The Simplicity Quotes
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The Simplicity Lifestyle Quotes
“Simplicity is the Key if We want to live a life that is joyful and free!”
- “The Simplicity Lifestyle” by Ted Wind
“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don't.”
-Joshua Becker
(Born: December 11, 1974)
Joshua Becker is an American author, writer, and philanthropist.
“Don’t watch the clock, do what it does. Keep going.”
- Sam Levenson
(December 28, 1911-August 27, 1980)
Samuel Levenson was an American humorist, writer, teacher, television host, and journalist.
“The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life.”
-Bill Phillips
(September 23, 1964)
William Nathaniel Phillips is an American entrepreneur and author.
“The habits you repeat every day largely determine your health, wealth, and happiness.”
- James Clear
(January 22, 1986)
James Clear is a writer and speaker focused on habits, decision making, and continuous improvement.
“Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.”
- Jack Kornfield
(July 16, 1945)
Jack Kornfield is an American author and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism.
“If you can dance and be free and not be embarrassed, you can rule the world.”
-Amy Poehler
(September 16, 1971)
Amy Poehler is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director.
“The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It’s a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.”
- Duane Elgin
(February 1943)
Duane Elgin is an American author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist.
“Wealth is largely the result of habit.”
- John Jacob Astor
(July 13, 1864-April 15, 1912)
John Jacob Astor was an American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow, this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."
- Elizabeth Gilbert
(July 18, 1969)
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American journalist and author.
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
(April 14, 1879-May 5, 1958)
James Branch Cabell was an American author of fantasy fiction.
“The things you own end up owning you.”
- Joshua Fields Millburn
(1981)
Joshua Fields Millburn is an author, filmmaker, writing instructor, podcaster, and international speaker.
“You cannot control the results, only your actions.”
- Allan Lokos
(Mar 12, 1940)
Allan Lokos is an author and the founder and guiding teacher of the Community Meditation Center.
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
-George Bernard Shaw
(July 26, 1856-November 2, 1950)
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
- James Thurber
(December 8, 1894-November 2, 1961)
James Grover Thurber was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist and playwright.
“If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.
- John Maxwell
(February 20, 1947)
John Calvin Maxwell is an American author, speaker, and pastor.
"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on."
- Lady Gaga
(March 28, 1986)
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
“It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.”
- RuPaul
(November 17, 1960)
RuPaul Andre Charles, known mononymously as RuPaul, is an American drag queen, television judge, musician, and model.
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.”
- Bob Marley
(February 6, 1945-May 11, 1981)
Robert Nesta Marley OM was a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter.
"I don't have to prove anything to anyone. I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world."
- Beyoncé
(September 4, 1981)
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, known as Beyoncé is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actress.
“Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.”
- Lauryn Hill
(May 26, 1975)
Lauryn Noelle Hill is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actress.
"When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific."
-Lily Tomlin
(September 1, 1939)
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer.
"Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something."
- Ashton Kutcher
(February 7, 1978)
Christopher Ashton Kutcher is an American actor, producer, entrepreneur, and former model.
“Don’t focus on the pain, focus on the progress.”
- Dwayne Johnson
(May 2, 1972)
Dwayne Douglas Johnson, also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor, businessman, and former professional wrestler.
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’m possible.”
-Audrey Hepburn
(May 4, 1929-January 20, 1993)
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian.
“The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.”
- Domenico Dolce
(August 13, 1958)
Domenico Mario Assunto Dolce is an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur.
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
- Amelia Earhart
(July 24, 1897-January 5, 1939)
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and writer.
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
- Bruce Lee
(November 27, 1940-July 20, 1973)
Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, martial arts instructor, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and philosopher.
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
-Walt Disney
(December 5, 1901-December 15, 1966)
Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur.
“When your values are clear, making decisions becomes easier.”
- Roy Disney
(June 24, 1893-December 20, 1971)
Roy Oliver Disney was an American businessman and co-founder of The Walt Disney Company.
