Inspiration
FROM THE FAMOUS (AND NOT SO FAMOUS)

The deepest craving of the human soul is to be understood.
William James

The human nervous system cannot tell the difference between a real and imagined experience.
Maxwell Maltz

When power shifts, men shift with it
George Orwell

The first wealth is health
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come
Victor Hugo

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke

The man worthwhile is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Lawrence Sanders

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
Jack Herbert

I have one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience. I no of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry

One or more of these seven elements motivates all human behavior: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle

No man is great enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry Miller

Believe nothing and be on guard against everything.
Latin Proverb

This is the next year that you expected so much from last year.
Ed Howe

In chess as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.
Smyslov

Bad whether always looks much worse from a window.
John Kieran

The Tragedy if life is not so much what man suffers, but what they miss.
Carlye

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawahalal Nehru

Life is not a spectacle or a feast. It is a predicament.
George Santayana

The universe is full of magical things waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpots

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding by experience; the most ignorant by necessity; and the beast by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The mind can go in either direction under stress — towards positive or towards negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconscious at the negative end and the hyperconscious at the positive end. The way the mind will lean is strongly influenced by training.
Frank Herbert

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