Category: Quotations

Look for your own.  Do not do what someone else could do as well as you.  Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else – and out of yourself create… the most irreplaceable of beings.Andre Gide

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.Bette Davis

Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.  In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.W. H. Auden

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.Henry David Thoreau

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.Don Herold

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation it would be the ability of each individual to learn to laugh at himself.Charles Schulz

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.Orison Swett Marden