Get inspired with a bit of wisdom!
Read through our library of wise words, best thought-provoking quotes, proverbs, and sayings from around the world and find your own sources of motivation and encouragement in life's journey.
Add a little sparkle to your day with timeless sayings that offer insight into life, the universe, and everything.
Selected aphorisms:
''The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.''
~ Marcus Aurelius
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
By George Orwell
"You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul."
~ G.B. Shaw
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
~ Ernest Hemingway
My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.
So many rules; so little time to break them.
“Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst.”
— C. S. Lewis
Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit...
I don't have "trust" issues. I have "I've seen this before and I know how it ends" issues.
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
– Robert A. Heinlein.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life, but so was yesterday, and look how that turned out.
"I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo."
-- Martin Gore
“A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.”
— Charlie Chaplin
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
— Abraham Lincoln
"As fire tests gold, so misfortune tests brave men."
— Seneca
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
— Leonardo da Vinci
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
— Oscar Wilde
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Hèll is empty and all the dëvils are here.”
— William Shakespeare
"Don't be overheard complaining... not even to yourself."
— Marcus Aurelius
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
— Voltaire
"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth."
— Albert Camus
“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
— Socrates
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn."
Antoine de Saint-Exupére
”When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
— Jordan B. Peterson
“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”
— Plato
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise again.”
— Victory Hugo
" You misinterpret everything, even the silence."
~ Franz Kafka
“I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
— William Shakespeare
“To be alone is the fate of all great minds.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“No legacy is as rich as honesty.”
— William Shakespeare
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
— William Blake
“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
— Seneca
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I begin to speak only when I am certain what I will say isn’t better left unsaid.”
— Kato the Elder
Your heart is the size of a fist because you need it to fight.
- Lora Mathis
“To think too much is a disease.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.”
—Elon Musk
“Normal people… believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.”
—Scott Adams
"The deeper the wound, the more private the pain."
Isabel Allende
"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."
- Peter De Vries
“A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear they consider saying 'that smells good' to be helping.”
— Jimmy Fallon
"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
- Seneca
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
– J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
"Mess with me? I'll let karma do its job. Mess with my family? I become karma."
- Unknown
"Karma is like a rubber band. It can only stretch so far until it comes back and smacks you in the face."
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
— Winston Churchill
Whenever a married man says, "I'll think about it," what he really means is that he doesn't know his wife's opinion yet.
- Eduardo Orefice