If you could see things as they are, not as they appear, you would no longer inflict injuries and pains on your own selves. Buddhism (circa 500 B.C.E.)
Heraclitus Quote – “No man ever steps in the same river twice…”
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. Heraclitus (circa 535 – 475 B.C.E.)
William Shakespeare Quote – “Men prize the thing ungain’d…”
Men prize the thing ungain’d more than it is. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
William Shakespeare Quote – “But I remember now…”
But I remember now I am in this earthly world; where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Meister Eckhart Quote – “Be willing to be a beginner…”
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. Meister Eckhart (circa 1260 – 1328)
Palladas Quote – “Day by day we are born…”
Day by day we are born as night retires, no more possessing aught of our former life, estranged from our course of yesterday, and beginning today the life that remains. Palladas (circa 300 A.D.)
Francis Bacon Quote – “Read not to contradict and confute…”
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 (1561 – 1626)
Henri Amiel Quote – “Everything which compromises…”
Everything which compromises the future or destroys my inner liberty, which enslaves me to things or obliges me to be other than I could and ought to be… hurts me. Henri Amiel (1821 – 1881)
Henri Amiel Quote – “Whenever conscience speaks with a divided…”
Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not yet the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear and undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light and serenity. Happy, says the Apostle, are they who are at peace with themselves, […]
Henri Amiel Quote – “Be neither the slave of your impulses…”
Be neither the slave of your impulses and sensations of the moment, nor of an abstract and general plan; be open to what life brings from within and without, and welcome the unforeseen, and give to your life unity, and bring the unforeseen within the lines of your plan. Let what is natural in you raise itself to the level […]