Posted on July 19, 2010January 31, 2019“Many of life’s circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey” – Millhuff
Posted on June 26, 2010January 31, 2019“So much the worse for those who fear wine,for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.” – Andre Dumas
Posted on June 22, 2010January 31, 2019“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy” – Andre Dumas
Posted on June 21, 2010January 31, 2019“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.” – Andre Dumas
Posted on June 21, 2010January 31, 2019“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish … know not what is the real happiness of life: just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone estimate the value of a clear and serene sky.” – Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo
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
