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  • #1
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #2
    Jack Kerouac
    “I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #3
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I felt like putting a bullet between the
    eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its
    species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers
    and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted
    to breathe smoke.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #4
    John Green
    “Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #5
    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

  • #6
    Bertrand Russell
    “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
    Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

  • #7
    Bertrand Russell
    “Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”
    Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

  • #8
    Bertrand Russell
    “The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.”
    Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

  • #9
    Bertrand Russell
    “The secret of happiness is very simply this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile”
    Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

  • #10
    Albert Szent-Györgyi
    “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  • #11
    Osho
    “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
    Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
    So if you love a flower, let it be.
    Love is not about possession.
    Love is about appreciation.”
    Osho

  • #12
    Osho
    “Experience life in all possible ways --
    good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
    summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
    Don't be afraid of experience, because
    the more experience you have, the more
    mature you become.”
    Osho

  • #13
    Osho
    “Be — don't try to become”
    Osho

  • #14
    Osho
    “Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.”
    Osho

  • #15
    Osho
    “Life begins where fear ends.”
    Osho Bhagwam Shree Rajneesh

  • #16
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #17
    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #18
    David Foster Wallace
    “Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”
    David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

  • #19
    Hermann Hesse
    “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #20
    Hermann Hesse
    “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #21
    Hermann Hesse
    “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #22
    Hermann Hesse
    “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #23
    Hermann Hesse
    “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #24
    Hermann Hesse
    “What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #25
    Hermann Hesse
    “We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #26
    Hermann Hesse
    “It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #27
    Hermann Hesse
    “When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”
    Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe
    tags: love

  • #28
    Bruce Lee
    “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
    Bruce Lee

  • #29
    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    Bruce Lee

  • #30
    Bruce Lee
    “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
    Bruce Lee



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