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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. – Thomas Jefferson

A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. – Albert Einstein

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you. – Rumi

A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he gives up. – Unknown

A million light years and a million more would not give time enough to store that small second of eternity when I took you in my arms and you took me in yours. – Jacques Prévert

A winner is someone who recognizes his talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses those skills to accomplish his goals. – Larry Bird

Act instead of wait. Acting makes the suspense bearable. It gives you a starring role. Time passes more quickly. Best of all, it makes possible your dance with life as you network and mingle with other dancers. – Mike Dooley

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life. – David Burns

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. – Zig Ziglar

And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who loved only trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Ask, and it will be given to you. – Word masters

Awareness gives you the power to decide what serves you, and discard what doesn’t. – Beat Schindler

Being on time when the rest of the world is behind gives the impression of being ahead. – Jean-Luc Godard

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they’re given wings. – Rumi

Books give delight to the very marrow of one’s bones. They speak to us, consult with us and join with us in a living and intense intimacy. – Petrarch

Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control. – Terence McKenna

Creativity comes from the freedom to fail and the freedom to fail comes from experience and that gives the few individuality. – Peter Gabriel

Curiosity and learning are like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why you do it. – Beat Schindler

Everybody has a given amount of calories to burn up. You either burn them up by living or by creating. You can’t burn the same I calories both ways. You make poetry out of your unhappiness, and you might argue that you can also make poetry out of your happiness. But why should you make poetry when you are happy instead of living it out? Creativity is a secondary expression. The primary expression is living. – Arthur Koestler

Everybody has been given an endowment that he must strive to develop in the service of mankind. This cannot be brought to completion through the threat of a God who will punish man for sin, but only by challenging the best in human nature. – Albert Einstein    

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson afterward . – Unknown

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote

Forgive ourselves over and over and over again. Then decide to do better next time. – Epictetus

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. –  John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. – Anne Lamott

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet shed on the heel that quenched it. – Mark Twain

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. – Alexandre Dumas

Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life’s greatest gifts. – Napoleon Hill

Generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. – Albert Camus

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truths for yourself. – Vilfredo Pareto

Give me the madman’s sudden insight and the child’s spiritual dignity. – Theodore Roethke

Give me your mouth so I can die on your lips. – Rumi

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get disparaged and ridiculed. Give the world the best you’ve got anyway. – Mother Theresa

Give yourself something to work toward constantly. – Mary Kay Ash

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O’Rourke

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else’s head. – Malcolm Gladwell

Happiness in not having a lot. Happiness is giving a lot. – Buddha

Happiness is often the only thing that can be given without having it, and it is by giving it that it is acquired. – Voltaire

However much you give, more than that will be given to you. – Mike Dooley

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. – Galileo Galilei

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. Such an ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals which have guided my way, and time after time have given me the energy to face life, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. – Albert Einstein

I have no loved one, no house, no place to lead a life. All the things to which I give myself grow rich and spend me. – Rainer Maria Rilke

I were given eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first seven sharpening my saw. – Abraham Lincoln

If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. – Bob Marley

If the world finally gives you praise, it won’t be from the people you originally had in mind. – Hugh Macleod

If you give a boy a hammer, the whole world becomes a nail. – Unknown

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. – Lao Tzu

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. – Buckminster Fuller

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. – Muhammad Ali

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. – Voltaire

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. – Hora Edwards

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. – Doug Larson

It is always easier to get forgiveness than to get permission. – Banksy

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do”. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends. – Unknown

It’s madness … to hate all roses because you got scratched by one thorn, to give up all your dreams because one did not come true, to lose faith in prayers because on was not answered. It’s madness to give up on your efforts because one of them failed, to condemn all your friends because one of them betrayed, not to believe in love because someone was unfaithful. Remember that another chance may come up. A new friend, a new love, a new life. Never give up on your wings. Never give up on anything. – Pravsworld

It’s not the dazzling voice that makes a singer. Or clever stories that make a writer. And it’s not piles of money that give you power.  It’s having a dream so strong you rather go for it and fail than succeed with anything less. You so have what it takes. – Mike Dooley

I’ve given up on my brain. I’ve torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. – Rumi

