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- Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Never spend your money before you have it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
- Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
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