Aphorisms: The Best Collection of Wise Words and Sayings.

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
~ Oscar Wilde

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
― A.A. Milne

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

—Michel de Montaigne, Essais

“We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.”
― John Lennon

"She loves me all that she can,
And her ways to my ways resign;
But she was not made for any man,
And she never will be all mine."

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple.“

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“The years are flying past and we all waste so much time wondering if we dare to do this or that. The thing is to leap, to try, to take a chance.”
Leonard Cohen

“Once you choose hope,
anything is possible.”
~ Christopher Reeve

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
~Charles Dickens

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. ~Ernest Hemingway

"If you have a garden and a library,
you have everything you need."
~ Cicero

"In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer."
~ Norwegian Proverb.

"Virtue is what you do when nobody is looking. The rest is marketing."
~ Nassim Taleb

"Every word has consequences. Every silence, too."
— Jean Paul Sartre

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

• Elbert Hubbard

Don't blame a clown for acting like a clown,
ask yourself why you keep going to
the circus.

"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed."
• Friedrich Nietzsche

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

~ T. S. Eliot

"Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness."
Werner Herzog

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.”
― Ayn Rand

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

“The woman sells her body because the man has sold his soul. You can apprehend one, but the other, the true culprit, escapes altogether because he is anonymous and legion."
~ Abdul Hadi (Ivan Agueli, the teacher of René Guénon)

" If Poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all."
• John Keats

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

" Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."
~ Virginia Woolf

"Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard."
~ Albert Camus

"When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you're not saying 'no' to your self."
~Paulo Coelho

“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”
- Peter Handke

"There's no sinner like a young saint."
~ Aphra Behn

“You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.”
— Daniel Franzese

‘The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.’
- Isaac Asimov

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~Erich Fromm

“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic”

— Frida Kahlo

'Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.'

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” —Abraham Lincoln

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
– Paulo Coelho

Everything you say should be true,
But not everything true should be said.
-Voltaire

Love is two people who decide to know more about each other.
More than they know about themselves.

"Sometimes love is a misunderstanding between two fools."

Smiling doesn't necessarily mean you're happy. Sometimes it just means you're strong!

"We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content."
-- Emile Zola

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.

" If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. "
~ William Godwin

"You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul."
~ G.B. Shaw

Making mistakes is better than faking perfection...

"In order to succeed it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to do is be one day ahead of them."

~ Leó Szilárd

"The less you say, the more weight your words will carry."
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

If you stop giving a clown attention, they will stop performing!!

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
• J.R.R. Tolkein
The Fellowship of the Ring

If you want dreams to happen go to bed.

What you PUT UP with is what you'll END UP with!!!!

Some people are wise, Some are otherwise.

"She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful."
By F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In the very end civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to thier poets." ~ Jonas Mekas

Don’t be fake to impress the wrong people. Be you so the right people will love you!!!!!

“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”

– Herman Melville.

'The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable' (Rimbaud)

“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
— Virginia Woolf

"I think of lovers as trees, growing to and
from one another, searching for the same light."
By Warsan Shire

"Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance. "

By Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”

By William Wordsworth

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
By Maya Angelou

"I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible."
~Tomaž Šalamun

"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."

By Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire."
~ Willa Cather

“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work."
By Paulo Coelho, "Adultery"

"Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget."

~Alysha Speer

“Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself .”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

― Robert Frost

A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.
- Alice Walker

The heart will break,
but broken live on.

"Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top -- it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others -- it rises from your heart."
- Junko Tabei

“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
-- Lord Byron

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

By James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Remember this:
Time is free, but it's priceless.
You can't own it, but you can use it.
You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you've lost it you can never get it back...

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini