We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. – Jane Austen Category: Self
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Self
It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972 Category: Self
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. – André Maurois Category: Self
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. – Matsuo Basho Category: Wisdom
Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. – William Hurt Category: dad
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. – Richard Dawkins Category: God