It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Wallace Stevens
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Wallace Stevens
To float like a cloud, you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.
Robert Genn
What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally surrounded by our fellow-men, are together with no one but ourselves?
Hannah Arendt
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information.
Dr Samuel Johnson
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
It is not what happens to you that matters, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Victor Frankl
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.
Ann Patchett