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“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols
“You must still have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Man is something that shall be overcome.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the minds that are prevented from changing their opinions: they cease to be mind.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Daybreak
“What does your conscience say? You shall become the one you are.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · The Gay Science
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-imposed immaturity.”
Immanuel Kant · What Is Enlightenment?
“Man can only become man through education.”
Immanuel Kant · On Education
“Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Mind may be transmuted from state to state, degree to degree, pole to pole, vibration to vibration.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“To change your mood, set your vibration to the degree you desire.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
Sun Tzu · The Art of War
“Water shapes its course to the ground. Whoever wins adapts to what lies before them.”
Sun Tzu · The Art of War
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“You travel far and change countries, but you take yourself along everywhere.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“Do not ask that things happen as you wish. Wish them as they happen, and your life will run calmly.”
Epictetus · Enchiridion
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing: you must stand ready for what comes unannounced.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“No wind is favourable to one who does not know where they are going.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“Fire tests gold, misfortune tests the strong.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · On Providence
“Difficulty shows what a person is. No wrestler grows strong without an opponent.”
Epictetus · Discourses
“You must still have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Daybreak
“Life swings like a pendulum between pain and boredom.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · The World as Will and Representation
“The human being can become human only through education. He is nothing but what education makes of him.”
Immanuel Kant · On Education
“Injuries should be inflicted all at once, benefits given little by little.”
Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
Sun Tzu · The Art of War
“Water shapes its course to the ground. The wise shape their victory to the opponent.”
Sun Tzu · The Art of War
“Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Notes from Underground
“Everything is dual. Everything has poles. Opposites are identical in nature and differ only in degree.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Nothing rests. Everything moves. Everything vibrates.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“Everything flows out and in. Everything has its tides. The measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left.”
The Kybalion · The Kybalion
“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Hercules Furens
“The world is change, life is opinion.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Man is a rope tied between beast and overman. A rope over an abyss.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I love him who wants to create beyond himself, and so perishes.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“It is not enough to know, one must apply. It is not enough to will, one must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Laozi · Tao Te Ching
“Nothing in the world is softer than water, and yet it defeats the hard.”
Laozi · Tao Te Ching
“He who makes a mistake and does not correct it commits a second one.”
Confucius · Analects
“It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius · Analects