Emanuel Swedenborg (February 8, 1688–March 29, 1772) was Swedish inventor, scientist, philosopher, theologian, and mystic. He is most known for his book about the afterlife, Heaven and Hell.

His career as a scientist and inventor, involving mostly geometry, chemistry, and metallurgy, included several mathematical and mechanical inventions.

Emanuel Swedenborg also published an article explaining mental and spiritual events as tiny vibrations, and was intent on forming a theory to explain how matter relates to spirit.

He claims to have had a spiritual awakening at age 56, in 1744, along with regular prophetic dreams and visions, and believed God is within all living creatures.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Emanuel Swedenborg.

“Conscience is God’s presence in humans.”

“This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.”

“Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.”

“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.”

“God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.”

“People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell.”

“We are all spirits inwardly. This is what’s alive in the body, not the body on its own.”

“Seen in its own right, a loving person’s inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it; and once we are released from the body we join them.”

“Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.”

“Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.”

“Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God’s, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.”

“A person’s life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.”

“A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.”

“Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.”

“Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.”

“Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.”

“There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels.”

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Albert Camus (November 7th, 1913 – January 4th, 1960) was an Algerian-born French author, philosopher, dramatist, and journalist. He received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at age forty-four, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Plague, The Rebel, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, and The Fall.

He was politically active and opposed Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union because of their totalitarianism. Camus was a moralist and leaned towards anarcho-syndicalism.

Below we list words of wisdom by Albert Camus.

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

“Life is a sum of all your choices”. So, what are you doing today?”

“Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.”

“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth”

“A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.”

“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.”

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”

“The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.”

“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.”

“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called ‘vital interests.”

“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”

“Yes, everything is simple. It’s people who complicate things.”

“Integrity needs no rules.”

“Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”

“The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.”

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”

“Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.”

“To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.”

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”

“My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus”

“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.”

“One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.”

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

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Marsilio Ficino (October 19, 1433–October 1, 1499) was an influential Italian philosopher, Catholic priest, and astrologer. He helped revive Neoplatonism, was the first to translate Plato’s works into Latin, and was instrumental in helping to develop European philosophy. The Medici’s, the most powerful family of Florence Italy, were lifelong patrons of Marsilio Ficino, who tutored young members of the family.

In the second quote below, he speaks of Saturn and melancholy. Although we don’t have his full birth data to confirm, we believe he’s referring to the symbolism of a heavy natal Saturn in his astrological charts. Astrologically, Saturn frequently represents works of endurance (e.g., translating Plato’s works into Latin), anxiety, fear, and melancholy for those whose Saturn is dominant in the natal patterns.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Marsilio Ficino.

“The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.”

“Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.”

“Why do you seek treasure far away, when it is nearby, indeed within yourself?”

“Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.”

“Labor so that you may be good and shine with beauty; suddenly all things are good and shining with beauty for you.”

“To an evil man, indeed, all things, even the good, are turned into evil. To a good man, however, all things, even those which seem very bad, are finally turned into good.”

“For God draws the desire of the mind to Himself by filling it with beauty, and by drawing desire to Himself he fulfills it.”

“Let us, I beg you, nourish and increase the spirit with spiritual food, so that it may at length become mighty and give small regard for physical things, as though they were worth very little.”

“Nothing is truly good or beautiful in the house of that man where all things seem good and beautiful before himself, that is before the soul.”

“The people who have discovered something important in any of the more noble arts have principally done so when they have abandoned the body and taken refuge in the citadel of the soul.”

“This century, like a golden age, has restored to light the liberal arts, which were almost extinct: grammar, poetry, rhetoric, painting, sculpture, architecture, music … this century appears to have perfected astrology.”

“In the truths of the many doctrines of the virtues, there is one supreme truth, and the invisible light of this truth is the supreme beauty of the soul. In this way we love the likeness of God in our souls.”

