â€��I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”,famous_quote +165,"“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”",famous_quote +1358,“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”,famous_quote +1019,"“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”",famous_quote +541,“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”,famous_quote +758,"“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”",famous_quote +2128,"“Can you surf really well, then?""I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.""Jeez, Nico,"" I said. ""I've never really tried.""He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)”",famous_quote +2180,"“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”",famous_quote +796,“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”,famous_quote +137,“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”,famous_quote +2231,“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”,famous_quote +1353,"“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-""God damn it, you've got to be kind.”",famous_quote +1875,"“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”",famous_quote +68,"“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”",famous_quote +2100,"“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”",famous_quote +1473,“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”,famous_quote +204,“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”,famous_quote +2173,“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”,famous_quote +42,"“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”",famous_quote +1906,“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”,famous_quote +2158,"“If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""""Who's Magnus?"" Max inquired.""He's a warlock,"" said Alec.""A sexy, sexy warlock,"" Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury.""But warlocks are bad,"" protested Max, looking baffled.""Exactly,"" said Isabelle.”",famous_quote +760,"“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”",famous_quote +2142,"“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”",famous_quote +1994,“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”,famous_quote +1935,"“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.”",famous_quote +899,"“Finnick?"" I say, ""Maybe some pants?""He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. ""Why? Do you find this"" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- ""distracting?""I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell”",famous_quote +359,"“Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.""""Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay,"" Clary muttered.""Selling them on what?""Clary smiled blandly at him. ""A mythical place of great magical power.”",famous_quote +1719,“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.��,famous_quote +280,"“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”",famous_quote +1887,"“When I was your age, television was called books.”",famous_quote +666,“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”,famous_quote +92,“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”,famous_quote +671,"“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”",famous_quote +1969,"“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”",famous_quote +60,"“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”",famous_quote +1028,"“You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rainare moving across the landscapes,over the prairies and the deep trees,the mountains and the rivers.Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,are heading home again.Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,the world offers itself to your imagination,calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –over and over announcing your placein the family of things.”",famous_quote +1489,"“He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...”",famous_quote +603,"“Not my daughter, you bitch!”",famous_quote +681,"“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”",famous_quote +1428,"“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”",famous_quote +2280,"“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”",famous_quote +523,"“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”",famous_quote +2393,"“If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Momâ€�, she’s gonna call me “Point B.â€� Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she can say “Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.â€�She’s gonna learn that this life will hit you, hard, in the face, wait for you to get back up so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. There is hurt, here, that cannot be fixed by band-aids or poetry, so the first time she realizes that Wonder-woman isn’t coming, I’ll make sure she knows she doesn’t have to wear the cape all by herself. Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.And “Baby,â€� I’ll tell her “don’t keep your nose up in the air like that, I know that trick, you’re just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else, find the boy who lit the fire in the first place to see if you can change him.â€�But I know that she will anyway, so instead I’ll always keep an extra supply of chocolate and rain boats nearby, ‘cause there is no heartbreak that chocolate can’t fix. Okay, there’s a few heartbreaks chocolate can’t fix. But that’s what the rain boots are for, because rain will wash away everything if you let it.I want her to see the world through the underside of a glass bottom boat, to look through a magnifying glass at the galaxies that exist on the pin point of a human mind. Because that’s how my mom taught me. That there’ll be days like this, “There’ll be days like this my momma saidâ€� when you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you wanna save are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain and you’ll be up to your knees in disappointment and those are the very days you have all the more reason to say “thank you,â€� ‘cause there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it’s sent away.You will put the “windâ€� in win some lose some, you will put the “starâ€� in starting over and over, and no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life.And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting I am pretty damn naive but I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.“Baby,â€� I’ll tell her “remember your mama is a worrier but your papa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more.â€�Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you’ve done something wrong but don’t you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.Your voice is small but don’t ever stop singing and when they finally hand you heartbreak, slip hatred and war under your doorstep and hand you hand-outs on street corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.”",famous_quote +1968,“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”,famous_quote +1101,"“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”",famous_quote +1753,"“You'd think people had better things to gossip about,"" said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry’s legs and reading the Daily Prophet. ""Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it’s true you’ve got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest.""Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them.What did you tell her?""I told her it's a Hungarian Horntail,"" said Ginny, turning a page of the newspaper idly. ""Much more macho.""Thanks,"" said Harry, grinning. ""And what did you tell her Ron’s got?""A Pygmy Puff, but I didn’t say where.”",famous_quote +1836,"“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”",famous_quote +2296,“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”,famous_quote +2094,“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”,famous_quote +1144,"“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”",famous_quote +2261,“The course of true love never did run smooth.”,famous_quote +2286,"“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”",famous_quote +1079,"“Ah,â€� said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,â€� said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.”",famous_quote +2397,"“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”",famous_quote +106,"“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”",famous_quote +47,"“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”",famous_quote +336,"“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”",famous_quote +1049,"“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”",famous_quote +1280,"“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”",famous_quote +2055,“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”,famous_quote +624,“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”,famous_quote +1890,“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”,famous_quote +1276,“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”,famous_quote +1715,“A house without books is like a room without windows.”,famous_quote +302,"“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”",famous_quote +638,"“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”",famous_quote +55,“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”,famous_quote +725,"“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”",famous_quote +525,"“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”",famous_quote +473,“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”,famous_quote +27,“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”,famous_quote +2125,"“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”",famous_quote +364,“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”,famous_quote +525,"“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”",famous_quote +1335,"“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”",famous_quote +882,"“Why are they all staring?"" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.""Don’t let it worry you,"" said Ron. ""It’s me. I’m extremely famous.”",famous_quote +1030,“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”,famous_quote +1026,"“Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twiceI think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.”",famous_quote +1646,"“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”",famous_quote +918,"“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”",famous_quote +2410,"“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”",famous_quote +1774,"“In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.”",famous_quote +1531,“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”,famous_quote +1906,“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”,famous_quote +1215,“The first draft of anything is shit.”,famous_quote +1654,"“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”",famous_quote +484,“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”,famous_quote +2075,"“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”",famous_quote +713,"“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”",famous_quote +1062,"“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”",famous_quote +1976,"“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”",famous_quote +1296,“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”,famous_quote +1254,"“To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”",famous_quote +2133,"“...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”",famous_quote +125,"“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”",famous_quote +536,"“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”",famous_quote +2192,“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”,famous_quote +2072,“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”,famous_quote +1603,“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”,famous_quote +66,“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”,famous_quote +232,“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”,famous_quote +2156,"“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”",famous_quote +1169,"“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC”",famous_quote +2158,"“If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""""Who's Magnus?"" Max inquired.""He's a warlock,"" said Alec.""A sexy, sexy warlock,"" Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury.""But warlocks are bad,"" protested Max, looking baffled.""Exactly,"" said Isabelle.”",famous_quote +2275,"“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”",famous_quote +110,“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”,famous_quote +1493,"“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”",famous_quote +2081,"“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”",famous_quote +622,"“You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?""""A long one?”",famous_quote +2472,"“Hello, Harry"" said George, beaming at him. ""We thought we heard your dulcet tones.""""You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out,"" said Fred, also beaming. ""There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.”",famous_quote +1541,“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”,famous_quote +1305,"“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.”",famous_quote +1761,"“You're an idiot.""""I've never claimed to be otherwise.”",famous_quote +1975,"“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”",famous_quote +2362,“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”,famous_quote +876,"“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”",famous_quote +1989,“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”,famous_quote +1312,"“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”",famous_quote +1460,"“Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”",famous_quote +2324,“The mountains are calling and I must go.”,famous_quote +1733,"“You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you."" Jace's eyebrows went up. ""Hotter than me?"" ""It could happen,"" Clary said, ""You know, theoretically.""""Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things,"" Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, ""are just too unlikely to dwell upon.”",famous_quote +1605,“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”,famous_quote +1526,"“Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”",famous_quote +2397,"“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”",famous_quote +1630,"“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”",famous_quote +1160,"“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”",famous_quote +758,"“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”",famous_quote +242,"“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”",famous_quote +1063,"“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)”",famous_quote +228,“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”,famous_quote +919,"“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”",famous_quote +1246,“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”,famous_quote +5,"“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”",famous_quote +467,"“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”",famous_quote +1755,“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”,famous_quote +74,"“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”",famous_quote +3,"“So many books, so little time.”",famous_quote +1870,"“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”",famous_quote +645,"“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”",famous_quote +117,"“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”",famous_quote +1629,“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”,famous_quote +2021,"“Trains are great dirty smoky things,"" said Will. ""You won't like it."" Tessa was unmoved. ""I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?"" ""I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it."" ""But think how entertaining for sightseers,"" said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.”",famous_quote +946,“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”,famous_quote +1464,“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”,famous_quote +193,"“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”",famous_quote +846,“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”,famous_quote +1415,“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”,famous_quote +1458,"“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”",famous_quote +2220,“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”,famous_quote +1668,"“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”",famous_quote +2373,"“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”",famous_quote +1433,"“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”",famous_quote +1141,"“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”",famous_quote +1810,“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”,famous_quote +723,“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”,famous_quote +224,"“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”",famous_quote +531,"“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”",famous_quote +112,"“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”",famous_quote +2187,“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”,famous_quote +558,"“Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,"" said Jace. ""I’d rather stay down here and rot.""""Forever?"" said Simon. ""Forever’s an awfully long time.""Jace raised his eyebrows. ""I knew it,"" he said. ""You want to kiss me, don’t you?”",famous_quote +2048,"“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!”",famous_quote +2137,"“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”",famous_quote +653,“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”,famous_quote +319,"“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”",famous_quote +1573,“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”,famous_quote +1828,“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”,famous_quote +1917,"“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”",famous_quote +138,"“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”",famous_quote +2026,"“An Unbreakable Vow?"" said Ron, looking stunned. ""Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?""""Yes I’m sure,"" said Harry. ""Why, what does it mean?""""Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow...""""I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.”",famous_quote +2306,“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”,famous_quote +901,"“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”",famous_quote +689,"“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”",famous_quote +2039,"“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”",famous_quote +9,“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”,famous_quote +260,"“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”",famous_quote +1942,“You are not rich until you have a rich heart.”,famous_quote +1673,“Let our scars fall in love.”,famous_quote +2219,“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”,famous_quote +2060,"“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”",famous_quote +1191,“I wantTo do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”,famous_quote +1619,"“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”",famous_quote +320,"“If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”",famous_quote +1342,“Happiness [is] only real when shared”,famous_quote +1636,"“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”",famous_quote +2376,“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”,famous_quote +1994,“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”,famous_quote +1943,“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”,famous_quote +2038,"“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”",famous_quote +1118,"“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”",famous_quote +1604,"“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”",famous_quote +2365,“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”,famous_quote +235,“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”,famous_quote +1969,"“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”",famous_quote +333,“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”,famous_quote +1908,"“Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. ""You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?”",famous_quote +375,"“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”",famous_quote +1160,"“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”",famous_quote +1570,"“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...”",famous_quote +1319,"“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”",famous_quote +1855,"“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”",famous_quote +1372,"“I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. ""You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”",famous_quote +872,“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”,famous_quote +1252,“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”,famous_quote +2317,“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”,famous_quote +1851,"“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”",famous_quote +1314,"“So you're always honest,"" I said.""Aren't you?""""No,"" I told him. ""I'm not.""""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""""I'm not saying I'm a liar,"" I told him. He raised his eyebrows. ""That's not how I meant it, anyways.""""How'd you mean it, then?""""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""""Why not?""""Because the truth sometimes hurts,"" I said.""Yeah,"" he said. ""So do lies, though.”",famous_quote +724,"“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”",famous_quote +2052,"“Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.”",famous_quote +77,“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”,famous_quote +131,"“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”",famous_quote +600,"“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”",famous_quote +1772,"“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”",famous_quote +1065,“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”,famous_quote +2136,"“The things you used to own, now they own you.”",famous_quote +2449,“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”,famous_quote +2343,“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”,famous_quote +1863,“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”,famous_quote +1318,"“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”",famous_quote +615,"“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”",famous_quote +2469,"“Demons run when a good man goes to warNight will fall and drown the sunWhen a good man goes to warFriendship dies and true love liesNight will fall and the dark will riseWhen a good man goes to warDemons run, but count the costThe battle's won, but the child is lost”",famous_quote +1888,"“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”",famous_quote +1046,"“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”",famous_quote +574,"“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”",famous_quote +2190,“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”,famous_quote +992,"“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”",famous_quote +2192,“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”,famous_quote +1248,“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”,famous_quote +502,“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”,famous_quote +1997,"“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”",famous_quote +820,"“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”",famous_quote +2151,"“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”",famous_quote +1970,“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”,famous_quote +197,"“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”",famous_quote +1669,“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”,famous_quote +2438,"“My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.”",famous_quote +1202,"“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”",famous_quote +1471,“Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”,famous_quote +1646,"“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”",famous_quote +1692,"“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”",famous_quote +1312,"“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”",famous_quote +2035,"“Patience, grasshopper,"" said Maia. ""Good things come to those who wait.""""I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'"" said Simon. ""No wonder I've been so confused all my life.”",famous_quote +477,“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”,famous_quote +1254,"“To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”",famous_quote +922,"“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”",famous_quote +419,“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”,famous_quote +2204,"“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”",famous_quote +1120,“Forever is composed of nows.”,famous_quote +950,“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”,famous_quote +2336,“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”,famous_quote +1277,"“Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. ""That's us,"" he said. ""Those five nuts right there."" ""Which one is me?"" I asked. ""The little deformed one,"" Zoe suggested. ""Oh, shut up.”",famous_quote +2243,“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach”,famous_quote +1857,“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”,famous_quote +516,"“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”",famous_quote +1658,"“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”",famous_quote +1865,"“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”",famous_quote +1141,"“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”",famous_quote +1932,“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”,famous_quote +814,“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”,famous_quote +2275,"“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”",famous_quote +1900,"“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”",famous_quote +2263,“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”,famous_quote +2062,"“Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!”",famous_quote +2094,“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”,famous_quote +2371,“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”,famous_quote +129,"“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”",famous_quote +94,"“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”",famous_quote +1955,“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”,famous_quote +793,"“Don't order any of the faerie food,"" said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. ""It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,"" he added hastily, ""that this has ever happened to me.”",famous_quote +1834,"“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”",famous_quote +2116,“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”,famous_quote +1683,“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”,famous_quote +10,“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”,famous_quote +1865,"“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”",famous_quote +711,“Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.”,famous_quote +2070,"“You’re dangerous,â€� he says.“Why?â€�“Because you make me believe in the impossible”",famous_quote +814,“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”,famous_quote +345,"“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone....We leave you a tradition with a future.The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.Never throw out anybody.Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Your “good old daysâ€� are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”",famous_quote +2349,"“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”",famous_quote +362,"“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”",famous_quote +2443,"“Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,â€� he said softly. “When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?â€�“That you seem to be dating my dad?â€� Jace shrugged. ""You’re a little young for him, to be honest.â€�“What?â€� For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.”",famous_quote +2265,"“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”",famous_quote +2188,"“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”",famous_quote +984,“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”,famous_quote +1639,"“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”",famous_quote +827,“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”,famous_quote +355,“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”,famous_quote +1347,“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”,famous_quote +1863,“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”,famous_quote +126,"“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”",famous_quote +603,"“Not my daughter, you bitch!”",famous_quote +1928,“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”,famous_quote +1013,"“How do you feel, Georgie?"" whispered Mrs. Weasley.George's fingers groped for the side of his head.""Saintlike,"" he murmured.""What's wrong with him?"" croaked Fred, looking terrified. ""Is his mind affected?""""Saintlike,"" repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. ""You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?”",famous_quote +50,“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”,famous_quote +1430,“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”,famous_quote +1792,“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”,famous_quote +1636,"“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”",famous_quote +1645,"“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”",famous_quote +2467,“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”,famous_quote +1205,"“And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,""You owe Me.""Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.”",famous_quote +1854,"“Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets.Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.”",famous_quote +566,"“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”",famous_quote +2418,"“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. I will love you as a battlefield loves young men and as peppermints love your allergies, and I will love you as the banana peel loves the shoe of a man who was just struck by a shingle falling off a house. I will love you as a volunteer fire department loves rushing into burning buildings and as burning buildings love to chase them back out, and as a parachute loves to leave a blimp and as a blimp operator loves to chase after it.I will love you as a dagger loves a certain person’s back, and as a certain person loves to wear dagger proof tunics, and as a dagger proof tunic loves to go to a certain dry cleaning facility, and how a certain employee of a dry cleaning facility loves to stay up late with a pair of binoculars, watching a dagger factory for hours in the hopes of catching a burglar, and as a burglar loves sneaking up behind people with binoculars, suddenly realizing that she has left her dagger at home. I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, and as a secret loves to make a person gasp, and as a gasping person loves a glass of brandy to calm their nerves, and as a glass of brandy loves to shatter on the floor, and as the noise of glass shattering loves to make someone else gasp, and as someone else gasping loves a nearby desk to lean against, even if leaning against it presses a lever that loves to open a drawer and reveal a secret compartment. I will love you until all such compartments are discovered and opened, and until all the secrets have gone gasping into the world. I will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled.I will love you until every fire is extinguised and until every home is rebuilt from the handsomest and most susceptible of woods, and until every criminal is handcuffed by the laziest of policemen. I will love until M. hates snakes and J. hates grammar, and I will love you until C. realizes S. is not worthy of his love and N. realizes he is not worthy of the V. I will love you until the bird hates a nest and the worm hates an apple, and until the apple hates a tree and the tree hates a nest, and until a bird hates a tree and an apple hates a nest, although honestly I cannot imagine that last occurrence no matter how hard I try. I will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before that, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar mark the passage of time, except for the clocks that people have forgotten to wind and the calendars that people have forgotten to place in a highly visible area. I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where we once we were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively.I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory, and your memory faced by distant fog, and your fog memorized by a distant face, and your distance distanced by the memorized memory of a foggy fog. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, no matter where you avoid and who you don’t see, and no matter who sees you avoiding where you go. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this, and now matter how I am discovered after what happens to me as I am discovering this.”",famous_quote +935,"“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”",famous_quote +1934,"“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”",famous_quote +1332,“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”,famous_quote +201,"“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”",famous_quote +2360,"“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”",famous_quote +116,"“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”",famous_quote +936,“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.”,famous_quote +574,"“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”",famous_quote +2291,“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”,famous_quote +536,"“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”",famous_quote +1625,"“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”",famous_quote +2122,“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”,famous_quote +385,"“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”",famous_quote +474,"“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”",famous_quote +417,“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”,famous_quote +2394,"“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”",famous_quote +938,"“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”",famous_quote +954,“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”,famous_quote +875,"“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”",famous_quote +762,"“You haven't got a letter on yours,"" George observed. ""I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”",famous_quote +1202,"“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”",famous_quote +1205,"“And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,""You owe Me.""Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.”",famous_quote +663,“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”,famous_quote +24,"“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”",famous_quote +1990,"“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.”",famous_quote +1203,"“Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. ""I can't believe you did it!"" she exclaimed. ""How did you get Magnus to let Jace leave?""""Traded him for Alec,"" Clary said.Isabelle looked mildly alarmed. ""Not permanently?""""No,"" said Jace. ""Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back,"" he added thoughtfully. ""In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy.""Isabelle looked dubious. ""Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out.""""That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?"" Simon inquired. ""No, probably not.”",famous_quote +709,"“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”",famous_quote +1879,"“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”",famous_quote +1184,"“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”",famous_quote +2224,"“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”",famous_quote +284,“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”,famous_quote +62,“,famous_quote +1002,"“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”",famous_quote +661,"���Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”",famous_quote +2203,“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”,famous_quote +1492,"“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”",famous_quote +966,“Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”,famous_quote +848,“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”,famous_quote +1107,"“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”",famous_quote +688,“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”,famous_quote +147,“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”,famous_quote +341,"“You are, and always have been, my dream.”",famous_quote +1086,"“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”",famous_quote +1724,"“It's not gray,"" Clary felt compelled to point out. ""It's green.""""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood,"" said Jace.”",famous_quote +1383,"“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”",famous_quote +326,“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”,famous_quote +1792,“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”,famous_quote +1759,"“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”",famous_quote +989,“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”,famous_quote +2262,“The best way out is always through.”,famous_quote +2482,"“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”",famous_quote +951,"“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”",famous_quote +722,“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”,famous_quote +2079,“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”,famous_quote +2332,“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”,famous_quote +428,"“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”",famous_quote +1500,"“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”",famous_quote +285,“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”,famous_quote +2065,"“Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. ""Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.""""Canoodle?"" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before.""Magnificent?"" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like ""Get out.”",famous_quote +768,"“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”",famous_quote +1394,"“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”",famous_quote +193,"“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”",famous_quote +987,"“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”",famous_quote +1136,“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”,famous_quote +2161,"“I 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.”",famous_quote +1701,"“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”",famous_quote +946,“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”,famous_quote +830,“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”,famous_quote +1920,“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”,famous_quote +54,"“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”",famous_quote +799,"“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”",famous_quote +777,"“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”",famous_quote +1481,“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”,famous_quote +1901,“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”,famous_quote +2209,"“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”",famous_quote +2134,“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”,famous_quote +54,"“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”",famous_quote +1823,"“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”",famous_quote +1201,"“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”",famous_quote +832,“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”,famous_quote +312,“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”,famous_quote +1858,“Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”,famous_quote +2007,“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”,famous_quote +2006,"“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”",famous_quote +2490,"“if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”",famous_quote +1790,"“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”",famous_quote +327,“Peace begins with a smile..”,famous_quote +1287,"“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”",famous_quote +2143,"“to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.”",famous_quote +1111,“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”,famous_quote +1311,"“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”",famous_quote +451,"“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”",famous_quote +1523,"“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”",famous_quote +164,"“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;Who has left the world better than he found it,Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;Whose life was an inspiration;Whose memory a benediction.”",famous_quote +181,“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”,famous_quote +909,“We live for books.”,famous_quote +822,"“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”",famous_quote +943,"“Investigation?"" Isabelle laughed. ""Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""""Good idea,"" said Jace. ""I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”",famous_quote +2001,"“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”",famous_quote +2054,"“It's going to be all right, sir,"" Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. ""We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ...""""I am not worried, Harry,"" said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. ""I am with you.”",famous_quote +329,"“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”",famous_quote +774,“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”,famous_quote +2198,"“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”",famous_quote +146,“Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean!”,famous_quote +914,“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”,famous_quote +1571,"“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”",famous_quote +1308,"“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”",famous_quote +81,"“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”",famous_quote +513,“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”,famous_quote +1920,“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”,famous_quote +1939,"“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”",famous_quote +745,"“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”",famous_quote +1409,"“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”",famous_quote +706,"“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”",famous_quote +470,"“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”",famous_quote +395,"“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”",famous_quote +1555,"“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”",famous_quote +2308,"“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”",famous_quote +804,“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”,famous_quote +933,“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”,famous_quote +1279,"“Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”",famous_quote +1757,“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”,famous_quote +904,"“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”",famous_quote +1076,"“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”",famous_quote +1890,“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”,famous_quote +1523,"“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”",famous_quote +1387,“All great and precious things are lonely.”,famous_quote +1303,“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”,famous_quote +592,"“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”",famous_quote +2106,"“Even After All this timeThe Sun never says to the Earth,""You owe me.""LookWhat happensWith a love like that,It lights the whole sky.”",famous_quote +127,“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”,famous_quote +735,“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”,famous_quote +520,"“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”",famous_quote +236,"“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”",famous_quote +1304,"“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”",famous_quote +1781,“No one has ever become poor by giving.”,famous_quote +1301,"“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”",famous_quote +2051,"“What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it.”",famous_quote +441,“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”,famous_quote +2076,“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”,famous_quote +804,“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”,famous_quote +74,"“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”",famous_quote +2175,“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”,famous_quote +2089,"“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”",famous_quote +1379,“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”,famous_quote +40,"“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”",famous_quote +2081,"“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”",famous_quote +1700,“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”,famous_quote +1401,"“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”",famous_quote +587,"“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”",famous_quote +1622,“I like good strong words that mean something…”,famous_quote +341,"“You are, and always have been, my dream.”",famous_quote +2074,"“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”",famous_quote +645,"“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”",famous_quote +730,“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”,famous_quote +167,“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”,famous_quote +609,“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”,famous_quote +2315,"“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ""I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,"" that person cannot say, ""I choose otherwise.”",famous_quote +1772,"“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”",famous_quote +2040,"“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”",famous_quote +454,“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”,famous_quote +1708,“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”,famous_quote +701,"“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”",famous_quote +1599,"“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”",famous_quote +129,"“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”",famous_quote +1845,"“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”",famous_quote +1386,“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”,famous_quote +692,"“What happens when people open their hearts?""""They get better.”",famous_quote +1394,"“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”",famous_quote +793,"“Don't order any of the faerie food,"" said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. ""It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,"" he added hastily, ""that this has ever happened to me.”",famous_quote +28,“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”,famous_quote +148,"“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”",famous_quote +1319,"“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”",famous_quote +2058,"“Alec looked at her and shook his head. ""How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?""Isabelle shrugged philosophically. ""I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”",famous_quote +1136,“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”,famous_quote +186,“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”,famous_quote +1250,"“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”",famous_quote +1333,"“How do you spell 'love'?"" - Piglet""You don't spell it...you feel it."" - Pooh”",famous_quote +97,"“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”",famous_quote +54,"“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”",famous_quote +757,"“What is an ""instant"" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”",famous_quote +405,"“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”",famous_quote +2116,“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”,famous_quote +1312,"“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”",famous_quote +1785,"“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”",famous_quote +750,"“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”",famous_quote +1762,"“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”",famous_quote +364,“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”,famous_quote +2026,"“An Unbreakable Vow?"" said Ron, looking stunned. ""Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?""""Yes I’m sure,"" said Harry. ""Why, what does it mean?""""Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow...""""I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.”",famous_quote +481,“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”,famous_quote +2248,"“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”",famous_quote +153,"“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”",famous_quote +1524,"“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”",famous_quote +2120,"“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”",famous_quote +2343,“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”,famous_quote +1040,"“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”",famous_quote +1664,"“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”",famous_quote +1240,“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”,famous_quote +60,"“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”",famous_quote +938,"“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”",famous_quote +1639,"“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”",famous_quote +2089,"“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”",famous_quote +24,"“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”",famous_quote +1062,"“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”",famous_quote +130,"“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”",famous_quote +1252,“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”,famous_quote +107,"“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”",famous_quote +171,“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”,famous_quote +1458,"“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”",famous_quote +101,"“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”",famous_quote +2322,"“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”",famous_quote +1636,"“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”",famous_quote +1040,"“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”",famous_quote +329,"“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”",famous_quote +1520,"“Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”",famous_quote +11,"“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”",famous_quote +1341,"“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”",famous_quote +215,"“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”",famous_quote +338,"“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”",famous_quote +1799,“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”,famous_quote +1750,“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”,famous_quote +1508,“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”,famous_quote +2421,"“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”",famous_quote +709,"“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”",famous_quote +1223,"“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”",famous_quote +1112,“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”,famous_quote +1291,“To say goodbye is to die a little.”,famous_quote +488,“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”,famous_quote +1561,“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”,famous_quote +46,"“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”",famous_quote +777,"“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”",famous_quote +1039,"“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”",famous_quote +710,“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”,famous_quote +400,"“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”",famous_quote +1817,"“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”",famous_quote +249,“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”,famous_quote +390,"“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named ""Bush"", ""Dick"", and ""Colin."" Need I say more?”",famous_quote +334,"“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”",famous_quote +628,"“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”",famous_quote +136,“Do one thing every day that scares you.”,famous_quote +1521,"“If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.”",famous_quote +826,"“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”",famous_quote +726,"“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”",famous_quote +1500,"“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”",famous_quote +989,“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”,famous_quote +2419,"“This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure.”",famous_quote +934,“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”,famous_quote +401,“Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;Doubt truth to be a liar;But never doubt I love.”,famous_quote +1466,"“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”",famous_quote +614,“The unexamined life is not worth living.”,famous_quote +1296,“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”,famous_quote +1182,“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”,famous_quote +2235,"“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”",famous_quote +1121,"“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”",famous_quote +130,"“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”",famous_quote +1194,"“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”",famous_quote +182,"“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”",famous_quote +363,"“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.”",famous_quote +38,"“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”",famous_quote +1372,"“I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. ""You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”",famous_quote +920,“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”,famous_quote +15,“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”,famous_quote +492,“I am not young enough to know everything.”,famous_quote +1449,“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”,famous_quote +1131,"“Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”",famous_quote +310,“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”,famous_quote +738,"“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”",famous_quote +545,"“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”",famous_quote +2461,“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”,famous_quote +250,“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”,famous_quote +758,"“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”",famous_quote +1804,"“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”",famous_quote +1297,"“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”",famous_quote +1631,"“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”",famous_quote +1914,"“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.”",famous_quote +813,“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”,famous_quote +28,“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”,famous_quote +957,"“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”",famous_quote +2032,"“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”",famous_quote +476,"“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”",famous_quote +317,“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”,famous_quote +244,“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”,famous_quote +747,“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”,famous_quote +696,"“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”",famous_quote +271,“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”,famous_quote +1771,“May the odds be ever in your favor!”,famous_quote +1262,"“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”",famous_quote +2424,"“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”",famous_quote +265,"“I don't want to be a man,"" said Jace. ""I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.""""Well,"" said Luke, ""you're doing a fantastic job.”",famous_quote +920,“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”,famous_quote +339,"“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”",famous_quote +388,“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”,famous_quote +2050,“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”,famous_quote +1165,“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”,famous_quote +375,"“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”",famous_quote +2033,"“Atticus, he was real nice.""""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”",famous_quote +2371,“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”,famous_quote +145,"“There is no pretending,"" Jace said with absolute clarity. ""I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”",famous_quote +1981,"“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”",famous_quote +292,"“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”",famous_quote +431,"“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”",famous_quote +704,"“If you are going through hell, keep going.”",famous_quote +1998,“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”,famous_quote +398,“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”,famous_quote +963,"“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”",famous_quote +2234,“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”,famous_quote +2041,“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”,famous_quote +1828,“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”,famous_quote +2108,“You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face”,famous_quote +938,"“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”",famous_quote +709,"“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”",famous_quote +806,"“I have something I need to tell you,"" he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. ""I might be in love with you."" He smiles a little. ""I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.""""That's sensible of you,"" I say, smiling too. ""We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something.""I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear.""Maybe I'm already sure,"" he says, ""and I just don't want to frighten you.""I laugh a little. ""Then you should know better.""""Fine,"" he says. ""Then I love you.”",famous_quote +1463,“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”,famous_quote +1325,"“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”",famous_quote +10,“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”,famous_quote +1085,"“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”",famous_quote +1868,“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”,famous_quote +2273,"“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”",famous_quote +771,"“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”",famous_quote +1594,"“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”",famous_quote +1607,“Compassion is the basis of morality.”,famous_quote +1333,"“How do you spell 'love'?"" - Piglet""You don't spell it...you feel it."" - Pooh”",famous_quote +884,"“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”",famous_quote +1389,“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”,famous_quote +225,"“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”",famous_quote +824,"“I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""""A regrettable choice of words,"" muttered Magnus.”",famous_quote +2265,"“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”",famous_quote +936,“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.”,famous_quote +2306,“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”,famous_quote +1911,"“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”",famous_quote +1796,“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”,famous_quote +53,“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”,famous_quote +726,"“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”",famous_quote +1544,"“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”",famous_quote +1043,"“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”",famous_quote +1913,“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”,famous_quote +1776,"“I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassian’s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, ‘If you don’t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.”",famous_quote +1596,“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”,famous_quote +1914,"“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.”",famous_quote +2466,"“The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.”",famous_quote +849,"“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”",famous_quote +2109,"“I don't go out with strangers,"" I said.""Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.”",famous_quote +2263,“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”,famous_quote +2,“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”,famous_quote +159,"“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.""After all this time?""""Always,"" said Snape.”",famous_quote +780,"“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”",famous_quote +892,“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”,famous_quote +2030,"“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”",famous_quote +2376,��A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”,famous_quote +579,“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”,famous_quote +1933,“There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.”,famous_quote +1380,"“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”",famous_quote +1290,"“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”",famous_quote +1640,"“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”",famous_quote +951,"“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”",famous_quote +987,"“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”",famous_quote +1218,“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”,famous_quote +920,“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”,famous_quote +1355,“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”,famous_quote +169,“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”,famous_quote +520,"“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”",famous_quote +1486,“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”,famous_quote +39,"“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”",famous_quote +1560,"“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”",famous_quote +1418,“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”,famous_quote +954,“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”,famous_quote +983,“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”,famous_quote +974,"“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”",famous_quote +37,"“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”",famous_quote +2375,“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”,famous_quote +1274,“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”,famous_quote +1199,"“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.”",famous_quote +1625,"“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”",famous_quote +913,"“Dare to BeWhen a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.When times are tough, dare to be tougher.When love hurts you, dare to love again.When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.Dare to be the best you can –At all times, Dare to be!”",famous_quote +453,"“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”",famous_quote +36,"“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”",famous_quote +1711,"“I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while,"" he grunted, ""It relaxes me.""""It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.”",famous_quote +795,“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”,famous_quote +972,“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”,famous_quote +592,"“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”",famous_quote +1137,"“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”",famous_quote +1324,"“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”",famous_quote +2271,“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”,famous_quote +317,“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”,famous_quote +2396,"“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”",famous_quote +2162,"“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”",famous_quote +1346,“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”,famous_quote +1591,"“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”",famous_quote +1889,"“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”",famous_quote +2087,"“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”",famous_quote +1996,"“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”",famous_quote +1772,"“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”",famous_quote +1312,"“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”",famous_quote +1285,"“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”",famous_quote +215,"“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”",famous_quote +2383,"“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”",famous_quote +2139,"“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”",famous_quote +2400,"“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”",famous_quote +1704,"“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”",famous_quote +362,"“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”",famous_quote +1716,"“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”",famous_quote +1193,"“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”",famous_quote +355,“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”,famous_quote +190,“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”,famous_quote +2469,"“Demons run when a good man goes to warNight will fall and drown the sunWhen a good man goes to warFriendship dies and true love liesNight will fall and the dark will riseWhen a good man goes to warDemons run, but count the costThe battle's won, but the child is lost”",famous_quote +699,“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”,famous_quote +2054,"“It's going to be all right, sir,"" Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. ""We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ...""""I am not worried, Harry,"" said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. ""I am with you.”",famous_quote +2180,"“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”",famous_quote +556,"“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.”",famous_quote +825,"“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”",famous_quote +1054,"“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”",famous_quote +425,"“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”",famous_quote +2410,"“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”",famous_quote +1574,"“I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.”",famous_quote +2129,“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”,famous_quote +2403,“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”,famous_quote +588,“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”,famous_quote +2012,“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”,famous_quote +1547,"“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”",famous_quote +294,“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”,famous_quote +1985,"“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,"" he began, ""especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?""""They go to hell,"" was my ready and orthodox answer.""And what is hell? Can you tell me that?""""A pit full of fire.""""And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?""""No, sir.""""What must you do to avoid it?""I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: ""I must keep in good health and not die.”",famous_quote +1247,"“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!â€�It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”",famous_quote +1548,"“So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?"" ""You could say that.""""Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.""""I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.”",famous_quote +1690,“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”,famous_quote +1136,“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”,famous_quote +1256,"“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”",famous_quote +2064,“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”,famous_quote +359,"“Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.""""Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay,"" Clary muttered.""Selling them on what?""Clary smiled blandly at him. ""A mythical place of great magical power.”",famous_quote +699,“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”,famous_quote +447,“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”,famous_quote +2412,“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”,famous_quote +674,"“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”",famous_quote +1007,"“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”",famous_quote +1349,“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”,famous_quote +2461,“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”,famous_quote +585,"“For you, a thousand times over”",famous_quote +1256,"“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”",famous_quote +1247,"“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!â€�It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”",famous_quote +993,“You never fail until you stop trying.”,famous_quote +1435,“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”,famous_quote +571,"“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”",famous_quote +2382,“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”,famous_quote +1245,"“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”",famous_quote +2084,"“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”",famous_quote +988,"“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”",famous_quote +277,"“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”",famous_quote +1219,"“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”",famous_quote +1887,"“When I was your age, television was called books.”",famous_quote +483,“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”,famous_quote +1265,"“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.”",famous_quote +730,“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”,famous_quote +2239,"“You’ll get over it…â€� It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘itâ€� is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”",famous_quote +1040,"“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”",famous_quote +917,"“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”",famous_quote +2448,“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”,famous_quote +885,“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”,famous_quote +21,“We accept the love we think we deserve.”,famous_quote +473,“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”,famous_quote +2257,“I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.”,famous_quote +2353,"“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”",famous_quote +703,"“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”",famous_quote +686,"“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”",famous_quote +284,“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”,famous_quote +715,“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”,famous_quote +762,"“You haven't got a letter on yours,"" George observed. ""I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”",famous_quote +1250,"“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”",famous_quote +947,“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”,famous_quote +2428,“And then I am going to rattle the stars.”,famous_quote +2507,“Silence is so freaking loud”,famous_quote +1030,“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”,famous_quote +28,“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”,famous_quote +906,"“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.”",famous_quote +2126,“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”,famous_quote +2506,"“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”",famous_quote +569,“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”,famous_quote +2006,"“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”",famous_quote +1453,"“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”",famous_quote +737,“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”,famous_quote +515,"“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”",famous_quote +2000,"“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”",famous_quote +2444,"“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”",famous_quote +38,"“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”",famous_quote +886,"“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ""What about lunch?”",famous_quote +2204,"“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”",famous_quote +1098,"“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”",famous_quote +1823,"“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”",famous_quote +1710,"“It was a mistake,"" you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”",famous_quote +973,"“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”",famous_quote +1562,“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”,famous_quote +988,"“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”",famous_quote +20,"“Without music, life would be a mistake.”",famous_quote +2350,“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”,famous_quote +868,"“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”",famous_quote +83,"“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”",famous_quote +1682,“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”,famous_quote +1976,"“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”",famous_quote +1410,“It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.”,famous_quote +1530,“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”,famous_quote +569,“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”,famous_quote +933,“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”,famous_quote +1980,"“I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”",famous_quote +1855,"“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”",famous_quote +792,"“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”",famous_quote +791,"“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours”",famous_quote +1809,"“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”",famous_quote +1294,"“Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”",famous_quote +2255,“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”,famous_quote +1607,“Compassion is the basis of morality.”,famous_quote +1083,"“You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So... get on your way!”",famous_quote +2477,"“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”",famous_quote +984,“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”,famous_quote +1680,"“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”",famous_quote +519,"“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”",famous_quote +590,"“What the hell is that?"" I laughed.""It's my fox hat.""""Your fox hat?""""Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.""""Why are you wearing your fox hat?"" I asked.""Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”",famous_quote +1050,“Don't Panic.”,famous_quote +1709,"“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”",famous_quote +2035,"“Patience, grasshopper,"" said Maia. ""Good things come to those who wait.""""I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'"" said Simon. ""No wonder I've been so confused all my life.”",famous_quote +2246,"“I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.I was a survivor, and I was strong.I would not be weak, or helpless again I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”",famous_quote +2434,"“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”",famous_quote +348,"“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”",famous_quote +959,“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”,famous_quote +1963,"“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”",famous_quote +692,"“What happens when people open their hearts?""""They get better.”",famous_quote +1559,"“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.”",famous_quote +377,"“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”",famous_quote +526,“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”,famous_quote +2253,“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”,famous_quote +2502,"“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”",famous_quote +1259,"“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”",famous_quote +1875,"“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”",famous_quote +1763,"“The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”",famous_quote +520,"“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”",famous_quote +1701,"“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”",famous_quote +1016,“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”,famous_quote +1013,"“How do you feel, Georgie?"" whispered Mrs. Weasley.George's fingers groped for the side of his head.""Saintlike,"" he murmured.""What's wrong with him?"" croaked Fred, looking terrified. ""Is his mind affected?""""Saintlike,"" repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. ""You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?”",famous_quote +116,"“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”",famous_quote +2433,"“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”",famous_quote +1367,“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”,famous_quote +583,"“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”",famous_quote +394,"“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”",famous_quote +1087,“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”,famous_quote +71,"“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”",famous_quote +273,“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”,famous_quote +2013,"“They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”",famous_quote +1343,"“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”",famous_quote +337,“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”,famous_quote +1389,“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”,famous_quote +606,“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”,famous_quote +165,"“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”",famous_quote +1567,“Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”,famous_quote +2058,"“Alec looked at her and shook his head. ""How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?""Isabelle shrugged philosophically. ""I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”",famous_quote +1324,"“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”",famous_quote +728,"“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”",famous_quote +2043,"“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”",famous_quote +101,"“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”",famous_quote +1415,“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”,famous_quote +778,"“Wow,"" Thalia muttered. ""Apollo is hot."" ""He's the sun god,"" I said.""That's not what I meant.”",famous_quote +213,“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”,famous_quote +1111,“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”,famous_quote +1576,"“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”",famous_quote +2448,“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”,famous_quote +1695,“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”,famous_quote +591,"“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”",famous_quote +1333,"“How do you spell 'love'?"" - Piglet""You don't spell it...you feel it."" - Pooh”",famous_quote +1109,"“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”",famous_quote +2139,"“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”",famous_quote +713,"“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”",famous_quote +935,"“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”",famous_quote +1951,"“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”",famous_quote +241,“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”,famous_quote +2043,"“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”",famous_quote +1,"“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”",famous_quote +2272,"“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”",famous_quote +1768,"“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”",famous_quote +1949,"“The more one judges, the less one loves.”",famous_quote +2163,“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”,famous_quote +917,"“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”",famous_quote +2241,"“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”",famous_quote +89,“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”,famous_quote +1709,"“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”",famous_quote +2169,"“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”",famous_quote +142,“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”,famous_quote +105,"“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”",famous_quote +886,"“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ""What about lunch?”",famous_quote +427,"“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”",famous_quote +1328,"“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”",famous_quote +1895,"“I am always saying ""Glad to've met you"" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”",famous_quote +1994,“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”,famous_quote +316,"“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”",famous_quote +1986,“I'd rather die my way than live yours.”,famous_quote +634,“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”,famous_quote +1925,“It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”,famous_quote +2056,"“You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met."" “That’s too bad,â€� said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.”",famous_quote +2270,“District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”,famous_quote +1439,"“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”",famous_quote +552,“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”,famous_quote +715,“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”,famous_quote +1287,"“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”",famous_quote +1713,"“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”",famous_quote +1883,“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”,famous_quote +1107,"“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”",famous_quote +1341,"“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”",famous_quote +110,“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”,famous_quote +250,“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”,famous_quote +2430,"“But-"" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at - and stared.Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth.Maia looked perplexed. ""Wait a second,"" she said. ""Do we all have to do that, too?”",famous_quote +2054,"“It's going to be all right, sir,"" Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. ""We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ...""""I am not worried, Harry,"" said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. ""I am with you.”",famous_quote +458,"“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”",famous_quote +1107,"“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”",famous_quote +207,“Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.”,famous_quote +899,"“Finnick?"" I say, ""Maybe some pants?""He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. ""Why? Do you find this"" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- ""distracting?""I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell”",famous_quote +21,“We accept the love we think we deserve.”,famous_quote +409,“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”,famous_quote +894,"“Begin at the beginning,"" the King said, very gravely, ""and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”",famous_quote +514,"“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”",famous_quote +808,"“Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.”",famous_quote +873,“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”,famous_quote +13,"“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”",famous_quote +970,"“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”",famous_quote +2134,“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”,famous_quote +1560,"“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”",famous_quote +1324,"“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”",famous_quote +1266,"“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”",famous_quote +2169,"“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”",famous_quote +749,"“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”",famous_quote +684,“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”,famous_quote +1927,"“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”",famous_quote +2356,"“When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.”",famous_quote +694,"“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”",famous_quote +2335,“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”,famous_quote +306,“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”,famous_quote +1989,“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”,famous_quote +661,"“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”",famous_quote +548,"“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”",famous_quote +311,"“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”",famous_quote +1082,“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”,famous_quote +1737,"“You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.""""I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time.""""I've been thinking about you, too.""""I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.""""I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.”",famous_quote +754,"“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”",famous_quote +34,“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”,famous_quote +444,"“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…"" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.""What a stupid lamb,"" I sighed.""What a sick, masochistic lion.”",famous_quote +2140,"“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”",famous_quote +1982,“My rapier wit hides my inner pain.”,famous_quote +1230,“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”,famous_quote +352,"“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”",famous_quote +902,“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”,famous_quote +1355,“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”,famous_quote +1748,"“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”",famous_quote +158,"“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”",famous_quote +1977,“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”,famous_quote +956,"“What's this?"" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.""It's a girl,"" Jace said,recovering his composure. ""Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”",famous_quote +2071,“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”,famous_quote +403,"“Let us find the dam snack bar,"" Zoe said. ""We should eat while we can.""Grover cracked a smile. ""The dam snack bar?""Zoe blinked. ""Yes. What is funny?""""Nothing,"" Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. ""I could use some dam french fries.""Even Thalia smiled at that. ""And I need to use the dam restroom.""...I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. ""I do not understand.""""I want to use the dam water fountain,"" Grover said.""And..."" Thalia tried to catch her breath. ""I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”",famous_quote +515,"“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”",famous_quote +1387,“All great and precious things are lonely.”,famous_quote +955,"“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”",famous_quote +2199,“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”,famous_quote +1712,"“Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder.”",famous_quote +607,"“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”",famous_quote +2467,“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”,famous_quote +1273,"“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”",famous_quote +1535,"“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”",famous_quote +2382,“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”,famous_quote +1441,“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”,famous_quote +1797,“To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.”,famous_quote +294,“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”,famous_quote +754,"“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”",famous_quote +1394,"“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”",famous_quote +185,"“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”",famous_quote +1269,“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”,famous_quote +636,“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”,famous_quote +1291,“To say goodbye is to die a little.”,famous_quote +529,“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”,famous_quote +2068,“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”,famous_quote +793,"“Don't order any of the faerie food,"" said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. ""It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,"" he added hastily, ""that this has ever happened to me.”",famous_quote +2147,"“I got schooled this yearbyaboy.A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in ",famous_quote +477,“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”,famous_quote +1622,“I like good strong words that mean something…”,famous_quote +939,“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”,famous_quote +525,"“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”",famous_quote +2381,"“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”",famous_quote +1,"“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”",famous_quote +374,“May you live every day of your life.”,famous_quote +2340,"“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”",famous_quote +552,“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”,famous_quote +2365,“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”,famous_quote +1525,"“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”",famous_quote +1851,"“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”",famous_quote +380,"“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”",famous_quote +1646,"“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”",famous_quote +13,"“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”",famous_quote +503,"“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch”",famous_quote +2278,“All thinking men are atheists.”,famous_quote +2008,"“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”",famous_quote +129,"“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”",famous_quote +837,"“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”",famous_quote +2040,"“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”",famous_quote +27,“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”,famous_quote +2113,“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”,famous_quote +1252,“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”,famous_quote +260,"“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”",famous_quote +2046,"“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”",famous_quote +1472,“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”,famous_quote +1447,"“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .â€� The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”",famous_quote +459,"“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”",famous_quote +300,“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”,famous_quote +2334,"“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”",famous_quote +629,“Books may well be the only true magic.”,famous_quote +269,"“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”",famous_quote +1993,"“Headline?"" he asked.""'Swing Set Needs Home,'"" I said.""'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'"" he said.""'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'"" I said.”",famous_quote +1628,"“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”",famous_quote +1801,"“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”",famous_quote +861,"“You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.""""I was ninety percent sure.""""I see,"" Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain.""What the hell was that for?""""The other ten percent.”",famous_quote +1280,"“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”",famous_quote +2180,"“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”",famous_quote +1799,“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”,famous_quote +1706,"“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”",famous_quote +2360,"“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”",famous_quote +575,"“Not everything is about you,"" Clary said furiously.""Possibly,"" Jace said, ""but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.”",famous_quote +2003,"“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”",famous_quote +1307,"“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”",famous_quote +1956,"“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”",famous_quote +2020,"“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”",famous_quote +2212,"“Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.”",famous_quote +2352,"“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”",famous_quote +1655,"“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”",famous_quote +1579,“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”,famous_quote +1847,"“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”",famous_quote +2203,“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”,famous_quote +1390,"“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”",famous_quote +1742,“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”,famous_quote +1925,“It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”,famous_quote +619,"“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”",famous_quote +1274,“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”,famous_quote +956,"“What's this?"" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.""It's a girl,"" Jace said,recovering his composure. ""Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”",famous_quote +1939,"“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”",famous_quote +2381,"“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”",famous_quote +968,"“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”",famous_quote +1316,“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”,famous_quote +1043,"“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”",famous_quote +281,“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”,famous_quote +2166,"“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”",famous_quote +1058,"“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”",famous_quote +197,"“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”",famous_quote +1082,“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”,famous_quote +1184,"“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”",famous_quote +1008,“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”,famous_quote +1229,"“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”",famous_quote +1035,“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”,famous_quote +489,“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”,famous_quote +275,"“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”",famous_quote +2289,"“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”",famous_quote +1239,“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”,famous_quote +1274,“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”,famous_quote +125,"“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”",famous_quote +216,“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”,famous_quote +1208,"“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”",famous_quote +1246,“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”,famous_quote +2474,“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”,famous_quote +918,"“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”",famous_quote +1317,"“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”",famous_quote +2198,"“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”",famous_quote +2431,"“People, generally, suck.”",famous_quote +1661,"“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”",famous_quote +307,“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”,famous_quote +1359,"“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”",famous_quote +1969,"“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”",famous_quote +891,“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”,famous_quote +374,“May you live every day of your life.”,famous_quote +2033,"“Atticus, he was real nice.""""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”",famous_quote +1364,“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”,famous_quote +128,“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”,famous_quote +1014,“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”,famous_quote +1799,“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”,famous_quote +1381,"“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”",famous_quote +516,"“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”",famous_quote +1518,“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”,famous_quote +85,"“You love me. Real or not real?""I tell him, ""Real.”",famous_quote +1198,"“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”",famous_quote +2358,"“Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane”",famous_quote +1142,"“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”",famous_quote +2474,“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”,famous_quote +1993,"“Headline?"" he asked.""'Swing Set Needs Home,'"" I said.""'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'"" he said.""'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'"" I said.”",famous_quote +2161,"“I 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.”",famous_quote +302,"“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”",famous_quote +587,"“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”",famous_quote +986,“Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?”,famous_quote +1863,“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”,famous_quote +344,"“Don't think or judge, just listen.”",famous_quote +813,“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”,famous_quote +1987,“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”,famous_quote +1310,“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”,famous_quote +1999,“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”,famous_quote +1677,"“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”",famous_quote +1327,"“Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace”",famous_quote +1092,"“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”",famous_quote +2408,"“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.”",famous_quote +1009,“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”,famous_quote +703,"“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”",famous_quote +574,"“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”",famous_quote +1608,"“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”",famous_quote +1112,“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”,famous_quote +687,“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”,famous_quote +488,“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”,famous_quote +1347,“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”,famous_quote +493,"“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”",famous_quote +1667,“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”,famous_quote +1637,“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”,famous_quote +18,“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”,famous_quote +2444,"“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”",famous_quote +1000,“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”,famous_quote +850,“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”,famous_quote +1388,“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”,famous_quote +1354,“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”,famous_quote +1367,“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”,famous_quote +821,“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”,famous_quote +454,“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”,famous_quote +1624,"“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”",famous_quote +710,“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”,famous_quote +2190,“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”,famous_quote +916,"“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”",famous_quote +1496,"“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”",famous_quote +1440,“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”,famous_quote +304,"“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”",famous_quote +735,“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”,famous_quote +2338,"“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”",famous_quote +1963,"“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”",famous_quote +2149,"“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”",famous_quote +2009,"“I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.”",famous_quote +961,"“You know,"" Gabriel said, ""there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.""""There was a time I thought I was a ferret,"" Will said, ""but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.”",famous_quote +1026,"“Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twiceI think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.”",famous_quote +2132,"“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”",famous_quote +2375,“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”,famous_quote +1473,“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”,famous_quote +2501,"“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: ""Go down again - I dwell among the people.”",famous_quote +1947,"“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”",famous_quote +1177,"“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”",famous_quote +664,“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”,famous_quote +11,"“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”",famous_quote +1156,"“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”",famous_quote +303,"“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”",famous_quote +1763,"“The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”",famous_quote +42,"“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”",famous_quote +943,"“Investigation?"" Isabelle laughed. ""Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""""Good idea,"" said Jace. ""I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”",famous_quote +2390,"“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. ""Can they be brought together?"" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. ""I despise intelligence"" really means: ""I cannot bear my doubts.”",famous_quote +1349,“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”,famous_quote +2411,"“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”",famous_quote +890,“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”,famous_quote +2474,“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”,famous_quote +1004,“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”,famous_quote +20,"“Without music, life would be a mistake.”",famous_quote +406,"“Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”",famous_quote +1014,“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”,famous_quote +335,"“Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""""Yes.""""You called her a liar?""""Yes.""""You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?""""Yes.""""Have a biscuit, Potter.”",famous_quote +1838,“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”,famous_quote +1147,"“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”",famous_quote +2446,"“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”",famous_quote +1827,"“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”",famous_quote +714,"“But I don’t want to go among mad people,"" Alice remarked.""Oh, you can’t help that,"" said the Cat: ""we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.""""How do you know I’m mad?"" said Alice.""You must be,"" said the Cat, ""or you wouldn’t have come here.”",famous_quote +50,“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”,famous_quote +323,“Never memorize something that you can look up.”,famous_quote +788,"“Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.”",famous_quote +140,"“One must always be careful of books,"" said Tessa, ""and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”",famous_quote +469,"“I might be in love with you."" He smiles a little. ""I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”",famous_quote +786,“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”,famous_quote +1825,“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”,famous_quote +1357,“The past has no power over the present moment.”,famous_quote +1916,"“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”",famous_quote +963,"“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”",famous_quote +372,“Where there is love there is life.”,famous_quote +1692,"“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”",famous_quote +1179,"“Goodbye,"" said the fox. ""And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”",famous_quote +2338,"“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”",famous_quote +1671,"“Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”",famous_quote +105,"“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”",famous_quote +1443,“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”,famous_quote +1681,“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”,famous_quote +1,"“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”",famous_quote +2137,"“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”",famous_quote +349,"“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”",famous_quote +1286,"“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”",famous_quote +1062,"“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”",famous_quote +2206,"“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”",famous_quote +2359,“We are always the same age inside. ”,famous_quote +444,"“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…"" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.""What a stupid lamb,"" I sighed.""What a sick, masochistic lion.”",famous_quote +2345,“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”,famous_quote +951,"“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”",famous_quote +35,“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”,famous_quote +1107,"“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”",famous_quote +1475,"“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”",famous_quote +1798,“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”,famous_quote +1845,"“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”",famous_quote +1408,“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”,famous_quote +1195,"“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”",famous_quote +1399,"“These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume”",famous_quote +1708,“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”,famous_quote +1385,“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”,famous_quote +2188,"“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”",famous_quote +1300,“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”,famous_quote +1243,"“Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.”",famous_quote +520,"“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”",famous_quote +1806,"“Ah, music,"" he said, wiping his eyes. ""A magic beyond all we do here!”",famous_quote +9,“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”,famous_quote +983,“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”,famous_quote +2425,"“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”",famous_quote +1656,"“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”",famous_quote +1660,“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”,famous_quote +2199,“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”,famous_quote +719,"“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”",famous_quote +1072,“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”,famous_quote +858,“God has no religion.”,famous_quote +1316,“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”,famous_quote +1603,“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”,famous_quote +49,“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”,famous_quote +145,"“There is no pretending,"" Jace said with absolute clarity. ""I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”",famous_quote +914,“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”,famous_quote +1462,“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”,famous_quote +2289,"“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”",famous_quote +580,"“I am a man"" he told her, ""and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.”",famous_quote +1584,“But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”,famous_quote +482,“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”,famous_quote +1249,"“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”",famous_quote +672,“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”,famous_quote +630,“Reader's Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes”,famous_quote +661,"“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”",famous_quote +2466,"“The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.”",famous_quote +987,"“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”",famous_quote +1546,“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”,famous_quote +649,"“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”",famous_quote +968,"“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”",famous_quote +1100,“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”,famous_quote +440,"“I DON'T CARE!"" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. ""I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!""""You do care,"" said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. ""You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”",famous_quote +920,“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”,famous_quote +769,“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”,famous_quote +1343,"“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”",famous_quote +1826,"“Have you really read all those books in your room?â€�Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”",famous_quote +262,"“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”",famous_quote +1577,"“The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake. Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true? We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La. They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”",famous_quote +2506,"“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”",famous_quote +998,"“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say ""yes"" to life?”",famous_quote +699,“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”,famous_quote +2349,"“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”",famous_quote +1603,“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”,famous_quote +1241,“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”,famous_quote +1125,"“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”",famous_quote +2335,“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”,famous_quote +1190,“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”,famous_quote +1005,"“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”",famous_quote +35,“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”,famous_quote +743,"“Resist much, obey little.”",famous_quote +1764,“This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.”,famous_quote +352,"“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”",famous_quote +1922,“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”,famous_quote +72,"“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”",famous_quote +1376,“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”,famous_quote +1914,"“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.”",famous_quote +1093,“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”,famous_quote +2472,"“Hello, Harry"" said George, beaming at him. ""We thought we heard your dulcet tones.""""You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out,"" said Fred, also beaming. ""There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.”",famous_quote +707,"“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”",famous_quote +1804,"“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”",famous_quote +955,"“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”",famous_quote +2475,"“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”",famous_quote +159,"“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.""After all this time?""""Always,"" said Snape.”",famous_quote +2196,“Freedom lies in being bold.”,famous_quote +1735,“Try a little harder to be a little better.”,famous_quote +1585,"“I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”",famous_quote +66,“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”,famous_quote +2428,“And then I am going to rattle the stars.”,famous_quote +57,"“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”",famous_quote +341,"“You are, and always have been, my dream.”",famous_quote +1153,“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”,famous_quote +1195,"“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”",famous_quote +1232,“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”,famous_quote +2401,“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”,famous_quote +1494,"“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”",famous_quote +1821,"“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?â€� I say.“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,â€� he says.“You should wake me,â€� I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,â€� he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”",famous_quote +115,"“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”",famous_quote +661,"“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”",famous_quote +1465,"“To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause: there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life;For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,The insolence of office and the spurnsThat patient merit of the unworthy takes,When he himself might his quietus makeWith a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death,The undiscover'd country from whose bournNo traveller returns, puzzles the willAnd makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,And enterprises of great pith and momentWith this regard their currents turn awry,And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisonsBe all my sins remember'd!”",famous_quote +2500,“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”,famous_quote +1868,“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”,famous_quote +2334,"“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”",famous_quote +1016,“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”,famous_quote +310,“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”,famous_quote +207,“Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.”,famous_quote +2493,“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”,famous_quote +632,"“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”",famous_quote +2102,“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”,famous_quote +656,“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”,famous_quote +1423,"“When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.”",famous_quote +1931,“The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.”,famous_quote +1679,"“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”",famous_quote +236,"“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”",famous_quote +347,“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”,famous_quote +629,“Books may well be the only true magic.”,famous_quote +1540,"“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”",famous_quote +2003,"“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”",famous_quote +1271,“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”,famous_quote +363,"“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.”",famous_quote +2368,"“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”",famous_quote +285,“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”,famous_quote +148,"“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”",famous_quote +1107,"“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”",famous_quote +2453,"“Moths,"" repeats Will. ""You're afraid of moths?"" ""Not just a cloud of moths,"" she says, ""like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and..."" She shudders and shakes her head.""Terrifying,"" Will says with mock seriousness. ""That's my girl. Tough as cotton balls.""""Oh, Shut up.”",famous_quote +455,“Never laugh at live dragons.”,famous_quote +1766,"“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”",famous_quote +799,"“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”",famous_quote +1184,"“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”",famous_quote +1012,"“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”",famous_quote +2507,“Silence is so freaking loud”,famous_quote +1523,"“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”",famous_quote +480,"“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”",famous_quote +1686,"“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”",famous_quote +2161,"“I 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.”",famous_quote +1601,"“Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it – a heart ringing – but when you touch me that is what it is like: as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.Why have I written these words in this book? Because of you. You taught me to love this book where I had scorned it. When I read it for the second time, with an open mind and heart, I felt the most complete despair and envy of Sydney Carton. Yes, Sydney, for even if he had no hope that the woman he loved would love him, at least he could tell her of his love. At least he could do something to prove his passion, even if that thing was to die.I would have chosen death for a chance to tell you the truth, Tessa, if I could have been assured that death would be my own. And that is why I envied Sydney, for he was free.And now at last I am free, and I can finally tell you, without fear of danger to you, all that I feel in my heart.You are not the last dream of my soul.You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.With hope at least,Will Herondale”",famous_quote +2408,"“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.”",famous_quote +340,"“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”",famous_quote +2010,“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”,famous_quote +2496,“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”,famous_quote +1866,"“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”",famous_quote +834,“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”,famous_quote +1203,"“Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. ""I can't believe you did it!"" she exclaimed. ""How did you get Magnus to let Jace leave?""""Traded him for Alec,"" Clary said.Isabelle looked mildly alarmed. ""Not permanently?""""No,"" said Jace. ""Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back,"" he added thoughtfully. ""In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy.""Isabelle looked dubious. ""Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out.""""That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?"" Simon inquired. ""No, probably not.”",famous_quote +1725,“إن المرأة تحب رجلها ليس لأنه أقوى الرجال، Ùˆ لا أوسمهم، Ùˆ لا أغناهم، بل لأنه هو.. بضعÙ�Ù‡ Ùˆ قوته.. Ùˆ الحب ليس إستعراض قوة لكنه طاقة عطاء داÙ�ئة مستمرة”,famous_quote +1689,“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”,famous_quote +310,“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”,famous_quote +261,"“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”",famous_quote +1442,“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”,famous_quote +405,"“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”",famous_quote +2190,“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”,famous_quote +341,"“You are, and always have been, my dream.”",famous_quote +1339,“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”,famous_quote +243,"“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”",famous_quote +489,“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”,famous_quote +11,"“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”",famous_quote +560,“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”,famous_quote +41,"“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”",famous_quote +593,"“Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?""""No"" Simon said, ""If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”",famous_quote +1452,“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”,famous_quote +1826,"“Have you really read all those books in your room?â€�Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”",famous_quote +1693,“My library is an archive of longings.”,famous_quote +133,"“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”",famous_quote +947,“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”,famous_quote +72,"“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”",famous_quote +398,“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”,famous_quote +1428,"“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”",famous_quote +129,"“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”",famous_quote +1811,"“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”",famous_quote +2001,"“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”",famous_quote +265,"“I don't want to be a man,"" said Jace. ""I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.""""Well,"" said Luke, ""you're doing a fantastic job.”",famous_quote +1560,"“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”",famous_quote +1985,"“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,"" he began, ""especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?""""They go to hell,"" was my ready and orthodox answer.""And what is hell? Can you tell me that?""""A pit full of fire.""""And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?""""No, sir.""""What must you do to avoid it?""I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: ""I must keep in good health and not die.”",famous_quote +792,"“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”",famous_quote +2300,“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”,famous_quote +1312,"“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”",famous_quote +163,"“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”",famous_quote +94,"“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”",famous_quote +1805,"“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”",famous_quote +1133,"“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”",famous_quote +2383,"“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”",famous_quote +821,“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”,famous_quote +237,"“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”",famous_quote +2428,“And then I am going to rattle the stars.”,famous_quote +1960,"“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”",famous_quote +1048,“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”,famous_quote +1676,"“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”",famous_quote +963,"“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”",famous_quote +536,"“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”",famous_quote +1603,“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”,famous_quote +1979,"“Why do people say ""grow some balls""? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”",famous_quote +127,“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”,famous_quote +91,“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”,famous_quote +542,"“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”",famous_quote +845,“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”,famous_quote +1681,“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”,famous_quote +1851,"“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”",famous_quote +2494,"“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”",famous_quote +389,"“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”",famous_quote +1884,"“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”",famous_quote +42,"“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”",famous_quote +253,"“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""""If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”",famous_quote +1083,"“You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So... get on your way!”",famous_quote +2334,"“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”",famous_quote +1540,"“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”",famous_quote +1953,"“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”",famous_quote +2392,"“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”",famous_quote +641,"“Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.”",famous_quote +2429,“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”,famous_quote +689,"“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”",famous_quote +1276,“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”,famous_quote +1950,“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”,famous_quote +1079,"“Ah,â€� said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,â€� said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.”",famous_quote +1486,“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”,famous_quote +456,"“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”",famous_quote +982,“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”,famous_quote +2130,“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”,famous_quote +1122,"“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”",famous_quote +148,"“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”",famous_quote +1352,“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”,famous_quote +1179,"“Goodbye,"" said the fox. ""And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”",famous_quote +189,"“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”",famous_quote +882,"“Why are they all staring?"" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.""Don’t let it worry you,"" said Ron. ""It’s me. I’m extremely famous.”",famous_quote +2310,"“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”",famous_quote +399,"“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”",famous_quote +608,"“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”",famous_quote +1795,“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!”,famous_quote +1638,“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”,famous_quote +1575,“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”,famous_quote +2148,"“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”",famous_quote +1382,“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”,famous_quote +1403,"“What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?""""I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you.""""Why?""""Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?”",famous_quote +819,“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”,famous_quote +819,“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”,famous_quote +419,“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”,famous_quote +123,"“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”",famous_quote +421,"“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”",famous_quote +1508,“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”,famous_quote +1597,"“Name one hero who was happy.""I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.""You can't."" He was sitting up now, leaning forward.""I can't.""""I know. They never let you be famous AND happy."" He lifted an eyebrow. ""I'll tell you a secret.""""Tell me."" I loved it when he was like this.""I'm going to be the first."" He took my palm and held it to his. ""Swear it.""""Why me?""""Because you're the reason. Swear it.""""I swear it,"" I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.""I swear it,"" he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.""I feel like I could eat the world raw.”",famous_quote +767,"“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”",famous_quote +2044,“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”,famous_quote +2202,"“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”",famous_quote +2139,"“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”",famous_quote +1549,“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”,famous_quote +2502,"“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”",famous_quote +1764,“This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.”,famous_quote +2044,“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”,famous_quote +509,"“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”",famous_quote +1206,"“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”",famous_quote +385,"“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”",famous_quote +1597,"“Name one hero who was happy.""I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.""You can't."" He was sitting up now, leaning forward.""I can't.""""I know. They never let you be famous AND happy."" He lifted an eyebrow. ""I'll tell you a secret.""""Tell me."" I loved it when he was like this.""I'm going to be the first."" He took my palm and held it to his. ""Swear it.""""Why me?""""Because you're the reason. Swear it.""""I swear it,"" I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.""I swear it,"" he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.""I feel like I could eat the world raw.”",famous_quote +2452,“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”,famous_quote +2293,"“Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”",famous_quote +741,"“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”",famous_quote +1911,"“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”",famous_quote +1446,"“Don't tell me,"" Jace said, ""Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission."" He pointed at himself - he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve. ""Look. Jammies.""""Jace,"" Clary said, ""this is important.""""Don't tell me,"" he said. ""You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge,"" he said as an afterthought. ""I hear he'll do anything for a -""""JACE!"" she interrupted him, her voice rising to a scream. ""JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?”",famous_quote +900,“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”,famous_quote +2112,"“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”",famous_quote +2260,“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”,famous_quote +2009,"“I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.”",famous_quote +241,“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”,famous_quote +2385,“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”,famous_quote +2020,"“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”",famous_quote +172,“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”,famous_quote +671,"“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”",famous_quote +163,"“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”",famous_quote +464,"“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”",famous_quote +496,“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”,famous_quote +699,“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”,famous_quote +2442,"“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”",famous_quote +702,"“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”",famous_quote +1940,"“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”",famous_quote +2355,“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”,famous_quote +1791,"“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”",famous_quote +182,"“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”",famous_quote +628,"“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”",famous_quote +1731,“A word after a word after a word is power.”,famous_quote +545,"“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”",famous_quote +1587,"“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”",famous_quote +623,“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”,famous_quote +593,"“Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?""""No"" Simon said, ""If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”",famous_quote +743,"“Resist much, obey little.”",famous_quote +1768,"“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”",famous_quote +1459,"���Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”",famous_quote +1948,"“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”",famous_quote +2068,“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”,famous_quote +2444,"“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”",famous_quote +104,“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”,famous_quote +2239,"“You’ll get over it…â€� It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘itâ€� is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”",famous_quote +16,“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”,famous_quote +392,“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”,famous_quote +424,“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”,famous_quote +2176,"“You could say sorry,"" suggested Harry bluntly. ""What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?"" muttered Ron.""What did you have to imitate her for?""""She laughed at my mustache!""""So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.”",famous_quote +571,"“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”",famous_quote +2076,“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”,famous_quote +1120,“Forever is composed of nows.”,famous_quote +241,“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”,famous_quote +2279,“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”,famous_quote +788,"“Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.”",famous_quote +714,"“But I don’t want to go among mad people,"" Alice remarked.""Oh, you can’t help that,"" said the Cat: ""we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.""""How do you know I’m mad?"" said Alice.""You must be,"" said the Cat, ""or you wouldn’t have come here.”",famous_quote +758,"“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”",famous_quote +775,"“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.â€�I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”",famous_quote +2247,"“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”",famous_quote +78,"“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”",famous_quote +855,“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”,famous_quote +1439,"“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”",famous_quote +2496,“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”,famous_quote +2134,“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”,famous_quote +2148,"“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”",famous_quote +1031,"“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were ""I go to seek a Great Perhaps."" That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”",famous_quote +844,“War is what happens when language fails.”,famous_quote +86,“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”,famous_quote +2090,“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”,famous_quote +407,"“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”",famous_quote +1668,"“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”",famous_quote +147,“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”,famous_quote +2324,“The mountains are calling and I must go.”,famous_quote +231,“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”,famous_quote +1950,“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”,famous_quote +365,"“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”",famous_quote +1674,"“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”",famous_quote +435,“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”,famous_quote +398,“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”,famous_quote +1234,"“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”",famous_quote +1414,“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”,famous_quote +562,“I cannot live without books.”,famous_quote +2489,“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.”,famous_quote +1284,"“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”",famous_quote +772,“My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.”,famous_quote +2397,"“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”",famous_quote +2037,“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”,famous_quote +1343,"“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”",famous_quote +2185,"“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”",famous_quote +1573,“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”,famous_quote +991,“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”,famous_quote +2415,"“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”",famous_quote +1246,“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”,famous_quote +359,"“Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.""""Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay,"" Clary muttered.""Selling them on what?""Clary smiled blandly at him. ""A mythical place of great magical power.”",famous_quote +920,“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”,famous_quote +2376,“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”,famous_quote +962,“To define is to limit.”,famous_quote +1827,"“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”",famous_quote +1613,"“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”",famous_quote +1640,"“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”",famous_quote +2216,"“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”",famous_quote +216,“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”,famous_quote +377,"“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”",famous_quote +118,"“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”",famous_quote +189,"“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”",famous_quote +369,"“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”",famous_quote +1801,"“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”",famous_quote +2196,“Freedom lies in being bold.”,famous_quote +651,"“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”",famous_quote +1882,“One wordFrees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.”,famous_quote +1511,"“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”",famous_quote +769,“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”,famous_quote +2421,"“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”",famous_quote +780,"“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”",famous_quote +1716,"“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”",famous_quote +2207,“I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seenOf meadow flowers and butterfliesIn summers that have beenOf yellow leaves and gossamerIn autumns that there wereWith morning mist and silver sunAnd wind upon my hairI sit beside the fire and thinkOf how the world will beWhen winter comes without a spring That I shall ever seeFor still there are so many thingsThat I have never seenIn every wood in every springThere is a different greenI sit beside the fire and thinkOf people long agoAnd people that will see a worldThat I shall never knowBut all the while I sit and thinkOf times there were beforeI listen for returning feet And voices at the door”,famous_quote +2398,"“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”",famous_quote +1311,"“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”",famous_quote +1249,"“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”",famous_quote +522,"“I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what’s her name?"" says Caesar.Peeta sighs. ""Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping.""Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.She have another fellow?"" asks Caesar.I don’t know, but a lot of boys like her,"" says Peeta.So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?"" says Caesar encouragingly.I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning...won’t help in my case,"" says Peeta.Why ever not?"" says Caesar, mystified.Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. ""Because...because...she came here with me.”",famous_quote +521,"“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”",famous_quote +782,"“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”",famous_quote +2320,"“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”",famous_quote +935,"“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”",famous_quote +2230,"“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”",famous_quote +1688,"“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”",famous_quote +487,"“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”",famous_quote +1850,"“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”",famous_quote +845,“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”,famous_quote +2171,"“Did you really want to die?""""No one commits suicide because they want to die.""""Then why do they do it?""""Because they want to stop the pain.”",famous_quote +2461,“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”,famous_quote +2003,"“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”",famous_quote +1748,"“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”",famous_quote +685,“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”,famous_quote +2160,"“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”",famous_quote +2169,"“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”",famous_quote +1567,“Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”,famous_quote +1245,"“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”",famous_quote +38,"“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”",famous_quote +779,"“When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.”",famous_quote +1256,"“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”",famous_quote +2196,“Freedom lies in being bold.”,famous_quote +1927,"“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”",famous_quote +301,“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”,famous_quote +2285,"“A girl calls and asks, ""Does it hurt very much to die?""""Well, sweetheart,"" I tell her, ""yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”",famous_quote +646,"“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”",famous_quote +662,"“You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real,"" he whispers.""Real,"" I answer. ""Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.”",famous_quote +2283,"“The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.”",famous_quote +1759,"“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”",famous_quote +2250,"“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”",famous_quote +255,"“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”",famous_quote +597,"“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”",famous_quote +661,"“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”",famous_quote +234,“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”,famous_quote +1368,“I'm not young enough to know everything.”,famous_quote +769,“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”,famous_quote +212,“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”,famous_quote +462,"“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”",famous_quote +2483,“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”,famous_quote +282,"“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”",famous_quote +1486,“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”,famous_quote +1430,“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”,famous_quote +87,“We read to know we're not alone.”,famous_quote +1067,“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”,famous_quote +460,"“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”",famous_quote +2325,“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”,famous_quote +2468,“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”,famous_quote +1724,"“It's not gray,"" Clary felt compelled to point out. ""It's green.""""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood,"" said Jace.”",famous_quote +1376,“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”,famous_quote +514,"“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”",famous_quote +702,"“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”",famous_quote +1653,"“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”",famous_quote +2066,“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”,famous_quote +22,“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”,famous_quote +2460,"“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.”",famous_quote +1053,"“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”",famous_quote +1830,"“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”",famous_quote +2155,"“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”",famous_quote +1304,"“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”",famous_quote +1134,"“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”",famous_quote +2183,“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”,famous_quote +361,"“Whatever you are, be a good one.”",famous_quote +2176,"“You could say sorry,"" suggested Harry bluntly. ""What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?"" muttered Ron.""What did you have to imitate her for?""""She laughed at my mustache!""""So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.”",famous_quote +1899,“You can make anything by writing.”,famous_quote +1284,"“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”",famous_quote +514,"“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”",famous_quote +448,"“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”",famous_quote +1923,"“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”",famous_quote +1506,“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”,famous_quote +1247,"“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!â€�It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”",famous_quote +1855,"“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”",famous_quote +873,“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”,famous_quote +1428,"“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”",famous_quote +2349,"“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”",famous_quote +2278,“All thinking men are atheists.”,famous_quote +1754,"“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”",famous_quote +922,"“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”",famous_quote +2159,"“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”",famous_quote +1036,"“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”",famous_quote +1416,“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”,famous_quote +2281,"“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”",famous_quote +313,"“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”",famous_quote +2256,"“There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”",famous_quote +1997,"“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”",famous_quote +1037,“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”,famous_quote +1656,"“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”",famous_quote +1778,"“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”",famous_quote +1014,“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”,famous_quote +1093,“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”,famous_quote +1124,"“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”",famous_quote +697,"“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”",famous_quote +2179,"“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”",famous_quote +1404,"“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”",famous_quote +1155,"“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”",famous_quote +1043,"“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”",famous_quote +1929,"“Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.”",famous_quote +1013,"“How do you feel, Georgie?"" whispered Mrs. Weasley.George's fingers groped for the side of his head.""Saintlike,"" he murmured.""What's wrong with him?"" croaked Fred, looking terrified. ""Is his mind affected?""""Saintlike,"" repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. ""You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?”",famous_quote +226,"“Jesus!"" Luke exclaimed.""Actually, it's just me,"" said Simon. ""Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”",famous_quote +1828,“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”,famous_quote +1492,"“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”",famous_quote +821,“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”,famous_quote +2023,"“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”",famous_quote +870,"“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”",famous_quote +2452,“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”,famous_quote +2249,"“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”",famous_quote +2085,"“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”",famous_quote +1795,“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!”,famous_quote +187,"“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.��",famous_quote +1080,"“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”",famous_quote +940,"“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”",famous_quote +2320,"“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”",famous_quote +525,"“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”",famous_quote +335,"“Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""""Yes.""""You called her a liar?""""Yes.""""You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?""""Yes.""""Have a biscuit, Potter.”",famous_quote +1078,"“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”",famous_quote +161,"“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”",famous_quote +593,"“Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?""""No"" Simon said, ""If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”",famous_quote +1938,“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”,famous_quote +2206,"“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”",famous_quote +59,"“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”",famous_quote +1901,“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”,famous_quote +2258,“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”,famous_quote +405,"“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”",famous_quote +663,“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”,famous_quote +1132,"“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”",famous_quote +1099,"“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”",famous_quote +541,“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”,famous_quote +1337,"“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”",famous_quote +997,“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”,famous_quote +1140,"“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”",famous_quote +867,"“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”",famous_quote +2066,“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”,famous_quote +431,"“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”",famous_quote +739,“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”,famous_quote +1373,"“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”",famous_quote +182,"“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”",famous_quote +2160,"“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”",famous_quote +1206,"“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”",famous_quote +1169,"“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC”",famous_quote +830,“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”,famous_quote +1651,"“Dreams like a podcast,Downloading truth in my ears.They tell me cool stuff.""""Apollo?"" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.He put his finger to his lips. ""I'm incognito. Call me Fred.""""A god named Fred?”",famous_quote +1136,“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”,famous_quote +475,"“Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?"" asked Jace.""It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.""""As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome,"" said Simon.""I knew we should have left you a rat.”",famous_quote +1326,"“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”",famous_quote +970,"“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”",famous_quote +1019,"“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”",famous_quote +1141,"“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”",famous_quote +1836,"“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”",famous_quote +160,“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”,famous_quote +2448,“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”,famous_quote +197,"“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”",famous_quote +1283,"“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”",famous_quote +659,"“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”",famous_quote +1775,"“Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress.""Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?"" I say.""It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?"" he asks.""Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it,"" I say.""Not if I keep looking at you,"" he says.”",famous_quote +1070,"“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”",famous_quote +2010,“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”,famous_quote +398,“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”,famous_quote +1733,"“You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you."" Jace's eyebrows went up. ""Hotter than me?"" ""It could happen,"" Clary said, ""You know, theoretically.""""Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things,"" Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, ""are just too unlikely to dwell upon.”",famous_quote +1582,“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”,famous_quote +2125,"“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”",famous_quote +2171,"“Did you really want to die?""""No one commits suicide because they want to die.""""Then why do they do it?""""Because they want to stop the pain.”",famous_quote +74,"“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”",famous_quote +2184,"“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.”",famous_quote +601,“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”,famous_quote +836,“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”,famous_quote +1528,“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”,famous_quote +499,"“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”",famous_quote +1596,“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”,famous_quote +137,“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”,famous_quote +2097,"“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”",famous_quote +1794,"“He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through.""""How very rude of him.""""I told him I was.""Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. ""I am very touched, Harry.”",famous_quote +972,“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”,famous_quote +1642,"“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”",famous_quote +1885,"“We're staying together,"" he promised. ""You're not getting away from me. Never again.”",famous_quote +2301,"“God alert!"" Blackjack yelled. ""It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. ""The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!”",famous_quote +2028,“Your silence will not protect you.”,famous_quote +1900,"“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”",famous_quote +1449,“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”,famous_quote +546,"“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”",famous_quote +921,"“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.â€� If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong womenâ€� is code for “I hate strong women.â€�)”",famous_quote +580,"“I am a man"" he told her, ""and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.”",famous_quote +1372,"“I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. ""You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”",famous_quote +1956,"“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”",famous_quote +2003,"“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”",famous_quote +2096,"“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”",famous_quote +703,"“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”",famous_quote +2308,"“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”",famous_quote +2403,“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”,famous_quote +1625,"“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”",famous_quote +637,"“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”",famous_quote +1009,“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”,famous_quote +640,"“Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poemAnd he called it ""Chops"" because that was the name of his dogAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an A and a gold starAnd his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his auntsThat was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zooAnd he let them sing on the busAnd his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hairAnd his mother and father kissed a lotAnd the girl around the corner sent him aValentine signed with a row of X's and he had to ask his father what the X's meantAnd his father always tucked him in bed at nightAnd was always there to do itOnce on a piece of white paper with blue lines he wrote a poemAnd he called it ""Autumn"" because that was the name of the seasonAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an A and asked him to write more clearlyAnd his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because of its new paintAnd the kids told him that Father Tracy smoked cigarsAnd left butts on the pewsAnd sometimes they would burn holesThat was the year his sister got glasses with thick lenses and black framesAnd the girl around the corner laughed when he asked her to go see Santa ClausAnd the kids told him why his mother and father kissed a lotAnd his father never tucked him in bed at nightAnd his father got mad when he cried for him to do it.Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poemAnd he called it ""Innocence: A Question"" because that was the question about his girlAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his professor gave him an A and a strange steady lookAnd his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed herThat was the year that Father Tracy diedAnd he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed wentAnd he caught his sister making out on the back porchAnd his mother and father never kissed or even talkedAnd the girl around the corner wore too much makeupThat made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to doAnd at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed his father snoring soundlyThat's why on the back of a brown paper bag he tried another poemAnd he called it ""Absolutely Nothing""Because that's what it was really all aboutAnd he gave himself an A and a slash on each damned wristAnd he hung it on the bathroom door because this time he didn't think he could reach the kitchen.”",famous_quote +1861,"“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”",famous_quote +1205,"“And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,""You owe Me.""Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.”",famous_quote +685,“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”,famous_quote +1851,"“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”",famous_quote +187,"“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”",famous_quote +1619,"“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”",famous_quote +1687,"“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”",famous_quote +984,“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”,famous_quote +547,"“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”",famous_quote +1431,"“Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.”",famous_quote +875,"“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”",famous_quote +617,“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”,famous_quote +2461,“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”,famous_quote +1365,"“Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”",famous_quote +1243,"“Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.”",famous_quote +902,“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”,famous_quote +162,"“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”",famous_quote +1974,“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”,famous_quote +269,"“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”",famous_quote +631,“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”,famous_quote +905,"“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”",famous_quote +2014,“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”,famous_quote +1641,"“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”",famous_quote +204,“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”,famous_quote +581,“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”,famous_quote +1579,“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”,famous_quote +840,“People haven't always been there for me but music always has.”,famous_quote +1836,"“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”",famous_quote +1251,"“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”",famous_quote +1719,“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”,famous_quote +1642,"“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”",famous_quote +2297,"“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”",famous_quote +874,“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”,famous_quote +1464,“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”,famous_quote +2243,“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach”,famous_quote +689,"“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”",famous_quote +2010,“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”,famous_quote +1422,"“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”",famous_quote +2001,"“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”",famous_quote +671,"“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”",famous_quote +1171,"“I do things like get in a taxi and say, ""The library, and step on it.”",famous_quote +1495,"“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”",famous_quote +943,"“Investigation?"" Isabelle laughed. ""Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""""Good idea,"" said Jace. ""I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”",famous_quote +2246,"“I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.I was a survivor, and I was strong.I would not be weak, or helpless again I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”",famous_quote +1449,“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”,famous_quote +895,“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”,famous_quote +2189,“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”,famous_quote +1336,"“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”",famous_quote +164,"“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;Who has left the world better than he found it,Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;Whose life was an inspiration;Whose memory a benediction.”",famous_quote +2361,“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”,famous_quote +2068,“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”,famous_quote +1105,"“Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored.""In future, Clarissa,"" he said, ""it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations.""""You invited him into bed?"" Simon demanded, looking shaken.""Ridiculous, isn't it?"" said Jace. ""We would never have all fit.""""I didn't invite him into bed,"" Clary snapped. ""We were just kissing.""""Just kissing?"" Jace's tone mocked her with its false hurt. ""How swiftly you dismiss our love.”",famous_quote +1753,"“You'd think people had better things to gossip about,"" said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry’s legs and reading the Daily Prophet. ""Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it’s true you’ve got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest.""Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them.What did you tell her?""I told her it's a Hungarian Horntail,"" said Ginny, turning a page of the newspaper idly. ""Much more macho.""Thanks,"" said Harry, grinning. ""And what did you tell her Ron’s got?""A Pygmy Puff, but I didn’t say where.”",famous_quote +2352,"“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”",famous_quote +1938,“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”,famous_quote +370,"“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”",famous_quote +1880,"“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”",famous_quote +852,"“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”",famous_quote +383,“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”,famous_quote +1931,“The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.”,famous_quote +2492,"“All right,"" said Susan. ""I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.""REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.""Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—""YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.""So we can believe the big ones?""YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.""They're not the same at all!""YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.""Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—""MY POINT EXACTLY.”",famous_quote +424,“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”,famous_quote +2208,"“Have you tried talking to her?"" ""No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?”",famous_quote +628,"“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”",famous_quote +894,"“Begin at the beginning,"" the King said, very gravely, ""and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”",famous_quote +2374,"“Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""""I'm always a girl"" I frown.""You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl""I twirl my hair around my finger. ""Kay.”",famous_quote +597,"“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”",famous_quote +2336,“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”,famous_quote +592,"“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”",famous_quote +1687,"“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”",famous_quote +572,“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”,famous_quote +2075,"“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”",famous_quote +2090,“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”,famous_quote +1704,"“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”",famous_quote +2470,"“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”",famous_quote +176,"“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”",famous_quote +528,“THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. We are here to help you. 2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings. 3. The dress code will be enforced. 4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds. 5. Our football team will win the championship this year. 6. We expect more of you here. 7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen. 8. Your schedule was created with you in mind. 9. Your locker combination is private. 10. These will be the years you look back on fondly. TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. You will use algebra in your adult lives. 2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away. 3. Students must stay on campus during lunch. 4. The new text books will arrive any day now. 5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores. 6. We are enforcing the dress code. 7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon. 8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals. 9. There is nothing wrong with summer school. 10. We want to hear what you have to say.”,famous_quote +1633,"“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”",famous_quote +965,“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”,famous_quote +1517,"“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”",famous_quote +197,"“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”",famous_quote +852,"“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”",famous_quote +1537,"“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”",famous_quote +2069,"“I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.”",famous_quote +1080,"“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”",famous_quote +97,"“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”",famous_quote +1903,"“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”",famous_quote +434,"“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”",famous_quote +636,“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”,famous_quote +587,"“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”",famous_quote +343,“He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”,famous_quote +1317,"“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”",famous_quote +1979,"“Why do people say ""grow some balls""? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”",famous_quote +570,“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”,famous_quote +610,"“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”",famous_quote +1727,"“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”",famous_quote +2290,“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”,famous_quote +1854,"“Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets.Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.”",famous_quote +959,“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”,famous_quote +2079,“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”,famous_quote +2438,"“My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.”",famous_quote +2324,“The mountains are calling and I must go.”,famous_quote +531,"“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”",famous_quote +1177,"“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”",famous_quote +2430,"“But-"" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at - and stared.Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth.Maia looked perplexed. ""Wait a second,"" she said. ""Do we all have to do that, too?”",famous_quote +1091,"“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”",famous_quote +1901,“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”,famous_quote +883,"“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”",famous_quote +2261,“The course of true love never did run smooth.”,famous_quote +1678,"“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”",famous_quote +2423,"“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”",famous_quote +2260,“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”,famous_quote +2126,“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”,famous_quote +1749,“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”,famous_quote +781,“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”,famous_quote +2105,"“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”",famous_quote +880,"“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”",famous_quote +446,"“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”",famous_quote +2113,“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”,famous_quote +1783,“Time is the longest distance between two places.”,famous_quote +1277,"“Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. ""That's us,"" he said. ""Those five nuts right there."" ""Which one is me?"" I asked. ""The little deformed one,"" Zoe suggested. ""Oh, shut up.”",famous_quote +1991,"“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”",famous_quote +1067,“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”,famous_quote +1577,"“The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake. Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true? We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La. They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”",famous_quote +1011,“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”,famous_quote +2274,"“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”",famous_quote +773,"“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”",famous_quote +1814,"“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.”",famous_quote +2426,“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”,famous_quote +1201,"“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”",famous_quote +1450,“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”,famous_quote +306,“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”,famous_quote +778,"“Wow,"" Thalia muttered. ""Apollo is hot."" ""He's the sun god,"" I said.""That's not what I meant.”",famous_quote +2315,"“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ""I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,"" that person cannot say, ""I choose otherwise.”",famous_quote +7,“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”,famous_quote +475,"“Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?"" asked Jace.""It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.""""As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome,"" said Simon.""I knew we should have left you a rat.”",famous_quote +1320,"“So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.”",famous_quote +2211,“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”,famous_quote +484,“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”,famous_quote +904,"“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”",famous_quote +558,"“Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,"" said Jace. ""I’d rather stay down here and rot.""""Forever?"" said Simon. ""Forever’s an awfully long time.""Jace raised his eyebrows. ""I knew it,"" he said. ""You want to kiss me, don’t you?”",famous_quote +1967,“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”,famous_quote +2285,"“A girl calls and asks, ""Does it hurt very much to die?""""Well, sweetheart,"" I tell her, ""yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”",famous_quote +1127,"“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”",famous_quote +1233,"“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”",famous_quote +467,"“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”",famous_quote +2433,"“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”",famous_quote +847,"“You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...”",famous_quote +2434,"“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”",famous_quote +258,"“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”",famous_quote +282,"“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”",famous_quote +1649,"“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”",famous_quote +1898,“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”,famous_quote +39,"“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”",famous_quote +2267,"“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”",famous_quote +1014,“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”,famous_quote +612,“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”,famous_quote +1915,"“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”",famous_quote +687,“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”,famous_quote +612,“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”,famous_quote +2307,"“We learn from failure, not from success!”",famous_quote +2413,"“If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my belt, freeing it. Peeta sees it and his hand clamps on my wrist. ""No, I won't let you."" ""Trust me,"" I whisper. He holds my gaze for a long moment then lets go. I loosen the top of the pouch and pour a few spoonfuls of berries into his palm. Then I fill my own. ""On the count of three?"" Peeta leans down and kisses me once, very gently. ""The count of three,"" he says. We stand, our backs pressed together, our empty hands locked tight. ""Hold them out. I want everyone to see,"" he says. I spread out my fingers, and the dark berries glisten in the sun. I give Peeta's hand one last squeeze as a signal, as a good-bye, and we begin counting. ""One."" Maybe I'm wrong. ""Two."" Maybe they don't care if we both die. ""Three!"" It's too late to change my mind. I lift my hand to my mouth taking one last look at the world. The berries have just passed my lips when the trumpets begin to blare. The frantic voice of Claudius Templesmith shouts above them. ""Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you - the tributes of District 12!”",famous_quote +1781,“No one has ever become poor by giving.”,famous_quote +1810,“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”,famous_quote +1547,"“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”",famous_quote +1930,"“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”",famous_quote +1152,“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”,famous_quote +574,"“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”",famous_quote +1910,"“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”",famous_quote +1012,"“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”",famous_quote +669,"“To douchebags!"" he said, gesturing to Brad. ""And to girls that break your heart,"" he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. ""And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”",famous_quote +268,“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”,famous_quote +1283,"“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”",famous_quote +923,"“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”",famous_quote +1125,"“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”",famous_quote +1529,"“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”",famous_quote +1758,“Reading brings us unknown friends”,famous_quote +1594,"“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”",famous_quote +246,"“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”",famous_quote +1560,"“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”",famous_quote +2178,"“Demon pox, oh demon poxJust how is it acquired?One must go down to the bad part of townUntil one is very tired.Demon pox, oh demon pox, I had it all along—Not the pox, you foolish blocks,I mean this very song—For I was right, and you were wrong!""""Will!"" Charlotte shouted over the noise, ""Have you LOST YOUR MIND? CEASE THAT INFERNAL RACKET! Jem—"" Jem, rising to his feet, clapped his hands over Will's mouth. ""Do you promise to be quiet?"" he hissed into his friend's ear.Will nodded, blue eyes blazing. Tessa was staring at him in amazement; they all were. She had seen Will many things—amused, bitter, condescending, angry, pitying—but never giddy before.Jem let him go. ""All right, then.""Will slid to the floor, his back against the armchair, and threw up his arms. ""A demon pox on all your houses!"" he announced, and yawned.""Oh, God, weeks of pox jokes,"" said Jem. ""We're in for it now.”",famous_quote +2400,"“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”",famous_quote +2243,“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach”,famous_quote +1939,"“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”",famous_quote +929,"“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”",famous_quote +226,"“Jesus!"" Luke exclaimed.""Actually, it's just me,"" said Simon. ""Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”",famous_quote +264,"“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”",famous_quote +1395,“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”,famous_quote +1457,"“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”",famous_quote +645,"“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”",famous_quote +2258,“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”,famous_quote +1418,“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”,famous_quote +1473,“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”,famous_quote +1387,“All great and precious things are lonely.”,famous_quote +1899,“You can make anything by writing.”,famous_quote +2504,"“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”",famous_quote +1249,"“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”",famous_quote +981,“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”,famous_quote +1154,"“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”",famous_quote +587,"“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”",famous_quote +475,"“Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?"" asked Jace.""It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.""""As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome,"" said Simon.""I knew we should have left you a rat.”",famous_quote +1821,"“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?â€� I say.“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,â€� he says.“You should wake me,â€� I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,â€� he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”",famous_quote +985,"“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”",famous_quote +2203,“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”,famous_quote +1241,“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”,famous_quote +189,"“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”",famous_quote +1440,“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”,famous_quote +980,"“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”",famous_quote +1698,"“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”",famous_quote +1715,“A house without books is like a room without windows.”,famous_quote +40,"“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”",famous_quote +2354,"“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”",famous_quote +942,“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”,famous_quote +337,“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”,famous_quote +1337,"“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”",famous_quote +1098,"“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”",famous_quote +2326,"“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”",famous_quote +895,“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”,famous_quote +2320,"“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”",famous_quote +1674,"“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”",famous_quote +930,"“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”",famous_quote +288,"“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”",famous_quote +723,“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”,famous_quote +2319,“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”,famous_quote +1953,"“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”",famous_quote +1089,"“Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?”",famous_quote +482,“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”,famous_quote +935,"“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”",famous_quote +2295,“No good deed goes unpunished.”,famous_quote +155,"“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”",famous_quote +1070,"“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”",famous_quote +1958,"“Did you see that dress?â€� ""I saw the dress.â€� ""Did you like it?â€� He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. ""Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?â€� When he spoke, I could barely hear him. ""You'll endanger the school.â€� I smiled and fell asleep.”",famous_quote +2501,"“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: ""Go down again - I dwell among the people.”",famous_quote +2248,"“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”",famous_quote +1683,“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”,famous_quote +123,"“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”",famous_quote +2048,"“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!”",famous_quote +967,"“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”",famous_quote +854,“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”,famous_quote +639,"“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”",famous_quote +2238,"“I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”",famous_quote +1602,"“Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must.""""I'll stay,"" Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. ""I can minister angelically.""""None too convincingly. And you're not as pretty to look at as Tessa is,"" Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow.""How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun.""Jem still had his eyes closed. ""If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.”",famous_quote +441,“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”,famous_quote +1944,“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”,famous_quote +1838,“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”,famous_quote +1829,"“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”",famous_quote +2190,“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”,famous_quote +532,"“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.''Seventeen,' Gus corrected.'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'I was kind of crying by then.”",famous_quote +2274,"“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”",famous_quote +1336,"“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”",famous_quote +948,"“The Guide says there is an art to flying"", said Ford, ""or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”",famous_quote +2019,“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”,famous_quote +459,"“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”",famous_quote +550,"“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”",famous_quote +392,“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”,famous_quote +1787,"“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”",famous_quote +844,“War is what happens when language fails.”,famous_quote +2257,“I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.”,famous_quote +1138,"“One love, one heart, one destiny.”",famous_quote +645,"“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”",famous_quote +2266,"“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”",famous_quote +2454,“The soul is healed by being with children.”,famous_quote +1466,"“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”",famous_quote +1377,“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”,famous_quote +141,“Not all those who wander are lost.”,famous_quote +500,“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”,famous_quote +839,"“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”",famous_quote +1682,“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”,famous_quote +1565,"“Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.”",famous_quote +2046,"“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”",famous_quote +1530,“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”,famous_quote +595,"“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”",famous_quote +1904,"“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”",famous_quote +280,"“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”",famous_quote +423,“We loved with a love that was more than love.”,famous_quote +269,"“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”",famous_quote +153,"“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”",famous_quote +1750,“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”,famous_quote +661,"“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”",famous_quote +1967,“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”,famous_quote +82,“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”,famous_quote +1449,“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”,famous_quote +1298,“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”,famous_quote +2331,"“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”",famous_quote +979,"“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”",famous_quote +2220,“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”,famous_quote +1659,"“Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?"" Will demanded with mock horror. ""Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be."" He banged on the side of the carriage. ""Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.”",famous_quote +1398,"“I'm not going to wear a red dress,"" she said.""It would look stunning, My Lady,"" she called.She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. ""If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”",famous_quote +632,"“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”",famous_quote +1531,“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”,famous_quote +786,“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”,famous_quote +397,"“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”",famous_quote +1143,"“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”",famous_quote +933,“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”,famous_quote +1460,"“Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”",famous_quote +1852,"“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.”",famous_quote +285,“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”,famous_quote +264,"“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”",famous_quote +2367,"“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”",famous_quote +2136,"“The things you used to own, now they own you.”",famous_quote +1677,"“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”",famous_quote +1226,“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”,famous_quote +820,"“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”",famous_quote +1762,"“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”",famous_quote +2381,"“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”",famous_quote +2269,“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”,famous_quote +40,"“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”",famous_quote +1731,“A word after a word after a word is power.”,famous_quote +67,“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”,famous_quote +987,"“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”",famous_quote +1799,“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”,famous_quote +1621,"“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”",famous_quote +1655,"“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”",famous_quote +1278,“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”,famous_quote +694,"“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”",famous_quote +1085,"“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”",famous_quote +2479,“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”,famous_quote +1693,“My library is an archive of longings.”,famous_quote +2315,"“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ""I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,"" that person cannot say, ""I choose otherwise.”",famous_quote +1058,"“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”",famous_quote +778,"“Wow,"" Thalia muttered. ""Apollo is hot."" ""He's the sun god,"" I said.""That's not what I meant.”",famous_quote +493,"“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”",famous_quote +1585,"“I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”",famous_quote +1492,"“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”",famous_quote +1790,"“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”",famous_quote +660,“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”,famous_quote +1348,“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”,famous_quote +1327,"“Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace”",famous_quote +1299,"“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”",famous_quote +1986,“I'd rather die my way than live yours.”,famous_quote +2044,“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”,famous_quote +1928,“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”,famous_quote +1347,“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”,famous_quote +1058,"“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”",famous_quote +976,“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”,famous_quote +481,“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”,famous_quote +727,"“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”",famous_quote +1031,"“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were ""I go to seek a Great Perhaps."" That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”",famous_quote +342,"“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”",famous_quote +1447,"“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .â€� The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”",famous_quote +2379,“Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.”,famous_quote +2485,"“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”",famous_quote +2221,"“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”",famous_quote +526,“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”,famous_quote +1896,"“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”",famous_quote +658,“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”,famous_quote +2073,"“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”",famous_quote +819,“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”,famous_quote +405,"“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”",famous_quote +2279,“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”,famous_quote +1573,“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”,famous_quote +1811,"“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”",famous_quote +504,“Always do what you are afraid to do.”,famous_quote +178,“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”,famous_quote +131,"“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”",famous_quote +1846,“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”,famous_quote +1478,"“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”",famous_quote +2395,"“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: ""It's gonna go wrong."" Or ""She's going to hurt me."" Or,""I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ."" Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”",famous_quote +771,"“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”",famous_quote +1429,"“Was it hard?"" I ask.Letting go?""Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”",famous_quote +2123,"“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”",famous_quote +578,"“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”",famous_quote +1515,"“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”",famous_quote +193,"“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”",famous_quote +2007,“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”,famous_quote +1185,“Top 15 Things Money Can’t BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”,famous_quote +2394,"“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”",famous_quote +1384,"“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”",famous_quote +1792,“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”,famous_quote +1110,“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”,famous_quote +2261,“The course of true love never did run smooth.”,famous_quote +1936,"“I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.”",famous_quote +779,"“When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.”",famous_quote +261,"“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”",famous_quote +729,“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”,famous_quote +282,"“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”",famous_quote +1490,“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”,famous_quote +361,"“Whatever you are, be a good one.”",famous_quote +440,"“I DON'T CARE!"" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. ""I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!""""You do care,"" said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. ""You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”",famous_quote +2140,"“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”",famous_quote +1644,"“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”",famous_quote +866,"“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”",famous_quote +1447,"“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .â€� The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”",famous_quote +141,“Not all those who wander are lost.”,famous_quote +1314,"“So you're always honest,"" I said.""Aren't you?""""No,"" I told him. ""I'm not.""""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""""I'm not saying I'm a liar,"" I told him. He raised his eyebrows. ""That's not how I meant it, anyways.""""How'd you mean it, then?""""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""""Why not?""""Because the truth sometimes hurts,"" I said.""Yeah,"" he said. ""So do lies, though.”",famous_quote +1455,“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”,famous_quote +1875,"“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”",famous_quote +1847,"“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”",famous_quote +1712,"“Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder.”",famous_quote +700,“Being crazy isn't enough.”,famous_quote +997,“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”,famous_quote +2096,"“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”",famous_quote +1325,"“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”",famous_quote +880,"“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”",famous_quote +1213,“The world was hers for the reading.”,famous_quote +1159,"“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”",famous_quote +554,"“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”",famous_quote +403,"“Let us find the dam snack bar,"" Zoe said. ""We should eat while we can.""Grover cracked a smile. ""The dam snack bar?""Zoe blinked. ""Yes. What is funny?""""Nothing,"" Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. ""I could use some dam french fries.""Even Thalia smiled at that. ""And I need to use the dam restroom.""...I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. ""I do not understand.""""I want to use the dam water fountain,"" Grover said.""And..."" Thalia tried to catch her breath. ""I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”",famous_quote +891,“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”,famous_quote +601,“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”,famous_quote +1830,"“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”",famous_quote +340,"“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”",famous_quote +1968,“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”,famous_quote +703,"“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”",famous_quote +317,“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”,famous_quote +1386,“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”,famous_quote +2429,“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”,famous_quote +2280,"“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”",famous_quote +1800,“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”,famous_quote +1367,“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”,famous_quote +1572,"“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”",famous_quote +816,"“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”",famous_quote +552,“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”,famous_quote +855,“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”,famous_quote +1812,"“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.But sometimes it doesn't.Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”",famous_quote +182,"“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”",famous_quote +1574,"“I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.”",famous_quote +396,"“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”",famous_quote +1727,"“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”",famous_quote +1517,"“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”",famous_quote +906,"“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.”",famous_quote +1356,"“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”",famous_quote +2174,“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”,famous_quote +0,“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”,famous_quote +18,“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”,famous_quote +583,"“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”",famous_quote +455,“Never laugh at live dragons.”,famous_quote +2036,"“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”",famous_quote +1132,"“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”",famous_quote +2492,"“All right,"" said Susan. ""I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.""REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.""Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—""YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.""So we can believe the big ones?""YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.""They're not the same at all!""YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.""Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—""MY POINT EXACTLY.”",famous_quote +1952,"“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”",famous_quote +2150,“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”,famous_quote +987,"“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”",famous_quote +519,"“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”",famous_quote +858,“God has no religion.”,famous_quote +173,“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”,famous_quote +1366,"“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”",famous_quote +2478,“But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.”,famous_quote +726,"“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”",famous_quote +1710,"“It was a mistake,"" you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”",famous_quote +1875,"“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”",famous_quote +1681,“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”,famous_quote +1347,“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”,famous_quote +989,“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”,famous_quote +419,“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”,famous_quote +593,"“Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?""""No"" Simon said, ""If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”",famous_quote +1774,"“In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.”",famous_quote +2459,"“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”",famous_quote +935,"“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”",famous_quote +1107,"“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”",famous_quote +1136,“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”,famous_quote +331,"“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”",famous_quote +2088,"“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”",famous_quote +1793,“Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”,famous_quote +958,"“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.""""I don't much care where –""""Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”",famous_quote +104,“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”,famous_quote +201,"“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”",famous_quote +2497,“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”,famous_quote +1842,"“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”",famous_quote +1866,"“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”",famous_quote +1996,"“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”",famous_quote +1289,"“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”",famous_quote +909,“We live for books.”,famous_quote +209,"“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”",famous_quote +562,“I cannot live without books.”,famous_quote +1563,"“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”",famous_quote +770,"“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”",famous_quote +2501,"“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: ""Go down again - I dwell among the people.”",famous_quote +628,"“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”",famous_quote +1628,"“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”",famous_quote +1701,"“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”",famous_quote +386,“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”,famous_quote +1935,"“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.”",famous_quote +2343,“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”,famous_quote +2305,"“Seventeen, eh!"" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred.""Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?""""Vaguely,"" said Harry, grinning up at him. ""Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?""""I forge’ the details,"" Hagrid chortled.”",famous_quote +1104,“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”,famous_quote +267,"“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”",famous_quote +2466,"“The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.”",famous_quote +2282,"“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”",famous_quote +1856,"“What do you want?""""Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”",famous_quote +1998,“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”,famous_quote +1380,"“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”",famous_quote +1236,"“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”",famous_quote +573,“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”,famous_quote +48,“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”,famous_quote +1150,"“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”",famous_quote +222,"“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”",famous_quote +1431,"“Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.”",famous_quote +1528,“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”,famous_quote +1819,"“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”",famous_quote +2324,“The mountains are calling and I must go.”,famous_quote +1461,"“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”",famous_quote +1130,“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”,famous_quote +1681,“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”,famous_quote +2467,“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”,famous_quote +374,“May you live every day of your life.”,famous_quote +2120,"“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”",famous_quote +2021,"“Trains are great dirty smoky things,"" said Will. ""You won't like it."" Tessa was unmoved. ""I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?"" ""I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it."" ""But think how entertaining for sightseers,"" said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.”",famous_quote +1053,"“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”",famous_quote +1889,"“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”",famous_quote +1823,"“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”",famous_quote +1474,“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”,famous_quote +2242,"“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”",famous_quote +1179,"“Goodbye,"" said the fox. ""And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”",famous_quote +1064,"“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”",famous_quote +2070,"“You’re dangerous,â€� he says.“Why?â€�“Because you make me believe in the impossible”",famous_quote +359,"“Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.""""Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay,"" Clary muttered.""Selling them on what?""Clary smiled blandly at him. ""A mythical place of great magical power.”",famous_quote +2041,“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”,famous_quote +1141,"“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”",famous_quote +1635,"“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”",famous_quote +1403,"“What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?""""I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you.""""Why?""""Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?”",famous_quote +1943,“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”,famous_quote +678,"“Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.”",famous_quote +2487,“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”,famous_quote +6,"“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,Love like you'll never be hurt,Sing like there's nobody listening,And live like it's heaven on earth.”",famous_quote +2468,“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”,famous_quote +1591,"“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”",famous_quote +832,“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”,famous_quote +1810,“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”,famous_quote +913,"“Dare to BeWhen a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.When times are tough, dare to be tougher.When love hurts you, dare to love again.When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.Dare to be the best you can –At all times, Dare to be!”",famous_quote +2011,“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”,famous_quote +1442,“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”,famous_quote +1450,“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”,famous_quote +1502,"“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind. Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.”",famous_quote +125,"“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”",famous_quote +2442,"“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”",famous_quote +816,"“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”",famous_quote +1829,"“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”",famous_quote +575,"“Not everything is about you,"" Clary said furiously.""Possibly,"" Jace said, ""but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.”",famous_quote +2372,“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”,famous_quote +1415,“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”,famous_quote +929,"“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”",famous_quote +1463,“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”,famous_quote +832,“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”,famous_quote +1054,"“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”",famous_quote +1648,"“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”",famous_quote +1900,"“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”",famous_quote +1457,"“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”",famous_quote +1399,"“These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume”",famous_quote +442,"“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”",famous_quote +2122,“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”,famous_quote +556,"“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.”",famous_quote +1178,"“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”",famous_quote +2037,“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”,famous_quote +362,"“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”",famous_quote +2495,“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”,famous_quote +1257,“Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.”,famous_quote +1841,“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”,famous_quote +2309,"“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”",famous_quote +1850,"“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”",famous_quote +2172,“The past is never where you think you left it.”,famous_quote +910,"“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”",famous_quote +244,“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”,famous_quote +541,“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”,famous_quote +2169,"“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”",famous_quote +2172,“The past is never where you think you left it.”,famous_quote +1572,"“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”",famous_quote +2217,"“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is achingâ€� than to say “My heart is broken.”",famous_quote +123,"“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”",famous_quote +1731,“A word after a word after a word is power.”,famous_quote +785,“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”,famous_quote +2043,"“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”",famous_quote +2248,"“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”",famous_quote +2416,"“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”",famous_quote +796,“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”,famous_quote +76,“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”,famous_quote +58,“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”,famous_quote +2478,“But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.”,famous_quote +1523,"“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”",famous_quote +1936,"“I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.”",famous_quote +2156,"“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”",famous_quote +1301,"“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”",famous_quote +67,“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”,famous_quote +2352,"“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”",famous_quote +1932,“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”,famous_quote +364,“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”,famous_quote +820,"“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”",famous_quote +1402,“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”,famous_quote +2390,"“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. ""Can they be brought together?"" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. ""I despise intelligence"" really means: ""I cannot bear my doubts.”",famous_quote +946,“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”,famous_quote +1577,"“The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake. Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true? We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La. They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”",famous_quote +1377,“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”,famous_quote +1439,"“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”",famous_quote +761,"“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”",famous_quote +340,"“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”",famous_quote +382,"“Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?"" Harry interrupted again.""So he can sneak up on people,"" said Ron. ""Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...”",famous_quote +1003,"“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships.These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...Remember, to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.Remember, to say, ""I love you"" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person might not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.”",famous_quote +1556,“Love is the absence of judgment.”,famous_quote +299,“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”,famous_quote +138,"“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”",famous_quote +358,"“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”",famous_quote +835,"“Don't talk to me.""""Why not?""""Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...”",famous_quote +1522,“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”,famous_quote +1627,“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”,famous_quote +1982,“My rapier wit hides my inner pain.”,famous_quote +1303,“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”,famous_quote +908,"“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”",famous_quote +1134,"“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”",famous_quote +2186,“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”,famous_quote +995,"“You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.”",famous_quote +2482,"“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”",famous_quote +2320,"“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”",famous_quote +2151,"“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”",famous_quote +1237,“I can resist anything except temptation.”,famous_quote +1784,"“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”",famous_quote +164,"“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;Who has left the world better than he found it,Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;Whose life was an inspiration;Whose memory a benediction.”",famous_quote +998,"“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say ""yes"" to life?”",famous_quote +1307,"“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”",famous_quote +656,“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”,famous_quote +2211,“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”,famous_quote +1909,“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”,famous_quote +2046,"“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”",famous_quote +2111,"“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”",famous_quote +1140,"“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”",famous_quote +1889,"“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”",famous_quote +266,“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”,famous_quote +1845,"“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”",famous_quote +1708,“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”,famous_quote +2293,"“Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”",famous_quote +2442,"“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”",famous_quote +1510,"“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”",famous_quote +475,"“Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?"" asked Jace.""It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.""""As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome,"" said Simon.""I knew we should have left you a rat.”",famous_quote +976,“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”,famous_quote +1207,"“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?"" Mo had said...""As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”",famous_quote +1043,"“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”",famous_quote +1960,"“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”",famous_quote +557,“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”,famous_quote +1017,"“Albus Severus,"" Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, ""you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.”",famous_quote +1605,“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”,famous_quote +882,"“Why are they all staring?"" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.""Don’t let it worry you,"" said Ron. ""It’s me. I’m extremely famous.”",famous_quote +2194,"“Well, she's not responding to my advances,"" he observed more brightly than he felt, ""so she must be dead."" ""Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.”",famous_quote +665,"“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”",famous_quote +1771,“May the odds be ever in your favor!”,famous_quote +863,“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”,famous_quote +581,“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”,famous_quote +694,"“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”",famous_quote +1251,"“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”",famous_quote +1610,“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”,famous_quote +1239,“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”,famous_quote +2454,“The soul is healed by being with children.”,famous_quote +398,“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”,famous_quote +1946,"“1. Be Impeccable With Your WordSpeak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2. Don't Take Anything PersonallyNothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. 3. Don't Make AssumptionsFind the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. 4. Always Do Your BestYour best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”",famous_quote +714,"“But I don’t want to go among mad people,"" Alice remarked.""Oh, you can’t help that,"" said the Cat: ""we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.""""How do you know I’m mad?"" said Alice.""You must be,"" said the Cat, ""or you wouldn’t have come here.”",famous_quote +703,"“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”",famous_quote +1714,“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”,famous_quote +1972,“In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?”,famous_quote +81,"“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”",famous_quote +603,"“Not my daughter, you bitch!”",famous_quote +1970,“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”,famous_quote +1710,"“It was a mistake,"" you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”",famous_quote +2046,"“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”",famous_quote +902,“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”,famous_quote +364,“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”,famous_quote +162,"“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”",famous_quote +1863,“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”,famous_quote +115,"“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”",famous_quote +2384,"“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”",famous_quote +880,"“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”",famous_quote +839,"“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”",famous_quote +2194,"“Well, she's not responding to my advances,"" he observed more brightly than he felt, ""so she must be dead."" ""Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.”",famous_quote +1346,“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”,famous_quote +2490,"“if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”",famous_quote +1036,"“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”",famous_quote +942,“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”,famous_quote +1724,"“It's not gray,"" Clary felt compelled to point out. ""It's green.""""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood,"" said Jace.”",famous_quote +2334,"“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”",famous_quote +1137,"“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”",famous_quote +21,“We accept the love we think we deserve.”,famous_quote +1749,“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”,famous_quote +682,"“That does it,"" said Jace. ""I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.""""Why?"" Isabelle said.""So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.”",famous_quote +1833,“Courage is found in unlikely places.”,famous_quote +2367,"“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”",famous_quote +125,"“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”",famous_quote +276,“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”,famous_quote +1999,“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”,famous_quote +1227,“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”,famous_quote +2241,"“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”",famous_quote +695,“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”,famous_quote +1309,"“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”",famous_quote +56,"“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”",famous_quote +18,“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”,famous_quote +2311,“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”,famous_quote +112,"“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”",famous_quote +541,“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”,famous_quote +578,"“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”",famous_quote +1088,“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”,famous_quote +24,"“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”",famous_quote +1572,"“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”",famous_quote +2048,"“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!”",famous_quote +1572,"“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”",famous_quote +140,"“One must always be careful of books,"" said Tessa, ""and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”",famous_quote +1767,"“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”",famous_quote +647,"“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”",famous_quote +2235,"“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”",famous_quote +200,“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”,famous_quote +256,“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”,famous_quote +546,"“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”",famous_quote +2241,"“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”",famous_quote +801,"“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”",famous_quote +941,"“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”",famous_quote +413,“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”,famous_quote +2014,“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”,famous_quote +1381,"“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”",famous_quote +1098,"“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”",famous_quote +909,“We live for books.”,famous_quote +187,"“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”",famous_quote +2015,"“When God Created Mothers"" When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of ""overtime"" when the angel appeared and said. ""You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."" And God said, ""Have you read the specs on this order?"" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands."" The angel shook her head slowly and said. ""Six pairs of hands.... no way."" It's not the hands that are causing me problems,"" God remarked, ""it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have."" That's on the standard model?"" asked the angel. God nodded. One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say. 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word."" God,"" said the angel touching his sleeve gently, ""Get some rest tomorrow...."" I can't,"" said God, ""I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick...can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger...and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower."" The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. ""It's too soft,"" she sighed. But tough!"" said God excitedly. ""You can imagine what this mother can do or endure."" Can it think?"" Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise,"" said the Creator. Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek. There's a leak,"" she pronounced. ""I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model."" It's not a leak,"" said the Lord, ""It's a tear."" What's it for?"" It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride."" You are a genius, "" said the angel. Somberly, God said, ""I didn't put it there.”",famous_quote +1313,"“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”",famous_quote +2092,"“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”",famous_quote +2130,“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”,famous_quote +1146,"“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”",famous_quote +357,"“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”",famous_quote +1551,"“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”",famous_quote +1089,"“Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?”",famous_quote +1680,"“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”",famous_quote +2422,"“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”",famous_quote +161,"“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”",famous_quote +2369,"“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”",famous_quote +449,"“Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your troubles layAnd when it's morning again, they'll wash awayHere it's safe, here it's warmHere the daisies guard you from every harmHere your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them trueHere is the place where I love you.”",famous_quote +1497,"“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”",famous_quote +1036,"“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”",famous_quote +2231,“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”,famous_quote +2158,"“If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""""Who's Magnus?"" Max inquired.""He's a warlock,"" said Alec.""A sexy, sexy warlock,"" Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury.""But warlocks are bad,"" protested Max, looking baffled.""Exactly,"" said Isabelle.”",famous_quote +1950,“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”,famous_quote +1313,"“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”",famous_quote +2342,“I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.”,famous_quote +1238,“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”,famous_quote +973,"“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”",famous_quote +631,“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”,famous_quote +1590,"“In a time of destruction, create something.”",famous_quote +1050,“Don't Panic.”,famous_quote +1588,“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”,famous_quote +2368,"“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”",famous_quote +1693,“My library is an archive of longings.”,famous_quote +436,"“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”",famous_quote +1556,“Love is the absence of judgment.”,famous_quote +1076,"“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”",famous_quote +1304,"“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”",famous_quote +2078,“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”,famous_quote +2384,"“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”",famous_quote +182,"“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”",famous_quote +1469,"“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”",famous_quote +1479,"“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”",famous_quote +1589,“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”,famous_quote +1587,"“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”",famous_quote +659,"“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”",famous_quote +159,"“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.""After all this time?""""Always,"" said Snape.”",famous_quote +2459,"“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”",famous_quote +1011,“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”,famous_quote +52,"“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”",famous_quote +2455,"“Clary felt suddenly annoyed. ""When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?""""Exsanguinated,"" said Jace, impressed. ""That's a big word.""""And you're a big-""""Tsk tsk,"" he interupted. ""No swearing in church.”",famous_quote +1045,"“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”",famous_quote +1053,"“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”",famous_quote +2307,"“We learn from failure, not from success!”",famous_quote +1228,"“Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”",famous_quote +1494,"“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”",famous_quote +1489,"“He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...”",famous_quote +1035,“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”,famous_quote +1950,“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”,famous_quote +849,"“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”",famous_quote +353,"“Promise YourselfTo be so strong that nothingcan disturb your peace of mind.To talk health, happiness, and prosperityto every person you meet.To make all your friends feelthat there is something in themTo look at the sunny side of everythingand make your optimism come true.To think only the best, to work only for the best,and to expect only the best.To be just as enthusiastic about the success of othersas you are about your own.To forget the mistakes of the pastand press on to the greater achievements of the future.To wear a cheerful countenance at all timesand give every living creature you meet a smile.To give so much time to the improvement of yourselfthat you have no time to criticize others.To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,not in loud words but great deeds.To live in faith that the whole world is on your sideso long as you are true to the best that is in you.”",famous_quote +1098,"“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”",famous_quote +1739,“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”,famous_quote +1464,“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”,famous_quote +990,"“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”",famous_quote +1264,"“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”",famous_quote +1884,"“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”",famous_quote +1809,"“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”",famous_quote +2341,“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”,famous_quote +2256,"“There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”",famous_quote +1111,“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”,famous_quote +817,"“Don't JustDon't just learn, experience.Don't just read, absorb.Don't just change, transform.Don't just relate, advocate.Don't just promise, prove.Don't just criticize, encourage.Don't just think, ponder.Don't just take, give.Don't just see, feel.Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen.Don't just talk, act.Don't just tell, show.Don't just exist, live.”",famous_quote +1799,“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”,famous_quote +1960,"“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”",famous_quote +2437,"“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”",famous_quote +2372,“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”,famous_quote +888,“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”,famous_quote +1855,"“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”",famous_quote +1180,"“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”",famous_quote +667,“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”,famous_quote +632,"“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”",famous_quote +1642,"“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”",famous_quote +136,“Do one thing every day that scares you.”,famous_quote +1946,"“1. Be Impeccable With Your WordSpeak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2. Don't Take Anything PersonallyNothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. 3. Don't Make AssumptionsFind the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. 4. Always Do Your BestYour best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”",famous_quote +1697,“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”,famous_quote +427,"“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”",famous_quote +1475,"“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”",famous_quote +818,"“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”",famous_quote +2188,"“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”",famous_quote +1106,“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”,famous_quote +2224,"“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”",famous_quote +197,"“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”",famous_quote +1995,"“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”",famous_quote +2448,“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”,famous_quote +470,"“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”",famous_quote +2265,"“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”",famous_quote +1948,"“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”",famous_quote +928,“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”,famous_quote +2010,“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”,famous_quote +905,"“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”",famous_quote +2222,"“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. ""I'm okay"" we say. ""I'm alright"". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”",famous_quote +22,“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”,famous_quote +234,“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”,famous_quote +1124,"“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”",famous_quote +928,“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”,famous_quote +522,"“I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what’s her name?"" says Caesar.Peeta sighs. ""Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping.""Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.She have another fellow?"" asks Caesar.I don’t know, but a lot of boys like her,"" says Peeta.So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?"" says Caesar encouragingly.I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning...won’t help in my case,"" says Peeta.Why ever not?"" says Caesar, mystified.Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. ""Because...because...she came here with me.”",famous_quote +1808,“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”,famous_quote +430,"“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”",famous_quote +792,"“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”",famous_quote +1629,“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”,famous_quote +1736,“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”,famous_quote +532,"“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.''Seventeen,' Gus corrected.'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'I was kind of crying by then.”",famous_quote +1746,"“Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.”",famous_quote +1675,"“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”",famous_quote +1316,“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”,famous_quote +912,"“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”",famous_quote +1124,"“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”",famous_quote +1525,"“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”",famous_quote +1327,"“Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace”",famous_quote +1023,“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”,famous_quote +1576,"“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”",famous_quote +1378,"“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”",famous_quote +1519,“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”,famous_quote +1681,“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”,famous_quote +1997,"“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”",famous_quote +226,"“Jesus!"" Luke exclaimed.""Actually, it's just me,"" said Simon. ""Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”",famous_quote +1259,"“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”",famous_quote +872,“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”,famous_quote +891,“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”,famous_quote +1478,"“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”",famous_quote +1036,"“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”",famous_quote +2257,“I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.”,famous_quote +396,"“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”",famous_quote +1123,“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”,famous_quote +2078,“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”,famous_quote +648,"“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.—""Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'"" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”",famous_quote +328,“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”,famous_quote +1482,"“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”",famous_quote +951,"“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”",famous_quote +2005,"“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”",famous_quote +2016,"“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”",famous_quote +1878,"“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis some visitor,"" I muttered, ""tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more.""Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore —For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless here for evermore.And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door —Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more.""Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,Sir,"" said I, ""or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,That I scarce was sure I heard you""— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, ""Lenore?""This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, ""Lenore!"" — Merely this, and nothing more.Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.Surely,"" said I, ""surely that is something at my window lattice:Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore —Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; — 'Tis the wind and nothing more.""Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door —Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more.Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,"" I said, ""art sure no craven,Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore —Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"" Quoth the Raven, ""Nevermore.""Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,Though its answer little meaning— little relevancy bore;For we cannot help agreeing that no living human beingEver yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door —Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as ""Nevermore.”",famous_quote +1196,"“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”",famous_quote +1772,"“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”",famous_quote +161,"“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”",famous_quote +1751,"“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”",famous_quote +775,"“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.â€�I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”",famous_quote +1827,"“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”",famous_quote +2321,“Don't let the muggles get you down.”,famous_quote +1051,"“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow. Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail. A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live. When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”",famous_quote +2373,"“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”",famous_quote +939,“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”,famous_quote +539,"“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”",famous_quote +821,“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”,famous_quote +1461,"“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”",famous_quote +1088,“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”,famous_quote +355,“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”,famous_quote +234,“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”,famous_quote +2274,"“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”",famous_quote +1548,"“So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?"" ""You could say that.""""Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.""""I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.”",famous_quote +2096,"“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”",famous_quote +117,"“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”",famous_quote +2101,“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”,famous_quote +1673,“Let our scars fall in love.”,famous_quote +1067,“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”,famous_quote +2100,"“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”",famous_quote +557,“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”,famous_quote +1815,"“I'm going to wake Peeta,"" I say.""No, wait,"" says Finnick. ""Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his.""Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves on either side of Peeta, lean over until our faces are inches frim his nose, and give him a shake. ""Peeta. Peeta, wake up,"" I say in a soft, singsong voice.His eyelids flutter open and then he jumps like we've stabbed him. ""Aa!""Finnick and I fall back in the sand, laughing our heads off. Every time we try to stop, we look at Peeta's attempt to maintain a disdainful expression and it sets us off again.”",famous_quote +2005,"“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”",famous_quote +397,"“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”",famous_quote +674,"“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”",famous_quote +386,“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”,famous_quote +2158,"“If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""""Who's Magnus?"" Max inquired.""He's a warlock,"" said Alec.""A sexy, sexy warlock,"" Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury.""But warlocks are bad,"" protested Max, looking baffled.""Exactly,"" said Isabelle.”",famous_quote +2064,“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”,famous_quote +883,"“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”",famous_quote +540,“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”,famous_quote +170,“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”,famous_quote +2456,“مش مهم انك تغير الكون... المهم انك تخلي الكون ما يغيركش”,famous_quote +739,“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”,famous_quote +1401,"“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”",famous_quote +2277,“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”,famous_quote +118,"“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”",famous_quote +2151,"“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”",famous_quote +1995,"“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”",famous_quote +1705,"“silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”",famous_quote +1722,"“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”",famous_quote +2222,"“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. ""I'm okay"" we say. ""I'm alright"". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”",famous_quote +1697,“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”,famous_quote +1444,“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”,famous_quote +1759,"“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”",famous_quote +1524,"“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”",famous_quote +664,“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”,famous_quote +32,"“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”",famous_quote +2102,“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”,famous_quote +2059,“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”,famous_quote +1551,"“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”",famous_quote +719,"“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”",famous_quote +2420,"“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”",famous_quote +483,“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”,famous_quote +972,“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”,famous_quote +306,“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”,famous_quote +456,"“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”",famous_quote +2207,“I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seenOf meadow flowers and butterfliesIn summers that have beenOf yellow leaves and gossamerIn autumns that there wereWith morning mist and silver sunAnd wind upon my hairI sit beside the fire and thinkOf how the world will beWhen winter comes without a spring That I shall ever seeFor still there are so many thingsThat I have never seenIn every wood in every springThere is a different greenI sit beside the fire and thinkOf people long agoAnd people that will see a worldThat I shall never knowBut all the while I sit and thinkOf times there were beforeI listen for returning feet And voices at the door”,famous_quote +330,"“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”",famous_quote +224,"“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”",famous_quote +1479,"“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”",famous_quote +1082,“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”,famous_quote +643,"“We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.”",famous_quote +615,"“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”",famous_quote +194,"“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”",famous_quote +488,“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”,famous_quote +2204,"“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”",famous_quote +1249,"“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”",famous_quote +2459,"“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”",famous_quote +1102,“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”,famous_quote +1147,"“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”",famous_quote +1241,“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”,famous_quote +515,"“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”",famous_quote +1625,"“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”",famous_quote +1127,"“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”",famous_quote +392,“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”,famous_quote +630,“Reader's Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes”,famous_quote +1847,"“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”",famous_quote +979,"“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”",famous_quote +433,“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”,famous_quote +277,"“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”",famous_quote +232,“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”,famous_quote +1552,"“In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.”",famous_quote +1594,"“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”",famous_quote +1113,“And so it goes...”,famous_quote +2409,"“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”",famous_quote +25,"“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”",famous_quote +1417,“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”,famous_quote +2314,"“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”",famous_quote +460,"“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”",famous_quote +2503,“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”,famous_quote +1091,"“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”",famous_quote +1006,"“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”",famous_quote +1994,“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”,famous_quote +490,“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”,famous_quote +1072,“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”,famous_quote +215,"“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”",famous_quote +1723,“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”,famous_quote +1592,“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”,famous_quote +158,"“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”",famous_quote +685,“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”,famous_quote +1776,"“I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassian’s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, ‘If you don’t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.”",famous_quote +2052,"“Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.”",famous_quote +1843,"“The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work."" When he didn't say anything, I tried to grip his shirt, but my fingers were too weak. ""Did you? Did you want me?""His words came out thickly. ""Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together.""""Then why did you lie to me?""We reached the clinic, and he managed to open the door while still holding me. As soon as he stepped inside, he began yelling for help. ""Why did you lie?"" I murmured again.Still holding me in his arms, he looked down at me. I could hear voices and footsteps getting closer.""Because we can't be together.""""Because of the age thing, right?"" I asked. ""Because you're my mentor?""His fingertip gently wiped away a tear that had escaped down my cheek. ""That's part of it,"" he said. ""But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her.""I know that. Of course that's what you have to do."" The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out.""No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”",famous_quote +2408,"“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.”",famous_quote +2506,"“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”",famous_quote +2295,“No good deed goes unpunished.”,famous_quote +1589,“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”,famous_quote +1696,"“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”",famous_quote +2469,"“Demons run when a good man goes to warNight will fall and drown the sunWhen a good man goes to warFriendship dies and true love liesNight will fall and the dark will riseWhen a good man goes to warDemons run, but count the costThe battle's won, but the child is lost”",famous_quote +1946,"“1. Be Impeccable With Your WordSpeak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2. Don't Take Anything PersonallyNothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. 3. Don't Make AssumptionsFind the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. 4. Always Do Your BestYour best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”",famous_quote +2062,"“Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!”",famous_quote +1145,"“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.”",famous_quote +2324,“The mountains are calling and I must go.”,famous_quote +1581,"“I meant,"" said Ipslore bitterly, ""what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?""Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”",famous_quote +2500,“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”,famous_quote +2493,“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”,famous_quote +2257,“I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.”,famous_quote +2349,"“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”",famous_quote +1932,“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”,famous_quote +1757,“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”,famous_quote +2050,“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”,famous_quote +989,“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”,famous_quote +1541,“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”,famous_quote +1116,“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”,famous_quote +492,“I am not young enough to know everything.”,famous_quote +619,"“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”",famous_quote +2378,"“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”",famous_quote +2380,“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”,famous_quote +2097,"“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”",famous_quote +1546,“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”,famous_quote +862,"“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”",famous_quote +1691,"“Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,”",famous_quote +1605,“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”,famous_quote +2319,“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”,famous_quote +579,“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”,famous_quote +1890,“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”,famous_quote +1275,"“Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!”",famous_quote +1855,"“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”",famous_quote +2493,“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”,famous_quote +1355,“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”,famous_quote +1162,“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”,famous_quote +356,"“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”",famous_quote +1624,"“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”",famous_quote +2321,“Don't let the muggles get you down.”,famous_quote +2006,"“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”",famous_quote +2358,"“Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane”",famous_quote +869,"“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”",famous_quote +885,“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”,famous_quote +2001,"“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”",famous_quote +2201,"“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”",famous_quote +1413,"“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”",famous_quote +1283,"“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”",famous_quote +619,"“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”",famous_quote +882,"“Why are they all staring?"" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.""Don’t let it worry you,"" said Ron. ""It’s me. I’m extremely famous.”",famous_quote +796,“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”,famous_quote +2172,“The past is never where you think you left it.”,famous_quote +1296,“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”,famous_quote +618,“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”,famous_quote +1834,"“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”",famous_quote +244,“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”,famous_quote +2497,“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”,famous_quote +929,"“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”",famous_quote +1270,"“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”",famous_quote +519,"“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”",famous_quote +2409,"“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”",famous_quote +7,“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”,famous_quote +2019,“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”,famous_quote +494,“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”,famous_quote +1629,“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”,famous_quote +1062,"“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”",famous_quote +186,“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”,famous_quote +1877,“I must have loved you a lot.”,famous_quote +2140,"“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”",famous_quote +85,"“You love me. Real or not real?""I tell him, ""Real.”",famous_quote +136,“Do one thing every day that scares you.”,famous_quote +2468,“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”,famous_quote +2121,“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”,famous_quote +1636,"“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”",famous_quote +2218,"“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”",famous_quote +1751,"“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”",famous_quote +2217,"“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is achingâ€� than to say “My heart is broken.”",famous_quote +1787,"“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”",famous_quote +871,“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”,famous_quote +2369,"“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”",famous_quote +2503,“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”,famous_quote +943,"“Investigation?"" Isabelle laughed. ""Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""""Good idea,"" said Jace. ""I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”",famous_quote +1626,“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”,famous_quote +348,"“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”",famous_quote +1676,"“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”",famous_quote +1196,"“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”",famous_quote +9,“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”,famous_quote +1461,"“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”",famous_quote +666,“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”,famous_quote +1522,“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”,famous_quote +2176,"“You could say sorry,"" suggested Harry bluntly. ""What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?"" muttered Ron.""What did you have to imitate her for?""""She laughed at my mustache!""""So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.”",famous_quote +600,"“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”",famous_quote +326,“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”,famous_quote +979,"“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”",famous_quote +2451,“We live as we dream--alone....”,famous_quote +628,"“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”",famous_quote +1629,“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”,famous_quote +273,“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”,famous_quote +684,“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”,famous_quote +115,"“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”",famous_quote +860,"“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”",famous_quote +2003,"“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”",famous_quote +692,"“What happens when people open their hearts?""""They get better.”",famous_quote +1105,"“Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored.""In future, Clarissa,"" he said, ""it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations.""""You invited him into bed?"" Simon demanded, looking shaken.""Ridiculous, isn't it?"" said Jace. ""We would never have all fit.""""I didn't invite him into bed,"" Clary snapped. ""We were just kissing.""""Just kissing?"" Jace's tone mocked her with its false hurt. ""How swiftly you dismiss our love.”",famous_quote +2371,“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”,famous_quote +2161,"“I 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.”",famous_quote +1792,“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”,famous_quote +153,"“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”",famous_quote +1900,"“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”",famous_quote +1427,“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”,famous_quote +1289,"“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”",famous_quote +314,"“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”",famous_quote +1064,"“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”",famous_quote +104,“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”,famous_quote +1924,"“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”",famous_quote +1913,“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”,famous_quote +1216,"“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”",famous_quote +1424,"“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”",famous_quote +2401,“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”,famous_quote +1772,"“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”",famous_quote +1960,"“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”",famous_quote +1603,“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”,famous_quote +708,“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”,famous_quote +650,“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”,famous_quote +946,“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”,famous_quote +660,“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”,famous_quote +2146,"“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”",famous_quote +2329,“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”,famous_quote +2450,"“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”",famous_quote +1132,"“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”",famous_quote +699,“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”,famous_quote +2246,"“I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.I was a survivor, and I was strong.I would not be weak, or helpless again I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”",famous_quote +2038,"“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”",famous_quote +2374,"“Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""""I'm always a girl"" I frown.""You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl""I twirl my hair around my finger. ""Kay.”",famous_quote +2201,"“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”",famous_quote +551,"“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”",famous_quote +404,"“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”",famous_quote +461,“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”,famous_quote +2179,"“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”",famous_quote +873,“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”,famous_quote +83,"“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”",famous_quote +1422,"“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”",famous_quote +220,“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”,famous_quote +1391,“If you are a dreamer come inIf you are a dreamer a wisher a liarA hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyerIf youre a pretender com sit by my fireFor we have some flax golden tales to spinCome in! Come in!”,famous_quote +111,"“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”",famous_quote +614,“The unexamined life is not worth living.”,famous_quote +1581,"“I meant,"" said Ipslore bitterly, ""what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?""Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”",famous_quote +474,"“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”",famous_quote +1913,“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”,famous_quote +270,"“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”",famous_quote +2468,“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”,famous_quote +1920,“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”,famous_quote +1390,"“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”",famous_quote +39,"“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”",famous_quote +1982,“My rapier wit hides my inner pain.”,famous_quote +2236,"“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”",famous_quote +993,“You never fail until you stop trying.”,famous_quote +2012,“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”,famous_quote +289,"“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”",famous_quote +2480,"“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”",famous_quote +278,"“The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”",famous_quote +580,"“I am a man"" he told her, ""and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.”",famous_quote +862,"“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”",famous_quote +253,"“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""""If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”",famous_quote +180,“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”,famous_quote +680,"“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”",famous_quote +824,"“I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""""A regrettable choice of words,"" muttered Magnus.”",famous_quote +699,“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”,famous_quote +1349,“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”,famous_quote +1380,"“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”",famous_quote +1673,“Let our scars fall in love.”,famous_quote +2438,"“My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.”",famous_quote +1638,“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”,famous_quote +1957,"“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”",famous_quote +211,"“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?""""Yes,"" said Harry stiffly.""Yes, sir.""""There's no need to call me ""sir"" Professor.""The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”",famous_quote +1538,"“You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong.""He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. ""My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press."" he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.His dark eyes lifting to mine, he adds, ""But I resist it."" ""Why..."" I swallow hard. ""Why is that your first instinct?""""Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating."" He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. ""Sometimes I just want to see it again. Want to see you awake.”",famous_quote +383,“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”,famous_quote +1714,“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”,famous_quote +341,"“You are, and always have been, my dream.”",famous_quote +1838,“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”,famous_quote +1987,“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”,famous_quote +843,"“You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”",famous_quote +1534,“A good book is an event in my life.”,famous_quote +419,“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”,famous_quote +1988,"“Where words leave off, music begins.”",famous_quote +1932,“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”,famous_quote +1849,“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”,famous_quote +305,"“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”",famous_quote +868,"“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”",famous_quote +1135,“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”,famous_quote +1434,"“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”",famous_quote +205,“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”,famous_quote +495,“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”,famous_quote +1909,“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”,famous_quote +1045,"“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”",famous_quote +212,“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”,famous_quote +309,“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”,famous_quote +1991,"“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”",famous_quote +271,“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”,famous_quote +1822,“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”,famous_quote +2079,“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”,famous_quote +442,"“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”",famous_quote +2209,"“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”",famous_quote +253,"“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""""If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”",famous_quote +520,"“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”",famous_quote +976,“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”,famous_quote +9,“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”,famous_quote +1583,"“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”",famous_quote +2483,“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”,famous_quote +1134,"“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”",famous_quote +152,"“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”",famous_quote +1658,"“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”",famous_quote +1856,"“What do you want?""""Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”",famous_quote +1214,"“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”",famous_quote +1752,“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”,famous_quote +1104,“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”,famous_quote +894,"“Begin at the beginning,"" the King said, very gravely, ""and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”",famous_quote +1111,“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”,famous_quote +103,“Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.”,famous_quote +1914,"“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.”",famous_quote +1006,"“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”",famous_quote +406,"“Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”",famous_quote +1401,"“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”",famous_quote +166,“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”,famous_quote +508,"“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. "" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”",famous_quote +1661,"“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”",famous_quote +2360,"“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”",famous_quote +762,"“You haven't got a letter on yours,"" George observed. ""I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”",famous_quote +680,"“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”",famous_quote +2120,"“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”",famous_quote +1164,“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”,famous_quote +581,“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”,famous_quote +261,"“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”",famous_quote +1363,"“Why were you lurking under our window?""""Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?""""Listening to the news,"" said Harry in a resigned voice.His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.""Listening to the news! Again?""""Well, it changes every day, you see,"" said Harry.”",famous_quote +1331,"“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”",famous_quote +2292,“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”,famous_quote +1538,"“You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong.""He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. ""My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press."" he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.His dark eyes lifting to mine, he adds, ""But I resist it."" ""Why..."" I swallow hard. ""Why is that your first instinct?""""Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating."" He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. ""Sometimes I just want to see it again. Want to see you awake.”",famous_quote +560,“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”,famous_quote +1099,"“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”",famous_quote +1903,"“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”",famous_quote +174,“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”,famous_quote +2156,"“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”",famous_quote +2230,"“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”",famous_quote +191,“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”,famous_quote +64,“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”,famous_quote +1497,"“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”",famous_quote +1567,“Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”,famous_quote +1151,"“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”",famous_quote +1937,"“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”",famous_quote +368,“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”,famous_quote +850,“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”,famous_quote +42,"“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”",famous_quote +1907,"“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”",famous_quote +77,“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”,famous_quote +1824,“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”,famous_quote +1293,"“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”",famous_quote +673,“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”,famous_quote +700,“Being crazy isn't enough.”,famous_quote +758,"“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”",famous_quote +1923,"“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”",famous_quote +901,"“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”",famous_quote +992,"“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”",famous_quote +1191,“I wantTo do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”,famous_quote +2386,"“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”",famous_quote +2240,“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”,famous_quote +1476,"“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”",famous_quote +2330,"“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”",famous_quote +389,"“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”",famous_quote +999,"“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”",famous_quote +524,“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”,famous_quote +1855,"“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”",famous_quote +1506,“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”,famous_quote +658,“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”,famous_quote +890,“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”,famous_quote +1481,“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”,famous_quote +451,"“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”",famous_quote +2475,"“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”",famous_quote +1537,"“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”",famous_quote +882,"“Why are they all staring?"" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.""Don’t let it worry you,"" said Ron. ""It’s me. I’m extremely famous.”",famous_quote +312,“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”,famous_quote +839,"“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”",famous_quote +374,“May you live every day of your life.”,famous_quote +450,"“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”",famous_quote +594,"“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of ""You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."")”",famous_quote +1233,"“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”",famous_quote +499,"“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”",famous_quote +463,“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”,famous_quote +112,"“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”",famous_quote +1035,“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”,famous_quote +2378,"“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”",famous_quote +1924,"“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”",famous_quote +139,“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”,famous_quote +1424,"“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”",famous_quote +516,"“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”",famous_quote +1947,"“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”",famous_quote +2165,"“Always be a poet, even in prose.”",famous_quote +887,“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”,famous_quote +1341,"“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”",famous_quote +49,“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”,famous_quote +18,“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”,famous_quote +725,"“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”",famous_quote +2244,"“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”",famous_quote +1473,“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”,famous_quote +451,"“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”",famous_quote +2336,“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”,famous_quote +1164,“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”,famous_quote +1107,"“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”",famous_quote +2438,"“My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.”",famous_quote +214,"“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”",famous_quote +1549,“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”,famous_quote +2262,“The best way out is always through.”,famous_quote +127,“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”,famous_quote +1845,"“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”",famous_quote +759,“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”,famous_quote +2451,“We live as we dream--alone....”,famous_quote +1815,"“I'm going to wake Peeta,"" I say.""No, wait,"" says Finnick. ""Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his.""Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves on either side of Peeta, lean over until our faces are inches frim his nose, and give him a shake. ""Peeta. Peeta, wake up,"" I say in a soft, singsong voice.His eyelids flutter open and then he jumps like we've stabbed him. ""Aa!""Finnick and I fall back in the sand, laughing our heads off. Every time we try to stop, we look at Peeta's attempt to maintain a disdainful expression and it sets us off again.”",famous_quote +2385,“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”,famous_quote +360,"“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”",famous_quote +568,“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”,famous_quote +1415,“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”,famous_quote +2265,"“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”",famous_quote +1597,"“Name one hero who was happy.""I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.""You can't."" He was sitting up now, leaning forward.""I can't.""""I know. They never let you be famous AND happy."" He lifted an eyebrow. ""I'll tell you a secret.""""Tell me."" I loved it when he was like this.""I'm going to be the first."" He took my palm and held it to his. ""Swear it.""""Why me?""""Because you're the reason. Swear it.""""I swear it,"" I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.""I swear it,"" he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.""I feel like I could eat the world raw.”",famous_quote +1692,"“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”",famous_quote +201,"“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”",famous_quote +2064,“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”,famous_quote +2369,"“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”",famous_quote +517,“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”,famous_quote +1348,“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”,famous_quote +1435,“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”,famous_quote +1341,"“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”",famous_quote +680,"“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”",famous_quote +1988,"“Where words leave off, music begins.”",famous_quote +1491,“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”,famous_quote +424,“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”,famous_quote +1968,“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”,famous_quote +1712,"“Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder.”",famous_quote +2434,"“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”",famous_quote +777,"“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”",famous_quote +2145,"“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of ""parties"" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”",famous_quote +1826,"“Have you really read all those books in your room?â€�Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”",famous_quote +207,“Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.”,famous_quote +1537,"“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”",famous_quote +1659,"“Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?"" Will demanded with mock horror. ""Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be."" He banged on the side of the carriage. ""Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.”",famous_quote +2213,"“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”",famous_quote +21,“We accept the love we think we deserve.”,famous_quote +153,"“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”",famous_quote +1962,"“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”",famous_quote +218,"“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”",famous_quote +668,"“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”",famous_quote +1518,“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”,famous_quote +2277,“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”,famous_quote +2067,“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”,famous_quote +949,"“You smell good, too,â€� said PatchIt’s called a shower.â€� I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.â€�Naked. I know the drill.”",famous_quote +2195,“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”,famous_quote +402,"“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”",famous_quote +595,"“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”",famous_quote +2414,“It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.”,famous_quote +1437,“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”,famous_quote +1157,"“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”",famous_quote +1742,“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”,famous_quote +1306,"“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”",famous_quote +72,"“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”",famous_quote +480,"“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”",famous_quote +559,"“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”",famous_quote +744,"“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”",famous_quote +1466,"“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”",famous_quote +99,“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”,famous_quote +1082,“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”,famous_quote +2305,"“Seventeen, eh!"" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred.""Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?""""Vaguely,"" said Harry, grinning up at him. ""Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?""""I forge’ the details,"" Hagrid chortled.”",famous_quote +412,"“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”",famous_quote +1088,“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”,famous_quote +1177,"“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”",famous_quote +2008,"“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”",famous_quote +2313,"“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”",famous_quote +820,"“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”",famous_quote +661,"“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”",famous_quote +559,"“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”",famous_quote +1271,“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”,famous_quote +1813,“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”,famous_quote +609,“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”,famous_quote +2461,“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”,famous_quote +24,"“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”",famous_quote +2028,“Your silence will not protect you.”,famous_quote +283,"“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”",famous_quote +1472,“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”,famous_quote +300,“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”,famous_quote +1091,"“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”",famous_quote +1030,“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”,famous_quote +816,"“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”",famous_quote +82,“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”,famous_quote +1920,“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”,famous_quote +2093,“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”,famous_quote +617,“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”,famous_quote +2309,"“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”",famous_quote +175,“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”,famous_quote +1189,"“Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.”",famous_quote +841,"“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ""Wow! What a Ride!”",famous_quote +369,"“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”",famous_quote +1818,“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”,famous_quote +2101,“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”,famous_quote +689,"“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”",famous_quote +1779,“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”,famous_quote +1364,“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”,famous_quote +1432,“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”,famous_quote +366,"“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”",famous_quote +643,"“We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.”",famous_quote +2426,“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”,famous_quote +72,"“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”",famous_quote +1271,“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”,famous_quote +859,“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”,famous_quote +42,"“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”",famous_quote +2424,"“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”",famous_quote +1064,"“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”",famous_quote +2217,"“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is achingâ€� than to say “My heart is broken.”",famous_quote +2259,“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”,famous_quote +1516,"“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”",famous_quote +2086,"“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.""Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,"" he told me, ""just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”",famous_quote +368,“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”,famous_quote +150,"“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”",famous_quote +1134,"“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”",famous_quote +1503,"“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”",famous_quote +1459,"“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”",famous_quote +1070,"“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”",famous_quote +1023,“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”,famous_quote +1598,"“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”",famous_quote +2040,"“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”",famous_quote +1389,“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”,famous_quote +68,"“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”",famous_quote +2346,"“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”",famous_quote +943,"“Investigation?"" Isabelle laughed. ""Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""""Good idea,"" said Jace. ""I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”",famous_quote +801,"“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”",famous_quote +2343,“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”,famous_quote +2250,"“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”",famous_quote +60,"“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”",famous_quote +945,"“The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.They're in each other all along.”",famous_quote +1337,"“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”",famous_quote +1184,"“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”",famous_quote +330,"“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”",famous_quote +1551,"“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”",famous_quote +337,“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”,famous_quote +1629,“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”,famous_quote +1327,"“Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace”",famous_quote +1526,"“Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”",famous_quote +1673,“Let our scars fall in love.”,famous_quote +1361,“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”,famous_quote +1573,“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”,famous_quote +274,"“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”",famous_quote +1187,"“It's not because I want to make out with her.""Hold on."" He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. ""I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit”",famous_quote +2366,"“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”",famous_quote +2434,"“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”",famous_quote +1993,"“Headline?"" he asked.""'Swing Set Needs Home,'"" I said.""'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'"" he said.""'