“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
Jack Kornfield · Buddha's Little Instruction Book, 1994
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
Anne Lamott
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
Ovid
“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”
Alan Cohen
“Rest and be thankful.”
William Wordsworth · Poem title, 1803
“What you let in becomes what you speak, and what you speak becomes what you do.”
Original
“The monkeys aren't blind. They're careful about what they agree to carry.”
Original
“Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.”
The Duchess · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
“The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
Alice · Through the Looking-Glass, 1871
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.”
Humpty Dumpty · Through the Looking-Glass, 1871
“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
The Duchess · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
The King of Hearts · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
