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150 Quotes About Money That Will Change The Way You See Money

Everyone talks about money -- some because they don’t have enough, some wish to make more, and some are simply obsessed with it. It has always been this way, but nowadays, making money seems to be the main goal on everyone’s 'to do' list.We’ve never had so many options when it comes to products, technology and services, and salesmen constantly try to convince us that we need them all to live a happier and easier life. But do we?In the past, people didn’t have so much to choose from. Now, we want the blender with six functions that we don’t even use. We want the expensive clothes that we don’t even like, but they are “trendy” so we still buy them to impress others around us.In the pursuit of getting all the things we want, but don’t need, we lose precious time, relationships, and ultimately ourselves. Of course, money is a means to an end. We need it for comfort, education, medical procedures and so on, but we should always remember that there’s so much to this life.Here are 150 money quotes that will change your perspective on making money:Money motivation quotesAs mentioned above, we need money -- maybe for some of the things we’ve never had, maybe for basic necessities. Whatever our goal may be, money will be part of our lives, like it or not. We should strive for a better today for ourselves and our families, just as long we don’t forget that we’re on this Earth to make each minute count, and money isn’t everything.If you need a few words to get you going even when you don’t feel like it, check out our list of money motivation quotes:Rich people believe ‘I create my life’. Poor people believe ‘Life happens to me’. T. HARV EKERDon’t just make money, make a difference. GRANT CARDONEMoney moves from those who do not manage it to those who do. DAVE RAMSEYEarly to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (more Benjamin Franklin quotes)Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. RONALD REAGAN (more Ronald Reagan quotes)Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will. NELSON MANDELARich people focus on opportunities. Poor people focus on obstacles. T. HARV EKERMoney has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it. KEVIN O’LEARYIt’s not about the money. It’s about the life I want to live. UNKNOWNMake your goal more than money. Make it about helping people and creating a better future. MAXIME LAGACÉTo fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. BETTE DAVISThe goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms. CHRIS BROGANYou have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you’ve achieved success, you’re free to do whatever you like. KEVIN O’LEARYMy formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. J. PAUL GETTYIt is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. OSCAR WILDEFortune sides with him who dares. VIRGILOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. THOMAS EDISONI’m hard working, frugal, steadfast, willing to learn and to build a credible name. LI KA SHINGWhat matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like. KEVIN O’LEARYKeep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target. T. HARV EKERWhere the determination is, the way can be found. GEORGE S. CLASONI always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute. WARREN BUFFETTSaving money quotesSaving money should not be an option, it should be a rule. Regardless of how big or small your income is, you should make an effort in putting al least 10% away into your savings account. The unpredictable is part of our lives and you can’t never know when or for what you’ll need a certain amount of money. It is always better to have some at hand rather than searching for people who would loan you the amount you need.Save money for a brighter future, save for the sake of saving, or save for a beautiful holiday with your dear ones. Stop spending money on things you don’t really need, you’ll thank us later. Check out best saving money quotes.Stop buying things you don’t need, to impress people you don’t even like. SUZE ORMANI make myself rich by making my wants few. HENRY DAVID THOREAU (more Henry David Thoreau quotes)That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. HENRY DAVID THOREAUMoney is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end. BOB MARLEYDon’t let making a living prevent you from making a life. JOHN WOODENIt is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. SENECAWe buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like. TYLER DURDEN (FIGHT CLUB)I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love. THE BEATLESMoney may be spent but never squandered.LI KA SHINGIf you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that. CHARLIE MUNGERThe rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left. JIM ROHNIt’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for. ROBERT T. KIYOSAKINever spend your money before you have it.THOMAS JEFFERSONMaking money quotesProbably, everyone you know is concerned about how to make more money. There is nothing wrong with that. But as a smart person you know you need to set up some goals first. And you need a certain mindset if you want to achieve your goals -- you need to think like a rich man, even if you have $20 in your pocket. How to change your mindset? Maybe some of the following making money quotes will teach you a thing or two about how to dream big. The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money. WARREN BUFFETT (more Warren Buffett quotes)If you make meaning, you’ll make money. GUY KAWASAKITrade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first. NAVAL RAVIKANTIf it’s only about money we are hopeless. If it’s about people we are hopeful. MAXIME LAGACÉFormal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune. JIM ROHNThe best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people. PETER DIAMANDISFocusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. BARACK OBAMAWe don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. WALT DISNEYMoney is not the only answer, but it makes a difference. BARACK OBAMAIf you can get paid for doing what you love, every paycheck is a bonus. OPRAH WINFREYSimply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something. MARK ZUCKERBERGWe have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil. LARRY PAGECapital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. MAHATMA GANDHIIf you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money. WARREN BUFFETTAnyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. OSCAR WILDEThe funny thing is, the people who work really hard, they work really hard so they can sit on their ass – they just want to sit on their ass in nicer surroundings. KARL PILKINGTONI find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it. THOMAS A. EDISONThere is gold everywhere. Most people are not trained to see it. ROBERT T. KIYOSAKILike Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris – I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it. CHARLIE MUNGERIf your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you’ll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you’ll end up mighty comfortable. T. HARV EKERRich people act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them. T. HARV EKERRich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time. T. HARV EKEROpportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. GEORGE S. CLASONIf you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. WARREN BUFFETTI don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful. MARILYN MONROEIf you don’t get serious about your money you will never have serious money. GRANT CARDONEIt’s simple arithmetic: ‘Your income can grow only to the extent you do’. T. HARV EKERThe more money you make the more problems you get. CHRISTOPHER GEORGE LATORE WALLACE (NOTORIOUS B.I.G.)Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need. WILL ROGERSShort money quotesIn only a few words, the following short money quotes will definitely impress you. Most of them are from famous people who already know what it’s like to afford everything they want. Is money everything? Find out from our list of short money quotes that can also make great captions for your social media posts.The more you learn, the more you earn. WARREN BUFFETTEarn with your mind, not your time. NAVAL RAVIKANTThere are people who have money and people who are rich. COCO CHANELMoney is a great servant but a bad master. FRANCIS BACONAll the money you made will never buy back your soul. BOB DYLAN (more Bob Dylan quotes)When I had money everyone called me brother. POLISH PROVERBNot he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ERICH FROMMWhoever loves money will never have enough. ECCLESIASTES 5:10When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. VOLTAIREBe your money’s master, not its slave. PUBLILIUS SYRUSMoney doesn’t buy happiness – it buys freedom. NAVAL RAVIKANTIt does not take money to make money. ROBERT T. KIYOSAKIAll money is a matter of belief. ADAM SMITHA man in debt is so far a slave. RALPH WALDO EMERSONDon’t go broke trying to go rich. UnknownUNKNOWNMoney doesn’t change people. It unmasks them. UNKNOWNMoney grows on the tree of persistence. JAPANESE PROVERBIf money’s where you find happiness, you’ll always be poor. NFWords are the money of fools. THOMAS HOBBESMoney is power.UNKOWNMoney is like fire.P.T. BarnumWealth quotesMost people that have struggled in life think that money would solve all their problems. Most people that have enough money know that true wealth means more than just having loads of money. True wealth is also about having healthy relationships and people you can rely on because you know… at the end of the day, some things can’t be bought.There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money. ALAN WATTSPossession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever. BOB MARLEY (more Bob Marley quotes)The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. JIM CARREYSpend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy. HARUKI MURAKAMIThe rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society. MAHATMA GANDHIInvest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far. WARREN BUFFETTThe ultimate purpose of money is so that you do not have to be in a specific place at a specific time doing anything you don’t want to do. NAVAL RAVIKANTSeek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy. NAVAL RAVIKANTYou have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. THOMAS WOLFEWealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options. CHRIS ROCKMy favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. STEVE JOBSThere is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. SAM WALTONSuccess is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. JOHNNY CASHRich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich. T. HARV EKERRich people think big. Poor people think small. T. HARV EKERSome people are so poor, all they have is money. UNKNOWNMoney is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. ALAN WATTSA rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. W. C. FIELDSThe fools in life want things fast and easy — money, success, attention. ROBERT GREENERich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose. T. HARV EKERSomeone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. WARREN BUFFETTRich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. ZIG ZIGLARWomen and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great. BENJAMIN FRANKLINWe make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we giveWINSTON CHURCHILLAn investment in knowledge pays the best interestBENJAMIN FRANKLINFunny money quotesIn the right context, jokes about money can be hilarious. Whether you’ve never had it and choose to share some of those experiences, or maybe you have just about enough and still find something funny to say about it. If your financial status is not at its best yet, don’t get offended when a rich person tells a joke. Remember, it’s all in the context.I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. PABLO PICASSOMoney is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. J. PAUL GETTYMoney is the best deodorant. ELIZABETH TAYLORLottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. AMBROSE BIERCEMoney, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. ANTON CHEKHOVI've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it. DOROTHY PARKERDoes running out of money count as exercise? UNKNOWNIt’s amazing how fast later comes when you buy now. MILTON BERLEMost people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. GEORGE CARLIN (more George Carlin quotes)A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. BOB HOPEMen are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don’t generate a lot of interest. UNKNOWNTaking drugs and thinking that you are happy is like taking a loan and thinking you have money. THIBAUTThere’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. ROBERT GRAVESPeople say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. JOAN RIVERSIf you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. DOROTHY PARKERInflation is taxation without legislation. MILTON FRIEDMANMoney and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have. WILL ROGERSThe quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket. WILL ROGERSIf you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments. EARL WILSONGiving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O’ROURKEMoney can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. KINKY FRIEDMANWhoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping. GERTRUDE STEINI put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. GEORGE CARLINMoney affirmationsRegardless of your current financial status, try to picture a future where you have everything you need: the house of your dreams, enough savings or a business that brings you the right amount of satisfaction, moneywise. It’s not impossible! You can always dream big then take the right steps that will lead you to so many accomplishments.The following money affirmations will help you set and focus on goals that you can later turn into actionable financial goals.I experience wealth as a key part of my life. UNKNOWNI am capable of overcoming any money-obstacles that stand in my way.UNKNOWNI can conquer my money goals.UNKNOWNToday I commit to living my financial dreams.UNKNOWNI want more money. And that's okay.UNKNOWNIt's easy and natural for me to be prosperous and successful.UNKNOWNMy life is filled with health and wealth.UNKNOWNAbundance is coming, I deserve and accept it.UNKNOWNI accept and receive unexpected prosperity.UNKNOWNI have more than enough money.UNKNOWNI deserve to make more money.UNKNOWNI am always discovering new sources of income.UNKNOWNMoney comes my way in both expected and unexpected ways.UNKNOWNI am open to receiving all wealth life brings to me.UNKNOWNI’m not poor, I'm just low wealth right now. That is changing.UNKNOWNI’m getting out of my own way when it comes to money.UNKNOWN

