PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTES (section one)

Moral clarity is frequently clouded by an unrelenting stream of micro-information from various sources on nearly every subject known to mankind.

-Ray Gattavara


Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.

-J.W. Jepson


When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

-Pearl S. Buck


The test of a religion or philosophy is the number of things it can explain.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


The measure of the progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

-George Bancroft


What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

-Cicero


Great necessities call out great virtues.

-Abigail Adams


Wisdom and self-understanding can sometimes be of greatest benefit if consciously allowed to improve our life in a spontaneous fashion, for excessive analysis of new revelations about ourselves creates the possibility of diluting any positive intentions that are cultivated.

-Ray Gattavara


Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

-Lord Chesterfield


Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

-Arnold Toynbee


The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling.

-Lucretius


Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.

-Horace Walpole


Individual courage and evolutionary thinking are prerequisites for shaping the destiny of society.

-Ray Gattavara


Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

-Henry Ward Beecher


Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

-Bertrand Russell


He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

-Epictetus


Successful men[or women] of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

-James Jacobs


If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.

-Charles Lutwidge Dodgson


The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

-Wilfred Grenfell


Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

-Horace Mann


A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

-Woodrow Wilson


Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

-Plato


Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

-John Locke


Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

-Aristotle


Courage is resistence to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

-Mark Twain


No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

-Henry Miller


It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed, they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

-Mahatma Gandhi


Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

-William Jennings Bryan


The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

-Thomas Jefferson


A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

-T.S. Eliot


If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

-Benjamin Franklin


In analyzing history, do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

-John Locke


Intelligence, like physical beauty, often lies within the discernment of the beholder.

-Ray Gattavara


An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head the second.

-Thomas Jefferson


The essence of philosophy is that a man [or woman] should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

-Epictetus


Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can.

-Lin Yutang


It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

-Samuel Johnson


The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

-Benjamin Disraeli


It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplist way.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

-William James


The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes


The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

-Abraham Lincoln


It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

-Aristotle


Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

-Horace


The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

-George Orwell


Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

-Winston Churchill


The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.

-Fred Corson


Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything.

-George Lois


A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.

-Boutros Boutros-Ghali


Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts...and strives without fear of man to do justice to them.

-Berthold Auerbach


Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have now was once among the things only hoped for.

-Epicurus


Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Continuous efforts - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

-Winston Churchill


Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

-Charles A. Cerami


An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

-Victor Hugo


It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

-John Locke


It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

-Thomas Paine


Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

-Benjamin Disraeli


Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

-Horace


The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

-William James


Each man [or woman] is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

-Plato


People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air.

-John Quincy Adams


There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

-Woodrow Wilson


The winning of freedom is not to be compared to the winning of a game - with the victory recorded forever in history. Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirits of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower


There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

-Niccolo Machiavelli


The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

-Thomas Henry Huxley


Judgment can only be aquired by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men[and women] who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human behavior.

-B.C. Forbes


There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

-Oscar Hammerstein II


Language is the soul of the intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

-Charles Scribner Jr.


Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

-Alfred North Whitehead


Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

-Voltaire


Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

-De Saint-Real


Every morning puts a man on trial, and each evening passes judgment.

-Roy Smith


Character is higher than intellect.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


The prevalence of uncivil, impersonal, and/or unethical individuals within western oriented societies is greatly dependent upon any willingness on the part of concerned citizens to quietly tolerate these kinds of behavior within their sphere of influence.

-Ray Gattavara


The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

-Ruth Benedict


I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: to reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


Self-respect will keep a man[or woman] from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel he may be in the right when the world is against him.

-Bertrand Russell


Be always resolute within the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

-Boethe


That man[or woman] is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

-Euripides


Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

-William F. Buckley Jr.


Perfection of means and confusion of goals characterize our age.

-Albert Einstein


The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

-Wang Yang-Ming


Not all heroes consist of those who perform courageous deeds on the battlefield during times of war. There are intellectual heroes as well, whose exploits can be considered equally important to those on the battlefield. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are known for their efforts at helping create the United States of America. Winston Churchill is considered by many to be a hero for his leadership during and after WWII. Gandhi is considered a hero for almost single handedly bringing about freedom and independence to the country of India. The common denominators among intellectual heroes are a commitment to the greater good, and a willingness to think the unthinkable, even if surrounded by others who are unwilling and/or fearful of doing the same.

