Image of Marcus Aurelius
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.
- Marcus Aurelius
Collection: Death
Image of Lee Min-ho
One who wants to wear the crown, bears the crown.
- Lee Min-ho
Collection: Crowns
Image of Abraham Lincoln
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Eminem
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
- Eminem
Collection: Life
Image of Anne Lamott
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
- Anne Lamott
Collection: Beauty
Image of Hans-Georg Gadamer
The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Collection: Essence
Image of Shakti Gawain
Practice following your intuition in everyday things, trusting your gut feelings moment by moment and acting on them as best you can. As you learn to trust yourself in smaller matters, you will build power and confidence to take bigger risks and deal with the larger issues in your life successfully.
- Shakti Gawain
Collection: Everyday Things
Image of Marianne Williamson
Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.
- Marianne Williamson
Collection: Done
Image of Robert Frost
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
- Robert Frost
Collection: Poetry
Image of Laozi
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
- Laozi
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Giorgio Armani
The difference between style and fashion is quality.
- Giorgio Armani
Image of Lev S. Vygotsky
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.
- Lev S. Vygotsky
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Og Mandino
No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
- Og Mandino
Collection: Son
Image of Carl F. H. Henry
The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.
- Carl F. H. Henry
Collection: God
Image of Marshall McLuhan
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
- Marshall McLuhan
Collection: Future
Image of Epictetus
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
- Epictetus
Collection: Men
Image of Audrey Hepburn
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
- Audrey Hepburn
Collection: Love
Image of Shinichi Suzuki
Practise only as many times as you have breakfast.
- Shinichi Suzuki
Collection: Breakfast
Image of A. R. Rahman
Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.
- A. R. Rahman
Collection: Soul
Image of Edward Snowden
If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.
- Edward Snowden
Collection: Real
Image of Jack Welch
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.
- Jack Welch
Collection: Change
Image of Ramana Maharshi
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
- Ramana Maharshi
Collection: Contentment
Image of Priscilla Shirer
We often don’t realize that where God puts us is the very place we need to be to receive what He wants to give us.
- Priscilla Shirer
Collection: Giving
Image of Joseph A. Schumpeter
Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.
- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Collection: Innovation
Image of Terence McKenna
The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: People
Image of Rumi
Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.
- Rumi
Collection: Eye
Image of Rumi
Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.
- Rumi
Collection: Heart
Image of Steven Pressfield
Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
- Steven Pressfield
Collection: Heart
Image of Aldous Huxley
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
- Aldous Huxley
Collection: Believe
Image of Truman Capote
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Truman Capote
Collection: Failure
Image of Robert Burns
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
- Robert Burns
Collection: Men
Image of Dale Carnegie
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.
- Dale Carnegie
Collection: Motivational
Image of Tony Robbins
The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.
- Tony Robbins
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Hafez
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
- Hafez
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Joss Whedon
Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.
- Joss Whedon
Collection: Writing
Image of Slavoj Žižek
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
- Slavoj Žižek
Collection: Small Pleasures
Image of Paulo Coelho
It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.
- Paulo Coelho
Collection: People
Image of Friedrich Schiller
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- Friedrich Schiller
Collection: Leadership
Image of Maya Angelou
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
Collection: Music
Image of Khalil Gibran
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
- Khalil Gibran
Collection: Vision
Image of Thomas Sowell
Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: Long
Image of Sogyal Rinpoche
We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
- Sogyal Rinpoche
Collection: May
Image of Epictetus
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
- Epictetus
Collection: Thinking
Image of Paramahansa Yogananda
He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Collection: Oneness
Image of Sarah Kay
Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.
- Sarah Kay
Collection: Mistake
Image of Carl Sagan
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.
- Carl Sagan
Collection: Self
Image of Warren Buffett
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
- Warren Buffett
Collection: Success
Image of Earl Nightingale
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
- Earl Nightingale
Image of Anais Nin
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
- Anais Nin
Collection: Looks