Life and Existence

Remember, we learn nothing by speaking.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

 

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:

 

Death closes all: but something ere the end,

 

It little profits that an idle king,

 

The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

 

The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

 

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,

 

Rose a nurse of ninety years,

 

Home they brought her warrior dead.

 

Dear as remembered kisses after death.

 

Dear as remembered kisses after death.

 

After it, follow it,

 

Death is the end of life; ah, why

 

Death is the end of life; ah, why

 

Forward, forward let us range,

 

Forward, forward let us range,