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. – Ella Fitzgerald

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu

Late one night, just blocks from the Capitol, a mugger jumped into the path of a well-dressed fellow and stuck a gun in his ribs. “Give me your money” the thief demanded. “Are you kidding?” the man said. “I’m a U.S. congressman.” “In that case” the mugger growled, cocking his weapon “Give me my money. – Playboy Magazine

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov

Many come close yet few dare, so boldly, to live without judgment, to give without expecting, and to love for no reason. – Mike Dooley

Men fall deepest in love with women who give them back their own image. – Marshall McLuhan

Most people would rather get than give affection. – Aristoteles

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. It is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. – Coco Chanel

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. – Albert Einstein

No one would think of keeping a (musical) chord to himself. You’d give it to anyone who wanted it. – John Cage

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth’s atmosphere to a company as a monopoly. – Marshall McLuhan

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away. – Stephen Hawking

Perhaps our heart is made of the answer that is never given. – René Char

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it. – Richard P. Feynman

See, there’s bravery in this world. There’s 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we breathe has to be given back. A 9-year-old boy taught me that. – Shane Koyczan

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. The only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. – Tony Robbins

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, because they don’t . – Unknown

Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright- minded fellow can accomplish just as much as I did if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that’s any good works by itself. You got to make the damn thing work. I’ll never give up, for I may have a streak of luck before I die. –  Thomas Edison

Success is giving what you want. – Unknown

Tend yourself to others but give yourself to yourself. – Michel De Montaigne

The best way to forgive is not to blame. – Mike Dooley

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford

The mental is muscular that gives you a certain stride as you walk along the dismal landscape of your thoughts. You have a certain kind of tone to your activity. But most of the time it doesn’t help. It’s just hard work. – Leonard Cohen

The minute you learn how to give is the minute you become successful. – Hugh Macleod

The non-violent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them a new self-respect. It calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had. Finally, it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes reality. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. – John Strider Coleman

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The rules of love, they really are severe. If you’re giving up everything for something, then give up everything for something and stay with it with your mind on where you’re going. – Joseph Campbell

The secret to living is giving. – Tony Robbins

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mahatma Gandhi

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted. – Sun Tzu

This we ask as you leave us, that you speak to us and give us your truth. And we will give it unto our children, and they unto their children, and it shall not perish. – Kahlil Gibram

To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person. – Paul Zane Pilzer

To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science. – Richard Feynman

We are not given a good life or a bad life.  We are given a life. It’s up to us to make it good or bad. – Unknown

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is to give light must endure burning. – Victor Frankel

Women who can only give all or nothing don’t know the meaning of pleasure. – Colette

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. – David Sedaris

You cannot give happiness without having it. That’s how you acquire it. – Voltaire

You don’t know how much you have to give until you start trying to give. The more you try to give effectively to advantage others, the more you will possess to give, and vice versa. – Buckminster Fuller 

You give little when you give of your possessions. It’s when you give of yourself that you truly give. – Kahlil Gibran

You have to give yourself what you needed when you were a kid, and give your kids what they need now. – Austin Kleon

You should never leave the site of a goal or an idea without figuring out some way to apply it immediately. That gives you power. – Tony Robbins

Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. – Buddha

Media Quotes Worth Reading Twice

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty, psychic or physical. – Marshall McLuhan

Imagine what your life would be like if you grabbed a book every time you had the urge to scroll mindlessly on social media. – Michael Thompson

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. – Peter Drucker

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. – Marshall McLuhan

We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. – Terence McKenna

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. – Jim Morrison

Art Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Artificial intelligence is likely to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity. – Elon Musk

Don’t ask me why, I just know what I know. In art and in business, you need one eye looking in and one eye looking out. People who do only one usually fail at both. – Hugh Macleod

I can assure you that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms. – Jean Tinguely

I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. – David Lynch

I see roughly this. There is a realm of utterance of delight, when you taste pleasant food or smell a pleasant smell, etc. Then there is a realm of art which is quite different, though often you may make the same face when you hear a piece of music as when you taste good food. Though you may cry at something you like very much. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If the artist has total freedom – if art can be anything the artist says it is – it will also never be anything more than that.  – Peter Fuller

If you can do it, it’s not art. If you cannot do it, it’s not art either. – Polo Hofer

In any art you’re allowed to steal anything if you can make it better. – Ernest Hemingway

In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. – Voltaire

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. – Oscar Ameringer

Religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by a kind of religious feeling which knows no dogma and no gods conceived in man’s image … The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought … It is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it. – Albert Einstein

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. – Alan Kay

Stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. – Terry Pratchett

The art is not in making money, but in keeping it. – Unknown

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. – Rumi

The best way to get approval is not to need it. This is equally true in art and business. And love. And sex. And just about everything else worth having. – Hugh Macleod

The development of artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. – Stephen Hawking

The fortitude to make failure the yardstick of achievement, and the sanity to discern that the greatness of art is its unimportance. – Alberto Giacometti

The function of art is to carry us beyond speech to experience. – Joseph Campbell

The greatest danger of artificial intelligence is that the word-users conclude too early that they understand it. – Beat Schindler

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. – James Michener

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted. – Sun Tzu

There is no art which one government sooner learns from another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. – Adam Smith

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. – Jonathan Swift

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. – Pablo Picasso

Valuable Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A people that values its privileges over its principles soon loses both. – Dwight Eisenhower

A good objection helps one forward, a shallow objection, even if it is valid, is wearisome. The objection does not seize the matter by its root, where the life is, but so far outside that nothing can be rectified even if it is wrong. A good objection helps directly towards a solution, a shallow one must first be overcome and can, from then on, be left to one side.  Just as a tree bends at a knot in the trunk in order to grow on. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you. – Rumi

All propositions are of equal value. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself. – Joseph Campbell

From my disinherited mother I learned to stay alive by dreaming myself into existence. From her I learned that everything is real. It was a lesson of enormous value to me. – Jamake Highwater

Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the inquiring constructive mind. – Albert Einstein

I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values. – Dalai Lama

I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value, but simply of certain means of expressing this value, yet the fact remains that I have no sympathy for the current European civilization and do not understand its goals, if it has any. So I am really writing for friends who are scattered throughout the corners of the globe. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you don’t stick to your values when they are being tested, they are not values, they are hobbies. – John Stewart

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, and if there were, it would be of no value. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. – Stephen Hawking

It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. – Roy Disney

James Dickey had always been interested in the creative possibilities of the lie. He believe that the poet is not trying to tell the truth, but to make it. The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being. It is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish value. – Mahatma Gandhi

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is alright, as long your values don’t change. – Jane Goodall

Not any self-control or self-limitation for the sake of specific ends, but rather a carefree letting go of oneself; not caution, but rather a wise blindness; not working to acquire silent, slowly increasing possessions, but rather a continuous squandering of all perishable values. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things. – Albert Einstein

Our civilization is characterized by progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features.  Typically, it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity is valuable in itsself. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Our logic is the supreme authority, if the arguments valid on Earth can be extrapolated to the entire universe. – Hubert Reeves

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about “values” then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity. – Marshall McLuhan

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. – John Steinbeck

The secret to success is no secret. It’s called work your ass off and find a way to add more value to peoples’ lives than anyone else does. – Tony Robbins

The sense of the world must lie outside the world. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The true value of a  human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. The value of  achievement lies in the achieving. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

Values are worthless unless they’re controversial. – Mark Zuckerberg

We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonize about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, or try to see their lives from a different perspective. But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. – Karen Armstrong

Feel Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment. – Maxwell Maltz

A human being is part of the whole world, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited by time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind. – Albert Einstein (in a  letter to a distraught father who had lost his young son and had asked Einstein for some comforting words, February 12, 1950)

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might, when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. – Anaïs Nin

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone. – Fred Rogers

As time it feels normal to you. But, there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it, and then more change. – Meryl Streep

Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who mind don’t matter. And those who matter don’t mind. – Theodor ‘Doctor Seuss’ Geisel

Erst wenn die Mutigen klug und die Klugen mutig geworden sind, wird das zu spüren sein, was irrtümlicherweise schon oft festgestellt wurde: ein Fortschritt der Menschheit. (Not until the courageous have become smart and the smart courageous, can we feel what often has been erroneously declared: an advancement of human kind.) – Erich Kästner

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is surely quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive. With cordial greetings, your A. Einstein. – Albert Einstein

Feel the fear, and do it anyway. – Susan Jeffers

Guilt is the feeling that keeps you stuck in who you are not. – Neale Donald Walsch

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy. – Maxwell Maltz

How do I know that someone is enchanted? How does one learn the linguistic expression of enchantment? What does it connect up with? With the expression of bodily sensations? Do we ask someone what he feels in his breast and facial muscles in order to find out whether he is feeling enjoyment? But does that mean that there aren’t any sensations after all which often return when one is enjoying music? Certainly not. In some places he is near weeping, and he feels it in his throat. A poem makes an impression on us as we read it. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I did a statistical analysis and found no correlation between my efforts and my rewards. I felt adrift in a sea of randomness, desperate and absurd, devoid of purpose, lost. And then I got paid and I purchased some unnecessary merchandise and now I feel fine. – Scott Adams

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. – Galileo Galilei

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. – William H. Mauldin

I feel there is an angel in me whom I am constantly shocking. – Jean Cocteau

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. – Georgia O’Keeffe

I have journeyed everywhere … To a person like me it is ideal to feel at home anywhere with his loved ones. – Albert Einstein

I’m a magnet for all the crackpots in the world, but they are of interest to me, too. A favorite pastime of mine is to reconstruct their thinking processes. I feel genuinely sorry for them, that’s why I try to help them. – Albert Einstein

If I made a list of the five worse things that happened to me, they turned out not to be that big of a deal eventually. I find that reassuring, somehow. Like a rabbi once told me, “This time will pass, just like all the other ones”. It’s when you don’t feel pain at the time, that’s when you have to be worried. – Hugh Macleod

If I see someone writhing in pain with evident cause I do not think: All the same, his feelings are hidden from me. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If that person feels that you respect them, you honor them, you accept them, you will own them as long as you remain open. – Tony Robbins

If what feels right doesn’t work, it’s time to do something wrong. – Unknown

If you don’t know what you feel, it will own you. – Brene Brown

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. –  Mark Twain

Man can only hope for the will be make oneself completely free. Will is the wrong word, because in the end you would call it despair. Because it really comes out of an absolute feeling of it’s impossible to do these things, so I might as well just do anything. And out of this anything one sees what happens. – Francis Bacon

Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language. Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something, and he referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running up against paradox).This running up against the limits of language is ethics. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. – Hank Aaron (Hall of Fame baseball player)

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of people is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred. – Albert Einstein

Our actions should be based on the ever-present awareness that human beings in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free but are just as casually bound as the stars in their motion. – Albert Einstein

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does NOT serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory that is within us. And as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Nelson Mandela (1994 Inaugural Speech)

People run in packs because they don’t feel safe alone. I run alone because I don’t feel safe in packs. – Muhammad Ali

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources. – Albert Einstein 

Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What’s the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing? – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by a kind of religious feeling which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man’s image … The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought … It is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it. – Albert Einstein

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien… What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe. – Terence McKenna

Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. – Tony Robbins

Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom. – Richard P. Feynman

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. – Tony Robbins

Sometimes I feel very, very confident and I lose in straight sets. – Roger Federer

Tenderness contains an element of sadness. It is not the sadness of feeling sorry for yourself or feeling deprived but it is a natural situation of fullness. You feel so full and rich, as if you were about to shed tears. Your eyes are full of tears, and the moment you blink, the tears will spill out of your eyes and roll down your cheeks. In order to be a good warrior, one has to feel this sad and tender heart. – Chogyam Trungpa

The confusion I’m feelin’ ain’t no tongue can tell the words fill my head and they fall to the floor that if God’s on our side he’ll stop the next war. – Bob Dylan

The moment it feels like work, stop and do something else. – Ray Bradbury

The most important thing that’ll drive you is your ability just to sit down and create a vision of how you want to be and each day to live it in your mind. That simple visualization or, if you don’t think you make pictures, that simple sense of feeling what you’re going to feel like when you’ve achieved your goals, when you are living in the body that you deserve. That’s what’ll give you the drive, that’s what’ll give you the power. – Tony Robbins