“If by nature the mind desires certain things, we should acquire them. And certainly, in acquiring them, the soul would at some time be fulfilled by them, either wholly or in greatest part. But the more we acquire mortal things from all sides, by so much the more is the appetite of the soul inflamed.”

“We may direct our soul’s power of choice either downward, toward the body, or upward, and thereby rise into our Angelic Mind. If we direct it upward, then we escape from time and seek the Forms in their eternal, unchanging multiplicity (for they are distinct from one another, and therefore have number). In the Forms the mind comes to a state of rest, which is more perfect than motion, and achieves stability and tranquility. This is the full actuality of intelligence (which was partially potential in the lower stages), for all things will be understood from the perspective of eternity. The Forms are illuminated by the light of a single truth, which is refracted into different colors in the various Forms. This unitary wisdom is the beauty of the Angelic Mind, which is greater than the beauty of the soul. Thus we love the image of God in the Angelic Mind.”

“Among philosophers he first turned from physical and mathematical topics to contemplation of things divine, and he was the first to discuss with great wisdom the majesty of God, the order of demons, and the transformations of souls. Thus, he (Hermes Trismegistus) was called the first author of theology, and Orpheus followed him, taking second place in the ancient theology. After Aglaophemus, Pythagoras came next in theological succession, having been initiated into the rites of Orpheus, and he was followed by Philolaus, teacher of our divine Plato. In this way, from a wondrous line of six theologians emerged a single system of ancient theology, harmonious in every part.”

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Tina Turner (November 26th, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, dancer and actress. She became famous as the lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue before she became far more successful on her own. Her 1984 multi-platinum album Private Dancer won the Grammy for record of the year and she was the oldest female solo artist, at 44, to top the Hot 100. She’s sold over 100 million records and received 12 Grammy Awards. She’s also the first black artist and first woman to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Tina considered herself a Buddhist, and was introduced to it by a friend in 1973. After using Buddhist chants over time, she said she noticed positive changes in her life. “I realized that I had within me everyone I needed to change my life for the better,” she said. Tina chanted for up to four hours a day during the most difficult times of her life. She said, “…Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is like a song. In the Soka Gakkai tradition, we are taught how to sing it. It is a sound and a rhythm and it touches a place inside you. That place we try to reach is the subconscious mind. I believe that is the highest place…”

Below we list some words of wisdom from Tina Turner.

“Sometimes you have to let everything go – purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything – whatever is bringing you down – get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”

“In Buddhism there are words you can say… as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.”

“The older you get, the more you realize it’s not what happens, but how you deal with it.”

“I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things.”

“I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don’t believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.”

“I know the difference between black magic and white magic.”

“You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.”

“I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.”

“I never said Well, I don’t have this and I don’t have that. I said, I don’t have this yet, but I’m going to get it.”

“My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I’ll use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.”

“I didn’t have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.”

“My legacy is that I stayed on course…from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.”

“I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I’m not old yet!”

“They’re still in good shape, but I’m not flashing them anymore. I’m an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.”

“I was a victim; I don’t dwell on it.”

“You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.”

“I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.”

“I heard stories from my mother’s mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.”

“I’m self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream – to have class.”

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St. Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347–29 April 29, 1380) was an Italian mystic and author who greatly influenced Italian literature and the Church. Pope Gregory XI sent her to negotiate peace with Florence and she was canonized in 1461.

Below we list some words of wisdom from St. Catherine of Siena.

“You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.”

“Obedience shows whether you are grateful.”

“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”

“One who knows more, loves more.”

“Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.”

“From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.”

“We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.”

“Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God’s true nature. God’s heart is more gentle than the Virgin’s first kiss upon the Christ. And God’s forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being.”

“What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.”

“This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.”

“It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.”

“When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.”

“The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.”

“There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.”

“The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.”

“God is closer to us than water is to a fish.”

“No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.”

“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche (October 15th, 1844 – August 25th, 1900) was a German poet, philologist, philosopher, composer, and cultural critic whose work heavily influenced contemporary philosophy.

Below we list some words of wisdom by Friedrich Nietzsche.

“Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.”

“Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.”

“Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.”

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

“Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.”

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”

“I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.”

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”

“There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.”

“Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.”

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”

“Everything matters. Nothing’s important.”

“The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

“Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.”

“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

“Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.”

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”

“Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.”

“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.”

“The Great Man… is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of ‘opinion’; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and ‘respectability,’ and altogether everything that is the ‘virtue of the herd.’ If he cannot lead, he goes alone… He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar… When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.”

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”

“The real question is: How much truth can I stand?”

“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.”

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Rumi (September 30, 1207–December 17, 1273) was an Iranian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic. His wisdom and spiritual writings are widely known throughout the Middle East, and he is one of the best-selling poets in the United States.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Rumi.

“I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.”

“Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”

“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.”

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”

“Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.”

“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.”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

“Love will find its way through all languages on its own.”

“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.”

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”

“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”

“Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.”

“Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.”

“The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.”

“You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don’t know the value of your own soul, it’s all foolishness.”

“Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.”

“Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.”

“I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.’”

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”

“And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

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Dolly Parton (born January 19th, 1946) is a country music singer-songwriter legend. She’s also a business woman and philanthropist. She was first a successful songwriter for other artists, then released her first album in 1967, and has since sold over 100 million records. She’s had 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Dolly Parton.

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

“A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.”

“Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.”

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”

“I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give’em yours!”

“You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.”

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

“I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don’t have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.”

“If you’re feeling low, don’t despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.”

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”

“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

“A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.”

“When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.”

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”

“Smile, it enhances your face value.”

“It’s when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.”

“What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I’m there with them.”

“I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I’m unusual. And I love the unusual in other people.”

“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.”

“I don’t know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.”

“Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.”

“I count my blessings far more than I count my money.”

“When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first – it’s easy to find when you’re looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don’t care who you are! I know we’re all pieces of the same thing – I go for that common light because I know it’s in all of us.”

“God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.”

“I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.”

“Don’t judge me by the cover, ’cause I’m a real good book.”

“When I’m feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller.”

“A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.”

“Paradise is a state of mind.”

“It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”

“I’ve struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I’ve had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don’t think we should be judgmental. Lord, I’ve got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else.”

“I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.”

“We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.”

“You can’t really make people be any different than what they are.”

“God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.”

“When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.”

“I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.”

“The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.”

“I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.”

“No one is ever successful at everything that they do.”

“I make jokes about it, but it’s the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn’t know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I’d ever seen. Momma used to say, “Aw, she’s just trash,” and I thought, That’s what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.”

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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817–May 6, 1862) was an American philosopher and writer. He is best known as an advocate of transcendentalism. He also believed in reincarnation.

His book Walden is about life in the woods, an experiment on self-sufficiency. His essay, Civil Disobedience, influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. In it, he wrote, “I heartily accept the motto—’That government is best which governs least’…”

Below we list some words of wisdom from Henry David Thoreau.

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

“How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”

“I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.”

“I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.”

“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.”

“The universe is wider than our views of it.”

“There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.”


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Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21 1860) was a German philosopher and is best known for his book The World as Will and Representation.

He was one of the first in Western philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy.

His work didn’t attract much attention while he was alive, but gained in popularity after his death in science, philosophy, and literature. His writings on morality, aesthetics, and psychology have influenced many.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Arthur Schopenhauer.

“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”

“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”

“Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.”

“The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.”

“Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.”

“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.”

“To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.”

“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”

“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”

“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”

“The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

“I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.”

“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.”

“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”

“If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.”

“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”

“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.”

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”

“Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.”

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”

“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, “Lighthouses” as the poet said “erected in the sea of time.” They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”

“When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it’s a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.”

“There is something in us that is wiser than our head.”

“We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

“The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.”

“A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”

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