- Money isn’t the goal. Freedom is. Kids aren’t the goal. Loving is. Talent isn’t the goal. Growth is. The goal isn’t the goal. Meaning is. @orangebook_
- If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. Thich Nhat Hanh
- A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. Steve Martin
- A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise. Zig Ziglar
- Act without expectation. Lao Tzu
- Your desire for pleasure or happiness makes you unhappy. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- It might sound pessimistic, but I remember one teacher saying to always live life with death on the side, the idea of remembering how precious life is. I think about it every day, like, “Wow, life will end for all of us.” Andy Puddicombe
- A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us. Friedrich Nietzsche
- Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. Albert Einstein
- You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. Somerset Maugham
- If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. Thich Nhat Hanh
- Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. Blaise Pascal
- Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the liar with truth. The Dhammapada
- As human beings, all 7 billion of us are born the same way and die the same way. Physically, mentally and emotionally we are the same. We all want to live a happy life and avoid problems, but in a materialistic culture we overlook the importance of love and affection. 14th Dalai Lama
- The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. Huang Po
- He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can’t know who he really is. Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)
- The fools have busy minds and busy calendars. The wise have quiet minds and quiet calendars. The wiser have fulfilled minds and no calendar. Maxime Lagacé
- Remember: eventually, no one will remember you. Jack Butcher (See also: death quotes)
- We think too much and feel too little. Charlie Chaplin
- I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. Socrates
- We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha
- The future is being made out of the present, so the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. This is logical and clear. Thich Nhat Hanh
- Brief is man’s life and small the nook of the Earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago. Marcus Aurelius
- Slow reading, most enjoyable reading. Slow learning, deepest understanding. Slow to conclusions, deepest thinking. Rushing can make you waste time and life. @orangebook_
- You always admire what you really don’t understand. Blaise Pascal
- If only humanity made its loving as frequent and as detailed as its complaining. Philip Arnold
- Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten? Sigmund Freud
- As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two. Sir Norman Wisdom
- We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Albert Einstein
- The key to everything: give yourself permission to be who you really are. Susan Cain