God’s divinity comes of my humility, and this may be demonstrated as follows. It is God’s peculiar property to give; but He cannot give unless something is prepared to receive his gifts. If, then, I prepare my humility to receive what He gives, by my humility I make God a giver. Since it is His nature to give, I am […]
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. Charles Du Bos (1882 – 1939)
Devote six years to your work, but in the seventh go into solitude or among strangers so that your friends, by remembering what you were, do not prevent you from being what you have become. Leo Szilard (1898 – 1964)
Natural man is said to be dead however good his actions may be from the civil and moral point of view. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772)
It is said that if Noah’s Ark had had to be built by a company, they would not have laid the keel yet, and it may be so. What is many men’s business is nobody’s business. The greatest things are accomplished by individuals. Charles Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881)
Man is a mystery. If you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881)
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881)
Everything comes if a man will only wait. I’ve brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for it’s fulfillment. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881)
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)
