dissipate

‘I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.’

- Henry David Thoreau

firmament

‘Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence’

- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

dares

‘But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.’

- Anne Bronte

regard

‘Regard your voice as capital in the bank. Sing on your interest and your voice will last.’

- Lauritz Melchior

belief

‘Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.’

- Buddha

self

‘One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.’

- Friedrich Nietzsche

matter

‘Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.’

- Og Mandino

renew

‘We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.’

- Susan Taylor

thrive

‘No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.’

- Rabindranath Tagore

ingenuity

‘It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma… which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.’

- Edgar Allan Poe