Man's world is the planet of inexperience.
-Milan Kundera
The longest journeys
are the ones where one fears the destination.
-L. E. Modesitt, Jr
Each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
-T. S. Eliot
If we do not live and manifest in our lives
what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation,
then we are living a split life.
-Stephen Gray, "Adyashanti"
Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity.
-Ikkyu Sojun
To see what is right and not do it
is want of courage or of principle.
-Confucius
If you face life without confidence in your own powers,
you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity;
you lack the will to persevere.
-Nathaniel Branden
Integrity is praised
and then left out in the cold.
-Juvenal
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being,
you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
-Abraham Maslow
If you haven't the strength
to impose your own terms upon life,
you must accept the terms it offers you.
-Anonymous
The truth is you turned away from yourself,
and decided to go into the dark alone.
Now you are tangled up in others,
and have forgotten what you once knew.
-Kabir
The mind constantly reliving itself
seeks to perform an autopsy on a living body.
-William Douglas Horden
I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes
without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.
-Jane Hamilton
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity;
the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
-Simone Weil
The more you connect with life's obstacles,
the more you obstruct the flow.
-William Wei
One must live the way one thinks
or end up thinking the way one has lived.
-Paul Bourget
I had chosen the dead rather than the living,
the thing thought rather than the thing thinking.
-George MacDonald
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
-Pliny the Elder
All disappointment which reaches from without
is the reflection of uncertainty which is in us.
-Annie Besant
It is not the outer objects that entangle us.
It is the inner clinging that entangles us.
-Tilopa
Do not allow yourself to be damaged by yourself.
-Steve Maraboli
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement,
we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
-Leo Buscaglia
If we understood ourselves better,
we would damage ourselves less.
-James Baldwin
We will not forget our falsehoods
-The Oculatum
A man can do what he ought to do;
and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
-Johann Gottlieb Fichte
What happens with you
when you being to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy?
Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something.
-Pema Chodron
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides,
never decides.
-Henri-Frederic Amiel
Idealism is what precedes experience;
cynicism is what follows.
-David T. Wolf
Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
-Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
-Paul Valery
They say at a certain age you just stop caring.
I wonder what age that is.
-Cover Girl Advertisement
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,
the greater is their power to harm us.
-Voltaire
The things we cherish most
are at the mercy of the things we cherish least.
-William James
Do the work;
stay out of the misery.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Do not destroy what you cannot create.
-Leo Szilard
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace,
and that price can be put in one world.
One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
-Woodrow Wilson
If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
When we hang onto any form,
we are in danger of putrefaction.
-Joseph Campbell
The moment good taste knows itself,
some of its goodness is lost.
-C. S. Lewis
When your work speaks for itself
don't interrupt.
-Henry J. Kaiser
Nothing is so difficult
as not deceiving oneself.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea,
when it’s the only one we have.
-Emile Chartier (Alain)
The word remorse means "to bite again"
and implies a deliberate keeping open of the wound,
which is a subtle and morbid form of egotism
and strengthens rather than decreases the ego.
-Jean C. Cooper
People who are unable to motivate themselves
must be content with mediocrity,
no matter how impressive their other talents.
-Andrew Carnegie
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste to our powers.
-William Wordsworth
For the mindful god does detest untimely growth.
-Friedrich Hölderlin
To resent change and cling to certainty,
not only in material things but in our thought
and the whole potentially rich realm of our inner life,
is to deny, the creative spirit itself
and the possibilities of unforeseeable growth.
-Hugh l'Anson Fausset
Yet listen well. Not to my words,
but to the tumult that rages in
your body when you listen to yourself.
-Rene Daumal
Self-justification is worse than the original offence.
-Sheikh Ziaudin Jahib Suhrawardi
Laziness is always your fault.
It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.
-Idries Shah
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
To not dare is to lose oneself.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Once shame touches your being at any point,
even the most distant nerve is implicated,
whether you know it or not;
any fleeting encounter or random thought
will rake up the anguish and add to it.
-Stefan Zweig
Do not let your judges define you.
-Jules Feiffer
Things that matter most
must never be at the mercy
of things that matter least.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is all you have.
This is not a dry run.
This is your life.
If you want to fritter it away with your fears,
then you will fritter it away,
but you won't get it back later.
-Laura Schlessinger
And above all things,
never think that you're not good enough yourself.
A man should never think that.
My belief is that in life people will take you
at your own reckoning.
-Isaac Asimov
If small things have the power to disturb you,
then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
-Eckhart Tolle
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty
the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
-Terence
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction,
the quitting response that follows from the belief
that whatever you do doesn't matter.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
The desire for self-expression afflicts people
when they feel there is something of themselves
which is not getting through to the outside world.
-Fay Weldon
Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings;
let us therefore be cautious how we strip her.
-Samuel Johnson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
I was seldom able to see an opportunity
until it had ceased to be one.
-Samuel Clemens, "Mark Twain"
If you say “can’t”
you’re restricting what you can do or ever will do.
-Mark Spitz
I want to be able to look back and say,
‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’
I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that.
-Mark Spitz
Nothing ever goes away
until it has taught us what we need to know.
-Pema Chodron
Collecting is an attempt to fill the void.
-Ingrid Schaffner
When you lose touch with inner stillness,
you lose touch with yourself.
When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
-Eckhart Tolle
Everything can collapse.
Houses, bodies, and enemies collapse
when their rhythm becomes deranged.
-Miyamoto Musashi
"The three P's"
Perfection, Procrastination, Paralyzation.
-Alcoholics Anonymous
What a long time
I have been running after unrealities.
-Jitoku Eki
Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.
-Idries Shah
He stands above the situation who controls it;
he fall beneath the situation who becomes involved in it.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Never curse a fall.
The ground is where humility lives.
-Yasmin Mogahed
What you think in private
is your action in public.
-Kenneth G. Mills
If you don't transform your pain,
you will always transmit it.
-Richard Rohr
It's not what you are that holds you back,
it's what you think you are not.
-Denis Waitley
The simpleton eats more than he can assimilate,
collects a greater load than he can carry,
cuts the branch of the tree upon which he is sitting,
and spreads thorns in his own path.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
When man starts to reason
he ceases to feel.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us
which would have to be taken into account
in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
- George Eliot
When we live superficially...
we are always outside ourselves, never quite "with" ourselves,
always divided and pulled in many directions...
we find ourselves doing many things we do not really want to do,
saying things we do not really mean,
needing things we do not really need,
exhausting ourselves for what we secretly realize to be worthless
and without meaning in our lives.
-Thomas Merton
The man who has no inner life
is a slave to his surroundings.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
Adversity introduces man to himself.
-Anonymous
O my subtle cleverness,
Thou often becomest my greatest deceiver.
-Sa'adi
Contradiction, which is the law of the unconscious...
-Gaston Bachelard
Compromise is still on the plane of opposing forces.
-Christmas Humphreys
What's the use of contending?
-Wu Cailan
Dragging the adversary about when there is no adversary
will cost you your inner treasure.
-I Ching, Hexagram 3
We are not satisfied to be right,
unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
-William Hazlitt
It is when people do wrong things wilfully
that they are the more likely to do them again.
-George MacDonald
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
-Graham Greene
It's not what you are that holds you back,
it's what you think you are not.
-Denis Waitley
A man is sometimes lost
in the dust of his own raising.
-David Ruggles
To delve into a matter which matters little,
is like raising dust from the ground.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
We have first raised a dust
and then complain we cannot see.
-George Berkeley
Raise not dust from the ground;
it will enter into your eyes.
Sprinkle some water on it
that it may settle down
and lie under your feet.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
We are all practical in our own interest
and idealists when it concerns others.
-Kahlil Gibran
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life,
and gets less, than intolerance.
-Giacomo Leopardi
Learning too soon our limitations,
we never learn our power.
