Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. – George Bernard Shaw Category: Life
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. – Paul Eldridge Category: Life
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. – John, Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms Category: Life
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela Category: Life
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew. – Lord Mountbatten Category: Knowledge
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. – William Feather Category: Perseverance
My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. – Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889 Category: Philosophy
