A thought

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it
Joseph Joubert
Essayist
1754-1824

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions
Albert Einstein

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles
Jimmy Carter
You may never get quiet time for reflection away from emails and the phone, if you do not take positive steps to be in control of both your time and the technology
Richard Needham

Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act
Albert Einstein



The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge
Adolf Berle

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential
Anthony Robbins

I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us
Konrad Lorenz
Ethologist
Nobel laureate
1903-1989

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference
Only someone who loves you will criticize you
Judith Christ

Be who you are and say what you feel because those
who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind
Santiz

Never, never, never give up
Winston Churchill

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind
as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature
John D. Rockefeller

Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills
William Hazlitt
Essayist
1778-1830

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are
both true and kind, they can change our world
Buddha

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go
William Shakespeare, playwright and poet 1564-1616



Sometimes it is a form of love just to talk to somebody
that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence
Anonymous
Mistakes are painful when they happen
but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience
Denis Waitley

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down
Mary Pickford

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief
And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen
Claude M. Bristol


A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation
with the bricks that others throw at him or her
David Brinkley




Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have continued if the book hadn't been written. When you come across a book like that it is a privilege
Hisham Matar
Author
b. 1970



Literature becomes the living memory of a nation
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Novelist, Nobel laureate
1918-2008

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher
1844-1900