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It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life · this quote
The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
— Laozi, Tao Te Ching, chapter 8 (trans. Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English) · this quote
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
— Carl Sagan, Contact (1985) · this quote
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
— Rumi, Masnavi, Book IV · this quote
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
— Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds (1916) · this quote
It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.
— Rabbi Tarfon, Pirkei Avot 2:16 · this quote
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.16 (trans. Gregory Hays) · this quote
Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'
— Wisława Szymborska, Nobel Lecture, 'The Poet and the World' (1996) · this quote
Work is love made visible.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (1923), 'On Work' · this quote
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
— Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop · this quote
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) · this quote
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel, I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology · this quote
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
— Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things" (1968) · this quote
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks · this quote
“Hope” is the thing with feathers - that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops - at all.
— Emily Dickinson, “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” (c. 1861) · this quote
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
— Rabindranath Tagore, Fruit-Gathering (1916) · this quote
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, ch. 78 (trans. Stephen Mitchell) · this quote
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book V · this quote
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII · this quote

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