January 2010
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“Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.”
—Alan Alda
“In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain—I find no sea room—but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.”
—Henry David Thoreau
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.”
—William Shakespeare
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
—Andre Gide
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”
—Sun Tzu
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
—Leonardo da Vinci
“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”
—C. S. Lewis
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
—C. S. Lewis
