Chloé's favorite quotes

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul

"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt."
— Francis Bacon

1 person liked it

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: psychotherapist, secrets, visions

106 people liked it

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: psychiatry, sanity

64 people liked it

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
— Carl Gustav Jung

49 people liked it

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: life

25 people liked it

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
— Viktor E. Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)

19 people liked it

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

171 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational

5,988 people liked it

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness

990 people liked it

"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."
— Marcus Aurelius

13 people liked it

"First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do."
— Epictetus

5 people liked it

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them."
— Epictetus

6 people liked it

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."
— Epictetus

8 people liked it

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
— Marcus Aurelius

tags: integrity, religion

47 people liked it

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
— Marcus Aurelius

tags: death, fear, inspirational

34 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish

11,947 people liked it

"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. "
— Chief Seattle

6 people liked it

"If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred."
— Krishna Dharma

16 people liked it

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
— Confucius

tags: beauty, everything, sees

218 people liked it

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: wisdom

363 people liked it

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy

388 people liked it

"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
— Joseph Campbell

tags: inspirational

125 people liked it

"All religions are true but none are literal."
— Joseph Campbell

17 people liked it

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."
— Joseph Campbell

7 people liked it

""You may be whatever you resolve to be.""
— Stonewall Jackson

2 people liked it

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

31 people liked it

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
— Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

632 people liked it

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, wisdom

1,413 people liked it

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom

565 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor

5,720 people liked it

Chloé's quotes

tags from Chloé's quotes