Category Archives: Quote

Simplifying life would not mean a ‘relapse into barbarism’, for culture is not dependent upon luxury or upon the gratification of needlessly created wants.

Otto Strasser

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom… is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

Anthony Bourdain

Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.

Flannery O’Conner

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Viktor Frankl

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Augustine of Hippo

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was: go slow to go fast. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

Viggo Mortensen

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

St. Augustine

You don’t learn to walk by following others’ rules, you learn by doing and falling over.

Richard Branson

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than evil.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Abraham Maslow