Few are those who can see with their own eyes and hear with their own hearts.
-Albert Einstein

We are what we repeatedly do.
- Aristotle

So comes snow after fire and even dragons have their endings.
-Tolkien

Two  voices are there one of the sea one of the mountains each a mighty voice
-Wordsworth

There is no Great sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
- Dante

I know the night is not the same as the day, that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
- Ernest Hemingway

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
- Robert Frost

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
- Khalil Gibran

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
- Kahlil Gibran

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
- Kahlil Gibran

I know that I know nothing---
- Socrates

He who can not draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
- Goethe

What lies ahead of us, what lies behind of us, are tiny matters as compared to what lies within us. - Oscar Wild

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."
- Dale Carnegie

Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You"
- Mardy Grothe

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
- Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
-Aristotle

Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
- Alice James

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
- Will Durant

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
- Will Durant

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
- Georges Jacques Danton

I admire him who reveals his mind to me; I honor him who unveils his dreams. But why am I shy, and even a little ashamed before him who serves me?
- Khalil Gibraan.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
- Emily Dickinson

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Gustav Jung

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
- Colin Powell

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.  - Victor Borge

Bachelors know more about the married women than married man; if they didn’t, they’d be married too. – H. L. Menken

Man is rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Oscar Wilde

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.  – Lord Chesterfield

And we are put on Earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love - William Blake

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - Winston Churchill

Obstacles can not crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.  - Leo Tolstoy