Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!”

— Charles Dickens

“We can be kind, generous, just, courteous, and merciful sporadically, but to display those virtues, consistently, calls for an enormous display of courage.”

— Gary Zukav

“It is easy to be moderate and cool. It is easy to be ignorant and passionate. But to be wise and yet extravagant, to…

— Charles Bigg

“...because from bigness comes impersonality, insensitivity and a lust to concentrate abstract power.”

— E.F. Schumacher

“I'm proud of my carefree behaviour [...] I am boisterous, when I choose to be, and simply because I don't behave like a wan…

— Melanie Dickerson

“It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life.”

— Bryant McGill

“You are beautiful, brilliant, perceptive and pure beyond compare. Your folly lies in being unaware of your inner power and living a mediocre existence.”

— Pooja Ruprell

“It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into a generalisation. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are…

— D.H. Lawrence

“There is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, interwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common…

— Mary Shelley

“In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed…

— Caitlin Crews

“What astonishes us most is to observe that everyone is not astonished at his own weakness.”

— Blaise Pascal

“I am so well satisfied with my present simplicity that I am determined never to depart from it!”

— John Adams