For the highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind, however much our youth may deceive us on this point; and the pleasures of the mind turn chiefly on the powers of the mind.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin; so external aid is not of much use to him.
Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Aldous Huxley
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Bruce Barton
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.
Alan Cohen
Life does not control you. What you believe about it, does.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
Anton Chekhov
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Anne Swetchine
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Arthur Conan Doyle
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
Albert Einstein
We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
