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- A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
- Fontenelle
- The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
- Sir B. Brodie
- This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
- Philip Saltier
- Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
- The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
- Author Unknown
- Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
- Augusta Jane Evans
- The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
- Loren Eiseley
- How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.
- C. C. Colton
- It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.
- Author Unknown
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