QUOTES CCXV

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some are not.

Ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus

 

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise man looks for it under his own feet.

Author Unknown

 

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Speech is civilization itself. The word - even the most contradictory word - preserves contact. It is silence that isolates.

Thomas Mann

 

Do good by stealth and have it found out by accident.

Author Unknown 

My factories will put an end to war .......... for in the day that two armies are capable of destroying each other in a second, all civilized nations will surely recoil before a war and dismiss their troops.

Alfred Nobel

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf