1017 – “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live.”

-Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama [Attributed]

1011 – “Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.”

-Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (Voiced by Cary Elwes) in Studio Ghibli’s The Cat Returns

880 – “There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.”

–Yamamoto Tsunetomo

607 – Oscar Wilde Price and Value Quote

–A Conversation between Lord Darlington and Cecil Graham in Oscar Wilde’s Play Lady Windermere’s Fan

Cecil Graham: “What is a cynic?”

Lord Darlington: “A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

Cecil Graham: “And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.”

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556 – “To desire and expect nothing for oneself—and to have profound sympathy for others—is genuine holiness.”

–Ivan Turgenev

497 – “There are many ways to silence young people and make them invisible. Many ways to anesthetize them, to make them keep quiet, ask nothing, question nothing. There are many ways to sedate them, to keep them from getting involved, to make their dreams flat and dreary, petty and plaintive. … Dear young people, you have it in you to shout.”

–Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome

448 – “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

–W L Sheldon [Often falsely attributed to Ernest Hemingway, see Source Notes]

301 – “If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.”

–Elbert Hubbard [Often misattributed, see Source Notes]

298 – “Death: There’s nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it – the fear of it.”

–Seneca the Younger [Possible Paraphrasing, see Source]

215 – “Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.”

–anonymous