David Freitas > David's Quotes

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.”
― Charles A. Jaffe

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“To philosophize is to think without the benefit of proof (if proof exists, it is no longer philosophy),
which is not to say that any thought and all ways of thinking are, philosophically speaking, equally valid.”
― Comte-Sponville André, Kleine verhandeling over de grote deugden

“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.”
― Anthony de Mello

“You see persons and things not as they are but as you are. ”
― Anthony de Mello SJ

“Don't ask the world to change....you change first.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

“When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.”
― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

“You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.”
― Anthony De Mello

“Let the story do its work in you, and when it is done then you won’t need the story anymore.”
― Anthony de Mello

“Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.”
― John Mayer

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
― Bill Watterson

“They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious”
― Muse

“Often it is better to hide an illness from the patient, because just the mere awareness of a disease can bring about death.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: De Brevitate Vitae (A New Translation)

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“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

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
― Seneca

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
― Seneca

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
― Seneca

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
― Seneca

“He who is brave is free”
― Seneca

“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca