“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
– Marcel Pagnol
“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
– L.R. Knost
“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 imaging that future keeps you going,
but you never do it.
You just use the future to escape the present.”
– John Green, ‘Looking for Alaska’
“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.”
– Mark Twain
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself.
Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer
“The only person you should try to be better than,
is the person you were yesterday.”
– Unkown
“Love is never any better than the lover.
Wicked people love wickedly,
violent people love violently,
weak people love weakly,
stupid people love stupidly,
but the love of a free man is never safe.”
– Toni Morrison, ‘The Bluest Eye’
“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.”
– Thomas Szasz
“We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.”
– Bill Vaughan
“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
– Abraham Maslow
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
– Aristotle
“When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.”
– Lin-Chi
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
– André Gide
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“You can do anything, but not everything.”
– David Allen
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Bernard M. Baruch
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
– Ambrose Redmoon
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
– George Carlin
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”
– Bob Marley
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
“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.”
– Albert Enstein
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
– John Lennon