“Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and”
John Keats
“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
St. Thomas Aquinas