Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

Epictetus

...I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...

John Geddes

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

Lee Child

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

Ben Johnson

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Jeanne Calment

One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.

Meg Cabot

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

Gena Rowland

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

George Bernard Shaw

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Gaston Bachelard