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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...

"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...

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu From The Art of War, the Chinese military treatise dating back to the 5th century BC...

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard This simple observation from Kierkegaard’s journals se...

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves." - Leo Tolstoy Not to be outdone by his novels, Tolstoy led an e...

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." - Ida B. Wells Trailblazing journalist Ida B. Wells knew what she stood for a...

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." - John Stuart Mill From his classic philosophical treatise On Liberty:  "He who...

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe Sanity and insanity reversed. The illustration depicts a man seeking ...

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson was a prolific essayist and philosopher who led the transcendent...

"Cease your imaginings. Confine yourself to the present." - Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius was a preeminent stoic philosopher, but still found ti...

"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,...

"Doubt is unpleasant, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire Italy had the Renaissance, Germany had the Reformation, and France had Voltaire. Ever th...

"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...

"Free yourself from distraction, walk the path in front of you." - Marcus Aurelius Much of Aurelius' Meditations is dedicated to the pursuit of f...

"It is dangerous to be right when the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire "Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes...

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars and tenet...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." - Henry David Thoreau From his beloved book, Walden—a record of his communion with na...

"Who will watch the watchers?" - Juvenal Penned in 100 AD, Juneval’s most memorable quotation is a prescient warning about the unchecked power of o...

"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe From The Maxims and Reflections.  This is it, isn't it? When presented with the uncertainty of lif...

"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A quotation from Ralph Waldo Eme...

"Once you learn to read you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass No author better captured or more fully experienced the importance of lear...

"Wit is well-bred insolence." - Aristotle Always have something unexpected in your pocket. Aristotle may have had this insight over two thousand y...

"I hate the office; it cuts in on my social life." - Dorothy Parker From one of her Hate Song poems, first published in Vanity Fair in 1919. Arm...

"Nothing vast enters the realm of mortals without a curse." - Sophocles From his play Antigone, on the temptation to sacrifice wisdom at the altar...