"If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. "
— Mother Theresa

"What is hell? I still maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Without God all things are permitted."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves."
— Anonymous (Holy Bible: The King James Bible)

"Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy."
— Aristotle

"A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you."

The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?"

The old man replied simply, "The one you feed."
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
— Ambrose Bierce

"The highest result of education is tolerance"
— Helen Keller

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. "
— George Washington Carver

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead)

"Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"You can be sincere and still be stupid."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha. I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. I love the blue sky, I love some people, whom one loves you know sometimes without knowing why. I love some great deeds done by men, though I’ve long ceased perhaps to have faith in them, yet from old habit one’s heart prizes them. Here they have brought the soup for you, eat it, it will do you good. It’s first-rate soup, they know how to make it here. I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it’s a most precious graveyard, that’s what it is! Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them speaks of such burning life in the past, of such passionate faith in their work, their truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; though I’m convinced in my heart that it’s long been nothing but a graveyard. And I shall not weep from despair, but simply because I shall be happy in my tears, I shall steep my soul in emotion. I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

"I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

"Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!"
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"To live without hope is to cease to live."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
— Elbert Hubbard

"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."
— Joni Eareckson Tada (God I Love, The)

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
— Mother Teresa

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
— Mother Teresa

"(When asked how to end world hunger, she replied:) 'Go home and feed your family.'"
— Mother Teresa

"...allow your soul the freedom to song, dance, praise, and love..."
— Mother Teresa

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."
— Mark Twain

"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."
— Mother Teresa

"'I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.'"
— A.A. Milne

"Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego."
— Norman Mailer

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche