My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. - William Shakespeare
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. - William Arthur Ward
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard
No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus
“That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!”
― Lemmy Kilmister
"Have I broken you?"
Jack Crawford in Hannibal The Series
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” —Mahatma Gandhi
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. -Mark Twain
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. - Aldous Huxley
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking." -Steve Jobs
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”– Buddha
"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter."
Mark Twain
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. - Alexis de Tocqueville
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. - Nikola Tesla
“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”-Plato
“There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, ‘When will you be satisfied?’ We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?
Brian Tracy
“You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.” Stevie Ray Vaughan
“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." -Mother Teresa
“Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”― Neil Gaiman
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. - Rainer Maria Rilke
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
“People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend."
– Jim Morrison