To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else…means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
— e.e. Cummings (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
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Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. — Howard Aiken, American physicist and computer pioneer (Public Domain)
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships, and accomplishment in your life. — Martin...
There are only two forces in the world: the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. — Napoleon Bonaparte (1812, by Jacques-Louis David; Public Domain)
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. — Epicurus (Public Domain)
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. — Arthur Wing Pinero (1895, by Frederick Hollyer; Public Domain)
No one is fit to command another who cannot command themselves. — William Penn (Public Domain)
Many receive advice; only the wise profit by it. — Publilius Syrus (Public Domain)
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative. — H. G. Wells (by George Charles Beresford; Public Domain)
My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home. — Rodney Dangerfield (Public Domain)
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. — Washington Irving (by Mathew Brady; Public Domain)
Ability will never catch up to the demand for it. — Malcolm Forbes (Image courtesy of Pixabay)
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. — Horace (Public Domain) This doesn’t mean we should stop developing the plan for our life, but...
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. — Khalil...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. — Galileo Galilei (1636, by Justus Sustermans; Public Domain) Never be afraid to shed your old,...
Fortune favors the bold. — Virgil (Public Domain) We look back on our lives and consider the actions we should have taken but did not. What would have happened had we chosen the more daring route?...
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. But in his heart of hearts he knows that he is a defeated man and that his...
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. — Josh Billings (by Sarony; Public Domain) Alas, silence eludes those who love to engage in arguments. —Mike Hazell
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. — Louis Pasteur (by Paul Nadar; Public Domain) Having worked with perhaps a thousand clients over the course of my career, I have seen the...
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. — John Milton (1629; Public Domain)
Those who have no inner-life are slaves to their surroundings. — Henri Frédéric Amiel (1888; Public Domain)