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'"" I said.”",famous_quote +869,"“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”",famous_quote +1014,“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”,famous_quote +1911,"“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”",famous_quote +602,"“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”",famous_quote +1799,“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”,famous_quote +690,"“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”",famous_quote +493,"“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”",famous_quote +489,“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”,famous_quote +389,"“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”",famous_quote +294,“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”,famous_quote +1392,“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”,famous_quote +1717,"“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”",famous_quote +648,"“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.—""Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'"" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”",famous_quote +1873,"“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”",famous_quote +567,"“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”",famous_quote +444,"“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…"" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.""What a stupid lamb,"" I sighed.""What a sick, masochistic lion.”",famous_quote +362,"“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”",famous_quote +2170,"“I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony”",famous_quote +1211,"“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”",famous_quote +741,"“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”",famous_quote +2041,“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”,famous_quote +679,“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”,famous_quote +2467,“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”,famous_quote +1642,"“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”",famous_quote +1572,"“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”",famous_quote +1358,“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”,famous_quote +2139,"“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”",famous_quote +62,“,famous_quote +1162,“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”,famous_quote +1228,"“Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”",famous_quote +255,"“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”",famous_quote +134,"“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”",famous_quote +874,“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”,famous_quote +821,“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”,famous_quote +2135,“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”,famous_quote +822,"“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”",famous_quote +973,"“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”",famous_quote +1777,“As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.”,famous_quote +120,"“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”",famous_quote +1637,“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”,famous_quote +1364,“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”,famous_quote +1007,"“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”",famous_quote +924,"“Mom says it's because she has PMS.Do you even know what that means?""I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome”",famous_quote +644,“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”,famous_quote +2032,"“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”",famous_quote +2068,“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”,famous_quote +241,“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”,famous_quote +2502,"“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”",famous_quote +2350,“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”,famous_quote +1619,"“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, â€��The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”",famous_quote +802,“What you seek is seeking you.”,famous_quote +963,"“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”",famous_quote +68,"“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”",famous_quote +1152,“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”,famous_quote +195,“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”,famous_quote +2187,“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”,famous_quote +2330,"“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”",famous_quote +2359,“We are always the same age inside. ”,famous_quote +745,"“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”",famous_quote +1688,"“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”",famous_quote +276,“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”,famous_quote +60,"“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”",famous_quote +1913,“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”,famous_quote +2099,"“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”",famous_quote +2200,"“You are okay?"" he asked. ""Not eaten by monsters?""""Not even a little bit."" I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily.""Yay!"" he said. ""Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!""I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.”",famous_quote +1772,"“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”",famous_quote +1334,"“It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.''Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said.'It can be sort of blinding,' he said.'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said.'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?''You cannot.''It is my burden, this beautiful face.''Not to mention your body.''Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.”",famous_quote +1837,"“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”",famous_quote +566,"“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”",famous_quote +1571,"“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”",famous_quote +621,"“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”",famous_quote +2025,"“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”",famous_quote +1200,“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.”,famous_quote +313,"“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”",famous_quote +2144,“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”,famous_quote +1236,"“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”",famous_quote +136,“Do one thing every day that scares you.”,famous_quote +1029,"“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”",famous_quote +2156,"“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”",famous_quote +661,"“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”",famous_quote +2472,"“Hello, Harry"" said George, beaming at him. ""We thought we heard your dulcet tones.""""You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out,"" said Fred, also beaming. ""There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.”",famous_quote +2308,"“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”",famous_quote +86,“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”,famous_quote +2123,"“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”",famous_quote +2461,“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”,famous_quote +2504,"“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”",famous_quote +1308,"“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”",famous_quote +1700,“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”,famous_quote +494,“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”,famous_quote +1647,“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”,famous_quote +1942,“You are not rich until you have a rich heart.”,famous_quote +1068,“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”,famous_quote +1424,"“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”",famous_quote +596,“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”,famous_quote +449,"“Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your troubles layAnd when it's morning again, they'll wash awayHere it's safe, here it's warmHere the daisies guard you from every harmHere your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them trueHere is the place where I love you.”",famous_quote +484,“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”,famous_quote +645,"“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”",famous_quote +1629,“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”,famous_quote +661,"“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”",famous_quote +757,"“What is an ""instant"" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”",famous_quote +288,"“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”",famous_quote +720,"“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”",famous_quote +637,"“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”",famous_quote +2282,"“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”",famous_quote +2463,“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life”,famous_quote +498,"“If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.”",famous_quote +633,“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”,famous_quote +1673,“Let our scars fall in love.”,famous_quote +2030,"“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”",famous_quote +114,“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”,famous_quote +673,“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”,famous_quote +1736,“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”,famous_quote +1257,“Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.”,famous_quote +2253,“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”,famous_quote +2294,"“Stop fighting me!"" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!â€� I yelled back.But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again.See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.I looked him in the eye. ""I will always love you.""Then I plunged the stake into his chest.It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one.""That’s what I was supposed to say. . .â€� he gasped out.Those were his last words.”",famous_quote +146,“Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean!”,famous_quote +2165,"“Always be a poet, even in prose.”",famous_quote +411,"“I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”",famous_quote +1687,"“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”",famous_quote +2410,"“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”",famous_quote +1532,"“You possess other people's...bodies.""He accepted that statement with a nod.""Do you want to possess my body?""""I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.”",famous_quote +136,“Do one thing every day that scares you.”,famous_quote +18,“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”,famous_quote +2242,"“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”",famous_quote +2377,“I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.”,famous_quote +1959,“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”,famous_quote +2222,"“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. ""I'm okay"" we say. ""I'm alright"". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”",famous_quote +1001,“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”,famous_quote +448,"“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”",famous_quote +1948,"“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”",famous_quote +945,"“The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.They're in each other all along.”",famous_quote +1377,“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”,famous_quote +1522,“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”,famous_quote +140,"“One must always be careful of books,"" said Tessa, ""and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”",famous_quote +1920,“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”,famous_quote +92,“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”,famous_quote +238,“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”,famous_quote +204,“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”,famous_quote +1456,“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”,famous_quote +244,“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”,famous_quote +831,"“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”",famous_quote +294,“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”,famous_quote +855,“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”,famous_quote +2064,“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”,famous_quote +70,“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”,famous_quote +1292,"“Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.”",famous_quote +1348,“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”,famous_quote +304,"“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”",famous_quote +1030,“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”,famous_quote +1337,"“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”",famous_quote +816,"“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”",famous_quote +1126,"“The thing about growing up with Fred and George,"" said Ginny thoughtfully, ""is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”",famous_quote +820,"“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”",famous_quote +192,"“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”",famous_quote +1776,"“I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassian’s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, ‘If you don’t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.”",famous_quote +528,“THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. We are here to help you. 2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings. 3. The dress code will be enforced. 4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds. 5. Our football team will win the championship this year. 6. We expect more of you here. 7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen. 8. Your schedule was created with you in mind. 9. Your locker combination is private. 10. These will be the years you look back on fondly. TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. You will use algebra in your adult lives. 2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away. 3. Students must stay on campus during lunch. 4. The new text books will arrive any day now. 5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores. 6. We are enforcing the dress code. 7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon. 8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals. 9. There is nothing wrong with summer school. 10. We want to hear what you have to say.”,famous_quote +2218,"“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”",famous_quote +250,“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”,famous_quote +1788,"“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”",famous_quote +2026,"“An Unbreakable Vow?"" said Ron, looking stunned. ""Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?""""Yes I’m sure,"" said Harry. ""Why, what does it mean?""""Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow...""""I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.”",famous_quote +2463,“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life”,famous_quote +1403,"“What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?""""I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you.""""Why?""""Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?”",famous_quote +1167,"“Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”",famous_quote +2072,“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”,famous_quote +1096,"“Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land”",famous_quote +1847,"“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”",famous_quote +504,“Always do what you are afraid to do.”,famous_quote +1621,"“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”",famous_quote +2383,"“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”",famous_quote +2472,"“Hello, Harry"" said George, beaming at him. ""We thought we heard your dulcet tones.""""You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out,"" said Fred, also beaming. ""There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.”",famous_quote +1387,“All great and precious things are lonely.”,famous_quote +1222,"“Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.”",famous_quote +717,"“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”",famous_quote +338,"“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”",famous_quote +658,“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”,famous_quote +961,"“You know,"" Gabriel said, ""there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.""""There was a time I thought I was a ferret,"" Will said, ""but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.”",famous_quote +428,"“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”",famous_quote +898,“Some people have lives; some people have music.”,famous_quote +138,"“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”",famous_quote +541,“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”,famous_quote +2104,“The earth laughs in flowers.”,famous_quote +1255,“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”,famous_quote +2482,"“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”",famous_quote +383,“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”,famous_quote +193,"“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”",famous_quote +2232,"“Atticus said to Jem one day, ""I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."" That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. ""Your father’s right,"" she said. ""Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”",famous_quote +1895,"“I am always saying ""Glad to've met you"" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”",famous_quote +2339,“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”,famous_quote +731,"“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”",famous_quote +2163,“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”,famous_quote +684,“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”,famous_quote +81,"“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”",famous_quote +2380,“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”,famous_quote +2382,“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”,famous_quote +531,"“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”",famous_quote +1983,"“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”",famous_quote +220,“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”,famous_quote +634,“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”,famous_quote +1769,"“Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?"" she asked cutting me off. ""His name is 'Shut the hell up'.”",famous_quote +2370,"“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”",famous_quote +1874,“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”,famous_quote +2,“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”,famous_quote +1717,"“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”",famous_quote +205,“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”,famous_quote +1855,"“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”",famous_quote +39,"“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”",famous_quote +2106,"“Even After All this timeThe Sun never says to the Earth,""You owe me.""LookWhat happensWith a love like that,It lights the whole sky.”",famous_quote +643,"“We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.”",famous_quote +1530,“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”,famous_quote +1907,"“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”",famous_quote +2143,"“to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.”",famous_quote +897,"“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”",famous_quote +1085,"“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”",famous_quote +1279,"“Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”",famous_quote +2395,"“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: ""It's gonna go wrong."" Or ""She's going to hurt me."" Or,""I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ."" Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”",famous_quote +670,"“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”",famous_quote +1505,“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”,famous_quote +2364,"“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”",famous_quote +718,"“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”",famous_quote +1071,"“Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –""""Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet.""""Great idea though, thanks, Mum.”",famous_quote +1955,“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”,famous_quote +1159,"“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”",famous_quote +249,“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”,famous_quote +2361,“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”,famous_quote +1892,"“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”",famous_quote +1853,"“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”",famous_quote +1503,"“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”",famous_quote +1234,"“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”",famous_quote +43,“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”,famous_quote +582,"“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”",famous_quote +1288,“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”,famous_quote +219,"“A person's a person, no matter how small.”",famous_quote +1925,“It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”,famous_quote +2448,“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”,famous_quote +990,"“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”",famous_quote +1812,"“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.But sometimes it doesn't.Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”",famous_quote +857,"“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”",famous_quote +803,“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”,famous_quote +489,“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”,famous_quote +1780,"“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”",famous_quote +1493,"“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”",famous_quote +1705,"“silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”",famous_quote +2314,"“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”",famous_quote +53,“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”,famous_quote +615,"“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”",famous_quote +1082,“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”,famous_quote +1848,“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”,famous_quote +954,“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”,famous_quote +2433,"“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”",famous_quote +1629,“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”,famous_quote +649,"“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”",famous_quote +2347,"“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”",famous_quote +394,"“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”",famous_quote +1359,"“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”",famous_quote +2443,"“Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,â€� he said softly. “When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?â€�“That you seem to be dating my dad?â€� Jace shrugged. ""You’re a little young for him, to be honest.â€�“What?â€� For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.”",famous_quote +370,"“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”",famous_quote +857,"“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”",famous_quote +790,"“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”",famous_quote +657,"“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”",famous_quote +1392,“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”,famous_quote +383,“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”,famous_quote +2109,"“I don't go out with strangers,"" I said.""Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.”",famous_quote +238,“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”,famous_quote +194,"“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”",famous_quote +2108,“You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face”,famous_quote +1152,“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”,famous_quote +2015,"“When God Created Mothers"" When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of ""overtime"" when the angel appeared and said. ""You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."" And God said, ""Have you read the specs on this order?"" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands."" The angel shook her head slowly and said. ""Six pairs of hands.... no way."" It's not the hands that are causing me problems,"" God remarked, ""it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have."" That's on the standard model?"" asked the angel. God nodded. One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say. 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word."" God,"" said the angel touching his sleeve gently, ""Get some rest tomorrow...."" I can't,"" said God, ""I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick...can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger...and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower."" The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. ""It's too soft,"" she sighed. But tough!"" said God excitedly. ""You can imagine what this mother can do or endure."" Can it think?"" Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise,"" said the Creator. Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek. There's a leak,"" she pronounced. ""I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model."" It's not a leak,"" said the Lord, ""It's a tear."" What's it for?"" It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride."" You are a genius, "" said the angel. Somberly, God said, ""I didn't put it there.”",famous_quote +155,"“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”",famous_quote +922,"“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”",famous_quote +1609,"“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”",famous_quote +974,"“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”",famous_quote +1230,“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”,famous_quote +2435,"“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”",famous_quote +1814,"“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.”",famous_quote +837,"“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”",famous_quote +2007,“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”,famous_quote +1363,"“Why were you lurking under our window?""""Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?""""Listening to the news,"" said Harry in a resigned voice.His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.""Listening to the news! Again?""""Well, it changes every day, you see,"" said Harry.”",famous_quote +2387,"“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”",famous_quote +203,“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”,famous_quote +160,“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”,famous_quote +391,“It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”,famous_quote +768,"“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”",famous_quote +1093,“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”,famous_quote +404,"“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”",famous_quote +607,"“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”",famous_quote +1614,“You can't stop the futureYou can't rewind the pastThe only way to learn the secret...is to press play.”,famous_quote +1540,"“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”",famous_quote +1837,"“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”",famous_quote +689,"“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”",famous_quote +1240,“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”,famous_quote +2103,“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”,famous_quote +365,"“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”",famous_quote +1722,"“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”",famous_quote +454,“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”,famous_quote +103,“Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.”,famous_quote +76,“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”,famous_quote +229,"“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”",famous_quote +1937,"“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”",famous_quote +2378,"“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”",famous_quote +1205,"“And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,""You owe Me.""Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.”",famous_quote +892,“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”,famous_quote +1573,“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”,famous_quote +2074,"“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”",famous_quote +1675,"“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”",famous_quote +298,"“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”",famous_quote +956,"“What's this?"" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.""It's a girl,"" Jace said,recovering his composure. ""Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”",famous_quote +1114,"“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”",famous_quote +2505,"“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”",famous_quote +1474,“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”,famous_quote +364,“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”,famous_quote +1698,"“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”",famous_quote +350,“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”,famous_quote +2300,“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”,famous_quote +1904,"“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”",famous_quote +1011,“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”,famous_quote +2506,"“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”",famous_quote +498,"“If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.”",famous_quote +949,"“You smell good, too,â€� said PatchIt’s called a shower.â€� I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.â€�Naked. I know the drill.”",famous_quote +1994,“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”,famous_quote +2046,"“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”",famous_quote +507,"“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, ""The strongest men are the most alone."" I've never thought, ""Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good."" No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, ""Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?"" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”",famous_quote +1327,"“Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace”",famous_quote +165,"“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”",famous_quote +919,"“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”",famous_quote +113,“The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”,famous_quote +991,“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”,famous_quote +1951,"“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”",famous_quote +2254,"“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”",famous_quote +1258,"“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”",famous_quote +514,"“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”",famous_quote +1231,"“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”",famous_quote +708,“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”,famous_quote +2185,"“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”",famous_quote +338,"“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”",famous_quote +67,“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”,famous_quote +1596,“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”,famous_quote +1564,"“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”",famous_quote +382,"“Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?"" Harry interrupted again.""So he can sneak up on people,"" said Ron. ""Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...”",famous_quote +18,“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”,famous_quote +2121,“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”,famous_quote +572,“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”,famous_quote +1299,"“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”",famous_quote +2258,“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”,famous_quote +1943,“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”,famous_quote +650,“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”,famous_quote +1645,"“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”",famous_quote +993,“You never fail until you stop trying.”,famous_quote +1338,“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”,famous_quote +900,“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”,famous_quote +1684,"“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”",famous_quote +1585,"“I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”",famous_quote +1923,"“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”",famous_quote +1781,“No one has ever become poor by giving.”,famous_quote +1136,“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”,famous_quote +2217,"“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is achingâ€� than to say “My heart is broken.”",famous_quote +1944,“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”,famous_quote +1037,“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”,famous_quote +1738,“Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”,famous_quote +287,“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”,famous_quote +2236,"“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”",famous_quote +1590,"“In a time of destruction, create something.”",famous_quote +1745,“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”,famous_quote +1098,"“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”",famous_quote +2324,“The mountains are calling and I must go.”,famous_quote +939,“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”,famous_quote +1448,“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”,famous_quote +570,“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”,famous_quote +1000,“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”,famous_quote +1205,"“And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,""You owe Me.""Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.”",famous_quote +2505,"“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”",famous_quote +917,"“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”",famous_quote +1874,“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”,famous_quote +832,“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”,famous_quote +2240,“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”,famous_quote +1678,"“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”",famous_quote +615,"“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”",famous_quote +405,"“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”",famous_quote +1749,“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”,famous_quote +92,“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”,famous_quote +2477,"“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”",famous_quote +653,“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”,famous_quote +433,“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”,famous_quote +1135,“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”,famous_quote +374,“May you live every day of your life.”,famous_quote +1066,“Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final”,famous_quote +206,"“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”",famous_quote +779,"“When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.”",famous_quote +1319,"“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”",famous_quote +1141,"“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”",famous_quote +531,"“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”",famous_quote +2213,"“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”",famous_quote +89,“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”,famous_quote +1117,"“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”",famous_quote +12,“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend”,famous_quote +1857,“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”,famous_quote +804,“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”,famous_quote +944,"“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”",famous_quote +1857,“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”,famous_quote +1610,“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”,famous_quote +1959,“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”,famous_quote +1052,“Live to the point of tears.”,famous_quote +295,“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”,famous_quote +925,“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”,famous_quote +639,"“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”",famous_quote +2387,"“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”",famous_quote +627,"“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”",famous_quote +2486,“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”,famous_quote +1167,"“Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”",famous_quote +941,"“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”",famous_quote +829,"“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”",famous_quote +1770,"“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”",famous_quote +975,"“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”",famous_quote +954,“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”,famous_quote +1262,"“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”",famous_quote +951,"“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”",famous_quote +943,"“Investigation?"" Isabelle laughed. ""Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""""Good idea,"" said Jace. ""I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”",famous_quote +2202,"“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”",famous_quote +1204,"“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”",famous_quote +2135,“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”,famous_quote +1534,“A good book is an event in my life.”,famous_quote +1096,"“Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land”",famous_quote +178,“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”,famous_quote +2259,“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”,famous_quote +1828,“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”,famous_quote +1257,“Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.”,famous_quote +464,"“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”",famous_quote +1774,"“In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.”",famous_quote +1230,“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”,famous_quote +884,"“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”",famous_quote +2413,"“If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my belt, freeing it. Peeta sees it and his hand clamps on my wrist. ""No, I won't let you."" ""Trust me,"" I whisper. He holds my gaze for a long moment then lets go. I loosen the top of the pouch and pour a few spoonfuls of berries into his palm. Then I fill my own. ""On the count of three?"" Peeta leans down and kisses me once, very gently. ""The count of three,"" he says. We stand, our backs pressed together, our empty hands locked tight. ""Hold them out. I want everyone to see,"" he says. I spread out my fingers, and the dark berries glisten in the sun. I give Peeta's hand one last squeeze as a signal, as a good-bye, and we begin counting. ""One."" Maybe I'm wrong. ""Two."" Maybe they don't care if we both die. ""Three!"" It's too late to change my mind. I lift my hand to my mouth taking one last look at the world. The berries have just passed my lips when the trumpets begin to blare. The frantic voice of Claudius Templesmith shouts above them. ""Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you - the tributes of District 12!”",famous_quote +2323,“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”,famous_quote +2427,“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”,famous_quote +1332,“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”,famous_quote +1654,"“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”",famous_quote +944,"“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”",famous_quote +924,"“Mom says it's because she has PMS.Do you even know what that means?""I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome”",famous_quote +1938,“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”,famous_quote +493,"“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”",famous_quote +1546,“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”,famous_quote +1969,"“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”",famous_quote +1094,"“You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places.""""Enormous?"" said Jace. ""Did you just call me fat?""""It was an analogy.""""I am not fat.”",famous_quote +2411,"“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”",famous_quote +1825,“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”,famous_quote +762,"“You haven't got a letter on yours,"" George observed. ""I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”",famous_quote +2323,“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”,famous_quote +49,“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”,famous_quote +905,"“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”",famous_quote +563,"“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”",famous_quote +782,"“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”",famous_quote +2040,"“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”",famous_quote