Philosopher

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
Lao Tzu

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?
George Moore

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you’
Erich Fromm

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao Tzu

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise Pascal

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Lucretius

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
Friedrich Nietzsche

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
William James

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle

“I have done that,” says my memory. “I cannot have done that” — says my pride, and remains adamant. At last — memory yields.
Friedrich Nietzsche