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“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
― Carl Jung

“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”
― Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
― C.G. Jung

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others." ~ Erik Erikson”
― Erik H. Erikson

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” —WILLIAM JAMES I don’t know what superpower William James enjoyed, but I can no more choose my thoughts than choose my name. The way he talked about thoughts was the way I experienced them—not as a choice but as a destiny. Not a catalog of my consciousness, but a refutation of it. When I was little, I used to tell Mom about my invasives, and she would always say, “Just don’t think about that stuff, Aza.” But Davis got it. You can’t choose. That’s the problem.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
― Aldous Huxley

“If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.”
― Rumi

“Commitment is an act, not a word”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.”
― Mandy Hale

“We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.”
― MARY CATHERINE BATESON

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
― Francis Bacon

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“All good things are wild and free.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. Dance until you shatter yourself.”
― Rumi

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”
― Stephen Hawking

“The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
― Carl Jung

“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.”
― Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”
― Brené Brown

“Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Being Peace