It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.” ― Ernest Hemingway “Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. Write the truest sentence that you know.” ― Jim Morrison “All you have to do is write one true sentence. ― Saul Williams Quotes About Identity & Self-Actualization “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”ĭavid Foster Wallace “If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.” ― Jackson Pollock “intelligence is intuitive ― Walt Whitman “Love is friendship set to music.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” For holding on comes easily we do not need to learn it.” Le Guin “We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. Leo Tolstoy “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread remade all the time, made new.” ― Kahlil Gibran “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” And denies the rest.” ― Anaïs Nin “Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” “The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. ― William James “The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea” ― Leo Tolstoy “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ― Franz Kafka “If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” ― Jack Kerouac “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky “Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.” ― Socrates “Man only likes to count his troubles he doesn’t calculate his happiness.” ― Lao Tzu “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” Quotes About Happiness “What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.”Ĭarl Jung “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” Marinate, contemplate, salivate, and above all, savor these, as if they were intimate notes left to you by some of the greatest minds in history.īecause in fact, that’s precisely what they are. So, as a gift to you, awesome Internet-person, I assembled this list of 150 jewels of thought, on everything from love and suffering, to mystery and happiness, to death and morality. No way.īut methinks they can nonetheless deliver potent, pithy shots of insight, clarity, and/or invigoration.
Quotes are not a replacement for reading entire books, elaborate novels, and longform essays. Because if you really scour the caverns of the Internet, you find a nearly infinite wellspring of mind-liberating, soul-vitalizing gems of language.ĭon’t get me wrong.
Quotes often catch a bad rep on the Internet, due to the tendency of certain popular quotes to be shared ad infinitum.īut this is a shame. Proverbs, quips, riddles, excerpts, aphorisms, koans, snippets, lyrics, and limericks - I don’t discriminate. I adore them all.