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“When you are going through difficulty and wonder where God is, remember that the teacher is always quiet during the test.”

Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“Selfishness comes from too little self-love, not too much, as we compensate for our lack. There’s no such thing as caring for the self too much, just as there’s no such thing as too much genuine affection for others. Our world suffers from too little self-love and too much judgment, insecurity, fear, and mistrust. If we all cared about ourselves more, most of these ills would disappear.”

Anita Moorjani (1959) writer

“When I’m being love, I don’t get drained, and I don’t need people to behave a certain way in order to feel cared for or to share my magnificence with them. They’re automatically getting my love as a result of me being my true self. And when I am nonjudgmental of myself, I feel that way toward others.”

Anita Moorjani (1959) writer

“When we try to help people, we have to be aware: are we doing it for them, or are we doing it because we want their approval?
If you're doing it for them, just be there with them, and for them, in a space of love.”

Anita Moorjani (1959) writer

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book Manon, Ballerina

“The only reason something feels really good, it’s because you didn’t know it before. If you fall in love, it’s because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet. If you didn’t have anxiety, then you wouldn’t have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you’re thoughtful.”

Kristen Stewart (1990) American actress

“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.”

Édouard Boubat (1923–1999) French photographer

“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”

Clarice Lispector book The Hour of the Star

“Nature does not hurry yet it accomplishes everything.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“My formula for greatness in a human being is … that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.
Not merely bear what is necessary, …but love it.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit….
I doubt that such pain makes us ‘better’; but I know that it makes us more profound.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Gay Science

“The brief madness of bliss is experienced only by those who suffer the most deeply.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”

Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher

“You don't think, you are being thought by thought.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer