True Wealth Index

• We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — Thornton Wilder

• We can have everything, but without gratitude, it all means nothing. — Sage of Mt. Si

• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

• He is a wise person who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has. — Epictetus

• If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough. — Meister Eckhart

• Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. — Eckhart Tolle

• When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.” ― Roy T. Bennett

• There is no wealth but life. — John Ruskin

• What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive. — Maria Von Franz

• People say that what we’re all seeking a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That’s what it’s all finally about. — Joseph Campbell

• Being alive is the meaning. — Joseph Campbell

• Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson

• I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect. — Mahatma Gandhi

• The greatest thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. — Thomas Huxley

• If you want to be respected by others, the greatest thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. —Joan Didion

• Most people lose their sense of worthwhileness and then no longer try to recover it. —Ernest Bacon

• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. —Michel de Montaigne

• We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” — Hunter S. Thompson

• I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. —Rita Mae Brown

• I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. —Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791)

• I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and sunny days. — Thoreau

• Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. — Charles Lamb

• Riches are chiefly bad because getting them and spending them takes up so much of our precious time. —Sage of Mt. Si

• No person is rich enough to buy back his past. —Oscar Wilde

• Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. — John Randolph

• Nothing is worth more than this day. — Goethe

• There is only one true wealth in all the universe—living time. ― Frank Herbert

• A person who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. — Darwin

• There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi

• Gather ye rose buds while ye may, Old Time is still aflying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick

• Where there is great love there are always miracles. — Willa Cather

• Any time not spent on love is wasted. — Torquato Tasso

• Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. — Marc Chagall

• Hell, madame, is to love no longer. — Geoerges Benanos

• We are set on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love. — William Blake

• God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. — The Bible, I John 4:16

• Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. — Kahlil Gibran

• Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. — Helen Keller

• Find ecstasy in life: the mere sense of living is joy enough. —Emily Dickinson

• Where there is love, there is joy. — Mother Teresa

• The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy—not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call following your bliss. —Joseph Campbell

• It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day—that is the highest of arts. — Thoreau

• The healthiest response to life is joy. — Mark Twain

• Joy— the kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens. — David Steindl-Rast

• We can choose to live in joy. — Joseph Campbell

• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. — Henry Ward Beecher

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• It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. — William James

• The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the person perfected without trials. — Chinese Proverb

• You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. — Walt Disney

• The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. — Hemingway

• Great trials seem to be necessary preparation for great duties. — E. Thomson.

• Unto whomsoever much is given of him shall much be required. — The Bible (Luke)

• The harder you fall the higher you bounce. — American proverb

• We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. — Alphonese Karr

• You think me a child of circumstances; I make my circumstances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. — Kahlil Gibran

• All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will. — Novalis

• Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. — Aldous Huxley

• The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing. — Andre Maurois

• When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. — Proverb

• Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles. — Spanish Proverb

• Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. — F Galton

• Rather than a handicap, my deafness has probably been beneficial. — Thomas Edison (His son clarified: “He believes it drove him early to reading, enabled him to concentrate, and shut him off from small talk.”)

• Charles Darwin admitted that he had a foggy memory and was an awkward and poor thinker without the gift of quick grasp or the ability to abstract very well. This self-assessment—perhaps self-knowledge—caused him to be very careful about collecting data, keeping notes and working through problems. It was just the kind of painstaking way of thinking that turn out to be well-suited to solving the evolutionary riddle. — John Briggs

• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. —Kahlil Gibran

• A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how his teacher used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he began to hop and dance and show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That’s how to tell a story. — Martin Buber

• As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity conceals it. — Horace

• Sweet are the uses of adversity. — Shakespeare

• There are some people whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul. — William McFee

• In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us…. Cling to what is difficult. — Rainer Maria Rilke

• Life begins on the other side of despair. — Jean-Paul Sartre

• The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. — Thomas Merton

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• Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. —Paul Tillich

• Solitude is the school of genius. — Edward Gibbon

• In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. — Tibullus (d. 18 b.c.)

• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Thoreau

• I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. — Albert Einstein

• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. —Albert Einstein

• The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. —Edward Gibbon

• This great misfortune—to be incapable of solitude. — Jean de la Bruyere

• I hold this to the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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• To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Spinoza

• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt

• Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. — Doris Mortman

• Every man’s work is a portrait of himself. — Anonymous, 1883

• Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley, 1885

• This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man. ― Shakespeare

• At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. — Brendan Francis

• Envy arises because I want to change myself and become like somebody else. But if I say, Whatever I am, THAT I want to understand, then envy is gone… — Eric Hoffer

• The greatest of all secrets is knowing how to reduce the force of envy. — Cardinal De Retz

• I don’t feel in competition with other writers. Because I don’t write about the same things as any other writer that I know of does. — Truman Capote

• I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. —Rita Mae Brown

• I dwell in possibility. — Emily Dickenson

• A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. — Saint-Exupery

• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! —- Kierkegaard

• It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. — Robert Mallet

• A possibility is a hint from God. Kierkegaard

• The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create people who are capable of doing new things. — Jean Piaget

• Work is more fun than fun. — Noel Coward

• Work is life. Not having something to do with one’s life, something important or unique to your talents or however you put it, is a bigger killer than cancer. — Ray Mungo

• Work and love—these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. — Dr. Theodore Reik, psychologist

• A good livelihood is a cure for all ills. — Yiddish Proverb

• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a person’s entire existence. —Balzac

• Where our work is, there let our joy be. — Tertullian, c. 220

• Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness. —Thomas Carlyle

• If a person loves the labor of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. — Robert Louis Stevenson

• Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure. — George Sand

• Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. — Buddha

• A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. — Zig Ziglar

• Every person’s task is his life preserver. — Emerson

• Work is the great redeemer. It has therapeutic value. It brings happiness. — Henry Miller

• It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. — Michelangelo

• The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. — John Ruskin

• We work to become, not to acquire. — Elbert Hubbard

• The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. — Logan Pearsall Smith

• When people are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower. — John Ruskin

• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. — Earl Nightingale

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• A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision and a task are the hope of the world. — Inscription in a church in Sussex

• Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. — L.J. Cardinal Suenens

• What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity? — Alfred de Vigny

• The significance of person is not in what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain. — Kahlil Gibran

• The boy gather materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty concludes to build a woodshed. — Thoreau

• In most men there is a dead poet whom the man survives. — Agustin de Saint-Beuve

• Life is too short to be small. — Disraeli

• I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself. —Ferdinand Porsche

• Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands; but, like the seafaring man, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you will reach your destiny. — Charles Schulz

• Never look down to the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. — Dag Hammarskjold

• Hitch your wagon to a star. Emerson

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• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. — Albert Einstein

• I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I do. — Jacques Lipchitz, sculptor

• The real artist’s work is a surprise to himself. — Robert Henri

• Death is that after which nothing is of interest. — Rozinov

• One must learn to be bored. — French Proverb

• The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. ― Elie Wiesel

• The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things well. — Hugh Walpole

• The person who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interest in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built. — Bertrand Russell

• The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. — Dorothy L. Sayers

• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Man’s value is in the few things he creates and not in the many possessions he amasses. — Kahlil Gibran

• We cannot buy the ability to create in even the finest store in the world. We cannot buy the beauty of the creative state of mind. We can have three billion dollars or three, and it’s all the same. — Sage of Mt. Si

• Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity… any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. — John Updike, writer

• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. — Anais Nin

• You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul. — George B. Shaw

• Pioneers did not produce original works of art, because they were creating original human environments; they did not image utopias because they were shaping them. — George Woodcock

• One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power. — Marie-Louise Von Frantz

• He that is everywhere is nowhere. — English Proverb

• You cannot chase two gazelles. — Zulu Proverb

• Those who have one foot in the canoe and one foot in the boat are going to fall into the river. — Native American (Tuscarora) Proverb

