Each day we hear a knock on our psychological door, and when we open it a pushy person enters and begins to bark out orders: “Worry about this.” “Remember and regret that.” “Work harder!” Is it little wonder we experience only the most fleeting feelings of love, kindness or relaxation? We are all the time being pushed along by something […]
Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
We are but shadows: we are not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream — till the heart be touched. That touch creates us — then we begin to be — thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
Keep the imagination sane — that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
All gloom is but a dream and a shadow… cheerfulness is the real truth. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
Man is never deceived; he deceives himself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
If you would do something, you must be something. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
