Quotes - Travis Slone (thegreatmystery) (Lorton, VA) Showing 1-22 of 22

#1

“Be first the master of yourself”
― Balthasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

tags: wisdom

80 likes

#2

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

77823 likes

#3

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

45371 likes

#4

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

tags: truth

1160 likes

#5

“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

tags: writing

857 likes

#6

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

10098 likes

#7

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

2442 likes

#8

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

27310 likes

#9

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

33894 likes

#10

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
― Aristotle

tags: happiness

1666 likes

#11

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

tags: humor, work

8143 likes

#12

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13930 likes

#13

“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
― George Sand, Letters of George Sand

902 likes

#14

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

16946 likes

#15

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: happiness

4150 likes

#16