Quotes

“He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping.” – Oliver Goldsmith

“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.” – Mark Twain

“Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.” – Charles De Gaulle

“The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.” – Cher

“Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.” – Plato

“To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.” – Zhuge Liang

“From the moment we cease trying to swim upstream and begin to flow with the current, something changes within us.” – Arthur Sokoloff, Life Without Stress

“You should not grieve over bad shots, learn now not to rejoice over the good ones. You must free yourself from the buffetings of pleasure and pain, and learn to rise above them in easy equanimity…This too, you must practice unceasingly – you cannot conceive how important it is.” – Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery

“Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.” – T.S. Eliot