Travel

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

Habits

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Force

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. -Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)

Words

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. -John Updike, author

Speech of the soul

"Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is." ~ Publilius Syrus

Habit

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~ Jim Ryun, athlete

Change

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better. ~ C. JoyBell C

Progress

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. -Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939)

Reputation

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

Limits

"There are no limits. There are only plateaus,  and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." —Bruce Lee:

Character

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is." -Publilius Syrus: Latin writer of maxims

Learning

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. ~Ray Bradbury

Past Present & future

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Spinoza

Running

You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. -Rwandan proverb

Loneliness

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre

Wealth

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. ~ Seneca

Open-minded

The less open-minded someone is, the more open-mouthed they tend to be. ~ Nicole Azavedo

Loyalty

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. -Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983)

Gratitude

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself. ~ Albert Einstein

Question

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

Conscience

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. -English proverb

Question

A timid question will always receive a confident answer. -Henry Lytton Bulwer, diplomat and author (1801-1872)

Opinion

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)

Life

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. -Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy (b. 1932)