Ad astra per ardua (To the stars through difficulties).
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seize The Day?
The ideal never comes. Today is the ideal for him who makes it so.
-Horatio W. Dresser
-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
- 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
Eloquence
It is the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
So Simple, Yet So Complex
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
-Julius Charles Hare
-Julius Charles Hare
Nostalgia
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.
-Horace Greeley (1811-1872)
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
-Caroline Begelow LeRow
Being Appreciated
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
-William James
-William James
Making Sense of It All
Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.
-Soren Kierkegaard
-Soren Kierkegaard
Suspicions & Conspiracy Theories
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
-George Gissing
-George Gissing
Capitalizing on Conspiracies
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Be Understood
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
-Mignon McLaughlin
-Mignon McLaughlin
Suspicions & Admissions of Guilt
A man does not look behind a door unless he has stood there himself.
-Henri Du Bois
-Henri Du Bois
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
-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
-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
-Josh Billings
Labors of Love
Cut off from the worship of the divine, leisure becomes laziness and work inhuman.
-John Piper
-John Piper
Eminence & Preoccupation
No one looks at the blazing sun; all do when it is eclipsed.
- Baltasar Gracian
- Baltasar Gracian
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