A mixed collection of quotes from a variety of sources, with attribution.
Don’t wait for the Last Judgment, my friend. It happens every day. ~ Albert Camus
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ~Alexander Solzehnitsyn
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. ~Bodhidharma
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity. ~Bodhidharma
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ~Buddha
Things don’t change, only the way you look at them. ~Carlos Casteneda
What one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life. ~C. S. Lewis
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. ~Carlos Castaneda
Each man is different; each man must find his own path. Each man is the same; each man must find his own path. ~Carlos Castaneda
In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. ~Carlos Castaneda
Make every act count since you are going to be here for only a short while. ~Carlos Castaneda
To attune your spirit to your own special place in the world is never to know envy, or malice, or despair. ~Carlos Castaneda
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by. ~Chuang-tzu
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Chuang-tzu
They sicken of the calm that know the storm. ~Dorothy Parker
Now is the space in which life happens. ~Eckhart Tolle
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. ~Epictetus
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil’s leavings. ~Jonathan Swift
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. ~Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. ~Leonardo da Vinci
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. ~Llewelyn Powys
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. ~Marcus Aurelius
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart. ~Mencius
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ~Michel de Montaigne
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. ~Michel de Montaigne
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ~Michel de Montaigne
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ~Michel de Montaigne
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible. ~Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. ~Michel Montaigne
Only the dead have seen the end of war. ~Plato
Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. ~Psalms 60:3
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible. ~Ram Dass
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. ~Samuel Smiles
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. ~Seneca
No man was ever wise by chance. ~Seneca
We suffer more from imagination than from reality. ~Seneca
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. ~Shakespeare
Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house. ~Shams Tabrizi
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. ~Socrates
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit. ~Socrates
Don’t forget to love yourself. ~Soren Kierkegaard
Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth. ~Soren Kierkegaard
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. ~Stanislaw J. Lec
The past is a foreign country — they do things differently there. ~L P Hartley
Behold I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep but shall be changed. ~Paul I. Cor. Ch.15.51
Traveler, there is no trail, you blaze the trail as you travel. ~Xochitl Garza
Success and failure are imposters. Treat them both the same. ~Rudyard Kipling