Socrates - The secret of change, building the new not fighting the old
The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
- Socrates
Benjamin Franklin - Most people die at 25, buried until 75
Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75.
- Benjamin Franklin
Ralph Waldo Emerson - To be yourself in a world trying to make you something else
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Janelle Monae - Let them know: There's another way
I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.
- Janelle Monae
Robert Anton Wilson - We are all giants, raised by pygmies
We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Recognize your godliness
Recognize your godliness and then there is nothing to achieve. One has simply to start; one has to start to live. Live like a god.
Clara Rilke-Westhoff - The world comes to me, no longer seek outside
Thus the world comes to me, which I no longer seek outside, and lives in and in all things that are around me.
- Clara Rilke-Westhoff
Rainer Maria Rilke - Not knowing that the world already is
Art means not knowing that the world already is, and making [one].
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Albert Camus - One or two moments when his heart first opened
A man’s life is nothing but an extended trek through the detours of art to recapture the one or two moments when his heart first opened.
- Albert Camus
Rumi - You suppose you are the trouble, but you are the cure
You suppose you are the trouble
But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It's too bad that you want to be someone else
You don't see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.
- Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
