Posted on June 21, 2010January 31, 2019“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live…..” – Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo
Posted on June 19, 2010January 31, 2019“For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted on June 12, 2010January 31, 2019“It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.” – Aristotle
Posted on June 11, 2010January 31, 2019“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” – Margaret Thatcher
Posted on June 10, 2010January 31, 2019“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
Posted on June 9, 2010January 31, 2019“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln
Posted on June 8, 2010January 31, 2019“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” – Ellen DeGeneres
Posted on June 8, 2010January 31, 2019“The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.” – Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth by René Descartes
Posted on June 7, 2010January 31, 2019“The truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation.” – Gervasis
Posted on April 29, 2010January 31, 2019“To see the things of the present moment is to see all that is now, all that has been since time began, and all that shall be until the world’s end; for all things are of one kind and one form.” – Marcus Aurelius, Book Six, 37.
