Quotes of Wisdom

I'm Quiet, Because My Mind Is Noisy Enough

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth"

~Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"Some lies are easier to believe than the truth"

~Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune

"There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth."

~Maya Angelou

"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

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That's why it's called the present."

-Bil Keane, Eleanor Roosevelt.

"If you are depressed, you're living in the past; if you are anxious, you're living in the future; if you are at peace you're living in the present."

-Lao Tzu

"It takes a lifetime to build a reputation, and five minutes to destroy it. So do not take ethical risks that can ruin your reputation—and life."

-Simon Rifkind, former Judge, leader of Paul and Weiss

"It takes time to build a leader,It takes discipline and consistency to maintain one, And it takes infinite courage and determination to be one."

-Yusuf Kemal

“After an argument, a squabble or a dissension; The first to apologise is the bravest; The first to forgive is the strongest; The first to forget is the happiest.”

-Unknown

"Weak people seek revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore"

-Albert Einstein

"When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change."

-Wayne Dyer

"Quiet people have the loudest minds."

-Stephen Hawking

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Abraham Lincoln

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

-African proverb

"When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm."

-African Proverb

"Unity is strength, division is weakness."

-Swahili proverb, African proverb

"An enemy divided is more easily conquered"

-Unknown

"Knowledge is potential power, great knowledge is potential great power, and with potential great power comes potential great responsibility."

- Yusuf Kemal

“One of the most courageous things you could ever do in life is to work on making your dream come true when the odds are not in your favour."

-Yusuf Kemal

-“What I have come to find over my years of working with people is that most everyone limits and shrinks their dreams to fit their current reality. We convince ourselves that the circumstances we are in, the beliefs we've accepted, and the path we are on is who we are and who we will always be. But there is another choice. You can learn to unlimit and expand your mindset, your motivation, and your methods to create a limitless life. When you do what others won't, you can live how others can't."

-Jim Kwik

-"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."

-Peter Drucker

"Give a person an idea, and you enrich their day. Teach a person how to learn, and they can enrich their entire life."

-Jim kwik

"It's not about who you are, it's about who you want to become and the price you're willing to pay to get there."

-Tom bilyeu

"It's not who you were, or even who you are that matters, it's who you choose to be. For the future lies in just that."

-Yusuf Kemal

"Today is to make yesterday right and tomorrow better"

-Jay Shetty

"If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely"

"Our thoughts are powerful and what we think and feel is what we create"

-Unknown

"I believe... to understand our present and to map our future, we need to go back in time."

-unknown

"Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be."

-unknown

"Find your purpose. Change the world. Be authentic. Be a leader."

-unknown

"If you don't believe in miracles, perhaps you've forgotten that you are one."

-unknown

"Great things never come from comfort zones!"

-unknown

"Never forget who ignored you when you needed them, and who helped you even before you had to ask."

-unknown

"Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile."

-Theodore Roosevelt

"What we think we know about the topic can stand in the way of our ability to absorb new information. One of the reasons children learn rapidly is because they are empty vessels; they know they don’t know. Some people who claim to have twenty years of experience have one year of experience that they’ve repeated twenty times."

-Jim Kwik

"The one real object of education is to leave a person in the condition of continually asking questions."

-Bishop Mandell Creighton

“Being aware of how you’re holding yourself back with your self-talk and spending some time to get to the source of these beliefs is extremely liberating, because once you’re aware, you can begin to realize that these aren’t facts about you, but rather opinions. And there’s a very good chance that those opinions are wrong. Once you identify the voices in your head that are focusing on what you can’t do, start talking back to them. When you find yourself thinking, “I always screw up this sort of thing,” counter with, “Just because I haven’t always been good at this in the past doesn’t mean that I can’t be great at it now. Keep your opinions to yourself.”

-Jim Kwik, in his book "Limitless"

"Few of us consciously think about our restrictions or the restrictions we believe others have. But it leaks out in places that deeply affect our happiness—in our work, in our home life, and with our children. If we believe that it’s not possible to improve, then in reality it won’t be possible to improve. It’s extremely difficult to accomplish something when you don’t believe it can be done in the first place."

-Jim Kwik, Limitless

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

-Albert Einstein

“If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying”

-Denzel Washington

“War, is Nothing but a big failure of acceptance to one another, and a close "stupid" mind of believing that there is ONLY one flag, one idea, one kind.......

