"Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue."
— Socrates

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."


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— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 1926-2004

"Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness.
(Page 194.)"
— Joanne Harris (Five Quarters of the Orange)

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Chris would use the spiritual aspect to try to motivate us. "He'd tell us to think about all the evil in the world, all the hatred, and imagine ourselves running against the forces of darkness, the evil wall that was trying to keep us from running our best. He believed that doing well was all mental, a simple matter of harnessing whatever energy was available."
— Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

"Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)"
— Marianne Williamson (Everyday Grace)

"It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation. (Page 106.)"
— Marianne Williamson (Everyday Grace)

"Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)"
— Marianne Williamson (Everyday Grace)

"Waiting for the Morning Train

You were apt to go from one extreme to the other, in a truly pious environment; which is why ministers' sons in that day were more less expected to become loose livers when they grew up. (Page 29.)"
— Bruce Catton

"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
— George Sand

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
— George Sand

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue and excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
— Aristotle

"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."
— Aristotle

"To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."
— Aristotle

"Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nature and Selected Essays)

"Honor does not derive from winning at all costs, but in winning (or, at times, even losing) without shame."
— Jim Marcinkowski

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Honor does not derive from winning at all costs, but in winning (or, at times, even losing) without shame."
— Jim Marcinkowski