Collected Quotes

My photo roll in the phone is full of saved pictures and screenshots of different wisdom and quotes that truly speak to me. Let me share some with you.

I’m sure that, if not all, many of them will resonate with you.

“The true man is revealed in difficult times.” — Epictetus

“When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” — Epicurus

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives, and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.” — Voltaire

“Listen with the ears of tolerance. See through the eyes of compassion. Speak with the language of love.” — Rumi

“If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.” — Hippocrates

“An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” — Charles Bukowski

“Blessed are those who see beauty in humble places where others see nothing.” — Camille Pissarro

“Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.” — Rumi

“Walls keep everybody out. Boundaries teach where the door is.” — Mark Groves

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

“We don’t own the planet Earth; we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.” — Steve Irwin

“Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place, then come down and shoot the survivors.” — Ernest Hemingway

“One of the kindest things you can do is be gentle and patient with yourself.” — Charlie Mackesy

“Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.” — Anni Albers

“There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.” — C.S. Lewis

“A society that keeps cures a secret so they can continue to sell medication for huge profits is not a real society but a huge mental asylum.” — Dr. Sebi

“Working-class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other. They have to be conned into it by the sociopaths who will profit from it.” — John Lennon

“One day you will wake up and there will be no more time to do the things you have always dreamed of. Do them now.” — Paulo Coelho

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” — Toni Morrison

“We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.” — Carl Sagan

“Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.” — Alfred Adler

“You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.” — David Goggins

“You can’t sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it.” — Faith Ringgold

“The cost of not following your dreams is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.” — Daniyal Zahid

“When life feels too big to handle, go outside. Everything looks smaller when you’re standing under the sky.” — L.R. Knost

“Solitude is the soul’s holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.” — Katrina Kenison

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.” — Albert Camus

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
— Mark Twain

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”
— Margaret Atwood

“Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.” — George Sand

“Minimalism is asking ‘why?’ before you buy.” — Francine Jay

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” — Epictetus

“Fly away, fly away over the sea, Sun-loving swallow, for summer is done;
Come again, come again, come back to me, Bringing the summer and bringing the sun.” — Christina Rossetti

“Let us all learn to respect every animal as a sentient being.” — Dr. Jane Goodall

Thank you.