November 2011
1 post
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
May 2011
1 post
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year
– Henry Ford
February 2011
1 post
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
– Albert Camus
January 2011
1 post
It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
– George Eliot
December 2010
3 posts
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to...
– Aldous Huxley
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
– Plutarch
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging...
– William James
November 2010
3 posts
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
– Epictetus
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I...
– Douglas Adams
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
– Dick Werthimer
October 2010
4 posts
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
– Sir Francis Bacon
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
– Marston Bates
Mental health is the process of trading one set of problems for a more...
– Nathaniel Brandon
All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room...
– Blaise Pascal
September 2010
5 posts
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of...
– Milton
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
– William James
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
– Benjamin Franklin
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
– Italian Proverb
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the...
– Henri Matisse
August 2010
1 post
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
– Walt Disney
July 2010
2 posts
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
– Seneca
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings...
– Frank Herbert
June 2010
3 posts
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
– Aesop
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each...
– H. G. Wells
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 2010
2 posts
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without...
– Aristotle
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
– Voltaire
April 2010
1 post
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes...
– Robert Frost
March 2010
4 posts
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not...
– Rene Descartes
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be...
– Mahatma Gandhi
Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how...
– Plato
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
– Anatole France
January 2010
5 posts
I dwell in possibility…
– Emily Dickinson
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is...
– Arthur Schopenhauer
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the...
– Ernest Hemingway
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a...
– Bertrand Russell
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
– William Jennings Bryan
December 2009
4 posts
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do...
– Buddha
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something...
– Cristopher Morley.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the...
– Thomas J. Watson
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
– Albert Camus
November 2009
11 posts
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our...
– Jawaharlal Nehru
It is our earth, not yours or mine or his. We are meant to live on it, helping...
– J. Krishnamurti
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his...
– Thomas A. Edison
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
– Marcus Garvey
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for...
– Aldous Huxley
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
– Napoleon Hill
Does your mind wander when it wants to? Exercise discipline and control it, as a...
– Buddha
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than...
– Arthur Ashe
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
– Michael Crichton