It’s wiser being good than bad… It’s fitter being sane than mad. Robert Browning (1812 – 1889)
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “Make your ego porous…”
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)
Quote from Buddhism – “Learn to distinguish between Self and Truth…”
Learn to distinguish between Self and Truth. Self is the cause of selfishness and the source of evil; Truth cleaves to no self; it is universal and leads to justice and righteousness. Buddhism (circa 500 B.C.E.)
Thomas Carlyle Quote – “The true sovereign of the world…”
The true sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world. Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
Nicolas Caussin Quote – “A hundred thousand tongues may discourse…”
A hundred thousand tongues may discourse to you about the sweetness of honey, but you can never have knowledge of it except by taste. Nicolas Caussin (1583 – 1651)
Lord George Gordon Byron Quote – “There comes for ever something between us…”
There comes for ever something between us and what we deem our happiness. Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)
William Shakespeare Quote – “Tis not the many oaths…”
‘Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, But the plain single vow that is vow’d true. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Walt Whitman Quote – “These are the days…”
These are the days that must happen to you. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote – “It is time to undervalue…”
It is time to undervalue what he has valued, to dispossess himself of what he has acquired, and with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, “All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
William Shakespeare Quote – “Oft expectation fails…”
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