• As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap out of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activities and concentrate your focus on one or a few points. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

• To accomplish anything definite a person renounces everything else. — Santayana

• Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. — Roy L. Smith

• The secret of discipline? Love what you do. Then you are far more likely to have to force yourself NOT to do it than to do it! — Sage of Mt. Si

• Errands are small on a spring day. — Icelandic Proverb

• What we do willingly is easy. — English Proverb

• God helps the navigator, but on condition that he rows. — Czech Proverb

• It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. —Belgium Proverb

• God will cook the soup for him who has water, herbs, and wood. — Russian Proverb

• Roast geese don’t come flying into your mouth. — Dutch Proverb

• Begin to weave and God will give the thread. — German proverb

• The desire to write grows with writing. — Erasmus

• I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. — Thomas Jefferson

• The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Vorse

• Writers don’t have lifestyles. They sit in little rooms and write. — Norman Mailer

• If people know how hard I have to work to gain my mastery it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all. — Michelangelo

• At what expense any valuable work is performed! At the expense of a life! If you do one thing well, what else are you good for in the meanwhile? — Thoreau, in his journal

• The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, art is labor. —Clarence Day

• Many people who want to be writers don’t really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. — James Michener

• Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. —Mark Twain

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• All the fun is in locking horns with impossibilities. — Claes Oldenburg, Danish artist

• Genius is commonly developed in people by some deficiency that stabs them wide awake and becomes a major incentive. Obstacles can be immensely arousing and kindling. — Harry E. Fosdick

• A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann

• Originality and the feeling of ones own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. — Dostoevsky

• Joy lies in the flight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself. — Mahatma Gandhi

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• The constant duty of every person to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. — John Ruskin

• Neglect not the gift that is in thee. — Bible, New Testament, Timothy

• The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race. — John Ruskin

• It is a pleasant fact that you will know no man long, however low in the social scale, however poor, miserable, interperate, and worthless he may appear to be, a mere burden to society, but you will find at last that there is something which he understands and can do better than any other. — Thoreau

• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. — Picasso

• Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. — R. Buckminster Fuller

• He who is able to write a book and does not write it, is as one who has lost a child. — Hasidic Saying or Nachman of Bratslav (c. 1800)

• If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. — The Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas

• Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. — The Bible, Luke 12:48

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• I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. — Charles Krauthammer

• My religion is to live—and die—without regret. — Milarepa

• Remorse is the poison of life. —Charlotte Bronte

• No, you never get any fun / Out of the things you haven’t done. — Ognen Nash

• A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. — John Barrymore

• Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the fits which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do. — Gian-Carlo Menotti

• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. — Harriet Beecher

• What might have been—these are but common words, / And yet they make the sum of life’s bewailings. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• It’s not what you are; it’s what you don’t become that hurts. — Oscar Lavant

• One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead. — Oscar Wilde

• It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. — Robert Mallet

• Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. — William Hazlitt

• People are not afraid of death per se, but of the incompleteness of their lives. — L. M. Goodman

• To be a thousand days a ghost is not equal to being one day a human being. —Chinese Proverb

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• The splendid discontent of God / With Chaos, made the world…. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence. — Lajos Kassak

• It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. — MacKintosh

• Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure. — Thomas Edison

• What you are must always displease you, if you would attaint to that which you are not. — St. Augustine

• My only anxiety is: How can I be of use in the world, how can I serve some purpose and be of any good, how can I learn more and study profoundly certain subjects? — Vincent Van Gogh

• Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. — Issac Bashevis Singer

• Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes. — Beethoven, on his death bed

• Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis

• Art demands of us that we shall not stand still. — Beethoven

• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have. — Leonardo da Vinci

• He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his own mind. — William Hazlitt

• It’s remarkable how large part ignorance plays in making a man satisfied with himself. — Herbert V. Prochnow

