Liberty in submission: what a problem! And yet that is what we must always come back to. Henri Amiel (1821 – 1881)
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “To be upset at anything which happens to us…”
To be upset at anything which happens to us is a separation of ourselves from nature. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “Since I’ve learned to be silent…”
Since I’ve learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)
William Shakespeare Quote – “Nature, what things there are most abject in regard…”
Nature, what things there are Most abject in regard, and dear in use! What things again most dear in the esteem, And poor in worth! William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Henri Amiel Quote – “I love everything, and dislike one thing only…”
I love everything, and dislike one thing only: the desperate imprisonment of my being… Liberty for the inner man is then the strongest of my passions — perhaps my only passion. Henri Amiel (1821 – 1881)
Henri Amiel Quote – “We must fight the fight…!”
We must fight the fight! We only find rest in effort. Henri Amiel (1821 – 1881)
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “All things change…”
All things change, yet we need not fear anything new. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “It is in your power, whenever you choose…”
It is in your power, whenever you choose, to retire into yourself. Nowhere can you retire with more quietness or more freedom than within your own spirit… Constantly give yourself to this retreat and renew yourself. Let your principles be brief and fundamental, and when you have returned to them, that will be enough to purify the spirit completely, and […]
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “You can remove out of the way many useless things…”
You can remove out of the way many useless things which disturb you, for they lie entirely in your opinion towards them. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “As we live through thousands of dreams…”
As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last […]