What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Collette
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.
Confucius
Don't let yourself be controlled by three things: people, money, or past experience.
No author
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
Be completely aware of your pain, but don't allow it to define who you are. Pain is an emotion that passes.
Sylvester McNutt
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
Zeno of Citium
The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
James E. Faust
Every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin; so external aid is not of much use to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Oscar Wilde
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
Andre Gide
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Aeschylus
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
Bill Cosby
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
Anton Chekhov
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Carl Jung
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln