What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire., Norman Douglas,
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor., Elizabeth I, English queen 15581603 (1533 1603)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away., Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 1862)
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet., Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746 published 1774, (1694 1773)
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve., Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers Supervisors, June 2004,
Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you., Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box, US science fiction author (1951 )