'Killing Time, While Time Slowly Kills Me'

Punctuality is the thief of time.

-Oscar Wilde

Books & Learning

Expect poison from the standing water.

-William Blake

Thinking & Reasoning

Those who know the least obey the best.

-George Farquhar

Positive Thinking

The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.

-William Blake

God

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation – of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things – the thought of God comes into one’s mind.

-Vincent Van Gogh

Fears Coming to Roost

What was feared as ruinous comes to seem tolerable.

- Baltasar Gracian

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

-G.K. Chesterton

Compassion

You can rarely trouble another without feeling troubled, either by pity or by remorse.

- Baltasar Gracian

Contentment

Nothing is enough for the man for whom enough is too little.

- Epicurus

Possessions

There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

- Oscar Wilde

Smokescreens

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound!

- Joseph Joubert

Courage & Cowardice

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

- Thomas Fuller

Building Something Beautiful

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

- Ralph William Inge

Building Something Beautiful

How nice to wake up every morning and know that your city is a little better than it was the day before.

-Jan Gehl

“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

– Chinese Proverb

Opportunity

Opportunity doesn’t knock. It’s slipped under the door surreptitiously, like a billing statement in a hotel.

- Steven Carter