Hold Your Head High With These 16 Toni Morrison Quotes
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Hold Your Head High With These 16 Toni Morrison Quotes

Toni Morrison (birth name - Chloe Ardelia Wofford) was born on February 18, 1931 and is an American novelist, editor and highly esteemed professor at Princeton University.Her masterpiece, "Beloved", got her a Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award in 1988. The novel, a powerful story about slavery, was adapted into a movie starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover 10 years later. In 1993, Toni Morrison was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and later on she was selected for the Jefferson Lecture, receiving the highest honor for her accomplishments in the field.Everyone dreams of a life filled with achievements, prizes and being honored by the president himself (Bill Clinton gave a speech about Morrison during the award ceremony for National Arts and Humanities), but Toni’s life was not always paved with happiness. Her family was very poor, and because they couldn’t pay the rent anymore, their landlord set fire to the house they lived in. She was only two years old back then, but her parents passed on a valuable lesson to her: never fall into despair and just laugh in the face of evil.And because you should always keep your dignity and integrity no matter how cruel the circumstances, here are 16 Toni Morrison quotes to help you hold your head high when life gets tough.Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.You are your best thingYou wanna fly, you got to give up the thing that weighs you down.Make a difference about something other than yourselves.Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.I get angry about things, then go on and work.You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.She is a friend of my mind. She gathered me, man. The pieces I am, she gathered them and gave them back to me in all the right order.Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling - I don't think it's any of that - it's helpless ... it's absence of control - I have no use for it whatsoever.

18 Memorable Leo Tolstoy Quotes that Explore All Life’s Aspects
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18 Memorable Leo Tolstoy Quotes that Explore All Life’s Aspects

Best known for his two longest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (in full Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy) was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.Born in 1828, Leo Tolstoy came from an aristocratic Russian family, and though you probably imagine him living a luxurious life, he rather experienced a painful one. His mother died before he was two years old, his father when he was 9, and his grandmother passed away shortly after his father.Tragedy didn’t stop there. His next guardian also died in 1941 so he was transferred to the care of another aunt.Despite being surrounded by the death of his loved ones, Leo tried to preserve the happiest moments from his childhood. His much appreciated work is often described as a piece of life and he was known to be the type that would gaze into one’s eyes just to understand their unspoken thoughts.Tolstoy had a profound influence on other great personalities like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.Here are 18 Leo Tolstoy quotes that explore all life’s aspects.Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.If you want to be happy, be.Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.If one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be…I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you!

