Ruby Phan > Ruby's Quotes

“Even if you’re going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you’re living now, or live another one than the one you’re losing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Life is opinion.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“We can only learn so much and live.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
― Nikola Tesla

“I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations