Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
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There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
› Christopher Morley
There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.
› John Stuart Mill
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
› F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
› Anais Nin
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
› Rumi
Do not feel certain of anything.
› Bertrand Russell
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
› Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
› Isaac Newton
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
› George Orwell
Understanding a question is half an answer.
› Socrates
The oldest, shortest words - “yes” and “no” - are those which require the most thought.
› Pythagoras
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
› Winston Churchill
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
› William James
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
› Carl Jung
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
› Friedrich Nietzsche
Ignorance never settle a question.
› Benjamin Disraeli
You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.
› Sigmund Freud
The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.
› Horace