The Best Mark Twain Quotes on Life, Travel, Politics, Education, Truth and Love
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The Best Mark Twain Quotes on Life, Travel, Politics, Education, Truth and Love

An adventurer and one of the most influential writers of America, Mark Twain is the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 28 other books, and a great number of essays. RELATED: 100 Motivational Quotes to Help You Rise AboveBorn Nov. 30, 1835, as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Twain was also a journalist, a humorist, an entrepreneur and a riverboat pilot.Famous Mark Twain QuotesGreat enough to be read long after his passing, his popularity speaks volume of his talent. Here is a selection of the best quotes from the legend himself.Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious,Mark Twain Sayings About TravelPhoto by A.F. Bradley (courtesy of the Library of Congress)Here are some the author's quotes about travel, which may just inspire you to travel around the globe!Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime..There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.RELATED: 50 Inspirational Quotes to Uplift and MotivateIt liberates the vandal to travel––you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.Funny Mark Twain QuotesPhoto by A.F. Bradley (courtesy of the Library of Congress)Twain was lauded as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced,” and if this doesn’t speak volumes for itself, then we don’t know what will. His humor is second to none, which is evident in his writings. Check some of his funny, all while smiling and basking into the light full of positivity.There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.The funniest things are forbidden.RELATED: 50 The Princess Bride Quotes About Life and True LoveMan is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.God created war so that Americans would learn geography.What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.Mark Twain Sayings About LifeCan you inspire someone through mere words? It might sound easy, but is way harder than it seems. Here are quotes about never giving up on yourself.Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.RELATED: 70+ Wise and Memorable Lord of the Rings QuotesClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.There is a great deal of human nature in people.The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.Mark Twain Quotes About EducationPhoto by Charles E. Bolles (courtesy of the Library of Congress)It is not hard to comprehend the importance of education in an individual life. But what makes it even more important is how it can help you stand a league apart from others. RELATED: 23 Ian McKellen Quotes on Acting and Being HonestHere are some hand-picked quotes about education to put more light on the importance of education and to inspire you. Just in case you feel like giving up on education any time soon, or if you are feeling low because of bad grades, Twain has plenty of answers for you!Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others — and less trouble.The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.Mark Twain's Thoughts About LovePhoto by Theodore C. Marceau (courtesy of the Library of Congress)Having a bad day? Missing your beloved? Feeling unloved? These emotions are hard to absorb and even more difficult to let go, because they might make you feel empty within. RELATED: 30 Encouraging Quotes That Will Motivate You to Keep GoingEnjoy the following Mark Twain quotes about love, which may put a smile on your face, even if you are not feeling your best today. They can inspire you to move through life with greater confidence, knowing that there is more to life than meeting the approval of others. How much more do we need to say? Enjoy! Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality.Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality.Mark Twain Sayings About TruthFrom the George Grantham Bain Collection (courtesy of the Library of Congress)What is Truth? The sun rises from the east and sets in the west, is it the truth? From our perspective, perhaps. But it’s important to keep in mind that from another perspective, the sun never rises or sets. It’s the Earth that revolves. RELATED: 30 Inspirational Quotes for Work to Unlock Your Full PotentialHere are a few Mark Twain quotes about the concept of Truth. Much of it these quotes are much more than that now - many consider them to belong to the great cannon of common wisdom.A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.The best of all the lost arts is honesty.Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure.Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.All of us contain Music and Truth, but most of us can't get it out.No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.Mark Twain's Memorable Words of AdvicePhoto by TE Marr (courtesy of the Library of Congress)Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink — under any circumstances.Always obey your parents, when they are present. Most parents think they know more than you do; and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgement.A person with a new idea is a crank until that idea succeeds.Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.When your watch gets out of order you have a choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.KEEP READING: 135 Best Friend Quotes That Show the True Meaning of Friendship

Develop Resilience With These 17 Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Develop Resilience With These 17 Charles Bukowski Quotes

