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  • #1
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #2
    Ocean Vuong
    “tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #5
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #6
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

  • #7
    Charles Baudelaire
    “If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #8
    William Gibson
    “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
    William Gibson

  • #9
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #10
    Lao Tzu
    “Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #11
    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    Euripides, The Bacchae

  • #12
    Marvin Bell
    “Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
    Marvin Bell

  • #13
    Plato
    “Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
    Plato

  • #14
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • #15
    Tom Waits
    “We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
    We are monkeys with money and guns.”
    Tom Waits

  • #16
    Tom Waits
    “The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
    Tom Waits

  • #17
    Tom Waits
    “I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.”
    Tom Waits

  • #18
    Tom Waits
    “Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.”
    tom waits

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    Rumi

  • #21
    Agatha Christie
    “Fear is incomplete knowledge”
    Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End

  • #22
    Agatha Christie
    “They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #23
    Agatha Christie
    “I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia

  • #24
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #25
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #28
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless : Tales of Transgression

  • #29
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

  • #30
    William S. Burroughs
    “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.”
    William S. Burroughs



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