My favourite quotes

“ It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck— and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your gods. You

owe a debt to the unlucky.”

- Michael Lewis

“ What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.”

-Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“ To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

”I can’t go on. I will go on.”

- Samuel Beckett

“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

― Mahatma Gandhi

“ In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king ”

― Desiderius Erasmus

Origin: Genesis Rabba (Hebrew):  “בשוק סמייא צווחין לעווירא סגי נהור”

“ Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you. ”

- Zig Ziglar

You will continute to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you.

True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic; true power is restraint.

If words control you that means everyone else can control you; breathe and allow things to pass

- Unknown