Nagarjuna photo

“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.”

Nagarjuna (150–250) Indian philosopher

That frightens all the childish
And extinguishes fear in the wise.

§ 26
Major attributed works, Ratnāvalī (Precious Garland)

Christian Morgenstern photo
Sophocles photo

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”

Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18

Diana, Princess of Wales photo

“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

"Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess'", Hello Magazine, Daily News (1 July 2015)

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

Erica Jong photo

“Because I loved myself, I was loved.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

Abraham Lincoln photo

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Maria Shriver photo
Anne Sexton photo

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

"The Poet's Story," January 1, 1972 entry
A Small Journal (1974)

Thomas Aquinas photo

“To love is to will the good of the other.”

II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)

William Shakespeare photo
Umberto Eco photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925)

Mario Cuomo photo

“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”

Mario Cuomo (1932–2015) American politician, Governor of New York

Time Magazine (2 June 1986)

Toni Morrison photo