The number one rule is: My lover comes first. If you’re in love, you put their feelings and needs before your own. – Tony Robbins

The power of positive thinking is the ability to generate a feeling of certainty in yourself when nothing in the environment supports you. – Tony Robbins

The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propositions of natural science, i.e. something that has nothing to do with philosophy. And then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions. This method would be unsatisfying to the other – he would not have the feeling that we were teaching him philosophy – but it would be the only strictly correct method. My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it. He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

The truth is that you get the low pressure to do things, rather than getting on the other side and trying to push the bow of the ship around. And you build that low pressure by getting rid of a little nonsense, getting rid of things that Don’t work and aren’t true until you start to get that trim-tab motion. It works every time. That’s the grand strategy you’re going for. So I’m positive that what you do with yourself, just the little things you do yourself, these are the things that count. To be a real trim tab, you’ve got to start with yourself, and soon you’ll feel that low pressure, and suddenly things begin to work in a beautiful way. Of course, they happen only when you’re dealing with really great integrity. – Buckminster Fuller

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy – not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss. – Joseph Campbell

The worst thing to do is tame the chaos in you. It’s like being told not to feel when you’re thrown in the fire. – RM Drake

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke, but you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate. So let us not talk falsely now. The hour’s getting late. – Bob Dylan

There’s no one to beat you, no one to defeat you, except the thoughts of yourself feeling bad. – Bob Dylan

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course there is then no question left, and just this is the answer. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. – Henry Longfellow

We think too much and feel too little. – Charlie Chaplin

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it, whole-heartedly, and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.- Arthur Quiller-Couch

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion. – Abraham Lincoln

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. – W. Clement Stone

Worrying is the same thing as banging your head against the wall. It only feels good when you stop. – John Powers

You don’t feel you could love me, but I feel you could. – Paul Simon

You’ve got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that’s the only way to succeed – by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you’ve got to do you will succeed. – Elizabeth “Betty” Cuthbert (four time Olympic champion)

Reason Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A perfect revenue law, if improperly administered or resisted by a hostile public, will soon become a practical monstrosity. But an imperfect law, if wisely administered with a reasonable public, will produce very satisfactory results. – Aubrey R. Marrs

All progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw

At the end of reasons comes persuasion. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you’re happy with a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken away from you. – Deepak Chopra

Believe nothing unless it agrees with your own reason. – Buddha

Cuskoy, a town in eastern Turkey, is called the bird village with good reason. Its inhabitants have perfected a language system of chirps, tweets, and twitters almost indistinguishable from authentic bird sounds. The people of Cuskoy developed this unique system because of a ravine and a river which bisect their village and an almost daily fog that prevents the use of hand signals. – Charles Berlitz

How have you come to be so thin? Why are you trembling? Why are you so pale, oh simple girl? And she answered the Lord of her life, all these things just happen for no reason, sighing as she said it and turning to let tears fall. – Classical Sanskrit

Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the inquiring constructive mind. – Albert Einstein

I am responsible for what I see, can elect to change all thoughts that hurt and could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over – it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see, can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts and am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself. – Hugh Prather

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. – Galileo Galilei

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know the reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside! – Rumi

Imagine what would happen if a modern psychologist told his patients to submit to their own soul, to obey the objective psychic contents which appear spontaneously in dreams? All reasonable people would say the psychologist should be put in a lunatic asylum. – Carl Jung

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. – Rainer Maria Rilke

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them. – Friedrich Nietzsche

It is of no use to convince others of our spiritual and intellectual equality by way of reason, since others’ attitude does not come by way of their brains. We must instead emancipate ourselves socially and satisfy our own social requirements. – Albert Einstein

It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there all speckled with stars and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim, he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened. I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon coulda laid them. Well, that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn’t say nothing against it because I’ve seen a frog lay most as many, so of course it could be done. We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down. Jim allowed they’d got spoiled and was hove out of the nest. – Mark Twain (in Huckleberry Finn)

Just when I had you wriggling in the crushing grip of reason … – Bill Watterson

Many come close yet few dare, so boldly, to live without judgment, to give without expecting, and to love for no reason. – Mike Dooley

Not activity. Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behavior of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know. – G. Spencer Brown

One of the schools of Tilon has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than the present memory. Another school declares that the whole of time has already happened and that our life is a vague memory or dim reflection, doubtless false and fragmented, of an irrevocable process. – Jorge Luis Borges

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. – Tony Robbins

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. – Mother Theresa

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it. – Blaise Pascal

Religion is a significant hindrance to reason, inherently masking the truth and misguiding followers. – Karl Marx

Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs

Revenue laws are notoriously not expressions of an ordered system of reason and fairness. There has probably never been a revenue statute which, by design or oversight, has not favored some groups and laid the basis for a claim of unfairness to others similarly situated. – Felix Frankfurter

The argument I may be dreaming is senseless for this reason: if I am dreaming, this remark is being dreamed as well – and indeed it is also being dreamed that these words have any meaning. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes. – Buckminster Fuller

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over. – Margaret Atwood

The reason we navigate by the stars is because they never change. – Unknown

There are 6,000,000 reasons for failure but not a single excuse. – Rudyard Kipling

There are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason. Mark Twain

There are two types of people who live in darkness. Those who are desperate to emerge and those who are desperate to stay. When you finally realize that part of the reason you chose this lifetime was to shine your light for the first type, you’ll stop worrying about what the second type thinks of you. – Mike Dooley

To do mathematics is to be, at once, touched by fire and bound by reason. – Jordan Ellenbergward

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. –  Galileo Galilei

Relationship Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Communication is not just about accomplishing tasks. It’s about managing relationships. – Gregory Shepherd

How to say no? Regardless of IQ, all of us fall for these techniques – knowingly or unknowingly. deliberately or accidentally. Poor decisions – in life, business, career, relationships, purchases – are the consequence of persuasion techniques used against you. – Robert Cialdini

I did a statistical analysis and found no correlation between my efforts and my rewards. I felt adrift in a sea of randomness, desperate and absurd, devoid of purpose, lost. And then I got paid and I purchased some unnecessary merchandise and now I feel fine. – Scott Adams

I have now made a habit of being prepared in all affairs of life for the worst. As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day. Yet not one of all my acquaintances could say that in my company I am morose or disgruntled. For this blessing I daily thank my creator. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If you stop working at relationships, they fade away. – Beat Schindler

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make. – Lewis Carroll

It is impossible to end a relationship. It is only possible to change it. All relationships are never-ending. It is not a question of whether we are going to have the relationship, but of what kind of relationship we are going to have. – Debbie Ford

It is not the failed relationships which influence our life. They influence our death. – Anais Nin

James Dickey had always been interested in the creative possibilities of the lie. He believe that the poet is not trying to tell the truth, but to make it. The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being. It is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene

No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or to his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel into his stores. – Lord Clyde

Personality is both antithetical to anarchy and constraint, because it is autonomous, and two autonomies can only sustain reciprocal relations. – Jean Piaget

Social relationships are always ambiguous…my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken… I never stop finding myself guilty even though I am innocent. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. The only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. – Tony Robbins

Success depends above all, upon people. Build relationships, teams, partnerships – and motivate people to contribute. Cultivate leadership, creativity, excellence. Listen. Seek new ideas and advice. – Ruth Scott

Synergy means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It means that the relationship the parts have to each other is a part in and of itself. It is not only a part, but the most catalytic, the most empowering, the most unifying, and the most exciting part. – Stephen Covey

The best relationship is one in which your care for each other outweighs your need for each other. – Unknown

The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which also holds between letters and words, and the world. – Beat Schindler

The same operation which makes q from p, makes r from q, and so on. This can only be expressed by the fact that p, q, r, etc, are variables which give general expression to certain formal relations. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The state to which I belong as a citizen plays not the slightest role in my personal life. I regard a person’s relationship with the state as a business matter, akin to one’s relationship to a life insurance company. – Albert Einstein

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. Trust is the highest form of human motivation. – Stephen Covey

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there.  This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures.  Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs because of a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

What makes a relationship work is things in common, what makes it passionate is that things are very different. – Tony Robbins

Dead Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. – Albert Einstein

A man who is happy must have no fear.  Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

A samurai lives in death. –  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. – Emily Dickinson

Accepting that death is absolutely safe. It is like taking off a tight shoe. – Pat Rodegast

All the people we kill – they’re always people who tell us to live together in harmony and to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, John Lennon – they all said Let’s live together peacefully and – BAM! – dead. Apparently we’re not ready for that. – George Carlin

Be absolute for death; either death or life shall thereby be the sweeter. – Shakespeare

Death does not concern us. As long as we exist, death is not there. Once it does come, we no longer exist. – Epictetus

Death is always in the here and now; it can never happen in the future. Can you die in the future? You can die only in the present. No one has ever died in the future. – Rajneesh

Death is just infinity closing in. – Jorge Luis Borges

Death is not an event in life. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Death is not in the nature of things. It is the nature of things. – Unknown

Die in your thoughts every morning and you will no longer fear death. – Hagakure

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

For a long time I have been preparing myself for the exercise which consists, for the poet, in simulating death. – Jean Cocteau

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau

I always thought death would come on the freeway in a few horrifying moments, so you’d have no time to sort it out. Having months and months to look at it and think about it and talk to people and hear what they have to say, it’s a kind of blessing. It’s certainly an opportunity to grow up and get a grip and sort it all out. Just being told by an unsmiling guy in a white coat that you’re going to be dead in four months definitely turns on the lights. … It makes life rich and poignant. When it first happened, and I got these diagnoses, I could see the light of eternity, à la William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears. – Terence McKenna

I am a teacher of life and a vague student of death. – Pablo Neruda

I have now made a habit of being prepared in all affairs of life for the worst. As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day. Yet not one of all my acquaintances could say that in my company I am morose or disgruntled. For this blessing I daily thank my creator. – Johann Amadeus Mozart

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. – Scott Adams

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. – Winston Churchill

I wonder if, before we were born, we were as afraid of life as we are now of death. – Jay Williams

If death can fly, just for the love of flying, what might not life do, for the love of dying? – Malcolm Lowry

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. – Muriel Spark

If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If the butterflies in your stomach die, send yellow death announcements. – Yoko Ono

If you love something well enough, grandmother Archa told Helen when the weakness was upon her, you will die for it. For when we love with all our might, our silly little selves are already dead, and we have no more fear of dying. Would you die for your music? Helen asked. And her grandmother said: I believe I already have. – William Kennedy

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you die, it is not my death. – Georges Bataille

It is impossible to experience one’s own death objectively and still carry a tune. – Woody Allen

It is not the failed relationships which influence our life. They influence our death. – Anais Nin

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead on us. – Plotinus

Learn to breathe deeply. Really taste food when you eat. When you sleep, really sleep. Be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Be alive. You will be dead soon enough. – Ernest Hemingway

Life is a banquet. The tragedy is that most people are starving to death. – Anthony de Mello

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. – Anaïs Nin

Man is snapped off like a reed in the canebrake. The comely young man, the pretty young woman, all too soon in their prime, death abducts them! – Gilgamesh

Now all my teachers are dead except silence. – W.S. Merwin

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. – Carl Sagan

Peace will come with tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire but will offer no reward when her false idols fall and cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating between the king and the queen of swords. – Bob Dylan

Poetry will rob me of my death. – Rene Char

Security is a kind of death. – Tennessee Williams

See, there’s bravery in this world. There’s 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death – but every breath we breathe has to be given back. A 9-year-old boy taught me that. – Shane Koyczan

The man who is thoroughly convinced of the universal operation of the law of causation … has no use for the religion of fear and equally little for social or moral religion … Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. – Albert Einstein

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The temporal immortality of the soul of man, that is to say its eternal survival also after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do.  Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive forever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The thing to remember is that each time of life has its appropriate rewards, whereas when you’re dead it’s hard to find the light switch. – Woody Allen

The war saved my life. I don’t know what I would have done without it. Now I should have the chance to be a decent human being, for I’m standing eye to eye with death. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are so many little dyings that it doesn’t matter which of them is death. – Kenneth Patchen

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths. – George Patton

To be blessed in death, one must learn to live. To be blessed in life, one must learn to die. – Word-masters

To live several lives, you must die several deaths. – Francoise Giroud

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear. – Epicurus

You can find something better than death anywhere. – Brothers Grimm