1. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ~ Epicurus
2. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” ~ Pablo Picasso
3. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~ Michel Angelo
4. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” ~ Albert Einstein
5. “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” ~ Rosa Parks
6. “You can tell a pioneer by the arrows in his back.” ~ Beverly Rubik
7. “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” ~ Euripides
8. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss
9. “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.” ~ Victor Hugo
10. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
11. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” ~ Rumi
12. “Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.” ~ Jackson Brown Jr.
13. “He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.” ~ Lao Tzu
14. “Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.” ~ Sun Tzu
15. “Do or do not, there is no try.” ~ Yoda
16. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ~ Thomas Merton
17. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” ~ Stephanie Perkins
18. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
19. “Life is in ourselves and not in the external.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
20. “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” ~ Harper Lee
21. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ~ Friedrich Nietzche
22. “For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. “People do not lack strength; they lack will.” ~ Victor Hugo
24. “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” ~ Rumi
25. “It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.” ~ Francis Bacon
26. “A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” ~ Henrik Ibsen
27. “The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.” ~ Alexandre Dumas
28. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ~ Isaac Asimov
29. “You might want someone else to save you, or might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really, not from yourself.” ~ Ava Dellaira
30. “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” ~ Epictetus
31. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” ~ Marthe Troly-Curtin
32. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” ~ Oscar Wilde
33. ‘We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” ~ Seneca
34. “It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.” ~ Bryant H. McGill
35. “I can resist anything except temptation.” ~ Oscar Wilde
36. “Nothing will work unless you do.” ~ Maya Angelou
37. “Look for the thing you notice but no one else notices.” ~ Rick Rubin
38. “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” ~ Voltaire
39. “To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.” ~ Lao Tzu
40. “Cleverness is not wisdom.” ~ Euripides
41. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” ~ Victor Hugo
42. “Sleep doesn’t help if it’s your soul that’s tired.”
43. “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.” ~ Seneca
44. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ~ Pablo Picasso
45. “What matters most in life is often invisible.” ~ Duane Elgin
46. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~ Lao Tzu
47. “Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.” ~ Albert Camus
48. “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” ~ William Shakespeare
49. “The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
50. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ~ Cesare Pavese
51. “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” ~ L.M. Montgomery
52. “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” ~ Voltaire
53. “Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.” ~ Sophia Loren
54. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” ~ Winnie the Pooh
55. “Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.” ~ C. S. Lewis
56. “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ~ Chuck Klosterman
57. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” ~ Albert Einstein
58. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu
59. “The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”- Stephen Furtick
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