Never look down to test the ground before taking y — Dag Hammarskjöld
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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The more you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or convictions.
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
“Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.”
Epicteto
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ‘The Leningrad Notebooks’ (c .1735–50) in T. Besterman (ed.) Voltaire’s Notebook (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455
Voltaire
We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.
Albert Einstein
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Platão
Epicteto
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ‘The Leningrad Notebooks’ (c .1735–50) in T. Besterman (ed.) Voltaire’s Notebook (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455
Voltaire
We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.
Albert Einstein
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Platão