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December 2023 Timeless Quotes to Live By

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

— Aristotle

Money often costs too much.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.

— Warren Buffett

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

— Buddha

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

— Dante Alighieri

The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

— William Faulkner

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it, there are many dark places; but still, there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Money is a tool, not the goal. The goal is freedom.

— Unknown

We are all fools in love.

— Jane Austen

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

— Albert Camus

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

— John Milton

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

— Warren Buffett

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

— Isobelle Carmody

Sometimes the greatest adventure is simply a conversation.

— Amadeus Wolfe

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.

— Bob Marley

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.

— J.R.R. Tolkien

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

— William Shakespeare

Sometimes, you have to go through darkness to get to the light.

— Unknown

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

— Morris Mandel

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

— John 1:5

Where there is light, there is hope.

— Unknown

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

— James Keller

The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our light.

— S. Ajna

Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.

— Victor Hugo

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

— Psalm 119:105

The light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion; the tunnel is.

— Unknown