Charles Bukowski was a prolific American-German author and poet, noted for his unsparingly realistic and graphic writings depicting the social and cultural ambiance he lived in.Bukowski grew up as a socially withdrawn adolescent. Living in a family with an abusive father that used to beat him with a razor strap three times a week turned him into a shy and enraged young man. Nonetheless, Bukowski said the undeserved pain and depression served him as inspiration for his writings.His stories tackle relationships, alcohol, the lives of poor Americans, work and the act of writing. They often revolve around the life of his alter ego Henry Chinaski – an alcoholic writer, womanizing misanthrope who loves classical music.Bukowski wrote a great number of poems and short stories and six novels. His work was so popular that he became one of the best-known American authors.Here are 17 Charles Bukowski quotes to help you develop resilience.Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.You have to die a few times before you can really live.You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.If you're going to try, go all the way. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.Find what you love and let it kill you.We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

30 James Baldwin Quotes to Bring you Closer to Humanity
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30 James Baldwin Quotes to Bring you Closer to Humanity

Born in 1924, James Baldwin was an American essayist, novelist, playwright and social critic. He became an important voice through writing passionately about racial discrimination, spirituality and humanity.Baldwin’s writings approach social issues and the psychological pressure affecting African Americans and individuals with different sexual orientations, a then-taboo subject. Baldwin explores another controversial subject – interracial relationships -- in his novel Another Country.Baldwin was born to a young single mother and never knew the identity of his biological father. When James was three years old, his mother married a Baptist minister named David Baldwin. The author discovered his passion for reading at an early age, but at first he followed his stepfather’s footsteps and served as a youth minister.However, when he was in high school he got the chance to work on the school’s magazine where he published numerous poems and short stories. Things appeared to go in the right direction for the young author, but his family struggled with poverty more and more so he had to put his plans for college on hold and dedicate his time working all sorts of jobs to support his younger siblings.Due to constant rejection from employers, Baldwin nearly lost all hope on becoming a black artist. That was until he met Beauford Delaney – a renowned painter that later became his mentor.As a victim of racism, Baldwin became an active participant in the civil rights struggle. The assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., pushed the author into using a more strident tone in his later work called No Name in the Street.Some of Baldwin’s best work includes The Fire Next Time, The Devil Finds Work, Nobody Knows my Name and Remember this House – which is an unfinished manuscript that forms the basis of the documentary film I Am Not Your Negro.An advocate for equity and acceptance, Baldwin died in December 1987.Here are 30 James Baldwin quotes to bring you closer to humanity:Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.People can cry much easier than they can change.Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle. Love is a war. Love is growing up.People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, any more than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say ‘Yes’ to life.A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations.You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.The purpose of education…is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society.Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Increase your Appetite for Life with these 18 Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Increase your Appetite for Life with these 18 Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

A fearless American author, Hunter S. Thompson is the creator of the genre known as “Gonzo journalism,” which was basically his own style of reporting and ended up turning him into a counterculture icon.Thompson was born to be wild, and always had a distaste for authority. Ever since he was a child, the journalist built himself a reputation as a hooligan, getting arrested a few times. His habit of getting into trouble was also highlighted by alcohol and drug use.His career as a journalist started while serving in the United States Air Force, but Thompson had shown great writing skills at a young age. While traveling the country to write for numerous magazines, he developed his own writing style, which he would use in his famous book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.Hunter S. Thompson is also the author of The Rum Diary, an autobiographical novel that was initially rejected by publishers. After seeing publication, the book became a national bestseller and was later turned into a movie starring Johnny Depp.Here are 18 Hunter S. Thompson quotes that will make you enjoy life to the fullest.A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better.Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.Some may never live, but the crazy never die.I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.The edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is the ones who have gone over.In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion.Too weird to live, too rare to die!Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

20 Stephen King Quotes that Will Scare Your Fear Away
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20 Stephen King Quotes that Will Scare Your Fear Away

Stephen King has a lot to be proud of. He is the author of Carrie, The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, and IT – and those are just a few of his great horror and fantasy books that were adapted for film and TV.Stephen King has always wanted to be a writer. Ever since he was a child, he started sketching stories, and, by the time he was in high-school, he was writing for a weekly newspaper.However, when King finally wrote the first three pages of Carrie, he was rather disgusted with the result and threw them away. Luckily, his wife found them and encouraged him to continue the story. The book became a horror classic and launched the career of one of the most prolific authors.Here are 20 Stephen King quotes to help you step out of the darkness and chase your wildest dreams.The scariest moment is always just before you start.Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.Get busy living or get busy dying.You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better -- and maybe not all that much better after all.Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.We lie best when we lie to ourselves.Alone, yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.The only mortal sin is giving up.

25 Anne Frank Quotes that Will Restore your Hope
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25 Anne Frank Quotes that Will Restore your Hope

Anne Frank is one of the most discussed and famous victims of the Holocaust. The Jewish teenager journaled her World War II experiences in a diary that later became one of the most widely read books in the world.In 1940, after Germany invaded the Netherlands, Anne and her family couldn’t leave the country, so they decided to hide in a warehouse in an attempt to escape the persecution of Jews by the Nazis.For over two years, Anne wrote in her diary with an awareness that was extremely mature for her age. She detailed her experiences and insights while she and her family were in hiding, living in a constant fear of being arrested. Anne Frank’s diary is a record of her understanding of the war, and showcases her incredible storytelling abilities in such horrific circumstances.In 1944, the Franks were found and sent to concentration camps. Anne died before she turned 16, and her father, Otto Frank, was the only family member to survive the Holocaust. After the War, Otto returned to Amsterdam, where he found his daughter’s diary and later published it as The Diary of a Young Girl.Here are 25 Anne Frank quotes that will bring light into your darkest moments.How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.No one has ever become poor by giving.Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.Whoever is happy will make others happy.Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery.The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.Sympathy, love, fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!I can't imagine how anyone can say: ‘I'm weak’, and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character?I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.An empty day, though clear and bright, is just as dark as any night.The young are not afraid of telling the truth.Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

65 Great Rumi Quotes To Give You A More Positive Outlook On Life
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65 Great Rumi Quotes To Give You A More Positive Outlook On Life

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi was a Persian poet, an Islamic dervish and a Sufi mystic. His discipline and wisdom have crossed all national and ethnic borders ever since the 13th century.Almost everyone has heard or read some Rumi quotes on life at some point. Rumi is seen as a great spiritual master and poet. His work influenced and inspired many other artists, and kept many people sane up to this day.Rumi was a jurist and religion teacher until the age of 37, when he met a wandering dervish named Shams Tabrizi. He soon became Rumi’s spiritual mentor and intimate friend and eventually changed the course of his life.Their friendship lasted for about three years until Shams mysteriously disappeared. It is rumored that one of Rumi’s sons murdered him because he was jealous of their close relationship. Rumi was devastated by the loss of his beloved friend, but used his pain as inspiration for writing poems where Shams is mentioned with great reverence.RELATED: 150 Meaningful Spiritual Quotes About Love, Life and HealingRumi’s poetry is a reflection on nature’s beauty, a song, a dance, an idea, a feeling… anything that makes us human, everything we’re able to see with our eyes open or shut. Below you will find a lot of Rumi love quotes that prove how spiritual and intense his poems are. He is among the poets that show us the importance of every experience, be it good or bad.Rumi’s work continues to resonate and today, his tomb draws dervish followers and heads of state each year for a ceremony that marks the anniversary of his death. Rumi's thought-provoking and meaningful words are worth keeping in mind, and if you're in doubt, this collection of Rumi quotes will prove it.The Most Inspiring Rumi QuotesAnyone who’s read Rumi’s words will understand just how inspiring his messages can be. In just a few words, he was able to draw out powerful emotions and force his reader to think about life in the most meaningful way. Using simple analogies and in a direct yet somehow comforting way, he makes you realize the positive hidden inside the negative. The following Rumi quotes will inspire you to see the light where you think there’s only darkness.If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?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.Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.What you seek is seeking you.Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.RELATED: 25 Quotes to Make You Feel Absolutely InvincibleYesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you?Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.RELATED: The Best Self-Love Quotes That Will Genuinely Empower YouGoodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.I know you're tired but come, this is the way.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.The wound is the place where the light enters you.And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.Reason is powerless in the expression of love.Wise Rumi Quotes About Love And LifeRumi recognized that matters of the heart were often behind the majority of life’s hardships. Romantic or not, when your heart hurts, it’s hard to see clarity and light in anything. He drew inspiration from pain and used his words to help guide people in overcoming their struggles. These Rumi quotes about love and life will give you a glimpse into how powerful his words can be.You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.RELATED: 3 Lessons from Einstein’s Ideas and Opinions on Living a Meaningful LifeSell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.The lion is most handsome when looking for food.The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.Love is the bridge between you and everything.Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.Dance until you shatter yourself.It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.RELATED: The Best Love Quotes for Him and HerAs you start to walk on the way, the way appears.Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.KEEP READING:3 Crucial Ingredients and Rules For Living an Exceptional Life