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Motivational quotes and aphorisms

Motivational quotes and aphorisms, phrases, ideas, reflections and thoughts by various famous authors to stimulate your motivation and strengthen your resilience; edited by our Carl William Brown. (Find out more about him …

We survive by what we receive, but we live by what we give.
Carl Gustav Jung

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown

A good aphorism should not only highlight obvious things, even if expressed in an original way, but also evoke solutions, though unpleasant for human stupidity.
Carl William Brown

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A man's value is seen in what he gives, not in what he is capable of receiving.
Albert Einstein