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- Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.
- Vernon Howard
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
- I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
- Jean Shinoda Bolen
- I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
- Cynthia Ozick
- In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness.
- Ann Faraday
- We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.
- Rebecca Beard
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