Perseverance

Ad astra per ardua (To the stars through difficulties).

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insert Your Choice

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

-Aaron Burr

Perseverance

Find a way
or make a way.

- Mike Ditka

Ticking Clocks

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

-Dion Boucicault

Seize The Day?

The ideal never comes. Today is the ideal for him who makes it so.

-Horatio W. Dresser

The Ideal

The ideal never comes. Today is the ideal for him who makes it so.

-Horatio W. Dresser

Wants & Needs

'More!' is as effective a revolutionary slogan as was ever invented by doctrinaires of discontent.  The American, who cannot learn to want what he has, is a permanent revolutionary.  He glories in change, has faith in that which he has not yet, and is ready to give his life for it.

- Eric Hoffer



We must learn to want what we already have.  Wanting and needing aren't simply disposable desires, dependent on some future hypothetical conditions, which come and pass without ever truly reaching us.

- K. Michael Prewitt

Sweet Suzi

May you live all the days of your life.

-Jonathan Swift

Eloquence

It is the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

So Simple, Yet So Complex

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

-Julius Charles Hare

The Extremities of Simplicity

Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.

-Joe Franklin

Greatness

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

-Leo Tolstoy

Simplicity

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.

-Lao-tzu

Nostalgia

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.

            -Horace Greeley (1811-1872)

Self-Reliance

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

-Swedish proverb

Perseverance

I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins, who struggles on through weary years against himself … and wins.

-Caroline Begelow LeRow

Being Appreciated

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

-William James

Making Sense of It All

Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.

-Soren Kierkegaard

Suspicions & Conspiracy Theories

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

-George Gissing

Capitalizing on Conspiracies

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Construction Sites

One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.

-Yiddish proverb

To Be Understood

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

-Mignon McLaughlin

Suspicions & Admissions of Guilt

A man does not look behind a door unless he has stood there himself.

-Henri Du Bois

Ouch!

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

-Barbey D’Aurevilly

At The End of the Day

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul is: What does a woman want?

-Sigmund Freud

Perhaps This Should Be Switched From It's Hypothetical Tense :(

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

-Yiddish proverb

Enough

The best condition in life is not to be so rich as to be envied nor as poor as to be damned.

-Josh Billings

Boomie

He that can lick can bite.

-French proverb

To Be Understood

It is a luxury to be understood.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Continually Reconfirming Suspicions

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

-Sophocles

Labors of Love

Cut off from the worship of the divine, leisure becomes laziness and work inhuman.

-John Piper

Eminence & Preoccupation

No one looks at the blazing sun; all do when it is eclipsed.

- Baltasar Gracian

Understated

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

-Robert South