Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” - Helen Adams Keller “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” - Marcus Aurelius “Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!” - Michel de Montaigne “Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.” - Mark Twain “The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.” - Arthur Koestler “Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I’ll show you a man who can’t put his pants on.” - Arthur K. “Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” - Jonathan Kozol “Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.” - Edward Eggleston “The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” - Kahlil Gibran “Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.” - Henry Emerson Fosdick “Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” - Albert Einstein

“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” - William Arthur Ward “Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain “Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.” - Norman Mailer “We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its end which stands related to all things which is the mean of many extremes.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Some of my favorite quotes Some of my favorite quotes

A Marvelous Net by Mark Miller