Never lose hope, my heart. Miracles dwell in the invisible. RumiThe need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces. Robert GreeneWe are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. Martin LutherNo prayer is complete without presence. RumiBelieve nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. Edgar Allan PoeTrust yourself more and others less. Robert Greene Click to tweetThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard FeynmanYou are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here? Frederick LenzYou call it hope — that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire. Edgar Allan PoeClouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath TagoreMy brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. Nikola TeslaAll that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. Nikola TeslaYou are braver than you believe. Strong than you seem. And smarter than you think. Winnie The PoohPower can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. Gloria SteinemHearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. Oz, The Wizard of OzPower is not miraculous, but intrinsically human and accessible to us all. Robert GreeneThere is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor HugoYou have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. Rumi Click to tweetHave courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. Victor HugoChange your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor HugoDoubt is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. Gustave FlaubertThe function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. Soren KierkegaardIt is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. Soren KierkegaardI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand RussellTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor DostoyevskyAs soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDaring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. VoltaireCourage is knowing what not to fear. PlatoTo be radical is to grasp things by the root. Karl MarxPeople spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing. Naval Ravikant Click to tweetA friend to all is a friend to none. AristotleI like men who have a future and women who have a past. Oscar WildeI don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. Oscar WildeOn the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. RumiA day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. Winnie The PoohI think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time. Winnie The PoohYou will encounter thousands of various individuals in your life, and the ability to see them as they are will prove invaluable. Robert GreeneFriendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. Muhammad AliThe meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl JungNothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honoré de BalzacI have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman Click to tweetYou don’t meet people by accident. There’s always a reason. A lesson or a blessing. UnknownSometimes home isn’t four walls, it’s two eyes and a heartbeat. UnknownFriendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. Alexandre DumasLaughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. Oscar WildeIf you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias. Criss JamiThe glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. Ralph Waldo EmersonEach friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anaïs NinThe man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich NietzscheEveryone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. Mark TwainThe trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. Mark TwainDeath is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day. Napoleon BonaparteTo die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! Edgar Allan PoeEvery poem should remind the reader that they are going to die. Edgar Allan PoeEverybody’s going to die, and nobody’s going to remember you, so fuck it. Billie EilishDon’t be afraid of death, Winnie. Be afraid of the un-lived life. Angus Tuck, Tuck EverlastingThis is our big mistake: to think we look forward to death. Most of death is already gone. Whatever time has passed is owned by death. SenecaThe risks you keep taking, the challenges you keep overcoming, are like symbolic deaths that sharpen your appreciation for life. Robert GreeneThis could be your last throw of the dice: make it count. Robert GreeneTo avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. Osho Click to tweetIt is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. Alexandre DumasDeath must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. Oscar WildeThe real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. OshoYou could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. Marcus AureliusTo the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. J.K. RowlingDeath ends a life, not a relationship. Mitch AlbomI don’t want to die without any scars. Chuck PalahniukThe wound is the place where the light enters you. RumiWhatever purifies you is the right path. RumiIf you trip while running down a hallway, you’ll get a nosebleed. If you trip in life, you cry. MinoriWorrying about rejection may be the same as rejecting yourself. Kaga KoukoReal depression is when you stop loving the things you love. UnknownIt all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you. Leon BrownYes, I’m smiling, but deep down I’m crying. UnknownPain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. Fyodor DostoyevskyDon’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. RumiMelancholy is the happiness of being sad. Victor HugoThe most common form of despair is not being who you are. Soren KierkegaardThe most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have. Soren KierkegaardIf you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself. RumiWhen you’re happy you enjoy the music, when you’re sad you understand the lyrics. UnknownThe pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. Charles DickensThere is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. Charles Dickens Click to tweetDeep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. Edgar Allan PoeI remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind. Edgar Allan PoeMostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. Arthur SchopenhauerAnger clouds the mind. Turned inward, it is an unconquerable enemy. Splinter, Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesSolitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. Honoré de BalzacEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Victor HugoNot being heard is no reason for silence. Victor HugoThose who do not weep, do not see. Victor HugoA writer is a world trapped in a person. Victor HugoEvery blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other. Victor HugoMan is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering… Fyodor DostoyevskyBoredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren KierkegaardOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil GibranWaste not fresh tears over old griefs. EuripidesBoredom: the desire for desires. Leo Tolstoy