It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson,
prime minister
“Be grateful for whatever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
Rumi
“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost