Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) / (He that falls today…) (Image by Paul Schalles from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… More »
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the… More »
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) (Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from… More »
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let… More »
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay)… More »
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them. – Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov (1860 – 1904) / (All that non-fiction…) (Image by Станислав Руденко from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. – Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy] (1828 – 1910): War and Peace / (The only true wisdom…) (Image by press 👍 and ⭐… More »
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy] (1828 – 1910) / (There is only one corner…) (Image by jacqueline macou from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… More »
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. – Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1821 – 81) (Image by Gino Crescoli from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Beauty! I can’t endure the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What’s still more awful is that a man with the ideal of… More »
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