"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating
yourself."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true
wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is
true power."

-- Lao-Tzu

"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort,
you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot
have an abundant crop without cultivation."

-- Plato 

nobody understands 

I don't understand anybody

the world of emptiness

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep
looking upward."

-- Charlotte Bronte

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing
something else."

-- James Matthew Barrie

 ‎"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are
going, because you might not get there."

-- Yogi Berra

"Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it
embarrasses your children."

-- Marilyn Penland

"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it
foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."

-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are
dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality."

-- Dom Helder Camara