Life is a journey, not a destination.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson·1850The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, compassionate.
Seneca·65 ADThe point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. And often this living nobly means that you cannot live long.
Pliny the Elder·77 ADTrue glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.