• If you get used to being satisfied, you’ll be endlessly dissatisfied. Find satisfaction in dissatisfaction and your mind will be at peace. — Zen poem

• He who feeds on leaves knows not the flavor of fruit. — Indian (Tamil) Proverb

• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. — Kahlil Gibran

• I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth…. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. — George Bernard Shaw

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• Give me neither poverty nor riches. — Solomon

• To be rich is not the end, but only a change of worries. — Epicurus

• Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. — Thoreau

• Money often costs too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A great fortune is a great slavery. — Seneca

• Riches take away more pleasures than they give. —Chinese Proverb

• When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill. — D.H. Lawrence

• I cannot afford to waste my time making money. — L. Agassiz

• Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. — P. T. Barnum

• Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. —English Proverb

• Those who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. — George Savile

• The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists. — Logan P. Smith

• The gods are those who either have money or do not want it. — Samuel Butler

• Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but no appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. — Ibsen

• To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. — G. K. Chesterton

• Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. — Schopenhaueer

• No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. — Kahlil Gibran

• We may see the small value God has for riches by the people he gives them to. — Alexander Pope

• What Egyptian bondage do you suppose…was ever so cruel as a modern English forge, with its steel hammers? What Egyptian worship of garlic or crocodile ever so damnable as modern English worship of money? — John Ruskin

• The love of money is the root of all evil. — Bible

• The lack of money is the root of all evil. — George Bernard Shaw

• There is no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either. — Robert Graves

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• “You call that a sunset?” said a woman to the painter William Turner as she looked at one of his paintings. “I never saw a sunset like that.” Turner replied, “Don’t you wish you had?”

• Imagination is a very precise thing, you know—it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking. That is imagination! — Jacques Lipchitz

• Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. — Swift

• I shut my eyes in order to see. — Paul Gauguin

•I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Pablo Picasso

• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. — Valery

• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, / One clover, and a bee, And revery. / The revery alone will do, / If bees are few. — Emily Dickenson

• A garden I tend whose blossom never existed. — Pablo Neruda

• Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. — Jessamyn West

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• To do everything one is asked to do, one must overestimate one’s self. — Goethe

• Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. — Rainer Maria Rilke

• If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. H W Longfellow

• The Gods favor the bold. — Ovid

• Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt. — Shakespeare

• With doubt, the sun and the moon would go out. — Blake

• Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. — Goethe

• If love be timid, it is not true. — Spanish Proverb

• Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping. — J.C. Hare

• An artist is primarily one who has faith in himself. — Arthur Miller, writer

• Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don’t need you. — James Michener, writer

• Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. — Henry Ford

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. — Thoreau

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours… — Thoreau

• Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. — Thoreau

• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. —Rabindranath Tagor

• Without humility, there is no real learning. Without learning, there is no real living. —Sage of Mt. Si

• We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything. — Thomas Edison

• Sixty years ago, I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. — Will Durant

• I know not what the world will think of my labors, but to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the seashore; now finding some precious pebble or more beautiful shell than my companions, while the unbounded ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. — Issac Newton

• Conceit is God’s gift to little men. — Bruce Barton

• Egotism is nature’s compensation for mediocrity. — L. A. Safian

• A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes fairly well. — La Bruyere

• I don’t think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn’t be. — John Betjeman

• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. — Descartes

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage. — Anais Nin

• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. — Erica Jong

• He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. — Emerson

• We must travel in the direction of our fear. — John Berryman

• The goat dwells among men for fear of the leopard. — African (Jabo) Proverb

• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. — Sydney Smith

• Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. — Eddie Rickenbacker

• The best way out is always through. — Robert Frost

• Danger and delight grow on one stock. — English Proverb

• In Carlos Castenada’s books, the teacher Don Juan described a warrior this way: “He must defy his fear, and in spite of it he must take the next step in learning, and the next, and the next. He must be fully afraid, and he must not stop. That is the rule!”

• Courage is grace under pressure. — Hemingway

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