‘I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use - silence, exile, and cunning’
- James Joyce
‘But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.’
- Paulo Coelho
‘Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.’
- St. Catherine of Siena
‘We must not be hampered by yesterday’s myths in concentrating on today’s needs.’
- Harold S. Geneen
‘If you’re still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today’
- Joyce Chapman
‘Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous’
- George Bernard Shaw
‘Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.’
- Tenzin Gyatso
‘Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.’
- Charles Dickens
‘There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.’
- Oscar Wilde
‘I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.’
- Margaret Fuller
