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“I believe that if you focus on what you should do, the road ahead will open up naturally.”

Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)

“Communication is an essential factor in any type of relationship; friend, romantic, or business.”

Paul J. Alessi (1968) Actor / Producer

“I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“The first true love is always the last one.”

Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer

“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

“We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“The noblest art is that of making others happy”

P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman

“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”

Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer

“I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978) Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

“Thats the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”

Lisa Alther (1944) Novelist

“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) English novelist and poet

“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

“Error is discipline through which we advance.”

William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) United States Unitarian clergyman

“Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”

Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) French writer

“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

“True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.”

Akhenaten 18th dynasty pharaoh

“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

“Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.”

Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872) austrian dramatic and writer

“Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.”

William Sloane Coffin (1924–2006) American activist

“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”

Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

“All is flux; nothing stays still.”

Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.”

Caroline Myss (1952) author from the United States

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.”

Ellen Gilchrist (1935) Fiction writer, poet

“God always takes the simplest way.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

“The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.”

Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher

“Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged.”

Ben Fountain (1958) American writer

“All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.”

Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist

“Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer

“If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) 11th President of India, scientist and science administrator

“If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

“Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.”

William Ralph Inge (1860–1954) Dean of St Pauls

“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”

Joseph Wood Krutch (1893–1970) American writer, critic, and naturalist

“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”

William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) United States Unitarian clergyman

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States

“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”

Herodotus (-484–-425 BC) ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”

Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.”

Judy Collins (1939) American singer and songwriter

“Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is.”

Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017) American writer and philosopher

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”

Horace (-65–-8 BC) Roman lyric poet

“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”

Anthony Hopkins (1937) Welsh stage and television actor

“We are going through hard times now. The enemy is within us but it is invisible. We are one nation, we have one religion but there is no accord between us.”

Aslan Maskhadov (1951–2005) Chechen warlord

“The only thing is to be original. You have to be yourself.”

Emma Wareus (1990) Miss Botswana 2010, 1st runner-up to Miss World 2010

“The desire to be perfect. Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona—to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.”

Mila Kunis (1983) American actress

“Hope is not a strategy.”

Chris Voss book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

“I believe in the beauty of spontaneity.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“The less we depend on each other, the less connected we become.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Pride is the worst enemy of love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

“I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.”

Jimmy Page (1944) British guitarist of Led Zeppelin

“A person's authentic character is revealed the moment he gets angry.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“When your body decides to give itself to someone, your mind has already decided so.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“Debt can rob you of your future because you are using the money you earn today to pay off things from the past”

Andrew Lokenauth (1987) Personal finance expert, writer and public speaker

“The worst thing about shame is that we imagine we are the only ones to experience it.”

Annie Ernaux book La Honte

“A wonderful relationship consists of two people who manage to become children again. Living and loving each other as teenagers in one way: purely.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“Be wary of those who deceive: it is the worst species on the planet.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer