think*Mindful

“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie”.

– Miyamoto Musashi

“The Dildo of consequence is rarely lubed.”

– Amanda Keller

“The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”

– Erich Fromm

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle

‎”We can so easily slip back from what we have struggled to attain, abruptly, into a new life we never wanted; can find that we are trapped, as in a dream, and die there, without ever waking up.”
– Rilke

“You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.”
– Charles C. Noble

“We are all of us richer than we think we are.”
– Michel de Montaigne

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
– Chuang-Tzu

“The covetous man is always poor.”
– Claudian

“Too many people overvalue what they are not, and undervalue what they are.
– Malcolm Forbes

Shakespeare did not have the makings of a bank president. Mozart could never have been a stockbroker. The gifts they possessed, however, more than made up for their failure to achieve any recognition in the financial profession.

Don’t bewail what you cannot do. Focus like a laser beam on the talents you do possess, practice them, refine them, and use them to achieve your own kind of greatness.

“In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height; In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
– Sidney J. Harris