The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
—Robert M. Pirsig (American Writer)
Carry on, no matter what happens. Hide your sorrows under a smile and carry on.
—Anonymous
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper (English Poet)
The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
—Theodore Isaac Rubin (American Psychiatrist)
We use a lot of experience and do it [investment returns] in our heads. We don’t like complexity and we distrust other systems and think it many times leads to false confidence. The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false. We’re so afraid of that process so we don’t do it.
—Charlie Munger
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
—Thomas Browne (English Christian Author)
The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.
—William Howard Arnold
Leadership usually gravitates to person who can say what he thinks.
—Anonymous
The essense of a warrior is to build an indomitable spirit and an iron will; to believe you cannot fail in doing anything.
—Miyamoto Musashi (Japanese Buddhist)