"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion" A. Lincoln

"You should never let the sun set on tomorrow before the sun rises today..." Nine days Lyrics

"It is usually in hard times that people change the course of their lives, in good times they frequently only talked about change." Po Bronson

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." Mother Teresa

"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived." Henry David Thoreau

"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom." Marilyn Ferguson

"You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did." Marilyn Peterson

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt." Bertrand Russell

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon

"Since we're feeling so anesthetised, in our comfort zone..." Placebo

"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself." Mark Twain

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." Carl Jung

"Years ago a person, he was unhappy, didn't know what to do with himself - he'd go church, start a revolution - something. Today you're unhappy? Can't figure it out? What is the salvation? Go shopping." Arthur Miller

"All the children of Adam are members of the same body. When one member suffers, all the others suffer as well. If you are indifferent to the sufferings of others, you do not deserve to be called a man." Muslih-Ud-Din Saadi *

"More things have already been revealed to you than you can understand." Apocrypha *

"Do not be embarassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education." Thomas Carlyle *

"The merit of a man is not in the knowledge he possesses, but in the effort he made to achieve it." Gotthold Ephraim Lessing *

"If beautiful art does not express moral ideas, ideas which unite people, then it is not art, but only entertainment. People need to be entertained in order to distance themselves from dissappointment in their lives." Immanuel Kant *

"The most perfect among men is he who loves his neighbour without thinking about whether the person is good or bad." Mohammed *

"Never blame your neighbour until you have been in his place" The Talmud *

"Do not wish for death just because your life is hard. All the burdens on your shoulders will help you fulfill your destiny. The only way to get rid of your burdens is to live your life in such a way that you fulfill your destiny." Ralph Waldo Emerson *

"People think that if they call mass murder "war", then mass murder will stop being a murder, a crime." Leo Tolstoy *

"Do not think that courage lies only in boldness and power. The highest courage is the courage to be higher than your rage and to love a person who has offended you." Persian Wisdom *

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy." Mahatma Gandhi



* All these quotes have been taken from "A calendar of Wisdom" By Tolstoy



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