-Diaa Sabek - Nov 2012

“The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out. . . . The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is. Because everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.”

-Jim Carrey

"Who you spend time with is who you become."

-Jim Kwik

"Creating the life you want can be scary. But you know what’s scarier? Regret. One day we will take our final breaths and not one of other people’s opinions or your fears will matter. What will matter is how we lived. Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from. People will doubt you and criticize you no matter what you do. You will never know your true potential until you break the unfair judgements you place on yourself. Don’t allow other people’s opinions and expectations to run or ruin your life."

-Jim Kwik, Limitless

"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing."

-Prof. Richard Feynman

"If we sit back and pretend that everything is fine and that tomorrow it will be great, then, there will be no tomorrow at all"

-Arman Bukeyev

"Making mistakes is like falling, because, just like falling, you get to choose whether you stay down."

-Yusuf Kemal

“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”

-Ignacio Estrada

“Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The Whole intends to do something through you.”

- Osho

“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”

- Jim Carrey

"A Human only owns three things; their identity; their values; and their time. And if someone is sharing one of these with you, that is a sign of the highest standards of love, kindness, compassion and respect.. so appreciate it."

-Yusuf Kemal

"To believe in a better future is to believe in possibilities. And to believe in possibilities is to attract opportunities. Which in turn has the potential to shift and transform reality in unexpected ways."

-Yusuf Kemal

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there”

“Başarmanın yolu inanmaktan geçer”

"The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well - intentioned words"

-Rachel Naomi Remen

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

- Simone Weil

"The paradox of knowledge is that as it expands and the boundary between the known and the unknown changes, you inevitably start to ask questions that you couldn’t even ask before."

-Dr. Marcelo Gleiser

"He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers"

-Cameroon Proverb

“Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”

-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.”

-Albert Einstein

"Heavy as they are, the costs of action must be weighed against the price of inaction."

-Bill Clinton

"I think if you understand why they got Earth to the place it's in, which was money, you understand how money is perhaps the only way that will get us out"

-Jacques Peretti

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”

- Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was once asked: “What is the speed of sound?” Without batting an eye he answered cheerfully: “I don’t know. I don’t burden my memory with such facts that I can easily find in any textbook.”

-"Life's most persistent question is; what are you doing for others?"

-MLK Jr.

-"The impact you have on others, is the most valuable currency there is"

-Jim Carrey

-"Only a life lived for others, is worthwhile"

-Albert Einstein

"One of the risks of being quiet is that other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are."

— Sophia Dembling

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."

-Karl Marx

“The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.”

- Chinese Proverb

"Fearing change, it turns out, doesn't slow change down, it only makes it more painful to go through."

-Astro Teller, CEO, X-The Moonshot Factory, Alphabet

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

-Buddha

“Our Way Of Acting Will Determine Whether Our Children And Our Grandchildren Will Live In A Habitable World Or Whether They Will Have To Deal With A Nightmare And Hate Us For It.”

-A Brief History Of The Future, Jacques Attali

"History cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again."

-Maya Angelou

“Political failure, is at heart, a failure of imagination; Social failure, in essence, a failure of heart; Economic failure, at its core, a failure of mindset; And educational failure, is fundamentally, a failure of vision”

-Yusuf Kemal

“You’re here for a purpose, claim it. You’re here with a mission, honour it. And you’re here on a journey, live it.”

-Yusuf Kemal

“One cannot assume and always be right”

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”

― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Change is inevitable. Progress is optional.”

-Unknown

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is avoidable.”

-unknown

“Don’t confuse movement with progress. Cuz you could run in place all day and never get anywhere”

-Denzel Washington

“Change is the only constant in life”

-Wayne Dyer

“Vision without execution is delusion.”

-Thomas Edison

“If you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem.”

"There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.”

-Ronald Reagan

"I'm happy because I don't want anything from anyone. I don't care about money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I don’t want fame. I’ll take credit for nothing. A happy man is too content with the present to worry too much about the future."

-Albert Einstein

"Everything is energy and that's all that exists in it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can't help but receive that reality. It couldn't have it any other way. This is not a philosophy. This is physics”

-Albert Einstein

"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childish. We still do not know one thousand percent of what nature has revealed to us. It is quite possible that behind the perception of our minds there are worlds that we are unaware of.”

-Albert Einstein

“Not everything that counts can be truly counted. And not everything that can be counted truly counts.”

