Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. – Edward Somers
Little things console us because little things afflict us. – Blaise Pascal
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. – Neil Postman
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. – Charles Caleb Colton
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. – H.T. Leslie
Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself. – John W. Raper
Self-pity is… a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. – Elizabeth Elliot
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing? – Martin Marty
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881
We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. – Rachel Carson
A whirl of torrid dust veils the picture. – Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, 1963, translated from Russian by Michael Scammell
If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. – Socrates
The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts. – Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. – Frederic Chopin
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius Antonius
Today we have a temporary aberration called “industrial capitalism” which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital… the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. – Amory Lovins
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. – Chinese Proverb
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. – Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyper Reality, 1986
