“At each stage I reach a balance, a conclusion. At the next sitting, if I find that there is a weakness in the whole, I make my way back into the picture by means of the weakness — I re-enter through the breach — and I reconceive the whole. Thus everything becomes fluid again.”— Henri Matisse, amazon.com
“Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Nothing that there is the slightest possibility of eventually losing can be regarded as an ingredient of the happy life.”— Cicero, amazon.com
“Success can be built upon repeated failures when the failures aren't taken personally; likewise failure can be built upon repeated success when the successes are taken personally.”— Jim Paul, amazon.com
“To be a philosopher is to solve some of the problems of life–not only theoretically but practically.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“Self-reliance and self-denial will teach a man to drink out of his own cistern and eat his own sweet bread and to lean and labor truly to get his living.”— Lord Bacon, amazon.com
“A maxim is a succinct formulation of some fundamental principle or rule of conduct. Memorizing and repeating cliches is easy–grasping their underlying principles is more difficult.”— Jim Paul, amazon.com
“The last way to turn poison into medicine: –Helping others –Even if you fail, can do nothing about your fate, you can always be an example.”— Alex Lickerman MD, amazon.com
“The science of martial arts is not just a matter of reading these writings. You must practice them, roll them constantly between your fingers and your mind. You must speak and translate them. You must execute them.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“The wise man will sometimes use falsehood without assenting to it–in war, against his adversaries or because he foresees benefit from it.”— Von Arnim, jasonthamdotcom.files.wordpress.com