The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 Category: Self-Control
If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. – François VI de la Rochefoucault Category: Self-Control
You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Self-Control
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature Category: Confidence
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. – Edward Kennedy Category: Dreams
