"The world is a book, and those who do not
travel read only one page."
Saint Augustine
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The consciousness of selfhood is the very core of our physical being. About it are gathered all the joys and all the miseries of life."
James R. Angell, Psychology, 1908
"The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it."
Seneca (7 B.C.-65 A.D.)
"No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see."
Taoist proverb
"Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame."
Henry David Thoreau
"It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay."
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
‘All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’
~Blaise Pascal
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
Carl Gustav Jung
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
Albert Pike
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Seneca
(Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)
"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey."
John Hope Franklin
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty to care for all fellow humans. The person who follows these precepts will achieve happiness and peace of mind.
Epictetus
What is Success
"To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of flase friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded."
*Attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
A philosopher by the name of Epictetus once wrote...
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."
Epictetus in the 1st century A.D.
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