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  • #1
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “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.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #2
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “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?”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #5
    Gautama Buddha
    “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
    Dhammapada, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

  • #6
    “If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.”
    Shantideva

  • #7
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.
    Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

  • #8
    Gautama Buddha
    “You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.”
    Buddha

  • #9
    Mike  Norton
    “It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.”
    Mike Norton

  • #10
    Jack Kornfield
    “In the end
    these things matter most:
    How well did you love?
    How fully did you live?
    How deeply did you let go?”
    Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book

  • #11
    Gautama Buddha
    “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
    Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

  • #12
    Criss Jami
    “If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.”
    Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

  • #13
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #14
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #15
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #16
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #17
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me� I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me� I may not lead
    Walk beside me� just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #18
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #19
    Steve Jobs
    “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.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #20
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #21
    Sarah   Williams
    “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.”
    Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

  • #22
    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

  • #23
    Stephen Chbosky
    “please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #24
    Steve Maraboli
    “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
    Steve Maraboli

  • #25
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “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?”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #26
    Ann Brashares
    “Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”
    Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

  • #27
    Steve Maraboli
    “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.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #29
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #30
    Steve Maraboli
    “This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. 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!”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience



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