You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.
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.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.