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“The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.”
Herodotus
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”
Pema Chodron
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Leo Tolstoy
“A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging, safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this way.”
Osho
“The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind.”
— John Allston
“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
Robert Browning
“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
— Niels Bohr
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
Rudyard Kipling
“To do a great right do a little wrong.”
William Shakespeare
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
Chinese Proverb
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Seneca
“To become what you are not, behave as you do not.”
T.S. Eliot
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”
Khalil Gibran
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ”
Orison Swett Marden
“Wherever you are is the entry point.”
Kabir
“The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.”
Deepak Chopra
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”
Jodi Picoult
“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”
Muhammad Ali
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
Anne Frank
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
Oscar Wilde
“The greatness of a society can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.”
Bodhidharma
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams.”
Christopher Columbus

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