If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
—Andre Gide (French Novelist)
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)
When you are alone you are all your own.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one’s mind.
—Robert Collier (American Self-Help Author)
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)
We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
—Ramsay MacDonald (British Head of State)
Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)
In the depth of winter I finally learned there was inside me an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)
In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)
Life is the sum of all your choices.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
—Robertson Davies (Canada Journalist)