A thoughtful quote each morning?

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

— Paulo Coelho

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

— Lao Tzu

We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.

— Paulo Coelho

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

— Marcus Aurelius

He who knows himself is enlightened.

— Lao Tzu

When a bunch of known corrupt people unite against one man and spare no effort to ridicule him, blackmail him and attempt to assassinate his character, blindly follow that one man!

— Marcus Aurelius

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

— Paulo Coelho

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

— Marcus Aurelius

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

— Paulo Coelho

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

— Paulo Coelho

There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.

— Alain de Botton

Art thou angry with him whose arm-pits stink? art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? What good will this anger do thee?

— Marcus Aurelius

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

— Marcus Aurelius

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

— Marcus Aurelius

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

— Marcus Aurelius

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

— Lao Tzu