Nothing more to say. These quotes have been shaping who I am, and how I have been going through life as a human being. This post will always remain unfinished.

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E. Frankl

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. Oscar Wilde

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell

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

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Voltaire

When the light has been removed and my wife has fallen silent, aware of this habit that’s now mine, I examine my entire day and go back over what I’ve done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I’m able to say, “See that you don’t do it again, but now I forgive you. Seneca

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.  Samuel Beckett

A man’s job is to make the world a better place to live in, so far as he is able—always remembering the results will be infinitesimal—and to attend to his own soul. Leroy Percy

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.  Hippocrates

You plan for one thing, something else happens instead. Kathryn Schulz

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer Maria Rilke

While I dance I cannot judge,
I cannot hate,
I cannot separate myself from life.
I can only be joyful and whole.
That is why I dance. Hans Bos

Be yourself, for everyone else is taken. Oscar Wilde

This is the true joy in life, to be used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, to be a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and that as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live, I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got a hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernhard Shaw

It always seems impossible until it is done. Nelson Mandela

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not. John F. Kennedy

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Pema Chodron

What you seek is seeking you. Rumi

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you. Rumi

I lost everything. I have found myself. Rumi

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it . . . but love it. Nietsche

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self. An eye for an eye….we are all blind. Dalai Lama

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. Benjamin Disraeli

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Khalil Gibran