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🦉 Wisdom
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Aurelius cuts through philosophical debate with a call to direct virtue.
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.”
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.”
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”
— Jean Paul Richter
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
— Baltasar Gracián
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
— Seneca
“Well done is better than well said.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
— William Butler Yeats
“Well begun is half done.”
— Aristotle
