Quotes

       
        Seek mercy, not justice.

        When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It’s only painful and difficult for others.
        The same applies when you are stupid.
        - Ricky Gervais

        Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
        - Adam Smith

        Not everyone is born to partner. And those who aren’t, should never be shamed or shunned
        because they take a different path. In fact, our world would be much worse off without them.
        Many are here with a more individuated calling. Some are born to explore the interior realms,
        independent of relational challenges. Others, to create brilliant and beautiful things, with little
        to distract them. And others have been so wounded by relationships that they feel safer and
        happier on their own. Whatever it is, the assumption that partnership is the measure of an
        actualised life is misguided. Every soul has a unique path to walk. The measure of a life
        well-lived is whether we walk it.

        The days are long, but the years are short.
        - Gretchen Rubin

        Rules without consequences are merely suggestions.

        The quickest way to catch something is to stop chasing it.
        - Lao Tzu

        Never chase what doesn’t want to be caught. People leave and we want them back but what we
        really need is to love ourselves more than they ever could. You are worth more than a love that
        didn’t stay.

        You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
        - Nightbird (A contestant on America’s Got Talent)

        There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest
        tourists.
        - Yosemite Park Ranger on why it's hard to design a bear-proof garbage can.

        We keep mementos of the past because we can't keep the past itself. A moment, once gone,
        is gone forever. All we have left of it is some physical object or item. There's nothing wrong with
        a keepsake. How wise, though, can it be to keep a person in your life for the sake of what they
        used to mean to you? Relationships must be relevant. They must live because of what they are,
        not what they were. If you pour fresh tea into a cup half full of some old brew, it won't taste good.
        If you want something new now, you must move on from something old.
        - Horoscope

        Not every relationship you lose is a loss.
        - Dr Phil

        You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
        - Batman

        The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones
        are full of confidence.
        - Charles Bukowski

        It is not a perfect world, we are not perfect people and everyone is just doing the best they can.
        - Unknown

        Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.
        - Mooji

        The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
        - Kiran Desai

        You will find that it is necessary to let things go simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let
        things go, let go of them. I have no weights to my ankles.
        - C JoyBell C

        Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
        - George Ball

        I am I, and you are you. I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to
        your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. If by chance we meet, it's
        beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
        - Fritz Perls, M.D.

        I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that
        the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own
        image.
        - Stephen Hawking

        Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no
        different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
        - Edward Snowden

        The fact that there's a highway to Hell and only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated
        traffic numbers.
        - Unknown

        Never underestimate the power of idiots in large numbers. Most large crowds or queues are
        idiot conventions.
        - Unknown

        When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt
        you a bit, but in the end you end up polished and they end up useless.
        - Chris Colfer

        If you trust in yourself…and believe in your dreams…and follow your star…you’ll still get beaten
        by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.
        - Terry Pratchett

        There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have
        enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
        - Terry Pratchett

        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!”.
        - Hunter S. Thompson

        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.
        - Douglas Adams

        I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.
        - Mitch Hedberg

        All the water in the world can't sink a boat, unless it gets inside.
        - Unknown

        There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction;
        the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
        - JK Rowling

        The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that all my
        important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just
        kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for
        the decisions that are already
        made.
        - Rex Stout

        Contentment is not the fulfilment of what you want, it is the realisation of how much you
        already have.
        - Anonymous

        It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
        - Krishnamurti

        Why allow salt water to rust your heart when the world is brimming with pure sweet water?
        - Rumi

        There is a crack, a crack in everything. It’s how the light gets in.
        - L Cohen

        This too shall pass.
        - AA slogan

        The mind is its own place and in itself can make heaven of hell and a hell of heaven.
        - John Milton

        If you are going through hell, keep going.
        - Winston Churchill

        Each child is an adventure into a better life, an opportunity to change the old pattern and
        make it new.
        - Hubert H. Humphrey

        We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are
        haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality.
        - Daniel J. Boorstin

        Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which,
        if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
        - Nathaniel Hawthorne

        Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
        - Felicia Hermans

        When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

        The deeper the sorrow that carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Joy
        and sorrow are inseparable.
        - Kahlil Gibran

        I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came
        to sing remains unsung.
        - Rabindranath Tagore

        Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of
        somebody else.
        - Judy Garland

