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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
— Pablo Neruda
On Starting Over
Laughter is the language of the soul.
— Pablo Neruda
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.
— Pablo Neruda
On Starting Over
Where the heart fails, the soul soon dies.
— Pearl S. Buck
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
— Sigmund Freud
On Starting Over
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
— Sigmund Freud
On Confidence
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
— Sigmund Freud
On Focus & Distraction
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man fro…
— Ernest Hemingway
On Purpose
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
— Ernest Hemingway
On Focus & Distraction
The first draft of anything is shit.
— Ernest Hemingway
On the Working Life
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
— Ernest Hemingway
On Confidence
Hatred ever kills, love never dies.
— Mahatma Gandhi
On the Working Life
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
On Confidence
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
— Mahatma Gandhi
On Confidence
A people which has no songs, no dance, no laughter, no music, will pass away.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
On Purpose
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
On Confidence
Education must not simply teach work, it must teach life.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
On the Working Life
There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
On Confidence
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
— Isaac Newton
On the Working Life
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore.
— Isaac Newton
On Confidence
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.
— Edward P. Morgan
On Focus & Distraction
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
— Thomas Jefferson
On Focus & Distraction
An honest man is always a child.
— Socrates
On Confidence
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
— Socrates
On Confidence
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
— John Powell
On Starting Over
Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.
— Krishna
On Focus & Distraction
One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction is wise among men.
— Krishna
On Focus & Distraction
Through pleasure and pain, fame and disgrace, success and failure, all the same to him, I am his beloved devotee.
— Krishna
On Discipline
I felt my fate in each tree's leaf, and learned that everything has its season.
— Theodore Roethke
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her.
— Voltaire
On Starting Over