Young people searching for their “real self” must learn that the real self is not something one finds as much as it is something one makes; and it is one’s daily actions that shape the inner personality far more permanently… More »
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. – Max Lerner (1902 – 92) More »
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. – Comte de Bussy-Rabutin More »
![IMAGE: Conquer yourself rather than the world. [Conquer yourself, not the world.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/panorama-2962730_640-200x116.jpg)
Conquer yourself rather than the world. [Conquer yourself, not the world.] – René Descartes (1596 – 1650) (Image by Schäferle from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Penny wise, (and) pound foolish. More »
The boughs that bear most hang lowest. – David Garrick (1717 – 79) More »
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger) (c.4B.C. – 65) (Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by… More »
![IMAGE: Faith will move mountains. [Faith can move mountains.] / Care and diligence bring luck.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/faith-1080174_monk-555391_chinese-676646-200x150.jpg)
Faith will move mountains. [Faith can move mountains.] / (It comes from the Bible, Matthew 17:20, Jesus’ words.) / Care and diligence bring luck. More »
![IMAGE: I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do (the) something that I can do. [I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/thumbs-up-999787_640-200x133.jpg)
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do (the) something that I can do. [I am only… More »
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) (Image by Dieter Martin from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: "The earth", he said, "has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, 'humanity'." [The earth, said he, hath a skin; and this skin hath diseases. One of these diseases, for example, is called "man."]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/earth-1149733_640-100x66.jpg)
![IMAGE: I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street. [I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/london-600921_640-100x67.jpg)
