1. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

2. If you’re not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you’re not ready for that relationship.

- Steve Maraboli

3. The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

- Aesop

4. I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

- Corazon Aquino

5. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

- Jane Austen

6. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

- John A. Shedd

7. On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.

- Eckhart Tolle

8. We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.

- Confucius

9. The most selfish thing we can do is to be unselfish because it frees us.

- Dean Ornish

10. What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.

- Mark Twain

11. If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.

- T. Harv Eker

12. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

- Stephanie Perkins

13. To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

- Oscar Wilde

14. We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

- Henry David Thoreau

15. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

- Gustave Flaubert

16. The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

- Napoleon Hill

17. Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

- Anne Frank

18. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

- Anthony Robbins

19. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

- Bertrand Russell

20. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

21. Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

- Abraham Lincoln

22. It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

- Bryant H. McGill

23. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

- Nikola Tesla

24. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

- Aristotle

25. The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

- Bob Marley

26. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

- Abraham Maslow

27. The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

- Michel de Montaigne

28. Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

- Victor Hugo

29. You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things; to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

- Sir Edmund Hillary

30. There is no truth. There is only perception.

- Gustave Flaubert

31. Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

- Roy T. Bennett

32. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

- Plato

33. Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

- Gustave Flaubert

34. I am not young enough to know everything.

- Oscar Wilde

35. It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

- Francis Bacon

36. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

- Frederick Douglass

37. Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.

- Malcolm S. Forbes

38. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

- Oscar Wilde

39. There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

- Soren Kierkegaard

40. People do not lack strength; they lack will.

- Victor Hugo

41. Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

- Harper Lee

42. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

- Leonardo da Vinci

43. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

- Bertrand Russell

44. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

- Soren Kierkegaard

45. The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.

- Michelangelo

46. The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

- Carl Rogers

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.

- Elie Wiesel

48. We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.

- Bruce Lee

49. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

- Teddy Roosevelt

50. Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

51. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

- Neils Bohr

52. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

- Kahlil Gibran

53. Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

- Arthur C. Clarke

54. Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide.

- Bernard Kelvin Clive

55. Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

- M. Scott Peck

56. If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

- Erica Jong

57. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

58. A great man is always willing to be little.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. Passion is born deaf and dumb.

- Honoré de Balzac

60. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

- Oscar Wilde

61. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

- Martin Heidegger

62. Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.

- Neil Strauss

63. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

- Henry van Dyke

64. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

- Albert Einstein

65. A friend to all is a friend to none.

- Aristotle

66. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

- Stephen Covey

67. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

- Mark Twain

68. Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

- Aldous Huxley

69. Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

- G.I. Gurdijieff

70. He has the most who is most content with the least.

- Diogenes

71. You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.

- Robert M. Drake

72. What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.

- Nicholas Nassim Taleb

73. You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

- Mark Twain

74. It is never too late to be what you might have been.

- George Eliot

75. Extraordinary men are always tempted by the most ordinary things.

- C.G.B. Spender, The X-Files

76. In chaos, there is fertility.

- Ana?s Nin

77. Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

- Edgar Allan Poe

78. A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

- Chris Jami

79. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

- Leo Tolstoy

80. For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

81. Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

- Rosa Parks

82. It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

- Piero Scaruffi

83. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

- Oscar Wilde

84. He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

- Lao Tzu

85. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

- Francis Bacon

86. The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

- Bill Jensen

87. Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

- Albert Camus

88. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

- Rita Mae Brown

89. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

- Galileo Galilei

90. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

- Pablo Picasso

91. To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

- Lao Tzu

92. Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.

- Erol Ozan

93. All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

- Alexandre Dumas

94. An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

- Eric Hoffer

95. Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

- Rumi

96. Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

- John Steinbeck

97. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

- Leo Tolstoy

98. Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.

- Austin Aries

99. Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

- Voltaire

100. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

- William Shaekspeare

101. Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

- Arthur Rimbaud

102. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

- Voltaire

103. Not until we are lost, do we begin to find ourselves.

- Henry David Thoreau

104. Too many people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t like.

- Dave Ramsey

105. We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

- Ana?s Nin

106. The only reason we get lost in thought, is because it is unfamiliar territory.

- Ashton Leinen

107. Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

- Isaac Asimov

108. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

- Buddha

109. All the problems of older times were scarcity… now they’re all abundance based.

- Naval Ravikant

110. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

- George Bernhard Shaw

111. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

- Albert Einstein

112. I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

- Michelle Williams

113. Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

- Bill Gates

114. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

- George Bernhard Shaw

115. Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

- Phil Jackson

116. Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

117. When you’re young, you want to be rich. When you’re rich, you want to be young.

- James Pierce

118. Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

119. Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart.

- Rumi

120. No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

- William Hazlitt

121. A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

- Michele de Montaigne

122. If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside.

- Jim Kwik

123. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

- Maya Angelou

124. Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world.

- Albert Camus

125. The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.

- Stephen King

126. Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

- Mary Oliver

127. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

- Lao Tzu

128. A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

129. Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

- John F. Kennedy

130. There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

- Thomas Jefferson

131. If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

- David Allen

132. Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

- Bryant H. McGill

133. Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.

- C.S. Lewis

134. To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

135. He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.

- Michel De Montaigne

136. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

- Thomas Merton

137. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

138. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

- Earl Nightingale

139. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

- Charles Darwin

140. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

- Voltaire

141. I think, therefore I am.

- René Descartes

142. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

143. The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

- Carl Jung

144. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

- Henrik Ibsen

145. Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

- Honoré de Balzac

146. The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.

- Stephen Furtick

147. If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are a slave.

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

148. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

- Friedrich Nietzche

149. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

- Tom Wilson