In this great quote Emerson was suggesting that happiness is not the ultimate goal of an individuals life. Instead, he believed that a meaningful life is one that is characterized by usefulness,...
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A swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, Carl Jung is one of the most well known psychologists of our time. This quote is not to suggest that there should be no...
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood
This quote by Friedrich Nietzsche means that individuals who think deeply and have complex ideas are often hesitant to share their thoughts with others because there is something very tragic and...
Life isn’t about finding yourself, Life is about creating yourself.
This quote explains what makes people happy in the long term. Too many people get caught up in short term happiness and they forget to work on their true masterpiece, which is themselves. You are a...
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing
Franklin began his career as a writer. He was apprenticed to his brother, James Franklin. Over the course of Franklin's diverse life, he wrote two of the greatest treasures of American literature,...
So often we get caught up in anxiety or expecting the next bad thing to happen to us. It's easy to get defensive and become enthralled in the busy maintenance of life we stop enjoying our love of...