Dr. Steve Maraboli

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.