owl

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

© Samuel Goldwyn

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

© Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

© George V of the United Kingdom

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

© Samuel Johnson

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

© Ellen Gilchrist

Writing well was almost the same as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well.

© Thomas Mann

Compassion is the basis of morality.

© Arthur Schopenhauer

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

© John Burroughs

We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.

© Hildegard of Bingen

All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning.
You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning

© Angelus Silesius