- From a certain point on, there is no more turning back. That is the point that must be reached. Franz Kafka
- Virtue consists more in doing good than in receiving it, and more in doing fine actions than in refraining from disgraceful ones. Aristotle
- Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can. Louisa May Alcott (Rose in Bloom)
- Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real. John Lennon
- Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. Rumi
- You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving. Paul Kalanithi
- I’ve seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all. Tim Ferriss
- If you’re overly worried about looking bad at something, then you’ll never have to worry about being good at anything. Neil Strauss
- Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. Eckhart Tolle
- If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
- You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. Rumi
- I’ll never be ashamed to quote a bad writer with a good saying.” Seneca
- A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations. Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)
- Don’t expect others to praise you or raise toasts to you. Don’t count on receiving credit for your good deeds or good practice. Chögyam Trungpa
- What is your art? To be good. Marcus Aurelius
- The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. Robert M. Pirsig
- I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. Albert Einstein
- Be prepared to appreciate what you meet. Frank Herbert (Dune)
- I am one of the 7 billion human beings alive today. We each have a responsibility to think about humanity and the good of the world because it affects our own future. We weren’t born on this planet at this time to create problems but to bring about some benefit. 14th Dalai Lama
- Don’t expect recognition for your efforts, your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act. Paulo Coelho
- As it is with a play, so it is with life – what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is. Seneca
- We are here to add to what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. William Osler
- I’m wary of people who insist on trying to make other people feel bad about themselves. The more I look around me and within me the more I notice that those who feel best about themselves have the greatest capacity to feel good about others. Fred Rogers
- Our task is to become good men, or to achieve the highest human good. That good is happiness. Aristotle
- You are this universe and you are creating it at every moment. Alan Watts
- Confidence is silent. Insecurity is loud. Strength is gentle. Weakness is abrasive. Ed Latimore (@EdLatimore)
- And then you might see what the life of the good man is like – someone content with what nature assigns him, and satisfied with being just and kind himself. Marcus Aurelius
- It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. Blaise Pascal
- Bring the good news in trickles, the bad news in lumps. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)