“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
T. S. Eliot · The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 1915
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
Bill Keane · Family Circus, widely attributed
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
Vladimir Nabokov · Speak, Memory, 1951
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Will Durant · The Story of Philosophy, 1926
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou · I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway · A Farewell to Arms, 1929
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
Viktor Frankl · Man's Search for Meaning, 1946
“Man is condemned to be free.”
Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism Is a Humanism, 1945
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 2
