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  • #1
    Gautama Buddha
    “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
    Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

  • #2
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
    And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
    Robert Frost

  • #4
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

  • #5
    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

  • #6
    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    Dante Alighieri

  • #7
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #8
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #9
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

  • #10
    Eckhart Tolle
    “The past has no power over the present moment.”
    Eckhart Tolle

  • #11
    Eckhart Tolle
    “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
    Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

  • #12
    Eckhart Tolle
    “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
    Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

  • #13
    Eckhart Tolle
    “Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
    Eckhart Tolle
    tags: life

  • #14
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #15
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #16
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
    Thich Nhat Hang, Stepping into Freedom: An Introduction to Buddhist Monastic Training

  • #17
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

  • #18
    T.S. Eliot
    “There will be time, there will be time
    To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
    T.S. Eliot.

  • #19
    T.S. Eliot
    “If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #21
    Walt Whitman
    “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Still round the corner there may wait
    A new road or a secret gate
    And though I oft have passed them by
    A day will come at last when I
    Shall take the hidden paths that run
    West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #23
    Dante Alighieri
    “The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

  • #24
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #25
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #26
    T.S. Eliot
    “I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #27
    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

  • #28
    Charles Baudelaire
    “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
    Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

  • #29
    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #30
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley



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