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“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world.”

René Descartes book Discurso sobre o Método

“Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.”

Paisios of Mount Athos (1924–1994) Greek Eastern Orthodox monk

“Unless I am myself, I am nobody.”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Crime and Punishment

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Idiot

“Truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.”

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement

“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement

“It is very easy to follow your parents,
it is very easy to follow your teachers,
it is very easy to follow the society,
it is very easy to be obedient --

to be rebellious, to be on your own, is very difficult.

But growth comes the hard way.”

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement

“Where your fear is, there is your task.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker

“Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.”

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement

“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement

“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement

“Meaning is mancreated. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.”

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement

“The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”

Roberto Assagioli (1888–1974) Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974)

“This is the secret of life: to be non-serious but absolutely involved.”

Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian