There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush
us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
- Seneca
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the
human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Victor Frankl
There is no turning back, only going forward—for Mario and Luigi,
for me, and for you. Life only scrolls in one direction, which is
the direction of time, and no matter how far we might manage to go,
that invisible wall will always be just behind us, cutting us off
from the past, compelling us into the unknown.
- Edward Snowden
...Dearest riches have never made people great but love does it
every day.
- Richard Feynman
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only
sooner.
- Tallulah Bankhead
I aspire to make better, smarter mistakes tomorrow. - Unknown
The best decisions he has made in his life, he said, were
completely unexpected, the ones that cut against convention... every
decision he forced himself to make because it was unexpected has
been a good one.
- Michael Lewis
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without
courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
- Maya Angelou
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same
river and he is not the same man.
- Unknown
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one
wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all
eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal
it…but love it.
- Nietzsche
When you feel like quitting, remember why you started. -
Unknown
Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit
by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes
increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human
existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly
contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and
over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede,
the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible
break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their
individual being.
- Bertrand Russell
What we do now echoes in eternity. - Marcus Aurelius