Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

© Lao Tzu @quote

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

© Paul McCartney @quote

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

© Oscar Wilde @quote

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

© Wayne Dyer @quote

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

© Michelangelo Buonarroti @quote

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

© Andrew Jackson @quote

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

© Harry Burchell Mathews @quote

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

© Ralph Waldo Emerson @quote

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

© William Faulkner @quote

The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

© Robert McKain @quote

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

© George Orwell @quote

If I can't do it, I will work on it until I can. If I become able to do it, I will work on it until I can do it perfectly. If I become able to do it perfectly, I will work on it until I can do it perfectly any number of times.

© Yuzuru Hanyu @quote

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

© Don DeLillo @quote

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

© Manuel Puig @quote

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

© George Santayan @quote

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

© Khalil Gibran @quote

All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning.
You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning

© Angelus Silesius @quote

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

© Sigmund Freud @quote

We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.

© Hildegard of Bingen @quote

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

© John Burroughs @quote

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

© George Orwell @quote