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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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"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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"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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"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson was a prolific essayist and philosopher who led the transcendent...
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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard This simple observation from Kierkegaard’s journals se...
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"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...
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"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...
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"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...
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe Sanity and insanity reversed. The illustration depicts a man seeking ...
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"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...
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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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"Wit is well-bred insolence." - Aristotle Always have something unexpected in your pocket. Aristotle may have had this insight over two thousand y...
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"Doubt is unpleasant, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire Italy had the Renaissance, Germany had the Reformation, and France had Voltaire. Ever th...
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"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...
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"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...
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"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...
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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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"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...
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Nothing vast enters the realm of mortals without a curse." - Sophocles From his play Antigone, on the temptation to sacrifice wisdom at the altar...
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"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...
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"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. Ar...
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