Selected quotes - page 11
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
Euripides
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
Seneca
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
Alain Delon
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Aristotle
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Marcus Aurelius
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
Mark Twain
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch
While there's life, there's hope.
Cicero
Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.
Chilon of Sparta
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Claudius
Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Christopher Columbus
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.
Antisthenes
Idleness and laziness not only breed ignorance, but they are also the cause of illness.
Avicenna
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