The impediment to action advances action. – Marcus Aurelius

We often suffer more in imagination than in reality. – Seneca

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit alone in a room with his thoughts. – Blaise Pascal

Strict with yourself, tolerant with others. – Marcus Aurelius

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. – Marcus Aurelius

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. – Albert Camus

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. – Alexis Carrel

But how could you live and have no story to tell? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One must imagine Sisyphus happy. – Albert Camus

Let them scream what they want, let animals dismember this soft flesh that covers you. How would any of this stop you from keeping your calm mind? – Marcus Aurelius

For it is shameful to drift rather than to go forward. – Seneca

The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all. – Unknown

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. – Unknown

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps stronger. – J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul just be another human soul. – Carl Jung

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived. – Chinese Proverb

Life is a shipwreck. But we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. – Voltaire