“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
- Steve Jobs
(February 24, 1955-October 5, 2011)
Steven Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur, industrial designer, business magnate, media proprietor, and investor.
“Your time is limited. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
-Steve Jobs
(February 24, 1955-October 5, 2011)
Steven Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur, industrial designer, business magnate, media proprietor, and investor.
“If you put that effort in, you’ll get what you want.”
- Kim Kardashian
(October 21, 1980)
Kimberly Noel Kardashian is an American socialite, media personality, and businesswoman.
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”
- Sylvia Plath
(October 27, 1932-February 11, 1963)
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
- Oprah Winfrey
(January 29, 1954)
Oprah Gail Winfrey, or simply Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist.
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
-Oprah Winfrey
(January 29, 1954)
Oprah Gail Winfrey, or simply Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist.
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
- Pablo Neruda
(July 12, 1904-September 23, 1973)
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(November 13, 1850-December 3, 1894)
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.
“1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.”
- Don Miguel Ruiz
(August 27, 1952)
Miguel Ángel Ruiz Macías, better known as Don Miguel Ruiz, is a Mexican author of Toltec spiritualist and neoshamanistic texts.
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
- Leo Tolstoy
(September 9, 1828-November 20, 1910)
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
-Jack Kerouac
(March 12, 1922-October 21, 1969)
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
- Hermann Hesse
(July 2, 1877-August 9, 1962)
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
- Hermann Hesse
(July 2, 1877-August 9, 1962)
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
- Hermann Hesse
(July 2, 1877-August 9, 1962)
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
"To love is to recognize yourself in another."
- Elkhart Tolle
(February 16, 1948)
Eckhart Tolle is a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author of The Power of Now and A New Earth.
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
-Elkhart Tolle
(February 16, 1948)
Eckhart Tolle is a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author of The Power of Now and A New Earth.
“In today’s rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget the joy of just being.”
- Elkhart Tolle
(February 16, 1948)
Eckhart Tolle is a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author of The Power of Now and A New Earth.
“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!”
- Elkhart Tolle
(February 16, 1948)
Eckhart Tolle is a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author of The Power of Now and A New Earth.
“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, love,compassion, and also intuition,creativity,insight and focused attention.”
-Deepak Chopra
(October 22, 1946)
Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American author and alternative medicine advocate.
“Mediation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body”
–Deepak Chopra
(October 22, 1946)
Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American author and alternative medicine advocate.
“In stillness lives wisdom. In quiet you’ll find peace. In solitude you’ll remember yourself.”
- Robin Sharma
(June 16, 1964)
Robin Sharma is a Canadian writer, best known for his The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book series.
“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
- Maya Angelou
(April 4, 1928-May 28, 2014)
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist.
“If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
- Maya Angelou
(April 4, 1928-May 28, 2014)
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist.
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
- Khalil Gibran
(January 6, 1883-April 10, 1931)
Gibran Khalil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher.
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
- Paulo Coelho
(August 24, 1947)
Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002.
“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”
- Paulo Coelho
(August 24, 1947)
Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002.
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
- Albert Camus
(November 7, 1913-January 4, 1960)
Albert Camus was an Algerian-born French philosopher, author, dramatist and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44.
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
- Helen Keller
(June 27, 1880-June 1, 1968)
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”
- Brene Brown
(November 18, 1965)
Casandra Brené Brown is an American research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host.
“What we know matters, but who we are matters more.”
-Brene Brown
(November 18, 1965)
Casandra Brené Brown is an American research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host.
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”
- Brene Brown
(November 18, 1965)
Casandra Brené Brown is an American research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host.
“Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
(June 5, 1944)
Jon Kabat-Zinn is an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
“Sometimes you won’t know a value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
- Dr. Seuss
(March 2, 1904-September 24, 1991)
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American children's author and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss.
“A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”
- Emily Dickinson
(December 10, 1830-May 15, 1886)
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet.
“You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. You have to believe that.”
- Salma Hayek
(September 2, 1966)
Salma Hayek Pinault is a Mexican and American actress and producer.
“It’s our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.”
- Jim Carrey
(January 17, 1962)
James Eugene Carrey is a Canadian-American actor and comedian.
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
- William Ellery Channing
(April 7, 1780-October 2, 1842)
William Ellery Channing was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century.
“I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.”
- Anne Heche
(May 25, 1969-August 12, 2022)
Anne Celeste Heche was an American actress.
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”
- Peter Marshall
(March 30, 1926)
Ralph Pierre LaCock, better known by his stage name Peter Marshall, is an American former game show host, television and radio personality, singer, and actor.
"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you. It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right."
-Maxwell Anderson
(December 15, 1888-February 28, 1959)
James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist.
“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
- George Bernard Shaw
(July 26, 1856-November 2, 1950)
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
- Frederic Chopin
(1810-October 17, 1849)
Frederic Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.
"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn't end."
- Michelle Obama
(January 17, 1964)
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author who served as first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is married to former President Barack Obama.
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
- Anne Frank
(June 12, 1929-1945)
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. One of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary.
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968)
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goals requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968)
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
- Frederick Douglass
(February 1818-February 20, 1895)
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
– Isaac Newton
(January 4, 1643-March 31, 1727)
Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author.
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowing but imagination.”
- Albert Einstein
(March 14, 1879-April 18, 1955)
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely thought to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics.
“Make things as simple as possible but no simpler.”
- Albert Einstein
(March 14, 1879-April 18, 1955)
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely thought to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics.
“Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.”
- Nikola Tesla
(July 10, 1856-January 7, 1943)
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
“Life is too short for long-term grudges.”
- Elon Musk
(June 28, 1971)
Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI.
"There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope."
- Stephen Hawking
(January 8, 1942-March 14, 2018)
Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, at the time of his death, was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.
“Opportunities only favor the prepared mind.”
- Louis Pasteur
(December 27, 1822-September 28, 1895)
Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
- Mark Twain
(November 30, 1835-April 21, 1910)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
- Edgar Allen Poe
(January 19, 1809-October 7, 1849)
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature.
“Enough is a decision, not an amount.”
- Faulkner
(September 25, 1897-July 6, 1962)
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.”
- Abraham Lincoln
(February 12, 1809-April 15, 1865)
Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
(November 30, 1874-January 24, 1965)
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.”
- Winston Churchill
(November 30, 1874-January 24, 1965)
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”
- Winston Churchill
(November 30, 1874-January 24, 1965)
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
(October 11, 1884-November 7, 1962)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She served as the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest-serving first lady of the United States.
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
(October 11, 1884-November 7, 1962)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She served as the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest-serving first lady of the United States.
“Keep your eyes in the stars and your feet on the ground.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
(October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919)
Theodore Roosevelt was an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
"Whether you think you can or can’t, either way, you are right."
- Henry Ford
(July 30, 1863-April 7, 1947)
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production.
"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it."
- Henry Ford
(July 30, 1863-April 7, 1947)
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production.
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
- Dale Carnegie
(November 24, 1888-November 1, 1955)
Dale Carnegie was an American writer and lecturer, and the developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
– Pablo Picasso
(October 25, 1881-April 8, 1973)
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
“A person is what he or she thinks about all day long.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
(May 25, 1803-April 27, 1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
“For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(September 24, 1896-December 21, 1940)
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
‒ Walt Whitman
(May 31, 1819-March 26, 1892)
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist.
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I… I took the one less traveled by...”
‒ Robert Frost
(March 26, 1874-January 29, 1963)
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet.
“When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
‒ William Shakespeare
(April 1564 – 23 April 1616)
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor.
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
- Joseph Campbell
(March 26, 1904-October 30, 1987)
Joseph John Campbell was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience.
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
- Marie Curie
(November 7, 1867-July 4, 1934)
Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
"To live without hope is to cease to live.”
