All Quotes
Friday Dec 12, 2014
Maya Angelou: The butterfly and its changes
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Thursday Dec 11, 2014
Albert Einstein: Authority and truth
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Wednesday Dec 10, 2014
Marcus Aurelius: Reducing pain
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Tuesday Dec 9, 2014
Confucius: Appreciating abilities
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
Monday Dec 8, 2014
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Behind, Before and inside us
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Friday Dec 5, 2014
Helen Keller: The most beautiful things
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Thursday Dec 4, 2014
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Why and the How
He who has a why to live
can bear almost any how.
Wednesday Dec 3, 2014
Marcus Aurelius: Gain time
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Tuesday Dec 2, 2014
Albert Einstein: What I am and what I will be
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
Monday Dec 1, 2014
Confucius: The Mistake
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
Thursday Nov 27, 2014
Paulo Coelho: Achieving a dream
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Wednesday Nov 26, 2014
Dr. Seuss: You
Today you are you
that is truer than true
There is no one alive
who is youer than you
Tuesday Nov 25, 2014
Groucho Marx: Education
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Friday Nov 21, 2014
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Shallow men and strong men
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Thursday Nov 20, 2014
Confucius: Your job
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Tuesday Nov 18, 2014
Wayne Dyer: Real magic
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wednesday Nov 12, 2014
Marcus Aurelius: Two rules
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.