Category: Life Quotes

“Again and again, the sacred texts tell us that our life’s purpose is to understand and develop the power of our spirit, power that is vital to our mental and physical well-being.” – Caroline Myss

“An innate quality among sentient beings, particularly among human beings, is the urge or strong feeling to encounter or experience happiness and discard suffering or pain. Therefore, the whole basis of human life is the experience of different levels of happiness. Achieving or experiencing happiness is the purpose of life.” – His Holiness the Dalai Lama

“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine. What is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.” – Susan Sontag

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” – Sir Isaac Newton

“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.” – Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving  a Fuck

“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

“The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on our gains but to profit from our losses.” – William Bolitho

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” – George S. Patton

“When you discover you’ve been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.” – Phillips Brooks