“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
Carl Jung
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Wisdom Quotes
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286 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting go of a little water.”
Antoine Rivarol
“The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
Louis E. Boone
“There is a day in summer when the long nights begin, and they begin because the sun has swung as far north as it will go.”
Rachel Carson · The Edge of the Sea
“All of a sudden summer was there. It felt inevitable, like something you were waiting for.”
Ann Packer · The Dive from Clausen's Pier
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is stirring in the greenness underneath.”
William Carlos Williams · Spring and All
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon. To me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James · Edith Wharton's memoir, A Backward Glance
“Endurance is not the absence of pain. It's the decision to keep your hands steady while you feel it.”
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“Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.”
Richard Whately · "Apophthegms", 1854
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Jack Kornfield
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
Rumi · "The Essential Rumi", translated by Coleman Barks
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, 1859
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
William Blake · "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1793
“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
Lemony Snicket · "The Blank Book", 1999
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.”
Vincent van Gogh · Letter to Theo van Gogh, 1885
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, January 1852
