World’s Greatest Wisdom
- Mustafa Mahmoud: The silence filled with emotions holds a power greater than the judgment of words.
- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah: The most foolish of people is the one who loses his way at the end of his journey, just as he is about to arrive.
- Paulo Coelho: Anyone who fails to recognize their problems will leave a door open through which tragedies can enter.
- Abdullah ibn Al-Muqaffa: Nothing is lighter and more volatile than the human heart.
- Oscar Wilde: We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Shakespeare: The ignorant believe they are wise, but the wise know they are fools.
- Jordan Eady: If you do not defend something, you will fall for anything.
- Anaïs Nin: We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are.
- Bob Marley: The truth is that everyone will hurt you; you just have to find the people worth suffering for.
World’s Greatest Wisdom on Life
- George Bernard Shaw: Life isn’t about finding yourself; it’s about creating yourself.
- Robert Frost: I can sum up everything I learned about life in two words: It goes on.
- André Gide: It is better to hate what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- Allen Saunders: Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
- Albert Einstein: Life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
- Stephen Chbosky: Things change, friends leave, and life does not stop for anyone.
- John Green: The only way to escape the labyrinth of suffering is through forgiveness.
- Mark Twain: The fear of death comes from the fear of life, and the person who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
World’s Greatest Wisdom on Love
- Martin Luther: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Elie Wiesel: The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference.
- Lao Tzu: Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Sara Dessen: There is no time or place for true love; it happens by chance, in a heartbeat, in an instant.
- Robert A. Heinlein: Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Tom Robbins: We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- Dostoevsky: Hell is the suffering of not being able to love.
World’s Greatest Wisdom on Optimism
- Emily Dickinson: Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.
- Tom Bodett: It is said that a person needs only three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- Alexander Pope: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Roy T. Bennett: Never lose hope; storms make people stronger, and they don’t last forever.
- John Guare: It’s amazing how tomorrow can make up for so much of yesterday.
- Maxine Hong Kingston: In a time of destruction, create something.
- Aristotle: Hope is a waking dream.
- Francis Bacon: Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
- Stephen King: Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.