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Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?
Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to read more
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always read more
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.