        The happiness in life is made up of minute fractions. The little soon forgotten charities
        of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment – countless infinitestimals of
        pleasurable and genial feelings.
        - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

        Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people.
        You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your
        success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by
        comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when
        you do the best you can with what you have.
        - Zig Siglar

        What is success?
        To laugh often and much;
        To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
        To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
        To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others;
        To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a
        redeemed social condition;
        To know even one life breathed easier because you have lived;
        This is to have succeeded.
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

        I do my thing, and you do your thing,
        I am not in this world to live up to your expectations
        And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
        You are you and I am I,
        And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
        If not, it can't be helped.
        - Frederick Salomon Perls

        A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
        - Walter Winchell

        Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps
        his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
        - Dag Hammarskjold

        His mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
        - John Milston

        Some of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures.
        The error of the past is the success and wisdom of the future.
        - Tyron Edwards

        Our great business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what
        lies clearly at hand.
        - Thomas Carlyle

        Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house
        of self-knowledge if we explore them.
        - Marilyn French

        Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

        Treasure the love that you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and
        good health have vanished.
        - Og Mandino

        If people knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful
        at all.
        - Michaelangelo

        If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
        - Jewish proverb

        To be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to
        make you like everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human
        being can fight, and never stop fighting.
        - E.E. Cummings

        It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try
        to help another without helping himself.
        - Ralpha Waldo Emerson

        You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot
        succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure
        into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a
        ray of light.
        - Norman Vincent Peale

        You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give
        the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's
        unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest
        in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as
        simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about
        you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.
        - Sir Winston Churchill

        What was once thought can never be unthought.
        - Friedrich Durrenmatt

        A man is what he thinks about all day long.
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

        Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good
        and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves,
        when their time comes.
        - John Ruskin

        Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
        - Jim Beggs

        The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the
        arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
        - George Bernard Shaw

        Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you
        become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate
        actions, brave by performing brave actions.
        - Aristotle

        One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up
        being governed by your inferiors.
        - Plato

        Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how
        to laugh either.
        - Golda Meir

        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

        Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying
        nothing.
        - William Shakespeare

        The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds
        blowing from all four corners of heaven.
        - Martin Luther

        Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
        - Eugene Ionesco

        Procrastination is the thief of time.
        - Edward Young

        Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
        - Michael Landon

        Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
        endless.
        - Mother Theresa

        It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three
        unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,
        and the prudence never to practice either.
        - Mark Twain

        God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
        - Voltaire

        Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf
        clovers.
        - Unknown

        The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your
        emotional attachment to that opinion.
        - Unknown

        A person cannot do right in one department whilst attempting to do wrong
        in another department. Life is one indivisible whole.
        - Mahatma Gandhi

        Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
        - Unknown

        Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on
        believing as we already do.
        - James Harvey Robinson

        What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
        - Dr. Robert Schulle

        Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny
        successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect
        all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
        - Norman Lear

        Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
        - Will Durant
       
        Chaos was the law of nature; order was the dream of man.
        - Henry Brooks Adams

        Chaos and order are not enemies, only opposites.
        - Richard Garriott

        It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
        - Eleanor Roosevelt

        The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change;
        the realist adjusts the sails."
        - William Arthur Ward

        And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the
        rain, there would be no rainbow.
        - Jerry Chin

        An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a
        pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.
        - Albert Schweitzer

        Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
        power, and magic in it.
        - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

        Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
        - Unknown

        Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in
        fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important
        range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for
        understanding, for love, expression and respect.
        - Alain De Botton

        The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost.
        - G K Chesterton

        The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of their folly, is to fill
        the world with fools.
        - Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

        The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on
        the earth.
        - Chinese proverb

        People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of
        the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean,
        at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without
        wondering.
        - St Augustine

        The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts. That is
        where the battle should be fought.
        - Mahatma Gandhi

        A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
        rearranging their prejudices.
        - William James

        Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from
        the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
        disinclination to do so.
        - Douglas Adams
       
        Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
        - Marie Curie

        The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd.
        The  man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has
        ever been.
        - Alan Ashley-Pitt

        In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible
        summer.
        - Albert Camus

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

        Two men looked through the prison bars. One saw the mud; the other saw
        the stars.
        - Unknown

