Aphorisms: The Best Collection of Wise Words and Sayings.

"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

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take."

• Lewis Carroll

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~Mark Twain

“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
~ Robert Morley

“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”
- Abraham Lincoln

"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."

- Albert Einstein

"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly..."
-Alice Walker

" You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
~ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

A person needs just three things to be truly happy in the world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

There's just ONE thing in the world that's worse than being talked about... and that's NOT being talked about.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
- Mark Twain

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

• Carl Jung.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
- Eric Hoffer

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

- Mineko Iwasaki

" No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. "
~ Charles Dickens

“𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺,
𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘺.”

—𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘢𝘳 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘦

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun.

"I almost wish I hadn’t gone down the rabbit hole–and yet–and yet–it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!"
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book"
—Cicero, 43 BCE

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

"Life is a balance between holding on and letting go."
- Rumi

“The root of suffering is attachment.”

- Buddha

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

- Plato

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"A disciplined mind brings happiness."

- Buddha

"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."

- Aristotle

"youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

- Aristotle

"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

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

- Seneca

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work
- Thomas A. Edison

"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."

- Carl Jung

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

- Nietzsche

"As you start to walk on the way, the way appears."

- Rumi

" Never reply when you are angry.
Never make a promise when you are happy.
Never make a decision when you are sad..."

" A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves you a hundred moments of regret...."

" Some talk to you in their free time and
some free their time to talk to you..."

"The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood."
- Voltaire

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
- Jeannette Walls

"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you."

- Rumi

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
- Marcus Aurelius

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

- Oscar Wilde

"What we think, we become."
– Buddha

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

― Seneca

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

- Aristotle

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

- Seneca

"A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others."

- Confucius

"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."

- Oscar Wilde

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
- Rumi

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.”

― Elie Wiesel

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

― Plato

Ghosts never really leave us… especially the ones we create.

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."

- Albert Einstein

"Respect yourself and others will respect you."

- Confucius

"The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge."

- Aristotle

Note to self: Your procrastination is someone else’s opportunity.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

― Seneca

"Above all, do not lie to yourself."

- Dostoevsky

"Never argue with stupid people,

they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

| Mark Twain

"Men are quick to believe what they want to be true."

- Julius Caesar

"If you have a dream, don't waste your energies explaining why."

- Paulo Coelho

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

- Carl Jung

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone."

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
-Alice Walker

“Honesty is the best policy.”

― Benjamin Franklin

“To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak."

~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

In order to write about life first you must live it.

Ernest Hemingway