-Dostoyevsky
(November 11, 1821-February 9, 1881)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, philosopher and journalist.
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes us happy.”
- Charles Spurgeon
(June 19, 1834-January 31, 1892)
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers".
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
- Alan Watts
(January 6, 1915-November 16, 1973)
Alan Wilson Watts was an English writer, speaker and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Japanese, Chinese and Indian traditions of Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
- Henry David Thoreau
(July 12, 1817-May 6, 1862)
Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
(July 12, 1817-May 6, 1862)
Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau
(July 12, 1817-May 6, 1862)
Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
- Immanuel Kant
(April 22, 1724-February 12, 1804)
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(October 15, 1844-August 25, 1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history.
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(October 15, 1844-August 25, 1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history.
“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
- Plato
Plato was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent.
“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”
- Plato
Plato was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent.
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
- Socrates
(399 BC)
Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
(April 15, 1452-May 2, 1519)
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
“Learn to be calm and you will always be happy”
- Paramahansa Yogananda
(January 5, 1893-March 7, 1952)
Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian Hindu monk, yogi and guru who introduced millions to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his organization Self-Realization Fellowship / Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, and who lived his last 32 years in America.
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
- Nelson Mandela
(July 18, 1918-December 5, 2013)
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
- Mother Teresa
(August 26, 1910-September 5, 1997)
Mother Teresa, also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun who in 1950 founded and was an active member of the Missionaries of Charity.
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
- Mother Teresa
(August 26, 1910-September 5, 1997)
Mother Teresa, also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun who in 1950 founded and was an active member of the Missionaries of Charity.
“Peace begins with a smile.”
- Mother Teresa
(August 26, 1910-September 5, 1997)
Mother Teresa, also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun who in 1950 founded and was an active member of the Missionaries of Charity.
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
(October 2, 1869-January 30, 1948)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
“If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness.”
-The Dalai Lama
(July 6, 1935)
The 14th Dalai Lama, known as Gyalwa Rinpoche to the Tibetan people, is the current Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and former head of state of Tibet.
“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
- Epictetus
(135 AD)
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher.
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire.”
- Epictetus
(135 AD)
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher.
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.”
– Epicurus
(February 341 BC-270 BC)
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy.
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
- Thich Nhat Hahn
(October 11, 1926-January 22, 2022)
Thich Nhat Hahn was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, teacher, and founder of the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism. Known as the "father of mindfulness", Thich Nhat Hahn was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism.
“Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”
-Thich Nhat Hahn
(October 11, 1926-January 22, 2022)
Thich Nhat Hahn was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, teacher, and founder of the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism. Known as the "father of mindfulness", Thich Nhat Hahn was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism.
“Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.”
- Swami Muktananda
(May 16, 1908-October 2, 1982)
Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa, born Krishna Rai, was a yoga guru, the founder of Siddha Yoga. He was a disciple of Bhagavan Nityananda. He wrote books on the subjects of Kundalini Shakti, Vedanta, and Kashmir Shaivism, including a spiritual autobiography entitled The Play of Consciousness.
“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear”
– Rumi
(September 30, 1207-December 17, 1273)
Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.”
- Confucius
(September 28, 551 BC-April 11, 479 BC)
Confucius was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Confucius's teachings and philosophy underpin East Asian culture and society, remaining influential across China and East Asia to this day.
“To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed.”
- Lao Tzu
(571 BC)
Laozi, also known as Lao Tzu or Lao-Tze, was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism.
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu
(571 BC)
Laozi, also known as Lao Tzu or Lao-Tze, was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism.
“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.”
- The Buddha
(624 BC)
Gautama Buddha was an ascetic and spiritual teacher of ancient India who lived during the 6th or 5th century BCE. He was the founder of Buddhism and is revered by Buddhists as a fully enlightened being who taught a path to Nirvana, freedom from ignorance, craving, rebirth and suffering.
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