Easy

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. - Aesop

Fate

Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle

To play the fool

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment. - Horace

Admire

Admire those who attempt great things, even if they fail. - Seneca

Masterpiece

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin

The path

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. - Anatole France

Greatness

Be not afraid of greatness:
some are born to be great,
some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- William Shakespeare

Principle v Taste

In matters of principle, stand like a rock;
In matters of taste, swim with the current.
- Thomas Jefferson

Don't turn back

From a certain point onwards there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. - Franz Kafta

Value

To get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with. - Mark Twain

Why Why Why

Just when I start getting on with my life, you pop back in. You don't say much, but it doesn't stop my imagination rushing off to what may be or more correctly, what might have been...

I think of all the things that have not been and will never be.

Why can't you just leave me alone?

Not taught

The things we know best are things we haven't been taught. - Marquis de Vauvenargues.

Eternity

To see the world in a grain of sand
And heven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour. - William Blake

Breeze

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off course. - Christian Bovee

Winning

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith in necesary to victory. - William Hazlitt

Complete

The reward of a thing well done is to have it done. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them. - John Ruskin

Why? Why Not?

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I drean things that never were; and I say "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw

Life is short

The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. - Cicero

Time's Value

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize an denjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Lord Chesterfield