        The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference
        between  taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The
        first is imperative, and the second disastrous.
        - Margaret Fontey

        Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
        - Rabindranath Tagore

        Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence. I learn that
        whatever  state I may be in therein to be content.
        - Helen Keller
 
        Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination!
        - Lionel Stander

        If I had my life to live over, I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd
        relax,  I  would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I
        would take  fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would
        climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream
        and less  beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have
        fewer imaginary ones.
        - Nadine Stair

        The reason why birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect
        faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
        - James M Barrie

        You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy,
        translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions causes all experience.
        There are no exceptions.
        - Seth

        Imagination is the highest kite one can fly but tripping over the damn string,
        that’s reality.
        - Unknown

        The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to
        look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
        - J Allen Boone

        Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
        - Unknown

        The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's
        foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
        - Thomas Henry Huxley

        Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
        - Henry Thoreau
 
        The two step formula for handling stress; don't sweat the small stuff - and
        remember that it's all small stuff.
        - Unknown

        Material things does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of
        affection ...Material things are simply the bandage which wounded people
        put over their wounds.
        - Margaret Halsey

        You may not be responsible for being down, but you're responsible for getting
        up again.
        - Unknown

        There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will
        catch your heart...pursue those.
        - Unknown

        A life can be wasted in a moment and fulfilled in another moment. Something
        lost can be found and something  weak can become strong. Life is a series of
        moments, of dreams and times when you spend it staring out the window of
        your soul and into this world, and you take the paintbrush into your hand and
        colour all you see with your dreams, hopes and visions. To inspire not only
        yourself but others to take up the challenge of making a dream reality.
        - Anonymous  

        Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

        The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in
        having  new eyes.
        - Marcel Proust
 
         The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
        - Baba Ram Dass
           
        Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
        - Helen Keller
           
        When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems
        as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is
        just the place and time that the tide will turn.
        - H B Stowe
 
        Life can only be understood backwards - but it has to be lived forwards.
        - Soren Kierkegaard

        Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
        - Albert Einstein
           
        Man cannot discover new oceans until he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
        - Anonymous
 
        I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy -
        I, too, crave enchantment.  Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are
        fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks
        illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon
        inspection.  I hate to be love's executioner.
        - "Love's Executioner" - Irvin Yalom
           
        I've never met a well-informed optimist.
        - Anonymous
           
        A loving person lives in a loving world.  A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
        Everyone you meet is your mirror.
        - Ken Keyes
           
        The movement of behaviour is the sure guide to yourself, it's the mirror of your
        consciousness; this mirror will  reveal its content, the images, the attachments,
        the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow.
        - Krishnamurti
 
        Come to the edge, he said. They said; we are afraid. Come to the edge, he said.
        They came, he pushed them  - and they flew.
        - Guillaume Apollinaire
                                 
        There is nothing tragic about a man dying. The tragedy is in fact that very few
        have ever really lived!
        - Anonymous
 
        Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
        all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
        repetitive electronic music.
        - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc., 1989
           
        Do not be desirous of having things done quickly.  Do not look at small
        advantages.  Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done
        thoroughly.  Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being
        accomplished.
        - Confucius
           
        The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost.
        - G K Chesterton
 
        I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always
        reach my destination.
        - Jimmy Dean
           
        It's easy to live for others, everybody does.  I call on you to live for yourself.
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson
           
        What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to
        what lies within us.
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson
           
        A brilliant light can either illuminate or blind.  How will you know which until
        you open your eyes?
        - Asmira, Holy Avenger.  Illumination, Magic: The Gathering
           
        The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has
        been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

        The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
        - [unnamed professor of linguistics at Cedarvilel University]
            
        You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you
        look fear in the face...you must do the thing you cannot do.
        - Eleanor Roosevelt
           
        It is never too late to be what you might have been.
        - George Ellot
           
        The trouble with putting armour on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also
        protects you from pleasure.
        - Celeste Holm

        Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness, when he is simply
        too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
        - J. B. Priestly
 
        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 opened for us.
        - Helen Keller
           
        I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
        I much prefer it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it
        should be glittering and unsteady.  I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need
        diet and bleeding.
        - Unknown
           
        He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession',
        for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.  He has not one chance, but a
        hundred chances.
        - Unknown