Letting Go of Control

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they ever find?

            -Samuel Johnson

Appreciation

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is

To have a thankless child.

            -William Shakespeare

Change for the Sake of Change

Change is not progress.

            -H.L. Mencken

These Thorny Roses

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.

-Alphonse Karr

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Who loves a rose will endure its thorns.

-Turkish Proverb

Protecting Our Minds

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

            -Voltaire

"‘Nature hides God!’ But not from everyone!" - Johann von Goethe

Art is nature speeded up, and God slowed down.

            -M.Chazal

Anger

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

            -Robert Ingersoll

Teaching

In giving advice, I advise you, be short.

            -Horace

'It's a Joke, But...'

Many a truth is said in jest.

-William Shakespeare

The Proverbial Tomorrow

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.

            -Mark Rutherford