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“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“I would rather have a short life with width rather than a narrow one with length.”
― Avicenna

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
― Albert Camus

“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
― Plato

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“there is nothing permanent except change--”
― Heraclitus

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.”
― Charles Horton Cooley

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I

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

“You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but 'steal' some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley