"You have to make the rules, not follow them." - Isaac Newton

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius

"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent." - Michel de Montaigne

"In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things." - Rene Descartes

"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty." - Lao Tzu

"Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it." - Napoleon Hill

"In anger we should refrain both from speech and action." - Pythagoras

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." - Plato

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." - Lao Tzu

"99% of failures come from people who make excuses." - George Washington

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?" - Albert Einstein

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music." - George Carlin

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx

"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing." - Ayn Rand

"Advertising is legalized lying." - H.G. Wells

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness." - Dalai Lama

"Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try." - Homer Simpson

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

One of my favorites. It's a long story. It's about ignorance, egos, consumption party, economic system etc. Maybe some other time.

"Law describes the way things would work if men were angels." - Christopher Dawson

"Once you label me you negate me." - Soren Kirkegaard

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/quantum-theory-flow-time/

Pretty cool idea. Respect for the smart people who are able to create and prove theories like that.

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

"Civilization is a race between disaster and education." - H.G. Wells

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." - Buddha

"There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it." - Dale Carnegie

Its all about motivation...

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude" - Dale Carnegie

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Albert Einstein

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn." - H.G. Wells

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." - Dale Carnegie

"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given." - Francis of Assisi

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability." - Oscar Wilde

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Socrates

"Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong." - Marianne Williamson

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." - Wayne Dyer

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." - George Orwell

"Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable." - Mohandas Gandhi

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating." - Sophocles

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." - Elvis Presley

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha

"What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities." - Arthur C. Clarke

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." - Alan Watts

"Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform." - Chanakya

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung

"There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path." - Buddha

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." - Joseph Addison

"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell

"If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere." - Zig Ziglar

"The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had." - Steven Wright

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama

"Some people care too much. I think it's called love." - Alan A. Milne

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson

Think if You would live billions of years. Fifteen billions. What would your thought process look like? Would you worry about those ants on this piece of rock going about their affairs, with a lifespan of one minute in your terms? Or the fine details of their lives - their worries, mishaps, etc? It would be more difficult to follow us than for us trying to count the number of wing flaps of a fly. So I wouldn't. I bet You wouldn't either.

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles

"Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool." - Chris Rock

This basically applies to "expectations vs reality" as well. So I am a damn fool.

"Women are made to be loved not understood." - Oscar Wilde

Why is this under category "humour"? I think its true.

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson

When i look back at the path we have walked, and I look ahead, I am glad that we have just started and there is so much to look forward to.

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

"Ultimately love is everything." - Scott Peck

"You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together." - Nicholas Sparks

This is truly beautiful.

"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." - Dalai Lama

"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven." - Jimi Hendrix

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." - Alan A. Milne

Sorry dude, thats bloody egoistic of you.

"Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again." - Bob Marley

“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  – Albert Einstein

"If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself." - Deepak Chopra

“I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don’t vibrate on the same frequency there’s just no reason for us to waste our time. I’d rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.” - Joquesse Eugenia

"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion." - Dalai Lama

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe

"Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." - Homer Simpson

"Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances." - Michel Quoist

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." - Anais Nin

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." - Mohandas Gandhi

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls." - Mother Teresa

Why are we addicted to information? Maybe we are specially addicted to technology-enabled information? Hopefully we'll end up where we started - consuming the beauty and uniqueness of nature, which is also a stream of information. We'll just have to (re-)learn the langugage.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-were-addicted-to-information-2012-7
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-addicted-to-inform/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-wise/201209/why-were-all-addicted-texts-twitter-and-google

"Perhaps curiosity itself, the need to know, is a form of addiction, making us race to the end of a good mystery novel, or driving scientists to work day and night until they discover insulin, say, or decode the structure of DNA, scientific breakthrough being the ultimate hit of information. When the Theory of General Relativity dawned on Einstein, he must have had the mother of all dopamine rushes."

Three articles later, it turns out I am wrong, just about any information will do.
I still think my ultimate dopamine rush is true love. We'll see.

"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way." - Homer Simpson

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha

"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others." - Wayne Dyer

We tend to apply our expectation gaps also to relationships - thats why it is increasingly harder to find someone to connect with.

Inspired by: Why we're unhappy -- the expectation gap | Nat Ware | TEDxKlagenfurt

"Those who make us suffer are not worth it. Those who are worth it would never make us suffer." - Unknown

You are what you listen to. Double checked.

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/you-are-what-you-listen-to
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/curious/201405/you-are-what-you-listen

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." - Bob Marley

"The true value of the human being is determined by the degree to which he or she is free of self." - Albert Einstein