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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.”
― Socrates

“What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
― T.S. Eliot

“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates

“When asked about what they regret most in the last six months, people tend to identify actions that didn’t meet expectations. But when asked about what they regret most when they look back on their lives as a whole, people tend to identify failures to act.”
― Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
― Socrates

“How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children to school, houses in the suburbs that necessitate at least two cars per family, and a sense that life is not worth living without really good wine and expensive holidays abroad. What are they supposed to do, go back to digging up roots? No, they double their efforts and keep slaving away.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The hardest question I have ever been asked is: ‘How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?�� The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.”
― Hippocrates

“I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.”
― Fredrich Nietzche

“To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”
― Johnny Cash

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

“If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.”
― Viktor Frankl

“You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
― Otto Rank

“Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don't wish for it to end, or for it to never end.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Stigma is particularly cruel for depressives, because stigma affects thoughts and depression is a disease of thoughts.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“our DNA still thinks we are in the savannah.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
― Immanuel Kant

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
― T.S. Eliot

“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
― Zeno of Citium, as quoted by Diogenes Laërtius