60 phrases to reflect on and reassess your life perspectives

Before criticizing someone, think about how it would feel to be criticized.

Sometimes you have to learn to shut up and just listen to what you’re told. All effective action begins with deep reflection.

You can plant whatever you want in life, but if you want to harvest daisies, don’t plant hydrangeas!

People can do wrong with you, but never by you. Own your mistakes!

The wise man never says everything he thinks, but always thinks everything he says.

Aristotle

The new is not in what is said, but in the event of its return.

Michel Foucault

Life passes in the blink of an eye. Don’t waste it focusing on the bad stuff!

In difficult times everything seems bad, but remember: even the biggest storms have benefits, they strengthen us.

If you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You only see the beauty of the simplicity of everyday life, those who don’t lose the freedom to live it.

You cannot control all the events that happen in your life, but you can decide not to be diminished by them.

Maya Angelou

It is necessary to stop looking at your own belly button to help the other, to discover the world, to be someone.

Love doesn’t stop pain. On the contrary, he intensifies it, justifies it!

If you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start… It could mean losing… Maybe your mind.

Charles Bukowski

The present is not a potential past, it is the moment of choice and action.

Simone de Beauvoir

When you can’t see the bright side of things, look to God! He knows what he does.

Think what they want of you, do what you think is fair.

Pythagoras

Divergent opinions aggregate and transform, but similar ones add nothing!

Beware of comfort zones: they paralyze achievements and bury dreams.

Stop trying to conquer eternal happiness and dig it daily in the brief moments of life.

Man rushes into error faster than rivers flow to the sea.

Voltaire

It is doubts, not certainties, that lead us down surprising paths.

The sadness of one who bears iniquity is better than the joy of one who commits it.

Saint Augustine

What counts in life is not the starting point, but the journey.

Cora Coralina

You are not what they say about you, but what you believe about yourself.

Karyne Santiago

You were born with wings. Why do you still prefer to crawl through life?

Rumi

In love, the self is, piece by piece, transplanted into the world. The self that loves expands by donating itself to the loved object.

Zygmunt Bauman

They preach so much about equality that they get lost in the differences.

The main cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle

Honesty can make you lose material possessions, but it will reward you with dignity and a clear conscience.

When you don’t have dreams to fulfill, life loses purpose!

Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were going to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life is a treadmill at full speed: if you stop walking, you will fall.

If you relinquish control of your life, you won’t be able to complain about getting lost in other people’s ways.

Stop blaming others for the consequences of your bad decisions.

Happiness is beneficial to the body, but it is pain that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

Life is a tangle of confusion and good times, which over time make you up.

Abandon the baggage of the past. Different trips require different bags!

Life can only be understood looking back, but it must be lived forward.

Soren Kierkegaard

Transformation is a matter of choice. If you want change, change!

Karyne Santiago

Self-reflection results in evolution. It is impossible to leave the place without thinking!

True generosity towards the future consists in giving everything in the present.

Albert Camus

Learning is not just in words, silence also teaches us.

Either you control the day, or the day controls you.

Jim Rohn

Sometimes you have to step outside of yourself to see life with other eyes.

Never disqualify someone else’s pain. You can’t feel it!

If something in life displeases you, start acting differently to change it.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Be like a new elastic band: flexible, yet firm to the exact measure!

The less intelligent a man is, the less mysterious his existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Why fear the future when you know everything you’ve faced in the past?

Walking is part of evolution. All growth requires movement!

The free man is master of his will and slave only of his conscience.

Aristotle

Take control of your life and don’t let anyone determine who you are!

You only need to be accepted and loved by one person: yourself!

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Without dreams, we wither our existence, we cling to the immediate.

Perfection was invented so that no one could see anything beyond their own pressures.

Karyne Santiago

What is too intense can hurt you, but too little can stagnate you.

The beauty of things is in the eyes of those who see life with their heart.