For all our penny-wisdom, for all out soul-destroying…

“For all our penny-wisdom,’” he said, “‘for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime…

— Joshua Ferris

For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe…

— James Vila Blake

I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness. I dream…

— Henry David Thoreau

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to…

— Charlie Munger

“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from…

— Anonymous

“When it comes to smarts, adolescents like Jesse have plenty. What they lack, however, are some of the brain-based skills that we all need…

— Richard Guare

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to…

— Anonymous

By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

— Deepak Chopra

“the mind-numbing routine. It was the castration of thought,”

— Hugh Howey

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

— Vince Lombardi

I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for…

— Philip Slater

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white…

— Thomas Sowell

I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that…

— Nathan Englander

“Malchut is also the Alma D’Itgalya, “the Revealed World.” Here our latent potential is actualized through behavior and expression.”

— Laibl Wolf