-Mignon McLaughlin
He who says, "I cannot tolerate,"
shows his smallness;
he who says, "I cannot endure,"
shows his weakness;
he who says, "I cannot associate,"
shows his limitation;
he who says, "I cannot forgive,"
shows his imperfection.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Anger is a weed;
hate is a tree.
-Saint Augustine
Hatred is a thing of the heart;
contempt a thing of the head.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Resentment is fermented anger.
Arrogance is fermented egotism.
-Anonymous
Too many people overvalue what they are not
and undervalue what they are.
-Malcolm S. Forbes
Negligence is the rust of the soul
that corrodes through all her best resolves.
-Owen Feltham
Reactions take root
and our life is the ground
in which roots have grown.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
Every life is a march from innocence,
through temptation, to virtue or vice.
-Lyman Abbott
Every mood is selfishness dressed up.
-Kenneth G. Mills
There are no friends more inseparable
than pride and hardness of heart,
humility and love,
falsehood and impudence.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
In the ocean of baseness,
the deeper we get,
the easier the sinking.
-James Russell Lowell
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious.
which is why their existence is denied.
-Vernon Howard
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
-Andrew Carnegie
A remark generally hurts
in proportion to its truth.
-Will Rogers
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
-Edith Clara Summerskill
It is a fault to wish to be understood
before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
-Simone Weil
False humility is of conceit
-The Oculatum
Too much modesty is half conceit.
-Yiddish Folk Saying
Anyone well aware of their humility
is no longer humble.
-Jacob Klatzkin
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do for yourself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Complaining is never powerful
because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness.
-Dennis Prager
Worrying is using your imagination
to create something you don't want.
-Esther Hicks, "Abraham-Hicks"
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right,
it's ended up not being right.
-Mario Cuomo
It infuriates me to be wrong
when I know I am right.
-Moliere
Every extreme attitude
is a flight from self.
-Eric Hoffer
Don't feel sorry for yourself.
If you have chosen the wrong road,
turn around!
-Edgar Cayce
Act nothing in a passion.
Tis putting to sea in a storm.
-Thomas Fuller
Despair is a mental state which exaggerates not only our misery
but also our weakness.
-Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues
One promises much to avoid giving little.
-Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues
We promise according to our hopes
and deliver according to our fears.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
-Maya Angelou
How ruthless we are
when we live on the surface of life!
-Mabel Dodge Luhan
Warmth, warmth, more warmth!
for we are dying of cold and not of darkness.
It is not the night that kills, but the frost.
-Miguel de Unamuno
In struggling against anguish
one never produces serenity;
the struggle against anguish
only produces new forms of anguish.
-Simone Weil
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated
is a refusal to be educated.
-Margaret Halsey
The mark of the immature man
is that he wants to die nobly for a cause,
while the mark of a mature man
is that he wants to live humbly for one.
-Wilhelm Stekel
You seek too much information
and not enough transformation.
-Sai Baba
Perhaps he did not know himself -
like all these intellectual cynics.
-Arthur Koestler
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
-Oscar Wilde
When you finally give up striving,
you will be left with what you have been striving for.
-Alan Cohen
Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded
by busy nothingness.
-Steve Maraboli
If a person is ashamed of himself,
it means that the next stage of development has come.
-lkin Santak
Those who have no compassion have no wisdom.
Knowledge, yes; cleverness, maybe; wisdom no.
A clever mind is not a heart.
Knowledge doesn't care.
Wisdom does.
-Benjamin Hoff
We are most gullible to our own untruth.
-The Oculatum
Almost anything that consoles us is a fake.
-Iris Murdoch
Be not what you are not
-The Ocualtum
The lust of power grows in weakness.
-The Oculatum
Well listen to that you do not wish to hear.
-The Oculatum
We may not impart that we do not hold.
-The Oculatum
You must rise above the gloomy clouds.
-Ryokan Taigu
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue.
Realize the strength, move on.
-Henry Rollins
