Philosophical Quotes

1. **Learn as if you were never going to be able to master it.**
2. **The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.**
3. **Do not be concerned with what you cannot control.**
4. **Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.**
5. **To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.**
6. **It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.**
7. **When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.**
8. **The man who is too busy to take care of his temple has no time for the welfare of his people.**
9. **If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.**
10. **The best way to predict the future is to create it.**
11. **To learn and not to think is to be lost. To think and not to learn is dangerous.**
12. **It is easy to hate and difficult to love. This is because one sees the faults of the other person, but not his own.**
13. **To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.**
14. **The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.**
15. **When a man is too lazy to work, he becomes a thief.**
16. **Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.**
17. **If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.**
18. **The man who knows he has enough is rich.**
19. **The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.**
20. **To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.**
21. **Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.**
22. **It is better to be a fool than to be dead.**
23. **The superior man is guided by principle; the inferior man is guided by profit.**
24. **To learn and not to think is to be lost. To think and not to learn is dangerous.**
25. **To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.**
26. **The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.**
27. **The man who is contented with what he has is rich.**
28. **Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.**
29. **The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.**
30. **When a man is too lazy to work, he becomes a thief.**
31. **Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.**
32. **If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.**
33. **The man who knows he has enough is rich.**
34. **The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.**
35. **To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.**
36. **Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.**
37. **It is better to be a fool than to be dead.**
38. **The superior man is guided by principle; the inferior man is guided by profit.**
39. **To learn and not to think is to be lost. To think and not to learn is dangerous.**
40. **To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.**
41. **The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.**
42. **The man who is contented with what he has is rich.**
43. **Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.**
44. **The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.**
45. **When a man is too lazy to work, he becomes a thief.**
46. **Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.**
47. **If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a

1. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
2. The mind is everything. What you think you become.
3. When you are discontent, look within. There lies the cause.
4. Begin each day with a positive affirmation.
5. Think of yourself as an actor in a play.
6. Act with justice, love, and moderation.
7. The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
8. Accept the things you cannot change.
9. Change the things you can.
10. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
11. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
12. The obstacle in the path becomes the path itself.
13. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
14. A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
15. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
16. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
17. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
18. The greatest good is to do no harm.
19. The only thing that is constant is change.
20. The only thing you have to do is die. Everything else is optional.
21. The more you care, the less you know.
22. The more you know, the less you care.
23. The best way to teach is to learn.
24. The best way to learn is to teach.
25. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
26. The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
27. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
28. The best way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
29. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
30. The best way to make someone happy is to make them happy.
31. The best way to make yourself happy is to make someone else happy.
32. The best way to make everyone happy is to be happy yourself.
33. The best way to be happy is to be grateful.
34. The best way to be grateful is to give thanks.
35. The best way to give thanks is to help others.
36. The best way to help others is to love them.
37. The best way to love others is to love yourself.
38. The best way to love yourself is to be yourself.
39. The best way to be yourself is to be free.
40. The best way to be free is to be content.
41. The best way to be content is to be grateful.
42. The best way to be grateful is to give thanks.
43. The best way to give thanks is to help others.
44. The best way to help others is to love them.
45. The best way to love others is to love yourself.
46. The best way to love yourself is to be yourself.
47. The best way to be yourself is to be free.
48. The best way to be free is to be content.
49. The best way to be content is to be grateful.
50. The best way to be grateful is to give thanks.
51. The best way to give thanks is to help others.
52. The best way to help others is to love them.
53. The best way to love others is to love yourself.
54. The best way to love yourself is to be yourself.
55. The best way to be yourself is to be free.
56. The best way to be free is to be content.
57. The best way to be content is to be grateful.
58. The best way to be grateful is to give thanks.
59. The best way to give thanks is to help others.
60. The best way to help others is to love them.
61. The best way to love others is to love yourself.
62. The best way to love yourself is to be yourself.
63. The best way to be yourself is to be free.
64. The best way to be free is to be content.
65. The best way to be content is to be grateful.
66.

1. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
2. The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
3. The only thing that is constant is change.
4. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
5. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
6. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of the possible and the actual.
7. The individual is always free to choose his own destiny.
8. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
9. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
10. The greatest joy in life is to be able to give one’s life for a cause.
11. The most important thing is not to be successful, but to be significant.
12. The only thing that is constant is change.
13. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
14. The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
15. The only thing that is constant is change.
16. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
17. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
18. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of the possible and the actual.
19. The individual is always free to choose his own destiny.
20. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
21. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
22. The greatest joy in life is to be able to give one’s life for a cause.
23. The most important thing is not to be successful, but to be significant.
24. The only thing that is constant is change.
25. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
26. The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
27. The only thing that is constant is change.
28. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
29. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
30. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of the possible and the actual.
31. The individual is always free to choose his own destiny.
32. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
33. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
34. The greatest joy in life is to be able to give one’s life for a cause.
35. The most important thing is not to be successful, but to be significant.
36. The only thing that is constant is change.
37. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
38. The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
39. The only thing that is constant is change.
40. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
41. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
42. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of the possible and the actual.
43. The individual is always free to choose his own destiny.
44. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
45. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
46. The greatest joy in life is to be able to give one’s life for a cause.
47. The most important thing is not to be successful, but to be significant.
48. The only thing that is constant is change.
49. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
50. The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
51. The only thing that is constant is change.

1. The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. – William James
2. All that is deep loves silence. – Friedrich Nietzsche
3. The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius
4. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. – Friedrich Nietzsche
5. Silence is the most powerful scream. – Criss Jami
6. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: the tongue is set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. – James 3:6
7. There are three things that are too deep for me: the way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a man with a maiden. – Proverbs 30:19
8. Words are dead, until they are filtered through a human heart. – Khalil Gibran
9. Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. – Thomas Carlyle
11. There is a wisdom that is woe; and there is a woe that is wisdom. – Friedrich Nietzsche
12. The highest form of wisdom is kindness. – Lao Tzu
13. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela
14. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt
15. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin
16. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
17. Everything is changing, all the time. – John Cage
18. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
19. Nothing endures but change. – Heraclitus
20. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
21. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
22. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
23. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
24. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
25. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
26. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
27. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
28. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
29. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
30. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
31. Change is the only constant. – Heraclitus
32. The only constant is change. – Heraclitus
33. Change is the only constant in life. – Heraclitus
34. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
35. Change is the only constant. – Heraclitus
36. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
37. Change is the only constant in life. – Heraclitus
38. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
39. Change is the only constant. – Heraclitus
40. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
41. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
42. Change is the only constant in life. – Heraclitus
43. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
44. Change is the only constant. – Heraclitus
45. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
46. Change is the only constant in life. – Heraclitus
47. The only thing that is constant is change. – Heraclitus
48. Change is the only constant. – Heraclitus
49. The only thing that is constant is change.