-Albert Einstein

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

-Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

-Albert Einstein

“Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.”

-Albert Einstein

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

-Albert Einstein

“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”

-Albert Einstein

"When something vibrates, the entire electrons of the universe resonate with it. It's all connected. The greatest tragedy in human existence is the illusion of separateness."

-Albert Einstein

"Regarding the matter, we have been completely wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been lowered so much that it is noticeable to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to visibility. It doesn't matter."

-Albert Einstein

"Not everything that counts can be counted

and not everything that's counted truly counts."

-Albert Einstein

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

— Albert Einstein (December 14, 1930)

"Humility is one of the most noble virtues of a person."

-Me

"Pride is the burden of a foolish person"

-Rick Rigsby

"Pride is said to be the last vice a wise person gets clear of"

-Benjamin Franklin

"Ego is the anaesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity"

-Rick Rigsby

“After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box”

-Italian Proverb

"I do not care about how the people of today judge me anywhere nearly as much as I do about how the people of tomorrow will. For the people of tomorrow have the power of judging history, and I will be judged accordingly."

-Yusuf Kemal

"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone."

-Richard Matthew Stallman

“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”

-Zhuangzi

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Greater is the soul that understands that true greatness emanates from the collective"

-Sonya McKay

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it."

- Harper Lee in “To kill a Mockingbird”, (1960)

"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make other people happy, because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless, and they don't want anyone else to feel like that."

- Robin Williams

“Look forward to today come what may. Look forward to tomorrow no matter what you say. Look forward to the future in whatever you pray.”

-Sonya McKay

“Imagine you’re on your deathbed, and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential, the ghosts of the ideas you never acted on, the ghosts of the talents you didn’t use. And they’re standing around your bed angry, disappointed and upset. They say “we came to you because you could’ve brought us to life. And now we have to go to the grave together.” So, how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?”

-Denzel Washington

“Everyone’s pain is legitimate for their heart; everyone’s struggle is genuine for their soul; and everyone’s reasons are valid for their mind.”

-Yusuf Kemal

“‘Do you know what responsibility is? It is a word made up of two words. The word ‘response’ and the word ‘ability’.’ Responsibility isn’t what someone puts on you. Responsibility isn’t your job description. Responsibility isn’t a paper you sign. We all find ourselves looking in situations, and we all find ourselves with abilities, and what we have to ask is, ‘Given my abilities, what then will be my response to those abilities?’ … What abilities do you have? and more importantly, what is your response?”

-Richard Pimental

“People’s thoughts on us are merely a reflection of their own reality; their own state of being; their own mindset; and their own soul. It’s never about us, never was.”

-Yusuf Kemal

“People are like music, some are telling the truth, and others are just noise.”

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today”

- Abraham Lincoln

“The biggest mistake is, you think you have time.”

-Buddha

“Never put off to tomorrow what can be done today.”

“Say the things that you need to say while the people are still alive, so that you are not one of those people living with regret about what you should’ve said”

-Oprah Winfrey

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different.”

-Oprah Winfrey

"We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes; you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future."

“Know thyself, and you'll understand any reflection”

“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.“

“We have to open ourselves up to the possibility of making mistakes and regretting them, in order to learn from the experience.”

-Moya Sarner

“You do not get to make me extraordinary as an excuse not to succeed.”

-Lisa Nicholas

“If you don’t like what you are reaping, change what you are sowing.”

"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky”

“There is never a reason to say you are sorry for your sorrow.”

-Mitch Davidowitz

“Those who truly stand with our heart would never wish for us to abandon it.”

-Mitch Davidowitz

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded".

-Ralph W. Emerson

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”

“If my life can help someone else, then.. it matters”

“May we be the peace we so wish to see in the world.

May we begin with the turbulence within ourselves.”

-Mitch Davidowitz

"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."

"The horse, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back"

“I wanna be compassionate, and I wanna be of service, and I wanna be understanding, but also, I don’t want to be a doormat. I don’t want people to take advantage of my kind nature.”

-Stormy King

“To avoid an embarrassing fall, do not jump to a conclusion”

-De Q. Harris

“When the doors of our heart are opened, the winds of generosity can blow through them freely.”

-Mitch Davidowitz

“The message will come to you when you’re ready to hear it.”

“I found the world to be woefully lacking in safe places; so I became one.”

