I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
The only person who is educated is the one who has learnt how to learn and change.
-Carl Ransom Rogers
You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float, find this exactly the situation of faith.
-Alan Watts
Learning is retained through putting into practice; family prestige is maintained through good behavior; a respectable person is recognised by his excellent qualities; and anger is seen in the eyes.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
-Brian Tracy
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
-Winston S. Churchill
As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.
The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.