Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. TweetShareSharePin ~ Benjamin DisraeliTweetShareSharePin
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. ~ Jonathan SwiftTweetShareSharePin
All these things, like sickness and sorrow, that we think that we could do without, are really making us stronger in our faith. In my suffering I became strong! It is in pain and anguish that we call upon God the most. ~ Larry HickeyTweetShareSharePin
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart. ~ Nikos KazantzakisTweetShareSharePin
What we call ‘morals’ is simply blind obedience to words of command. ~ Henry Havelock EllisTweetShareSharePin
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible ‘lifestyles’ turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. ~ George WillTweetShareSharePin
written as a reaction to the high casualty rates of the British Expeditionary Force at Mons and Le Cateau ~ Alain de BottonTweetShareSharePin
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ~ Henry MillerTweetShareSharePin