Here is a collection of quotations, poems and thoughts that have resonated with me at varying epochs of my life. I save them here mainly to save them for myself, but in sharing them I hope perhaps you’ll discover some writer or philosopher for yourself. Some are well-known, some obscure.
If you discover any errors or misquotes, or inaccuracies in referencing the source, please do tell me.
He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
I don’t much care where —
Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Men seek retreats for themselves… no retreat offers someone more quiet and relaxation than that into his own mind.
I travel on by nature’s path until I fall and find rest, breathing my last into that air from which I draw my daily breath, and falling on that earth which gave my father his seed, my mother her blood, my nurse her milk;
the earth which for so many years has fed and watered me day by day; the earth which bears my tread and all the ways in which I abuse her.
Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don’t be afraid of getting lost!
The map? I will first make it.
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