-Ray Gattavara


People often say that this person or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.

-Thomas Szasz


Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

-John W. Whitehead


Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

-Henry Ward Beecher


Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of generous emotion.

-John Jay Chapman


All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.

-Samuel Johnson


The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

-Nicholas Chamfort


Death never takes the wise man[or woman] by suprise; he is always ready to go.

-Jean de la Fontaine


It is written in The Declaration of Independence, an important document in the founding of The United States of America, that "all men[and women] are born(or created) equal." This is true, all men and women are born equal. But the equality ends there. After birth we take up residence in a merit-based society. An individual's commitment to the greater good of mankind, a sincere adherence to a lifestyle incorporating wisdom and common sense, and a recognition that the acquisition of knowledge is a life long adventure, will, above all other things, determine the rewards that he/she receives throughout a lifetime.

-Ray Gattavara


The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

-Henry Ward Beecher


You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.

-James Lane Allen


We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint.

-Robert Falcon Scott


Honor knows no statute of limitations.

-Samuel E. Moffett


Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

-David Grayson


If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

-Henry David Thoreau


It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


He is richest who is content with the least.

-Socrates


The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

-Voltaire


The radiating brilliance of Nature can only be eclipsed by the evolutionary but yet unrealized potential of the human race.

-Ray Gattavara


Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

-James Harvey Robinson


Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

-Albert Einstein


What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

-Cicero


Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

-George Washington


Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.

-Polybius


Lonliness and boredom seldom visit those who have evolved into becoming their own best friend.

-Ray Gattavara


The wisdom seeker avoids attempting to force his/her beliefs on others, and instead encourages each to discover their own path in life, while nevertheless remaining steadfastly committed to the evolution of humanity.

-Ray Gattavara


Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well be the greatest scarcities of tomorrow.

-Edwin Way Teale


To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

-Eric Hoffer


There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

-Edith Wharton


Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

-Arthur Schopenhauer


Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

-B.C. Forbes


While being idealistic and/or visionary in our thinking is noble and necessary for social evolution and self-improvement, our personal behavior must nevertheless be rooted in realism, commonly known as facing what is on the ground in front of us, if we are to remain on the path to wisdom.

-Ray Gattavara


Keep your face in the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

-Helen Keller


Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

-Mohandis Gandhi


Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

-Simone Weil


Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

-Edmund Burke


If the first law of friendship is that it has to be cultivated, the second law is to be indulgent when the first law has been neglected.

-Voltaire


Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Browne


The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

-Samuel Johnson


Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

-Leonardo da Vinci


If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer


Nourishing the seeds of inspiration within a culture fuels creativity and enhancement of both the individual and society as a whole.

-Ray Gattavara


There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

-Logan Pearsall Smith


The beginning is the most important part of the work.

-Plato


Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

-Victor Hugo


Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

-William Hazlitt


The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.

-Jerome S. Butler


I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

-Henry David Thoreau


In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Virtue is a kind of health, beauty, and good habit of the soul.

-Plato


If we open a quarrel between the past and present, we shall find we have lost the future.

-Winston Churchill


The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account.

-Richard R. Grant


Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

-John Steinbeck


The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

-Francois Rene Chateaubriand


Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

-Louis Pasteur


That all men [and women] are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

-Aldous Leonard Huxley


The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.

-Benjamin Jowett


Fate is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought, for causes which are unpenetrated.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

-William Jennings Bryan


In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


You will have written exceptionally well if, by skillful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

-Horace


No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

-John Stuart Mill


The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

-Eleanor Roosevelt


Fortune does not change men [or women]; it unmasks them.

-Suzanne Necker


To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

-Samuel Butler


Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

-Logan Pearsall Smith


I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.

-Thomas Paine


Common sense is not so common.

-Voltaire


He [or she] that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

-Aesop


Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possiblities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.

-Harry Emerson Fosdick


I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

-Luigi Pirandello


Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

-Soren Kierkegaard


No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

-John Churton Collins


Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

-Francis Bacon


It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

-Horace


A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

-Samuel Johnson


Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

-Woodrow Wilson


No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being...must come from within.

-R.W. Clark


Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind: it forces you to stretch your own.

-Charles Scribner Jr.


Only a few recognize the profound difference between the practice of unbiased personal and professional ethics, versus common ethics observed by most individuals today, which have a tendency to be embraced only if there is an advantage to be gained.

-Ray Gattavara


Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

-Samuel Johnson


The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

-Horace


The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

-Okakura Kakuzo


It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

-Mackintosh


The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

-Sophocles


When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth knowing.

-Robert Browning


People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

-Lord Chesterfield


There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

-Baltasar Gracian


One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

-George Bernard Shaw


To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

-John Buchan


To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

-Marcus Aurelius


To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

-William Hazlitt


We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

-Shakti Gawain


Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

-Samuel Johnson


Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good on their own fashion.

-Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche


Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

-Benjamin Disraeli


Our entire life... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

-Jean Anouilh


Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and it's face of eternal youth.

-Albert Camus


If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient, and thin.

-Katherine Butler Hathaway


A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.

-Milan Kundera


I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

-Barbara Castle


Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

-Robert Frost


Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways.

-Stephen Saint Vincent Benet


Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

-J.C.F. von Schiller


There is no endeavor or environment whatsoever involving human interaction that cannot be improved with the infusion of inspiration and wisdom.

-Ray Gattavara


Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

-Aldous Huxley


The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

-Samuel Johnson


Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find his path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

-Thomas Carlyle


Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

-James Thurber


There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

-Francis Drake


The finest eloquence is that which gets things done and the worst is that which delays them.

-David Lloyd George


None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

-Bernard M. Baruch


It takes wisdom and discernment to minister to people in need. We must look beyond the apparent and seek to meet the needs of the whole person.

-Richard C. Chewning


To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

-Bertrand Russell


Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

-Samuel Johnson


The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

-Seneca The Younger


In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.... The habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of wisdom.

-Alfred North Whitehead


Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

-Helen Keller


The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

-David Starr Jordon


I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

-E.M. Forester


Value the past, take positive action today, and strive to influence the future in a manner that will enhance the value of mankind.

-Ray Gattavara


Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

-Constatin Brancusi


Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

-Arthur Schopenhauer


Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.

-Grenville Kleiser


Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

-Elbert Hubbard


Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

-Felix Adler


Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

-Horace


Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

-David Starr Jordon


The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with what he has.

-Frank Hamilton


A hero is a man who does what he can.

-Romain Rolland


Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

-William James


Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

-Edgar Watson Howe


Seeking self-discovery, inspiration, and the enhancement of humanity will on occasion illuminate paths not previously observed, and it would be advantageous for each of us to embrace these potentially new directions of travel with vigor.

-Ray Gattavara


Time is a perishable commodity for all of us, and as such, needs to be utilized with diligence and enthusiasm.

-Ray Gattavara


On the occasion of every accident that befalls you... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

-Epictetus


A great philosophy is not a philosophy above reproach; it is a philosophy without fear.

-Charles Peguy


Experiencing wisdom invigorates positive thinking and rekindles hope for the future - always.

-Ray Gattavara


Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

-Henry David Thoreau


To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

-Edward Weeks


The philosophically enlightened individual attempts to act as a beacon for humanity while traveling on the path to wisdom, but there is no discouragement if others cannot yet see him.

-Ray Gattavara


Hope is a vigorous principle... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.

-Jeremy Collier


Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

-Henri Bergson


The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

-Voltaire


A great man is always willing to be little.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.

-Marshall Fishwick


Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

-Sophocles


For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

-Horace Mann


Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.

-Dr. Karl Menninger


The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

-Euripides


If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

-J.R. Miller


You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

-James A. Froude


The grand essentials to happiness in life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

-Joseph Addison


Do not be afraid of solitude. The best humanitarian ideas often come from individuals who spend time alone in the wilderness contemplating issues great and small.

-Ray Gattavara