Peter Macke

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate” – Carl Jung

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness’s of other people” – Carl Jung

“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do” – Carl Jung

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism” – Carl Jung

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are” – Carl Jung

“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is” – Carl Jung 

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you” – Carl Jung

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain” – Carl Jung

“It is a good idea to be entirely honest with oneself” – Freud 

“The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves” – Bessel van der Kolk, Body Keeps the Score 

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin

“He who has a why to love can bear almost any how” – Fredrick Nietzsche

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.” – Michel de Montaigne

“Nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to change you is the greatest accomplishment” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.” – Michel de Montaigne

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill any man’s heart” – Camus

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” – Camus

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” – Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” – Camus

“You will always be the prey or the plaything of the devils and fools in this world, if you expect to see them going about with horns or jangling their bells. And it should be borne in mind that, in their intercourse with others, people are like the moon: they show you only one of their sides. Every man has an innate talent for making a mask out of his physiognomy, so that he can always look as if he really were what he pretends to be and its effect is extremely deceptive. He dons his mask whenever his object is to flatter himself into some one’s good opinion; and you may pay just as much attention to it as if it were made of wax or cardboard.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

Buddhism and Eastern Philosophy

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one” – Confucius

“The best way of preparing for the future is to take good care of the present, because we know that if the present is made up of the past, then the future will be made up of the present. All we need to be responsible for is the present moment. Only the present is within our reach. To care for the present is to care for the future” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Resting is a very important practice; we have to learn the art of resting” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

“A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one” – Confucius

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones” – Confucius

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart” – Confucius  

“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality. And lives in a world of illusions” – Alan Watts

“Only those who are truly focused are dedicated to their training” – Buddhist saying

“Empty your cup, so that it may be filled” – Buddhist saying

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift, that’s why it’s called the present”  – Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda

“It is easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world” – Chinese Proverb

Stoicism

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters” – Epictetus

“No man is free who is not master of himself” – Epictetus

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows” – Epictetus

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants” – Epictetus

“No man steps in the same river twice. For it is not the same river, and he is not the same man” – Heraclitus

“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside” – Marcus Aurelius 

“If he did wrong, the harm is to himself. But perhaps he did not do wrong” – Marcus Aurelius

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength” – Marcus Aurelius

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable” – Seneca

“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored.” – Marcus Aurelius

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” – Marcus Aurelius

“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it — and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” – Marcus Aurelius 

“Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren’t packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human-however imperfectly-and fully embrace the pursuit that you’ve embarked on.” – Marcus Aurelius

Famous Authors and Public Figures

“A goal without a plan is just a wish” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final” – Rilke

“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened” – Mark Twain

“Life shrinks and expands in accordance with one’s courage” – Anais Nin

“Even the best are molded out of faults” – Shakespeare

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” – Shakespeare

“May love surround you like sunshine on a sunny day” -Shakespeare 

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace” – Chuck Palahniuk

“The dose makes the poison” – Paracelsus (Founder of Toxicology)

“That is what life is about. It’s about those moments on the subway or on the bus when you look up and make eye contact with someone, and you realize ‘You’re not that bad. And I ain’t that great either’ but we don’t get that anymore because of this [phone]”

“To a disciple who was forever complaining about others, the Master said, ‘If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth” – Anthony de Mello​

“You’re never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.” – Flora Rheta Schreiber

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy” – Ralph H. Blum

“It is all chance or destiny. And our wayward footsteps are best planted without too much calculation” – Winston Churchill

“It is not enough that we do our best. Sometimes we must do what is required” – Winston Churchill

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads” – Henry David Thoreau

“No man wants to become something, every man wants to be something already.“ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. The warrior’s approach is to say “yes” to life: “yea” to it all” – Joseph Campbell

“Comparison is the thief of joy” – Theodore Roosevelt

“A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet” – Shakespeare

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein

“All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women, merely players” – Shakespeare

“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you” – Chuck Palahniuk

“Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer” – Rick Sanchez, Rick and Morty

“We should not need the approach of death to make us love life. It would be enough to consider that we are human and that death may come this evening.” – In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust

“But, if we face the fact of death, our quarrels will come to an end. We will then realize the folly of fighting when we ourselves are doomed to die” – Dhammapada 

“To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.” – Michel de Montaigne

“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something” – Steve Jobs

“The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval” – Mark Twain

“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new” -Pema Chödrön

“One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in”  – Francis Jourdain

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator. But among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh”​ – W. H. Auden​

“A hallmark of wisdom is knowing when to grit and when to quit.” – Adam Grant 

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” – Norman Vincent Peale 

“If it is right, it happens – the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away” – John Steinbach 

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it” – Richard Whateley

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace” – Milan Kundera

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway