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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You
must set yourself on fire.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You
must set yourself on fire.
Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship
smoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of read more
Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship
smoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness without
pain.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the read more
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.
The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up read more
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.