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Adversity

Strong men greet war, tempest, h…

5 Oct , 2009  

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Evil

Strive with thy thoughts unclean…

5 Oct , 2009  

Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware! Suffer not their shadow to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing […]

Death

Strange – is it not? – that of t…

5 Oct , 2009  

Strange – is it not? – that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. Khayyam, Omar

Boldness

Stand upright, speak thy thought…

5 Oct , 2009  

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. Morris, Lewis

Success

Stability is more essential to s…

5 Oct , 2009  

Stability is more essential to success than brilliance. Jones, Richard Lloyd

Journey

Speed is good only when wisdom l…

5 Oct , 2009  

Speed is good only when wisdom leads the way. The end of this journey, whether to the high horizons of hope or the depths of destruction, will be determined by the collective wisdom of the people who live on this shrinking planet. Poe, James

Heaven

Speak the truth, do not yield to…

5 Oct , 2009  

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. Dhammapada, The

Sorrow

Sorrows gather around great soul…

5 Oct , 2009  

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. Richter, Jean Paul

Forgiveness

Sometimes, where a complex probl…

5 Oct , 2009  

Sometimes, where a complex problem can be illuminated by many tools, one can be forgiven for applying the one he knows best. Machol, Robert

Boldness

Such impetuous schemes and boldn…

5 Oct , 2009  

Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous. Livius, Titus

Success

Success, as I see it, is a resul…

5 Oct , 2009  

Success, as I see it, is a result, not a goal. Flaubert, George

Success

Success without honor is an unse…

5 Oct , 2009  

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good. Paterno, Joe