Quotes
Soul or body
“Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.” Pythagoras
“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.” Pythagora
“Sobriety is the strength of the soul, for it preserves its reason unclouded by passion” Pythagoras
“The soul needs your recklessness, not your wisdom.” - Carl Jung
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own Souls.” - Carl Jung
“Shame is a soul-eating emotion.” - Carl Jung
“In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and whatever you shall have given to the body you soon eject: but what you shall have given to the soul, you keep always,” - Epictetus
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”- Marcus Aurelius
“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” - Carl Jung
“To wish to be well is a part of becoming well”.- Seneca
“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.”- Epictetus
“It's better to live with one person of high soul and to be calm and independent than to lead a miserable life in the Society of many.”- Epictetus
Solitude
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” Albert Einstein
"It's strange to be known so universally and yet be so lonely". Albert Einstein
“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.” - Carl Jung
“Just because someone's single doesn't mean they're lonely, just like when someone's in a crowd doesn't mean they're not alone.”- Epictetus
Solving problem
“To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.” - Carl Jung
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it” Albert Einstein
“The greatest and most important problems of Life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.” - Carl Jung
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.” - Carl Jung
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”- Epictetus
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”- Seneca
“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”- Epictetus
Sowing seeds
“He who sows the seeds of murder and pain will not reap joy and love.” Pythagoras
“People grow like plants, some in light, others in shade there are many who need shade, not light.” - Carl Jung
Striving
“If you can become an eagle, do not strive to become the first among the jackdaws,” Pythagoras
“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.” Albert Einstein
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.” Albert Einstein
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”- Epictetus
“It is unrealistic to expect people to see you as you see yourself.”- Epictetus
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”- Seneca
Suffering
“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”- Seneca
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”- Seneca
“Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.”- Epictetus
“We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgment about them.”- Seneca
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”- Marcus Aurelius

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