“A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

- M. Garvey

“Even if life doesn’t always give us the gifts we were hoping for, the real gift, is life itself.”

“You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living."

-Shannon Alder

“You cannot heal beyond oneself until you heal within”

“If we realise that many people are wounded children trapped in adult bodies it would help us not to take things personally.”

“Enlightenment means becoming unconditioned again, becoming a child again.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed – borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.”

- Osho

“Working on yourself as an offering to others, and working with others as a way of working on yourself.”

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

- Salvador Dali

“Overthinking is the art of creating problems that do not exist.”

- Jim Kwik

“The fool punches the wind;

The intelligent flows with it;

The wise becomes one with it.”

- Yusuf Kemal

“We keep getting lost in the forms.. in the labels. In who we think we’re seeing. In who we think we’re relating to. We keep getting lost in the labels and what our senses tell us, and our thinking minds discriminate. And we fail to see through that veil. See that there’s another soul.”

- Ram Dass

“What do you need to release in this moment to allow yourself to be freer?”

-Mitch Davidowitz

"That whom illuminates the path for others to follow, knowing that he’ll never tread it, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."

-Yusuf Kemal

"When I say be kind to one another, I don't mean only people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone."

-Ellen

"Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it - it's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time."

“We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity"

- Audrey Hepburn

“Here’s to those who have always seen things differently”

-Steve Jobs

“Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.”

-Ram Dass

“The weak surrenders without a fight,

The strong battles till the end,

The wise avoids it altogether.”

-Yusuf Kemal

“Being judgemental only serves to cloud our judgement, blind our eyes, and distort the inner truth of who we truly are.”

-Yusuf Kemal

“When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.”

~ Rumi

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

-Maya Angelou

“We’re much more alike than we care to admit”

“Suffering is the true test of life. You face it every single day of your life. The only way you’re ever going to get to the other side of this journey, is you have got to suffer to grow. But a lot of us die, never truly starting our journey.”

-David Goggins

“Remember, the safest thing you can do is take risks because playing it safe is the riskiest thing of all.”

“If you avoid all risk, you’ll never learn what you’re capable of”

"If you do the same that you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten"

~Swedish behavioural expert, Thomas Erikson.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

~Albert Einstein.

“To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did”

-Denzel Washington’s wife

“In order to do something you’ve never done, you’ve gotta become someone you’ve never been”

"Who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life .."

-Hicham Gamal

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

-Abraham Lincoln

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."

-Rick Warren

"Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

-Joshua Marine

“There are no mistakes in life, only lessons.”

-Jay Shetty

“We let our judgments get in the way, we let our emotions get in the way, we let our fear get in the way, and then we end up losing our way on this journey. We are too preoccupied with listening to the senseless voices of our egos, that we can't hear the authentic voice within our souls. Nor are we able to hear each other amidst all the noise of said egos. The secret to peace is to find that within which no longer serve us, and let go of it cleanly and quickly when the universe has moved on, or when it is no longer helpful.”

-Yusuf Kemal

"The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.”

-William Arthur Ward

"If I’m going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart."

~ Ram Dass

“When the mind is quiet, all is the Self."

~ Papaji

"As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun."

~ Ram Dass

“When there are no attachments to anything, there is only love loving itself.”

~ Papaji

"Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality."

~ Ram Dass

“Reality is that which always exists and never changes.”

~ Papaji

"Don’t take yourself so personally."

~ Ram Dass

“There is no such thing as a self-realized person. When there is no person, the Self is realized.”

~ Papaji

“Machines have given us abundance and left us in want. Her knowledge has made us hateful and cynical. Her cleverness is blind, and mean, and hard and unkind. We know too much, and feel too little”

“I invite you to quiet your mind, feel your soul, and listen to your heart and intuition. What does it tell you? What do you feel? Become a spacious entity of cosmic emptiness, floating through space and time. Feel it. Let go of everything you think you know. Release any thought you have of who you think you are. Let go of everything you think you are. Let go of those clingings. No identities, no judgements. No roles, no assumptions. No expectations, no disappointments.”

“We live in deeply paradoxical times. We have wider vistas, but narrower viewpoints. We have longer roads, but myopic visions. We have big mouths, but little ears. We have taller structures, but shorter tempers. We have higher artificial academic degrees, but lower human sense. We have more knowledge, but less judgment. More experts, but less solutions. We strive to the clean air, but not our souls. We’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice. We live in a world of higher wealth, but lower morals. We have machines that can calculate massive numbers, but souls that are broken from tiny words. We have normalised dehumanizing others. We have desensitized our souls and rendered ourselves hard, and mean, and uncouth, and unkind. We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. We know too much, and feel too little.

And it’s time we realised, we have to feel for one another if we are to survive with dignity,

Because as MLK said “We can choose to live together as siblings, or perish together as fools"

"We live in a world where funerals are more important than the deceased, marriage more than love, parties more than the celebrated, power more than purpose, money more than meaning, stories more than the hero, looks more than the soul, speeches more than the message, and words more than their meaning.

We live in a packaging culture that despises content."

- Yusuf Kemal

“We all have to leave a legacy. We all, you know, if we can have something positive and constructive to do, then that’s all for the better. If we’re just assholes in the universe, and all we leave is a trail of tears behind us and that’s our legacy, we’d rather not care anyway, because we’re assholes.”

-David ‘PallavianLands’

“You'll never get where you want to go if you can’t define where it is.”

“It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you, it's what you leave behind you when you go.”

- Randy Travis

“As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.”

-Ram Dass

"I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea, How you decorate your home. Or party, Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art."

-Helena Bonham Carter

“There’s more to life than survival. Dignity, integrity, love, grace, peace, trust, truth, kindness, courage .. all of them.. are of incomparably greater value. We drown in the turbulent waters of what we think we can’t live without, only to lose sight of the truth we already bear within.”

- Yusuf Kemal

“You can't change people.

You can change your expectations.

You can set boundaries and make decisions about how much time and effort you give. You can refocus your attention. You can practice acceptance and letting go.

But you can't mold someone into who you want or need them to be. You can't force them to make a shift before they're ready. You can't ask them to become someone different than who they authentically are. You shouldn't have to. And that can be a painful truth to sit with. That no matter how much you beg and explain things. No matter how many times you say what you need and communicate what hurts, that a person you care about can't show up for you in the way you need.

That sometimes, there's no one to blame and nothing to fix.”

- Daniell Koepke

“I just remembered something I wrote when I was a teenager that seems to apply to a football party: Because happiness is a state of mind much more than a condition of the body, it matters a lot more who you are with than where you are or what you're doing.”

- Stormy King

“Weak men create hard times

Hard times create strong men

Strong men create easy times

Easy times create weak men”

“When a man is old, he doesn’t care what he remembers. He cares how he’s remembered. And at the end, we’re all just memoriums.”

-Brother Dusk, Cleon XVI., Empire, “Foundation” season II. Episode V.

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

“Stories end gracefully. Everything else ends in shock and horror, falsely certain of tomorrow.”

-Cleon I., “Foundation” season II. Episode IX.

“The Darkness feels so heavy, but the gravity is light.”

-Yanna Kine, “Foundation”, Season II., Episode VI.

“I forgive you. None of us were free. We were fools to think we ever would be.”

-Brother Dusk, Cleon XVI., Empire, “Foundation” season II. Episode X.

“I remember this homily. A parable. About how life is like collecting jewels in a bag. And in the end, you don’t want the bag to be full, you want it to be empty because… you’ve given them all away.”

-Hober Mallow, “Foundation” season II. Episode IIX.

“When you tread through the world of hearts, please pass carefully and with gentle footsteps.”

- Sant Darshan Singh

“It’s so dangerous to play with someone’s emotions, because you have no idea the damage you’re causing.”

- Jay Shetty

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

- Henry David Thoreau

“When you try to be like anybody else, the best you can be, is second place. Understand how unique you are, because if two of us are the same, one of us is unnecessary. My friend, be you!”

- Delatorro McNeal II

“Fortune favours the bold.”

“A tragedy, is a comedy, misunderstood”

-Shakespeare

“Distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant.”

“Come back my soul,

How much longer will

You linger in the garden of deceit?

I have sent you a hundred messages

I have shown you a hundred ways

Either you never read them

Or you ignore my advice.

Come back my soul, do not waste

Time with the cold-hearted

They do not know your worth.

Why do you seek water When you are the stream?

Have you forgotten?

You are the king's falcon,

You are a ray of the Beloved,

A divine wonder!”

-Rumi

“Finding a middle ground is necessary, but the art of compromise, is to divide a cake in such a way that everyone believes they have the biggest piece.”

- Caspian Report

"Time is a great teacher; unfortunately it kills all of its pupils. "

-Hector Berlios

"If you want to be happy, practice compassion. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion."

-The Dalai Lama

“In the Ledger of life, time is the only non-renewable asset.”

-Caspian Report

"Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers." —Socrates

"Sometimes, a person can be pushed so far that they reach a place beyond fear. A place where you find a strange peace. Where you free yourselves to do the right thing. Sometimes that's the hardest thing to do and also the easiest".

- Collected from Bollywood Movie “Rang De Basanti”

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

- Jim Kwik

“We oftentimes fall into the beguiling trap of fixating on the map so engrossedly for so long, that we forget that it is equally crucial to arriving at our destination that we raise up our heads and look at what’s coming up on the road ahead in front of us. Then, when we crash the car, we blame each other, as if pointing fingers would be of any use to us after we have totaled our only vehicle, and have submitted ourselves to being stranded on the sides of the road.”

-Yusuf Kemal

“Dying is the most important thing you do in your life; it’s the great frontier and love is the art of living as a preparation for dying,” says Mirabai Bush, who was a frequent collaborator with the late Ram Dass and is founder and senior fellow at the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. “Ram Dass taught me that allowing ourselves to dissolve into the ocean of love is not just about leaving this body, it is also the route to Oneness and unity with our own inner being while we are still here. If you know how to live and to love, you know how to die.”

“You can do it like it’s a great weight on you, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”

-Ram Dass

“It’s not the love you make. It’s the love you give.”

-Nikola Tesla

“I don’t know how much value I have in this universe. But I do know that I’ve made a few people happier than they would’ve been without me. As long as I know that, I’m as rich as I ever need to be.”

-Robin Williams

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.”

- Dogen

“The goal is not to fall in love with somebody and want them to be better than you;

The goal is to not fall in love with somebody and yet, still want them to be better than you.”

-Yusuf Kemal

“If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.”

“The end of a melody is not its goal.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

“I looked at the situation through my own glasses and became furious when her glasses showed something else.”

“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”

- Christian Nestell Bovee

“Love is not what you can give someone, it’s what you can see in someone.”

-Nicholas Diehl

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend”

- Albert Camus

“Victories are savoured more when they’re snatched from the jaws of defeat”

- Jonah Berger, “Magic Words”

“No one is ever ready, but the only way is forward.”

-Sammy Zakaria

“Vintage records, classic cars, and antique clocks might be valuable collectibles, but outdated facts are mental fossils that are best abandoned”

-Adam Grant

“You can keep battling it or you can accept the as-isness of it and now work with what you have”

- Dr. Shefali Tsabary

“When you love your life more than you love your ego, then, and only then, will you discover the secret to the art of meaningful living”

- Yusuf Kemal

“Most of us are so obsessed with performance, it kills the ability to enjoy effort”

- Dr. Shefali Tsabary

“If you’re here to teach, then you’re here to teach the level of consciousness your child has, and not punish them for the one that they don’t yet”

-Dr. Shefali Tsabary

“We can become anything we want to be, only if we have the courage to let go of what we have become”

-Yusuf Kemal

“The best lie is the lie which is closest to the truth”

-Brian Carbaugh

“Often what we’re reacting to is not the event. It’s what the event means to us.”

-Tal Ben-Shahar

“The more I accept the emotion that I’m feeling, the more control I have over my action”

-Tal Ben-Shahar

“Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.”

-Golda Meir

“The more words it takes to tell the truth, the more it sounds like a lie”

-Jefferson Fisher

“Resentment is the poison you drink hoping to kill somebody else”

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”

-C.S. Lewis

“Healing is not becoming the best version of yourself. Healing is letting the worst version of yourself be loved.”

~ Brianna Wiest

“The mess is almost always what leads to the magic”

“Never let your sense of morals, keep you from doing what’s right.”

“The truth hurts only when we’re resistant to hearing it.”

“The message will come to you when you’re ready to hear it.”

“A weapon’s only as good as the person wielding it.”

“You can’t play chess with someone who’s willing to set the entire board on fire.”

“When we don’t take the time and attention to listen to each other, we prevent ourselves from understanding each other. And we as humans fear what we do not understand. So not understanding each other, leads to fear. And fear leads to distrust. Distrust leads to anger. Anger leads to hatred. And hatred, leads to suffering.”

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek”