“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay…”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by th…”— Jim Rohn, goodreads.com
“The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“I think people spend too much time staring into screens and not enough time drinking wine, tongue kissing, and dancing under the moon.”— Rachel Wolchin, twitter.com
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”— Tom Bodett, goodreads.com
“I am fascinated by the whole process of what it’s like to be alive, whether it’s unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it’s quite nice.”— Charlotte Rampling, indexmagazine.com
“Men spoke of how the heart broke up, but never spoke of how the soul hung speechless in the pause, the void, the terror between the living and the dead.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to figure it’s going to be a long process and that yo…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much and not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated to one but stand on an equal footing.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com