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" We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. "
Epictetus
Life
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Our
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" Well begun is half done. "
Aristotle
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" Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. "
Epictetus
Evil
You
Present
" The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength. "
Ninon de L'Enclos
Mind
Measure
Joy
" The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. "
Epictetus
Those
Wise Man
Wise
" If not me, who? And if not now, when? "
Mikhail Gorbachev
Me
Now
Who
" Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. "
Maxwell Maltz
Self
Become
Held
" It is only in our decisions that we are important. "
Jean-Paul Sartre
Decisions
Brainy
Our
" One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. "
Epictetus
Desires
Things
Most
" The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. "
Nikos Kazantzakis
Meaning
Brainy
Darkness
" If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. "
Epictetus
Progress
Peace
Happiness
" Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. "
Albert Schweitzer
Time
Brainy
Now
" Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. "
Neil Armstrong
Man
Brainy
Wonder
" Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. "
Epictetus
Effort
Training
Success
" What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. "
Meister Eckhart
Brainy
Harvest
Plant
" 'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. "
Konrad Lorenz
Heaven
Brainy
You
" Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly. "
Epictetus
Often
Laugh
Much
" Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say. "
Robert W. Service
Words
You
Brainy
" Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. "
Albert Einstein
Up
Truth
Laughter
" We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. "
Albert Pike
Need
Light
Just
" Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. "
George Henry Lewes
Processes
Own
Give
" Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. "
Epictetus
Freedom
Desire
Enjoyment
" A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. "
Laurence J. Peter
Knows
Know
Man
" We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. "
Ethel Waters
Our
Inheritance
Gifted
" Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. "
Epictetus
Wish
Right
Nothing
" Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. "
Saint Basil
Head
Brainy
Rain
" Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. "
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Attention
You
Will
" To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. "
Epictetus
Education
Accuse
Others
" The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. "
Sigmund Freud
Mind
Water
Brainy
" People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. "
Epictetus
Take
Things
View
" Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. "
Democritus
Brainy
Opinion
Nothing