“Benevolence is the heart of man, and righteousness is the path of man.”
Mencius · Mencius, Book VI A
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.”
Mencius · Mencius, Book IV A
“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”
Mencius · Mencius, Book IV B, c. 4th century BCE
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Khalil Gibran · The Prophet, 1923
“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”
Barbara Kingsolver · The Lacuna, 2009
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols, 1889
“Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.”
Bill (speaking to Charlie) · The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, 1999
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich · "Vertuous Women Found," American Quarterly, 1976
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
Richard Whately · Apophthegms, 1854
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
Meister Eckhart
“Confine yourself to the present.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 8
“A good meal shared, a door held open, a debt remembered and repaid. These are the actual events of a life. Everything else is footnote.”
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“The man who laughs at another's misfortune has simply decided his own comfort matters more than someone else's pain. That is the whole of his character.”
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“Routine is not a cage. It's the ground you stand on while everything else shifts.”
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