Quotes

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Seneca

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Seneca

Let us prepare our minds as if we had come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing.

Seneca

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Seneca

You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

Confine yourself to the present.

Marcus Aurelius

Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Shakespeare

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

What's past is prologue.

Shakespeare

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Rumi

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rumi

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Khalil Gibran

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Khalil Gibran

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours.

Khalil Gibran

The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch, it will suffer but it does not die.

Khalil Gibran

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Hemingway

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact.

Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Hemingway