Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will (Leonardo da Vinci)
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed m (Steve Jobs)
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. (Unknown)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. (The Dalai Lama)
A father may turn his back on his child, . but a mother's love endures through all. (Washington Irving)
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. (Virginia Woolf)
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. (Ambrose Bierce)
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. (Karl Marx)
It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. (Eric Hoffer)
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. (Henry Clay)