The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

G. W. F. Hegel

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

Billie Holiday

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte

I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.

Hollace M. Metzger

He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life

Ramakrishna

And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Ecclesiastes 12:5

Bible

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

Tanith Lee

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Tim Robbins

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

Paulo Coelho

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Mira Bai