Sunday 31 August 2014

Saturday 30 August 2014

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Friday 29 August 2014

Thursday 28 August 2014

All truth passes through three stages. 
First, it is ridiculed. 
Second, it is violently opposed. 
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Wednesday 27 August 2014


Tuesday 26 August 2014

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. 
Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive — 
to release our inner selves from the spiritual death 
that comes with living behind a facade 
designed to conform to external definitions 
of who and what we are.

Monday 25 August 2014


Sunday 24 August 2014

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions 
from insufficient premises.

Saturday 23 August 2014

Friday 22 August 2014

The highest reward for a person's toil is 
not what they get for it, 
but what they become by it.

Thursday 21 August 2014

Wednesday 20 August 2014

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained 
not by its growth, 
but by washing away from it 
all that is not gold.

Tuesday 19 August 2014

Monday 18 August 2014

Penetrating so many secrets, 
we cease to believe in the unknowable. 
But there it sits nevertheless, 
calmly licking its chops.

Sunday 17 August 2014

Saturday 16 August 2014

You are the music 
while the music lasts.

Friday 15 August 2014


Thursday 14 August 2014

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. 
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over 
and let the beautiful stuff out.

Wednesday 13 August 2014


Tuesday 12 August 2014

All we have to decide is 
what to do 
with the time that is given us.

Monday 11 August 2014

Sunday 10 August 2014

'Tis the sharpness of our mind 
that gives the edge 
to our pains and pleasures.

Saturday 9 August 2014

Friday 8 August 2014

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, 
we do not like to consider our equal.

Thursday 7 August 2014


Wednesday 6 August 2014

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Tuesday 5 August 2014


Monday 4 August 2014

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, 
and the word happy would lose its meaning 
if it were not balanced by sadness. 
It is far better take things as they come along 
with patience and equanimity.

Sunday 3 August 2014

Saturday 2 August 2014

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Friday 1 August 2014