Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. – Pierre De Beaumarchais Category: Greatness & Great Things
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted. – Napoleon Bonaparte Category: Greatness & Great Things
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. – Alexis Carrel Category: Greatness & Great Things
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. – Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Friendship
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. – Henry Ford Category: Happiness
But these trees are derelicts—throwing out a wisp of foliage here and there, a truce to death, with each returning spring. – Julia Ellen Rogers, “The Big Tree and the Redwood,” The Tree Book: A Category: Trees