1. The most beautiful thing in the world is, perhaps, the mysterious. It is the unknown that attracts us.
2. A man who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
3. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
4. When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.
5. That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
6. Out of suffering comes strength.
7. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
8. Man is a rope, fastened between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss.
9. Man is something that should be overcome.
10. God is dead.
11. The death of God is the greatest event in history.
12. What is now decisive is the fight against the Christian ideal.
13. The Christian ideal has become the ideal of the herd; and the herd animal regards itself as the highest type of man.
14. The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
15. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
16. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
17. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases—that resistance is overcome.
18. The free spirit is a man who has overcome his fear of war.
19. The greatest danger for a man is his own mediocrity.
20. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
21. The world is a madhouse.
22. The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
23. One must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
24. And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
25. The greatest creators are those who are able to hide their artistry.
26. I am a forest, and a night of dark trees.
27. Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.
28. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
29. No one can bear very much reality.
30. The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a bad night.
31. One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
32. I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.
33. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
34. If you have a problem, then solve it. If you can’t solve it, then name it.
35. There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
36. All things are subject to interpretation.
37. There are no facts, only interpretations.
38. The only thing that is constant is change.
39. The future influences the present just as much as the past.
40. The present is a result of the past and a cause of the future.
41. Time is a flat circle.
42. The only thing that matters is the present moment.
43. The past is a foreign country.
44. The future is a mystery.
45. The present is a gift.
46. Enjoy it.
47. The only thing that is real is the eternal recurrence of the same.
48. Everything that has ever happened will happen again and again and again.
49. There is no escape from the cycle of life and death.
50. The only way to break the cycle is to transcend it.
51. You are the only one who can change your life.
52. You are the only one who can create your own happiness.
53. You are the only one who can control your own destiny.
54. The meaning of life is whatever you make it.
55. The purpose of life is to find your gift.
56. The goal of life is to give your gift away.
57. Life is a journey, not a destination.
58. Enjoy the ride.
59. Love is the greatest power in the world.
60. Hate is the greatest destroyer in the world.
61. Forgiveness is the greatest healer in the world.
62. Compassion is the greatest virtue in the world.
63. Generosity is the greatest gift in the world.
64.

1. **The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.**
2. **What does not kill me makes me stronger.**
3. **He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.**
4. **All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power.**
5. **There are no facts, only interpretations.**
6. **The only thing that is constant is change.**
7. **God is dead.**
8. **Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.**
9. **What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.**
10. **Man is the measure of all things.**
11. **The will to power is the basic drive of all life.**
12. **Life is a river that flows ever onward.**
13. **The future is something that arrives unexpectedly.**
14. **The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.**
15. **The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.**
16. **The only thing that matters is the present moment.**
17. **The greatest power is the power to be yourself.**
18. **The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.**
19. **You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.**
20. **There is no such thing as a free lunch.**
21. **Everything is a lie except the eternal return of the same.**
22. **The only thing that is worth doing is what we do for no reason.**
23. **We have art so that we shall not die of truth.**
24. **The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.**
25. **Man is a rope, tied between the animal and the Superman – a rope over an abyss.**
26. **What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.**
27. **He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.**
28. **One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.**
29. **Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.**
30. **And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.**

1. Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
2. The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.
3. The greatest gift is the present moment.
4. You are already perfect.
5. There is no path to happiness, happiness is the path.
6. The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There is only this moment, so be present.
7. Live each day as if it were your last.
8. Everything is connected.
9. The universe is a hologram.
10. We are all one.
11. Love is the answer.
12. Peace begins with you.
13. Be kind to yourself.
14. Forgive yourself and others.
15. Let go of the past.
16. Live in the present moment.
17. Be grateful for what you have.
18. Be present with your breath.
19. Meditate daily.
20. Practice yoga.
21. Eat healthy foods.
22. Exercise regularly.
23. Get enough sleep.
24. Spend time in nature.
25. Connect with loved ones.
26. Do what you love.
27. Be true to yourself.
28. Follow your dreams.
29. Live your life with purpose.
30. Make a difference in the world.
31. Be a good person.
32. Be kind to others.
33. Help those in need.
34. Be compassionate.
35. Be forgiving.
36. Be patient.
37. Be understanding.
38. Be accepting.
39. Be tolerant.
40. Be respectful.
41. Be honest.
42. Be trustworthy.
43. Be loyal.
44. Be sincere.
45. Be genuine.
46. Be humble.
47. Be grateful.
48. Be positive.
49. Be optimistic.
50. Be hopeful.
51. Be joyful.
52. Be happy.
53. Be at peace.
54. Be one with the universe.
55. Be all that you can be.
56. Live your life to the fullest.
57. Seize the day.
58. Make the most of every moment.
59. Don’t take life for granted.
60. Live each day as if it were your last.
61. The only thing that is constant is change.
62. Everything is impermanent.
63. Nothing lasts forever.
64. Everything is cyclical.
65. The wheel of life turns.
66. The seasons change.
67. The sun rises and sets.
68. The moon waxes and wanes.
69. The tides come in and go out.
70. Life is a journey.
71. The destination is not important.
72. The journey is the destination.
73. The journey is the reward.
74. Enjoy the ride.
75. Live in the moment.
76. Be present.
77. Be here now.
78. Don’t dwell on the past.
79. Don’t worry about the future.
80. Focus on the present moment.
81. Live your life one day at a time.
82. Take things one step at a time.
83. Don’t rush.
84. Slow down.
85. Savor the moment.
86. Be mindful.
87. Be aware.
88. Be present.
89. Be here now.
90. The past is gone.
91. The future is not yet here.
92. There is only this moment, so be present.
93. Live each day as if it were your last.
94. The only thing that is constant is change.
95. Everything is impermanent.
96. Nothing lasts forever.
97. Everything is cyclical.
98. The wheel of life turns.
99. The seasons change.
100. The sun rises and sets.

1. The beginning is the most important part of the work.
2. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
3. The measure of a man is what he does with power.
4. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
5. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
6. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
7. He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
8. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
9. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
10. The only thing that is constant is change.
11. The wise man is he who knows that he knows nothing.
12. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
13. The soul is immortal, and our bodies are only temporary prisons for it.
14. The unexamined life is not worth living.
15. Love is the greatest thing in the world, and the most powerful.
16. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
17. Courage is knowing what to fear and doing it anyway.
18. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
19. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
20. Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the only real goal.
21. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
22. Human nature is what makes all of us human, and it is also what makes us all capable of greatness.
23. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
24. Justice is the only virtue that is worth fighting for.
25. Knowledge is power.
26. Love is the most powerful force in the world.
27. Music is the language of the soul.
28. Nature is the greatest teacher.
29. Necessity is the mother of invention.
30. One should never do wrong in return for wrong.
31. The only thing that is constant is change.
32. The path to wisdom is to be always questioning.
33. The road to wisdom is paved with questions.
34. The soul is immortal.
35. The wise man is he who knows that he knows nothing.
36. Virtue is the only good.
37. War is a necessary evil.
38. We are all born ignorant, but one must learn to be wise.
39. What is beautiful is good, and what is good is beautiful.
40. Wisdom comes with age.
41. Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
42. Youth is wasted on the young.
43. A good man is hard to find, and when you find him, hold on to him.
44. A great man is always willing to learn, and he always knows that he can learn from others.
45. A man who is master of himself is master of the world.
46. A society is great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.
47. Beauty is the eye of the beholder.
48. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
49. Evil is the absence of good.
50. Experience is the best teacher.
51. Friendship is a gift.
52. Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the only real goal.
53. He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
54. He who is not content with what he has, will never be content with what he wants.
55. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
56. Human nature is what makes all of us human, and it is also what makes us all capable of greatness.
57. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
58. Injustice is the greatest evil.
59. Knowledge is power.
60. Love is the most powerful force in the world.
61. Music is the language of the soul.
62. Nature is the greatest teacher.
63. Necessity is the mother of invention.
64. One should never do wrong in return for wrong.
65. The beginning is the most important part of the work.
66. The only thing that is constant is change.
67. The path to wisdom is to be always questioning.
68. The road to wisdom is paved with questions.
69. The soul is

1. This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.
2. A guest, a host.
3. Each morning a new arrival.
4. A joy, a depression, a meanness,
5. A failure, a triumph,
6. a birth, a death.
7.
8. Be grateful for whatever comes,
9. because it has been sent.

10. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
11. Rumi

12. What you seek is seeking you.
13. Rumi

14. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
15. Rumi

16. Be silent. Listen.
17. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked.
18. Rumi

19. The wound is the place where the light enters you.
20. Rumi

21. Don’t be afraid to weep, for every tear is a pearl,
22. and every pearl is a prayer.
23. Rumi

24. There is a candle in your heart, ready to be lit.
25. Rumi

26. When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you will see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
27. Rumi

28. The moment you accept yourself, you become free.
29. Rumi

30. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
31. Rumi

32. Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
33. Rumi

34. You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
35. Rumi

36. The only thing that is constant is change.
37. Rumi

38. The way of love is not a way of thinking, nor of talking, nor of reasoning.
39. It is a way of feeling.
40. Rumi

41. If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
42. Rumi

43. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
44. Rumi

45. What you seek is seeking you.
46. Rumi

47. The moment you realize you are already complete, you are truly free.
48. Rumi

49. When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
50. Rumi

51. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
52. Rumi

53. Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
54. Rumi

55. Your heart is the sea, my friend.
56. Rumi

57. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
58. Rumi

59. The only thing that is constant is change.
60. Rumi

61. The moment you accept yourself, you become free.
62. Rumi

63. When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
64. Rumi

65. What you seek is seeking you.
66. Rumi

67. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
68. Rumi

69. The way of love is not a way of thinking, nor of talking, nor of reasoning.
70. It is a way of feeling.
71. Rumi

72. If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
73. Rumi

74. The only thing that is constant is change.
75. Rumi

76. The moment you realize you are already complete, you are truly free.
77. Rumi

78. When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
79. Rumi

80. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
81. Rumi

82. Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
83. Rumi

84. Your heart is the sea, my friend.
85. Rumi

86. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

1. The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
2. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
3. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
4. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
5. Hatred is the only passion that knows no satiety.
6. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
7. It is better to be wrong with Plato than right with anyone else.
8. Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyranny.
9. Liberty is the right to do everything which injures no one else.
10. Man is only truly great when he acts from principle.
11. Men are not born, but made.
12. Miscarriages of justice are the consequences of human weakness, and the great source of human misery.
13. No man is a hero to his valet.
14. The best is the enemy of the good.
15. The greatest enemy of truth is not the lie, but the half-truth.
16. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
17. The price of greatness is responsibility.
18. To learn to think for yourself, you must first learn to be silent.
19. True happiness consists in the wise choice of our pleasures.
20. Unhappiness is the only true measure of wealth.
21. We are all born mad. Some remain so.
22. What is not good for the beehive is not good for the bees.
23. We must cultivate our garden.
24. Work is the best remedy for sorrow.
25. Yes, I am a freethinker, and I hope that freethinkers will always be free to think.
26. Zeal without knowledge is the parent of madness.
27. A fanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
28. A man is not an angel, nor a beast, but a mixture of both.
29. A witty saying proves nothing.
30. Custom is the law of the multitude, and the tyrant of the wise.
31. Doub is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
32. Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
33. Every thing in excess is opposed to nature.
34. Extremes meet.
35. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
36. He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
37. History is a fable agreed upon.
38. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
39. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
40. It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
41. It is not necessary to be rich to be happy, but it is necessary to be happy to be rich.
42. It is the most difficult thing in the world to know how to live.
43. Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyranny.
44. Liberty is the right to do everything which injures no one else.
45. Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
46. Man is only truly great when he acts from principle.
47. Men are not born, but made.
48. Miscarriages of justice are the consequences of human weakness, and the great source of human misery.
49. No man is a hero to his valet.
50. The best is the enemy of the good.
51. The greatest enemy of truth is not the lie, but the half-truth.
52. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
53. The price of greatness is responsibility.
54. To learn to think for yourself, you must first learn to be silent.
55. True happiness consists in the wise choice of our pleasures.
56. Unhappiness is the only true measure of wealth.
57. We are all born mad. Some remain so.
58. What is not good for the beehive is not good for the bees.
59. We must cultivate our garden.
60. Work is the best remedy for sorrow.
61. Yes, I am a freethinker, and I hope that freethinkers will always be free to think.
62. Zeal without knowledge is the parent of madness.
63. A fanatic is a person who can’