Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “When you feel you are right…”
When you feel you are right you may be sure you are asleep. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Rabindranath Tagore Quote – “When we look at the world through the veil of our desires…”
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)
P. D. Ouspensky Quote – “Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking ‘I’…”
Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking ‘I’. And each time his ‘I’ is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man’s name is legion. P. D. Ouspensky (1878 – 1947)
Blaise Pascal Quote – “Man’s sensitivity to little things…”
Man’s sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder. Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
P. D. Ouspensky Quote – “We are surrounded by a wall built of our conceptions…”
We are surrounded by a wall built of our conceptions of the world, and are unable to look over this wall at the real world. P. D. Ouspensky (1878 – 1947)
G. I. Gurdjieff Quote – “Everything that reaches us in the course of the day…”
Everything that reaches us in the course of the day, and in the course of our whole life, is relative to us. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
Henry David Thoreau Quote – “He is blessed over all mortals…”
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
George Eliot Quote – “Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out…”
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. George Eliot (1819 – 1880)
George MacDonald Quote – “That which is within a man…”
That which is within a man, not that which lies beyond his vision, is the main factor in what is about to befall him. George MacDonald (1824 – 1905)