Sayings

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
— Jean-Paul Sartre
"The wound is the place where the light enters you."
— Rumi
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
— Henry David Thoreau
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one."
— Confucius (often paraphrased)
"You will die. But not before you’ve lived."
— Marcus Aurelius
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
— Matsuo Bashō

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there."
— Rumi
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it."
— Seneca
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
— Confucius
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."
— Rumi
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
— Albert Einstein

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
— Ernest Hemingway
"If you’re going through hell, keep going."
— Winston Churchill
"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."
— J.K. Rowling
"Our scars can destroy us. But if we survive them, they can transform us."
— Batman, The Dark Knight Rises*
"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."
— Jodi Picoult