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“Đồng ý với ta, cho ta là phải; không đồng ý với ta, cho ta là quấy... Đã cho ta biện bác cùng anh, anh được, ta không được, vậy anh đã hẳn là phải, mà ta đã hẳn là quấy chăng? Ta được, anh không được, vậy ta đã hẳn là phải, còn anh đã hẳn là quấy chăng? Hay là, hoặc khi phải hoặc khi trái chăng? Hay là cùng phải cả, cùng quấy cả chăng? Ta cùng anh không thể biết được nhau vậy. Giờ ta phải nhờ đến ai để quyết định điều đó? Nhờ kẻ đồng với anh để quyết định điều đó ư? Họ đã đồng với anh thì làm sao mà quyết định được. Nhờ kẻ đồng với ta để quyết định điều đó ư? Họ đã đồng với ta thì làm sao mà quyết định được. Vậy, phải nhờ kẻ khác với ta và anh để quyết định điều đó ư? Họ đã khác với ta và với anh thì làm sao mà quyết định được. Vậy thì, ta cùng anh, cùng người đều không thể hiểu biết nhau, còn phải đợi kẻ khác nữa ư?”
― Trang Tử

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such a waste! I thought, ‘If only she had started out with a good teacher and gotten the proper training, she’d be so much further along!’ But I was wrong about that. She was not the kind of child who could stand proper training. There just happen to be people like that. They’re blessed with this marvelous talent, but they can’t make the effort to systematize it. They end up squandering it in little bits and pieces. I’ve seen my share of people like that. At first you think they’re amazing. Like, they can sight-read some terrifically difficult piece and do a damn good job playing it all the way through. You see them do it, and you’re overwhelmed. you think, ‘I could never do that in a million years.’ But that’s as far as they go. They can’t take it any further. And why not? Because they won’t put in the effort. Because they haven’t had the discipline pounded into them. They’ve been spoiled. They have just enough talent so they’ve been able to play things well without any effort and they’ve had people telling them how great they are from the time they’re little, so hard work looks stupid to them. They’ll take some piece another kid has to work on for three weeks and polish it off in half the time, so the teacher figures they’ve put enough into it and lets them go to the next thing. And they do that in half the time and go on to the next piece. They never find out what it means to be hammered by the teacher; they lose out on a certain element required or character building. It’s a tragedy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The more you are motivated by Love,
The more Fearless & Free your action will be.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.”
― The Dalai Lama

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon”
― Naoko Takeuchi

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Xét cho cùng, ở đời ai cũng khổ. Người khổ cách này, người cách khác. Bí quyết là biết tìm cái vui trong cái khổ. Vì chỉ sống thôi cũng đã quý lắm rồi. Người ta không bao giờ nên phí phạm cái sống, coi thường sự sống.”
― Thạch Lam

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
― Bruce Lee

“Thoạt trông thì những cảm xúc mãnh liệt về tình yêu, căm hận, hay giận dữ có thể được sử dụng để thúc đẩy bạn tiến tới một dự định nào đó, nhưng đây chỉ là một ảo tưởng. Những cảm xúc đại loại như vậy gây ra cho bạn một cơn bùng nổ nhất thời, nó sẽ nhanh chóng xẹp xuống và đưa bạn xuống vực thẳm theo cùng một kiểu như vừa đưa bạn lên cao.”
― Robert Greene, The 50th Law: Overcoming Adversity Through Fearlessness

“A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose.”
― Orrin Woodward