This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

Eric Hoffer

Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

Honore de Balzac

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Epictetus

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.

Ellen Goodman

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

George Bernard Shaw

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

Orson Scott Card

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Albert Camus

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

Anton Chekhov

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Wade Boggs

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron