Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)

Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
Love, true love, which is the very essence of the human soul — that love which is revealed by Christ’s teaching — precludes the possibility of any idea of any kind of violence. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
The sufferings of the whole of humanity, and of individuals, are not useless, but lead humanity, though indirectly, ever to the one activity appointed for men: that of perfecting themselves. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Why do I strive, why do I toil in this narrow, confined frame, when life, all life with all its joys, is open to me? Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls. It is true that a sudden illumination may now and then light up a destiny and impel a man in a new direction. But illumination […]
Human anguish is the product of the loss by man of his true identity. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
Love is not thinking, but being. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots; Within this mile break forth a hundred springs; The oaks bear mast, the biers scarlet hips: The bounteous housewife, nature, on each bush Lays her full mess before you. Want! why want? William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunes Are made thy chief afflictions. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)