John Ruskin

"Do not seek pleasure everywhere, but always be ready to find it."
- John Ruskin

“Mahatma” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
- “Mahatma” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Henry Van Dyke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke

Tom Robbins

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
- Tom Robbins

Alfred A. Montapert

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
- Alfred A. Montapert

Jean De La Bruyere

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
- Jean De La Bruyere

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein

C. S. Lewis

Conquest is an evil productive of almost every other evil both to those who commit and to those who suffer it.
- C. S. Lewis

Buddha

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
- Buddha

John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
- John Steinbeck

Marya Mannes

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
- Marya Mannes

Glenn Clark

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
- Glenn Clark

Natalie Goldberg

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
- Natalie Goldberg

Lisa Hoffman

Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
- Lisa Hoffman

Edwin Markham

"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
- Edwin Markham

Ralph Waldo Emerson

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virgil

"They can conquer who believe they can."
- Virgil

Tao Te Ching

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
- Tao Te Ching

C. S. Lewis

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
- C. S. Lewis

Samuel Johnson

Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
- Samuel Johnson

Yogi Berra

You should always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise they won't come to yours.
- Yogi Berra

Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Norton Juster

“A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.”
- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)

Matthew Arnold

"To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and great proof of being alive."
- Matthew Arnold

Oscar Wilde

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
- Oscar Wilde

Fran Lebowitz

"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult."
- Fran Lebowitz

Mark Twain

When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's.
- Mark Twain