“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Variant of this quote "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." is misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Source: According Quote Investigator Mark Twain did write a version of this saying in a personal notebook in 1896, and it was published by 1935 in “Mark Twain’s Notebook”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/21/cheer-somebody/
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Book III, ch. 23.
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“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”
As quoted by LIFE magazine (2 May 1955)
1950s
Variant: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)
“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”
Source: "The Subject and Power" (1982), p. 785
“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”
Source: A Moon for the Misbegotten
“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
“Love should not be polluted with friendship.”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Misattributed
“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
“You can achieve anything in life. It just depends on how desperate you are to achieve it.”
The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)
“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang , p. 55.
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
