“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”
Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer
Source: On Love
hana77
Verified author @hana77, member from Feb. 18, 2020We consider the quote as suspicious, we have no evidence supporting authorship
Chester Bennington (1976–2017) American singer-songwriter
Also attributed to Johnny Depp.
“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
"Tonight I Can Write" (Puedo Escribir), XX, p. 51.
Variant: Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
James Baldwin book Nobody Knows My Name
"In Search of a Majority: An Address" (Feb 1960); reprinted in Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_My_Name (1961)
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51
“I don't want to be part of a world where being kind is a weakness.”
Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
from poem Go to the Limits of Your Longing.
Appears in movie Jojo Rabbit.
Variant: Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
“The problem is people are being hated when they are real, and are being loved when they are fake.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“All idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo
Source: Ecce Homo, chapter Why I Am So Clever
“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
“We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.”
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
Source: Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success
David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
Essay on the Immortality of the Soul
Context: Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad; but the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. -- Were one to go round the world with an intention of giving a good supper to the righteous, and a sound drubbing to the wicked, he would frequently be embarrassed in his choice, and would find that the merits and the demerits of most men and women scarcely amount to the value of either.
“If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”
Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Variant: i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come.”
Paulo Coelho book Aleph
Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
Aleph (2011)