Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
To shame the guise o’ the world, I will begin The fashion, less without and more within. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation, possessed of a certain small number of typical ways of reacting to the manifold impressions of incoming life. These mechanical reactions govern us. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
There are two futures, one in time and one in scale, one horizontal — the other vertical and always there, just above our present state. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
When you feel you are right you may be sure you are asleep. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Everything lies in relationship, in how you relate yourself to things. You cannot change the thing itself but you can change your relationship to it. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
When we look at the world through the veil of our desires we make it small and narrow, and fail to perceive its full truth. Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941)
To find life’s purpose we must go through the door of ourselves. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)