“”Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before..”” —Hafez— 📸 Web

“”Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object..”” —Hermann Hesse— 📸 Web

“”Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future..”” —Lion Feuchtwanger— 📸 Web

“”You can't build a future if you don't have a past..”” —Herta Muller— 📸 Web

“”Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them..”” —William Shakespeare— 📸 Web

“”Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence..”” —Socrates— 📸 Web

“”The end of labor is to gain leisure..”” —Aristotle— 📸 Web

““Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”” — Albert Camus— 📸 Web

“”To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do..”” —Heraclitus— 📸 Web

“”We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it..”” —Epicurus— 📸 Web

“”If the truth is known, the falsehood can also be known, but if the falsehood is known first, the truth cannot be reached..”” —Alpharabius— 📸 Web

“”It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you..”” —Rumi— 📸 Web

“”It is not easy to be a candle. In order to shed light, you must first burn..”” —Rumi— 📸 Web

“”If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes..”” —Alexander the Great— #philosophy 📸 Web

“”A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity..”” —Saadi— 📸 Web

“”I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers..”” —Khalil Gibran— 📸 Web

“”Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all..”” —Emily Dickinson— 📸 Web

“”What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature..”” —Voltaire— 📸 Web

“”Sometimes even to live is an act of courage..”” —Seneca— 📸 Web

“"What am I trying to tell, to whom?" and you keep quiet...”” -You know how you want to scream and leave, -And never come back... -Here are those states..””