Random Quotes

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Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

— John F. Kennedy

Learn thoroughly what you learn;
let your conduct be worthy of what is learnt;

— Verse 391 from Thirukural,
Collection of 1330 noble couplets
Thiruvalluvar, poet and philosopher, 31 B.C.

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?
And if I am only for myself, then what am I?
And if not now, when?

— Rabbi Hillel — Ethics of the Fathers

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

— Niels Bohr

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

— John L. Motley

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

— Albert Einstein

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

— Carl Jung

I am a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration.

— Byron Katie

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

— William of Ockham (1285-1349)

If you want to move to a higher level of life, you have to be willing to let go of some of your old ways of thinking and being and adopt new ones.

— T. Harv Eker

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

— Eckhart Tolle

You either create or allow everything that happens to you.

— Jack Canfield