A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie, to offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

What are you afraid of losing when nothing in the world actually belongs to you.

~ Marcus Aurelius

If God can take something you never imagined losing, he can also give you something you never imagined having.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

And now the cage is open but the bird doesn't know how to fly.

The desert teaches you more about water than the ocean ever could.

~ African proverb

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

~ Oscar Wilde

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

~ Seneca

I asked God for flowers and it started to rain

Don't climb a mountain for the world to see you, climb a mountain for you to see the world.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more. But in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

~ Socrates

There are places where you haven't been where you already belong.

Do you believe in believing?

What you seek is seeking you

~ Rumi

Do a good deed and throw it in the river. One day, it will come back to you in the desert.

Don't blame a clown for acting like a clown. Ask yourself why you keep going to the circus.

Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Dreams are useless if they stay on the pillow

Unlike the stomach, the brain doesn't alert you when it's empty

~ Arabic proverb

God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails