They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else’s path and you are not on the adventure.
Joseph Campbell
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, “Lighthouses” as the poet said “erected in the sea of time.” They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
Arthur Schopenhauer
When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.
C.G. Jung
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
C.G. Jung
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
The key to finding is belief. But belief is not what we usually take it to be, not clinging to a set of propositions or images. It is the capacity to stay open, to believe that whatever we think life is, there is more.
Tracy Cochran
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
Rumi
If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.
Robert Frost
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking…
Leo Tolstoy
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
C.G. Jung