"Imagination is a good servant and a bad master." - Agatha Christie Spoken by that brilliant Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. A series of interl...
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"Waste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars and te...
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"Secluded from passion, the mind is a citadel." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, a citadel is half-illuminated at dusk, and the stones crea...
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"Free yourself from distraction, walk the path in front of you." - Marcus Aurelius Much of Aurelius' Meditations is dedicated to the pursuit of f...
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"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, a runner endures hards...
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"You always have the option of having no opinion." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, a haphazard collection of smart phones tally opinions a...
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"Cease your imaginings. Confine yourself to the present." - Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius was a preeminent stoic philosopher, but still found ti...
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"How quickly all things are dissolved and disappear." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, I latched on to the subject of an hourglass for the ...
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"What stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration I only use the shapes and colors of a stop sign. Instead of serv...
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars a...
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"Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, the interconnectedness of the physical and the conceptual...
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"Strive to know yourself, for it is the most difficult lesson in the world." - Cervantes From the extraordinary Don Quixote. The maxim "know thys...
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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind." - Charles Dickens A traveler fades to black, leaving behind winding paths of c...
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"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin A woman slips off the words that onc...
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"All things that pass are wisdom's looking glass." - Christina Rossetti It is often the most difficult lessons in life that shape us into the best...
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"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt i...
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"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing." - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence. "You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, ...
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"I will write my story for my better self." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Of writing many books there is no end;And I who have written much in pro...
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"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson We're always recharged and awed by the stillness in the woods, and it r...
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's extraordinary poetry at its most intimate. It ne...
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"Forever is composed of Nows" - Emily Dickinson Why is it that the most profound human truths are so often conveyed by the most eye-roll inducing,...
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"There is a certain slant of light on winter afternoons" - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's famously rigid meter and rhyme scheme seemed quaint and alm...
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"Once you learn to read you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass No author better captured or more fully experienced the importance of lear...
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"One who has a why can bear almost any how" - Nietzsche From The Twilight of the Idols: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer First: How awesome is...
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